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20032003

Democratic Struggle: What Role for Marxism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 20032003
Exploring what Marxist approaches to democracy have offered to contemporary discussions.

20012

Mumia Faces Life in Prison
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 20012 Published: 2012
On Wednesday, Decemerber7, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams held a news conference to announce that the city will no longer seek the death penalty against long-time political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jama — convicted in a frameup trial for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

2012

The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West Africa.
Germany’s genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Germany, which has done commendable remembrance work about the Holocaust, seems to have forgotten or deliberately buried its violent colonial past. A past that hides the first genocide of the 20th century.
Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
The Microfinance Delusion
Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Canada’s progressive community needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and their right-wing allies.
The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
“Human rights” doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Good investigative journalism could break this affair wide open, but will the owners of the Harper-friendly corporate media allow their journalists to go beyond normal reporting and do the hard work necessary to get to the very bottom of this dark story?
Drone Strikes? What’s To Feel Bad About?
Really Sorry We Burned the Korans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
How Empires Fall
An Interview With Jonathan Schell
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Jonathan Schell discusses non-violent activism.
Using a Black Icon to Sell Apartheid
Israel's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Apologists for Israel are now using fabricated 'quotes' from Martin Luther King to make it seem that King supported Israeli apartheid.
Can You Pass The US Christian Right Quiz?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A Letter To Other Occupiers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
We need to act within a wide strategic context, and engage in more than tactical exercises. We need to invite local people to join our ranks and institutions. We cannot hope to win the trust of others, especially others different from ourselves in class background, cultural preferences, race, or gender, unless we stay long enough to win that trust one day at a time. We must be prepared to spend years in communities where there may not be many fellow radicals. In thinking about our own lives, and how we can contribute over what Nicaraguans call a “long trajectory,” we need to acquire skills that poor and oppressed persons perceive to be needed.
WikiLeaks Begins Publishing 5 Million Emails From STRATFOR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Infiltration To Disrupt, Divide And Mis-direct Are Widespread In Occupy - Part I
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
This article describes public reports of infiltration as well as results of a survey and discussions with occupiers about this important issue.
Mad, Passionate Love - and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Until they did.
A Response to Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A response to Norman Finkelstein's attack on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Tilley says that Finkelstein's insistence that the movement has to adjust itself to mainstream public opinion is bizarre: "Since when do human rights campaigns adjust their arguments to please mainstream opinion? Changing mainstream opinion is their very task. If activists took mainstream opinion as the proper guide to moral action, we would never have had the anti-slavery abolition movement, or the women’s suffrage movement, and apartheid would flourish in South Africa to this day. Indeed, we wouldn’t have most human rights campaigns. The toughest ones, which are often the greatest ones, must often start small and grow slowly."
The Tragedy of Norman Finkelstein – Time to Say Goodbye
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Norman Finkelstein seems to have moved from an anti-Zionist position to believing that the best we can do is create a Palestinian bantustan while Israeli remains as a state where Jews rule and Palestinians remain legally and economically oppressed.
American Decline in Perspective
Empire and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Empire and Its Discontents
“Losing” the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Occupy Oakland activists take up the question of decision-making
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Exclusionary strategies and tactics alienate those of us who are interested in a slower, more solid, more inclusive approach of mass movement building.
Do the Greeks get it?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A word has to be said about the somewhat depressing character of the clash between reformism and ultraleftism in Greece. Radical youth might have a natural prejudice against the KKE and PAME because it is so compromised with class-collaborationist coalition building. But instead of trying to figure out a way to win the ranks of the CP to the revolutionary cause, it sees its membership as part of the problem and not part of the solution.
Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Chris Hedges and the black bloc
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
From its inception back in the European autonomist movements of the 1980s, the black-clad activists refuse to answer anybody outside of their ranks. Within the “affinity group”, everything is cool. Outside of it, who gives a shit? Ironically, this kind of elitism is not that different from the “vanguard party” posture which puts the needs of the sect above that of the mass movement.
The Cancer in Occupy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
Paul D’Amato and the Red Condom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Designs on equality
City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The idea of “universal design” is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A collection of accounts from the early stages of the Wisconsin uprising against the corporate world in the of spring 2011.
The strike that led to Tahir Square
An act of courage that launched a revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
Flags of Convenience
Corporate Anarchy on the High Seas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Maritime lawlessness isn’t confined to pirates. Thanks to a system of ship registration called ‘flags of convenience,’ it is all too easy for unscrupulous ship owners to get away with criminal behaviour
Neo-Racism in the Southwest
The (Mis)education of the Coming Majority
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
What is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
Selective Outrage - Iran And Libya
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Welcome to the World’s First Bunker State
Room for Jews Only in Israel’s ‘Villa in the Jungle’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The bunker state is almost finished, and with it the dream of Israel’s founders is about to be realised.
Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
Sky Grab
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
America’s Last Chance
One Against the Empire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
The Newsfakers
Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The “outrage” expressed in the Spanish streets, deflated after the electoral ritual, is confronted with the limitations of the movement’s citizen-based abstractions (electoral reform, the affirmation of democracy, denouncing corruption, etc.) when confronted with the reality ( labor reform, social cuts) imposed by capital and its democratically elected administrators. Or, perhaps, indignation has completed its cycle and we are at the beginning.
NYC Transit Workers' Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Transit workers belonging to New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 exhibit a familiar sight in the 21st century U.S. labor movement: broke, angry, slandered, disillusioned, directionless and top heavy.
Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics of Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis.
Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
OWS and the working class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
As frustrating as this may sound to the left, who are justifiably excited over a revival of radical politics, many workers cannot see the movement’s relevancy to their own lives, yet still feel the pangs of the crisis perhaps more painfully than most.
The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A report on Occupy Seattle 2011.
Reports from the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Boom and Bust... Literally
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The richest country in the world is faced with literal “boom”—in the form of exploding sections of electric, gas and steam systems—and “bust”—in the form of collapsing roads and bridges—on a widespread and regular basis.
Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Something has escaped the control of the Democrats, the NGOs, the SEIU and the left sects — of official society and those attempting its mere facelift — which will not be easily brought to heel. Hundreds of thousands of people who had never before been in mass mobilizations (or mobilizations of any kind) found themselves confronting the police, facing tear gas and pepper spray, going to jail and learning in the streets what can never be learned any other way.
Letter from Baltimore
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Coming to grips with the impact of Occupy Baltimore means not just evaluating what the movement has been able to do or not do on its own terms but rooting its experiences in this larger picture of class decomposition and re-composition that in Baltimore followed in the wake of the same patterns of deindustrialization, suburban flight and disinvestment .
Reflections on the New School Occupation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
On November 17th, 2011, the Study Center at 90 Fifth Avenue, an office building leased by the New School University, was occupied by participants in the all-city student assembly in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
The Sky is Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn
Class Struggle in the US from the 2008 Crash to the Eve of the Occopations Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
We can safely assert that for most working people, the “recession” has never ended, and is about to get worse.
Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
All the News That's Fit to Slant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
The Next War on Washington’s Agenda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?
The black bloc and the Battle of Seattle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Cry for “Bread & Roses” Still Resonates
100 Years After the Lawrence Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
When worker solidarity prevailed over corporate power in the icy streets of Lawrence a century ago, it made the promise of a better life real for many. The Bread and Roses strike became a consciousness-raising experience, not only for textile workers and their families, but the nation as a whole.
Occupy and the Urgency of Inclusiveness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Occupy is a social movement that purports to give expression to working class concerns in the absence of working class participation. Occupy has evolved into a form of organization that effectively excludes many who might otherwise participate, and, even worse, may ultimately result in a predominately middle class orientation over time.
Psychologists’ Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
The Status Quo of Torture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
The GEO Group Cashes In
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality in profiting from human misery with a ruthless sense of just how to make a buck in this business.
It Started in Wisconsin
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
"We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
The International Context of Global Outrage
Part I: Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A Movement Without Demands?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond–All Eyes on Longview!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Occupy movement – and especially Occupy Oakland – has demonstrated remarkable resilience and an almost unprecedented ability to repeatedly mobilize mass actions against economic injustice and police brutality.
Remembering Another Occupy
Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In compelling detail, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most popular revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Using internal U.S. governmental documentation, only recently released, the authors use their forensic skills to analyze the evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the execution of a war prisoner captured alive.
C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In order to understand the connection between Black History Month and revolution, we must explode the stifling separation between art and everyday life that bourgeois society everywhere seeks to impose on us.
A Convergence of Realities
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
The Debate at Halle
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
There were two defining moments in the history of the international working-class movement in the first half of the 20th century. The first, by far the most discussed and written about for obvious reasons, was the revolution in Russia in October 1917 and its subsequent isolation and defeat. The second was the disaster in the German movement, which had been for half a century the model of a militant, socialist working-class movement, and the subsequent collapse of that movement in the face of Nazism.
Detroit's Crisis -- Coming to You?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
There are two realities to grasp about the current plight of Detroit. Reality one: Detroit is caught in a set of interlocking crises, from the level of the world economy and national political gridlock down to the viciously reactionary Michigan state government and the yawning divide between the city and suburban Detroit, that would severely challenge the most competent, the most visionary, the most energetic and most progressive city leadership.
An Education in Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Two months earlier, I had been sitting in class listening to an ILWU member talk about Export Grain Terminal’s (EGT) union-busting tactics in Longview, WA. “Great,” I thought, “but how can I help from the campus of a little college in Moraga, California?”
Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
Four Futures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Capitalism will end. Maybe not soon, but probably before too long; humanity has never before managed to craft an eternal social system, after all, and capitalism is a notably more precarious and volatile order than most of those that preceded it. The question, then, is what will come next.
France: The NPA in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
France's new Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) is in crisis. While only two years ago many on the international left talked about the NPA as one of the brightest lights on an otherwise dim revolutionary horizon, today the Party is hemorrhaging members and struggling to stay afloat.
Freedom Riders
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
When Hillary Clinton expressed dismay over gender segregation on buses in ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem — where women are forced to sit separately — she somehow neglected to mention the Jewish-settlers-only bus system in the Occupied Palestinan Territories.
From "Occupy" to ...
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
Germany and Genocide in Namibia
Special Issue of Pambazuka News - #577 - March 2012
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2012
Between 1904 and 1908 imperial Germany waged an atrocious and inhumane war of extermination against the Herero, Nama, Damara and San peoples in its former colony ‘German South West Africa’, now the Republic of Namibia.
Hitler's Bestiary from the Inside
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Over a decade ago, I spent several months poring through the Martha Eccles Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. I was driven to research her life while working on a book about Left feminist culture and anti-fascist resistance in the McCarthy era. I had just read two of Dodd’s novels (Sowing the Wind and The Searching Light) and was driven to find out more about the sources of Dodd’s attraction to antifascist causes.
How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2012
Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The religion of self-improvement is a way of redirecting criticisms or outrage from socio-economic structures back to the individual, imprisoning any reformist or revolutionary impulse within our own feelings of inadequacy – which is why the process of improving our nation’s schools has taken on the tone of a spiritual cleansing rather than a political reckoning. Now, instead of saying “our socioeconomic system is failing us,” an entire generation of children will learn to say, “I have failed myself.”
No-Nonsense Guide to Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A wide-ranging exploration of why inequality persists and what can be done about it.
Not Quite "Ordinary Human Beings"—Anti-imperialism and the anti-humanist rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
In our struggle against Zionism, racism, and all forms of colonialism and imperialism, there is no place for antisemitism or the vilification of Jews, Palestinians or any people based on their religions, cultures, nationalities, ethnicity or history.
The Oakland Port Shutdown
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A personal account of the growing dialogue between the labour movement and the Occupy organizing, as seen by someone heavily involved in attempting to build these linkages.
Obama signs police state legislation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
Occupy and Detroit's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
What's the new center of gravity on the political landscape? Dan La Botz has provocatively remarked that Occupy Oakland’s November 2 shutdown of the Port of Oakland — one of the largest recent labor actions — was initiated from outside union structures. Earlier, in New York City, on the morning Mayor Bloomberg dispatched police to expel Occupiers from Liberty Park, 5,000 people — many city workers, transit workers and teachers — turned out, forcing him to back off.
Occupy Isla Vista for the 99%
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within the Santa Barbara County, a gentrified ghetto on the sunny seaside of southern California packing 23,000 people within its meager 1.8 square miles. The core is composed of students studying at the nearby University of California, with a largely ignored community composed of Latino/Latina working-class and other permanent residents, including a houseless population.
Occupy Portland Regroups
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Early on a dark and freezing Monday morning, December 12, 2011, more than 800 people descended on terminals five and six at the Port of Portland. Having announced their intention to occupy and shut down the port, the demonstrators arrived to find that the Port of Portland management had beaten them to the punch and closed the two terminals over “safety concerns.”
The Police Riot at OccupyCAL
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
I remember as if it were just yesterday. I was linked in arms, peacefully protesting in support and solidarity with the students of UC Berkeley and my friend Meleiza. What I would soon have to witness would leave me traumatized and utterly disgusted.
Police Violence and Media Coverup
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
Pushing Demands at OWS?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands — there is nothing I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, and I’ve worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.
Roots of U.S. Capitalism (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century.
"Solidarity" Beats Austerity
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
The Strike and Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Teach for America, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher’s unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end-in-itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.
Two Months in LA's Solidarity Park
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Occupy Los Angeles was the largest of the “Occupy” encampments: In the space of two months, we grew from around 50 to nearly 500 tents. Our camp developed neighborhoods, tribes, collectives, a print shop, a library, a people’s university, a wellness center, a meditation tent, a kid’s village, and all sorts of fascinating community problems to go with them. This is the particular joy and struggle of being an occupation, and not a traditional group of community organizers; the internal conflict of a commune or a family was playing out simultaneously with our movement and message-building.
The Unknown Slave Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Though the planters had no difficulty reconciling the wealth they enjoyed and the price the slaves paid, the region’s black laborers did. By aborting their own children, poisoning livestock, lighting fires, and escaping to the cypress swamps, the slaves struggled to dilute, deflect, and if possible demolish slaveholders’ authority. Even open revolt was not beyond question. While it was a card that slaves played only rarely — planters tended to take a dim and deadly view of armed rebellion — the German Coast teemed with violent possibilities. The planters’ world rested on a powder keg to be ignited by the smallest of sparks.
Who Killed Ekaru Loruman?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012
Climate change arrives in a world primed for crisis. The current and impending dislocations of climate change intersect with the already existing crises of poverty and violence. By this “catastrophic convergence,” I do not merely mean that several disasters happen simultaneously, one problem atop another. Rather, I am arguing that problems compound and amplify each other, one expressing itself through another.
Why I Stand with Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2012

2011

The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob
Bernanke's Double-Whammy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
Should we 'take down' the banks or try to save the best of capitalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
If Canada is to rid itself of the destructive neoliberal Conservatives, perhaps the best that we can do, given present conditions, is to push the New Democrats and Liberals to embrace some aspects of traditional liberalism and combine those policies with some tough, new measures to protect the public.
Conversation with an Anarchist
Democracy, Authoritarianism & Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011 Published: 2012
Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Complicating “White Privilege”
Class, Race and Images of Wilma
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How Israel Empowers Islamist Movements
Shukran, Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
If Islamist movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bete noire, Israel. Without the help of successive Israeli governments, they may not have been able to realize their dreams. That is true in Gaza, in Beirut, in Cairo and even in Tehran.
The Repression Strengthened Us!
Letter From Bolivia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The sad, sad world of Israel?s big-time liars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Stuart Littlewood views Israel’s propaganda minister, the self-confessed racist and squatter Yuli Edelstein, and takes a close look at the manual to which Edelstein and other Zionist propagandists work, the “Global Language Dictionary”.
Selective Sympathy
War’s Mayhem and Murder is Somehow Less Hard to Bear than the Humane Termination of an Injured Animal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How strange that we as human beings can be so sensitive and warm-hearted about an animal, and yet can be so detached from reality and so compartmentalized in our emotions and our moral sense that we can simply dismiss as “collateral damage” the lives of tens, hundreds or even thousands of innocent men, women and children who, for cold, calculating geopolitical reasons of dubious merit, will be killed by our or our allies’ actions.
The Rise of the Tea Party
Where Did They Come From?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely linked to the Republican establishment from its inception.
Confronting intimidation, working for justice in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
If once you do not cave in, you discover that as time goes by, the ability of Zionist lobbies of intimidation around the world to affect you gradually diminishes.
The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful.
The Whole World is Watching
Chinese Diggers?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.
The 1% of the 99% and an Anti-Capitalist Alternative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What we need right now is for autonomous political organizing in both unionized and non-unionized workplaces, schools,and in the streets.
Staff at 'Grinch' KPMG well looked after while advocating 'workers' comp' cuts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
KPMG – which operates across Canada and internationally – performs “hatchet jobs” for governments – often governments that don’t have the nerve to take the lead themselves when they want cutbacks.
The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
Ethnic Cleansing of Invented People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Once we connect the dots it is not hard to see that the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is only a small part of the Israeli Palestinian issue. The greater issue is the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist state. The way forward for Israelis and Palestinians alike is to oppose the ethnic cleansing by opposing all its manifestations.
A Death Sentence For Africa
The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.
Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
'Taking back the media', effective campaigning required to empower Progressive Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Conservative Frank Luntz Has Set a Trap for Progressives -- Here's How to Outsmart Him and Boost the Occupy Movement
Progressives' basic morality needs to be talked about over and over again, in every corner of the country.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Luntz doesn't want progressives pointing out that corporations govern our lives far more than any government does - and for their profit, not ours. He doesn't want any discussion of corporate waste, or military waste, which is huge.
German autonomen: morality police
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
On the origins of "black bloc" tactics.
British study has the goods on corporate execs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading businesses and compared the results with the same tests on patients at Broadmoor hospital, where people who have been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of psychopathy, the bosses' scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients; in fact, on these criteria, they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders.
The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen’s Union
Who’s Speaking for Whom?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Occupy Oakland should not be pretending to speak on behalf of Oakland's dockworkers, and should not be telling the dockworkers when and how they should strike. Occupy Oakland's actions are the opposite of democratic, and an affront to the basic notiions of worker's self-activity, workers' empowerment, and workers' control.
Climate Crisis – The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We find that Britain and the US – the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – are also the two countries least interested in responding to the very real threat of climate change.
Focus and determination required: A call to all progressive organizations to unite under one big umbrella
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We need a movement powerful enough to pressure corporate media owners into providing equal coverage, and with access to enough financing to support the development of alternative, independent media. If the progressive movement is to be successful in improving society, it is hugely important for it to be able to reach the general public with its information creating a balanced view of important issues in Canada.
Here’s the Key Question in the Libyan War
As the “Humanitarian Warriors” Gloat…
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
My principal opposition to this recent war is precisely that, at a time when even some in Washington were hesitant, the “humanitarian interventionists”, with their sophistic pretense of “protecting innocent civilians”, have fed and encouraged this monster by offering it “the low-hanging fruit” of an easy victory in Libya. This has made the struggle to bring a semblance of peace and sanity to the world even more difficult than it was already.
The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
The “Decent Left” and the Libya Intervention
A Reply to Michael Bérubé
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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.
451 at Zuccotti Park
"Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people."
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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.
Libya
From Colony to Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
They Found Nothing. Nothing.
The IAEA, Iran And ‘Fantasy Land’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What is so breathtaking is that the apparent consensus on Iran, like the case against Iraq, is a fraud.
Occupy Movement a valuable partner
'Idea' to build a united Canadian progressive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The progressive community must learn it has to confront power with power – something we don’t do well in Canada. It seems enough to most Canadians to simply point out that something is wrong, and leave it to someone else to shoulder. This doesn’t cut it any more. We need to stop being nice, and start fighting harder!
The People’s Police Commission
Trial By Amateur Video
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Now we have a people’s police commission of our own. It’s called amateur video. And it will do to criminal scum like Lt. Pike what a whole world of police commissions, pretending to act on our behalf, couldn’t.
The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
Police War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what its officers call “human waste.” Like elsewhere being poor, suffering from a mentally illness or battling a drug addiction is a crime.
Support the New Freedom Riders
End US Support for Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Palestinian Freedom Riders are seeking their rights to be treated as equal human beings free to move about in their own land.
The Swing of That Truncheon Thing
The Nature of the Beast Revealed
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First Published: 2011
Historically, police violence is a fact of life in every society. In a society based on a capitalist economy, the police serve those that have the most money and property. When the authorities and their policies are under attack, the police will always be called in to protect the former. No official should be shocked when the police act brutally. There is a reason the most thuggish of the uniforms are often the ones called to disperse angry crowds.
Violence Goes to College
Are We Going to Hell?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The priorities of the campus are clear. An Assistant Professor earns an annual salary in the low $60,000 range; a Lieutenant in the campus safety department (the man who fired the pepper gas, for instance) brings home $110,000.
The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The occupation movement needs to build on the creative militancy in the streets of thousands of people (as shown in Oakland, Portland, Seattle, New York and elsewhere) to reach out to that large majority which sometimes seems, a block or two from the street battles, to be going about business as usual. The growing number of anti-eviction and anti-foreclosure actions has made that outreach.
Notes on the Fly
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First Published: 2011 Published: 2012
A report from Occupy Wall Street
'Upstanding Citizens' Escape Justice in Tory 'In-and-Out' Scandal
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First Published: 2011
The "In-and-Out" Scandal: Case should have proceeded against 'Upstanding citizens'.
This is a story about illegal activities, deceit and lying involving an overzealous group of Canadians who seemed prepared to do just about anything to accomplish their mission – win a federal election.
How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized
A Short History of Elite Responses To Political-Economic Crisis
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First Published: 2011
The political activism of the elite is striking in times of crisis, when the latter takes the form either of severe economic contraction or of working-class militancy, or both.
Shining a light on the black bloc, part 1: Italian autonomism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The combination of autonomist thuggery and Red Brigade terror had a lot to do with the implosion of the Italian left. While the Italian bourgeoisie was ready to carry out a repression even if the left had been far more intelligently organized, this was no excuse for carrying out tactics calculated to drive the average working class person into the arms of the government in the name of “security”. Revolutionary politics is really a project that is designed to win people to a cause. This involves patient explanation. Once someone develops a revolutionary consciousness, there is little that the state can do to vanquish it. A broken window can easily be replaced, but a revolutionary mind is permanent.
Throwing Out the Master’s Tools and Building a Better House
Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution
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First Published: 2011
Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn’t apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don’t spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics—and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement’s protests and marches are not only exposed to police brutality but also to a sort of judicial lottery when detained. The situation varies from state to state, according to local laws, but the freedom to report news and information is being violated almost everywhere, not only for professional journalists but also for bloggers and for activists who want to cover the protests themselves.
Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The question now is whether the Occupy movement can survive as an effective force for political and social action. The decision made some time ago to set up permanent encampments is turning out to be a disaster and is taking attention away from other more productive activist events.
Politics without Democracy, Democracy without Politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The aim of the Occupy movement is to create a big tent, to represent the 99%, in the name of democracy. But democracy requires not big tent politics, but the very opposite. It requires the drawing of political lines, the engaging in political conflict, the making of political choices.
Migration
Changing the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
Querying Young Chomsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Chomsky offers observations on what a desirable society might look like from the perspective of the heritage of libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist views.
The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In what ways does the Occupy movement of 2011 resemble the French Situationists of the 1960s?
Occupy's A**hole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Watching the OWS organizers struggle with drummers, druggies, sexual harassers, and racists brings me back to a few lessons we had to learn the hard way back in the day, always after putting up with way too much over-the-top behavior from people we didn’t think we were allowed to say no to. It’s heartening to watch the Occupiers begin to work out solutions to what I can only indelicately call the a**hole problem.
A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
The Tangled Purse Strings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
The Stones Cry Out: The Power of the Occupation in the City Square
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Gathering in the city, taking strength from its history, remembering its past and our past, we stand firm.
Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
It Doesn’t Matter to Them If It’s Untrue. It’s a Higher Truth.
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
Big Three Auto Contracts: Lowlights of 2011
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
By the end of October, autoworkers at the Big Three will have approved their 2011-2015 contracts. Since Ford was the most profitable corporation, and one that had avoided bankruptcy, it was the logical corporation for the UAW to target. During the economic crisis Ford workers voted down a round of concessions that would have suspended their right to strike until 2015, so by bargaining first at Ford the union could have maximized its potential power to put an end to the concessions.
Bolivia's Growing Crisis
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
A confrontation between the government of Bolivian president Evo Morales and a part of his indigenous social base is leading to a serious political crisis. A violent police assault on indigenous community protests against a road being built through their self-governed Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) have led to a growing confrontation.
Bolivia's Uncertain Revolution
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Bolivia under the presidency of Evo Morales has become a favorite topic among progressives and social democrats, who have likened his ascendency to the nation’s highest post as nothing short of revolutionary. The buzz around Morales, a long time social movement figure and the first Indigenous president of the Andean nation has only lost a little luster since his election almost six years ago.
The Boomerang Is Almost Home
Against The Current vol. 155
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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.
Carl Oglesby: A Mentor & Leader
Against The Current vol. 155
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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.
Class & Race in A Modern Catastrophe: Lessons of Katrina
Against The Current vol. 155
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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.
Crisis in the EU: From the Periphery to the Center
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The crisis of 2007-2009, coming from the U.S. core of the globalized system, the crisis that threatens the weak links of the euro, and the third crisis that started to affect Eastern Europe in 2009 have a major common point. Whether we are talking about the United States, Greece or the Baltic States, these crises are the repercussions of profoundly unbalanced growth.
Dollarization, Democracy & Daily Life in Zimbabwe
Against The Current vol. 155
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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.
A Family, A Tragedy, A Movement (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
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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.
Has Europe's Crisis Peaked Yet?
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
A discussion with Eric Toussaint, president of the Committee for Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) in Belgium.
History, Theory, Politics & Invisible Man
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
Paul Heideman's spirited critique of my review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling with the Left testifies to the reach of Foley’s study. That the politics of Ellison’s novel would be up for debate in a journal like Against the Current would be unthinkable without Foley’s efforts. In multiple articles going back more than a decade, and culminating in Wrestling, Foley challenges the consensus critical position that Invisible Man was made possible by Ellison’s clean break from the left, and that the novel offers an objective and accurate critique of U.S. Communism.
In Memory of Carl Oglesby
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
Forty-six years ago this November, then-SDS president Carl Oglesby stood on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and told those assembled to protest the war in Vietnam that the men who were responsible for that war were not evil, they were “trapped in a system.” They were, like Antony had told the crowd of those who had killed Caesar, “all honorable men.” Indeed, they were all liberals.
Looking North for Labor Revival?
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
It isn't news that the U.S. labor movement is in profound crisis, and has been for some time. Readers of this magazine are by now all too familiar with the symptoms: waves of concessionary contracts, eroding labor laws, vicious government and employer attacks, defeated strikes, the precipitous decline in union membership.
Memories of [my] Syndicalism
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
A handful of friends, old and new, have asked me about the path that my ideas and activities have taken me, some 50 years after I happened across a civil rights picket line in my hometown of Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 1960. The following is a radical memory unusual in some ways, but with many similarities to the memories of my New Left contemporaries in the outcome.
The Obama Reality Disconnect
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
There is a sharp reality disconnect in the Black community. On the one hand, the Black population continues to support the first African-American president, Barack Obama, by more than 90%.
On Troy Davis
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
A letter to the editor by Theresa El-Amin, regional director of the Southern Anti-Racist Network.
A Revolution's Heritage (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
S. Sándor John's Bolivia’s Radical Tradition explores in detail the emergence in Bolivia of what became the strongest Trotskyist tradition in the Americas, thanks in large part to militant tin miner unions.
Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline!
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
The Keystone XL is a proposed 1700-mile pipeline that would transport tar sands oil (also called oil sands) from Alberta, Canada into the United States, crossing six states from Montana to Texas and Louisiana. The proposed pipeline, which has a price tag of $7 billion, would add to the extensive existing network of oil pipelines, carrying tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
A Theater for the Poor
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
Each phase in the nine-year-history of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) now reads like a chapter from a cautionary tale for future generations of young radicals.
Three Years After "Yes We Can"
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
No, he didn't. That’s the epitaph on the tombstone of liberal and left-wing hopes that greeted the historic election of Barack Obama in November 2008. Did anyone imagine then that the election itself, more than anything he’d do in office, would be the high point of the Obama presidency? Or that three years later, the power of “Yes we can” would be the eruption of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) spreading to one city after another — essentially nothing to do with President Obama?
The UN & the Future of Palestine
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
“You can't make this stuff up,” the Prime Minister of Israel lectured the UN General Assembly. Binyamin Netanyahu was referring to the history of Libya under Qaddafi, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, chairing UN Commissions on Human Rights and Disarmament respectively.
Wrestling with Ellison
Against The Current vol. 155
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First Published: 2011
Nathaniel Mill's review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling With the Left (ATC 152, May-June 2011) raises a number of very important issues for understanding the politics of Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece, and by extension 20th-century African-American literature as a whole. In particular, Mills’ criticisms of Foley’s neglect of potentially liberatory moments in the text foregrounds the crucial issue of how revolutionary critics should go about the task of investigating novelistic politics.
Pham Binh's historical survey of demands
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First Published: 2011
Journalists, community groups need to develop independent Canadian media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It is shocking that – in the 21st Century – we still have a system under which corporate over-lords – not the journalists who produce the news – control the process that determines the content of mainstream media.
Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
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First Published: 2011
We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction. Yet this column depends on it.
Another Immoral Adventure
US Troops to Uganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When we support brutal governments in foreign countries – be it through aid, training, or troops on the ground – there are real and lasting consequences for the people who live there. There are many reasons to oppose the US incursion into Uganda (the risk of blowback, the chance of escalation, the furtherance of the imperial presidency, the financial cost, the practical fact that we can’t intervene everywhere, and so on), but the most important argument is moral.
Destroying Estonia
The One Per Cent’s New/Old Solution to Economic Crisis
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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.
Fury Mounts Among Greek People
"Do you think we are the parasites of Europe?"
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First Published: 2011
Nobody trusts the government or the opposition because people blame them for starting the crisis in the first place.
Homeless in America
Throw Them Out With the Trash
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First Published: 2011
What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary activities are illegal when performed in American streets — not just peeing, but sitting, lying down, and sleeping.
The Myth of Greek Profligacy
Destroying the Livelihoods of Thirteen Million People
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First Published: 2011
The top 20 per cent of the income distribution in Greece pay virtually no taxes at all, the product of a corrupt bargain reached during the days of the junta between the military and Greece’s wealthiest plutocrats. No wonder there is a fiscal crisis.
Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
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First Published: 2011
Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
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First Published: 2011
Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda
Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
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First Published: 2011
Corporate-owned media manipulation threatens Canadian democracy
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First Published: 2011
How freedom of expression is threatened because corporate-owned media in Canada censor and manipulate the news.
Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
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First Published: 2011
American Autumn Part 2
Occupy Wall Street: Organizing the Movement
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First Published: 2011
The Awakening in America
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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.
12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement
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As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement.
India’s Autoworkers Behaving Like the Old UAW
The Real Deal
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While it’s true that international banks and corporations have their slimy tentacles in everything from foreign governments to foreign armies, the world’s workers have two weapons of their own. One is the crippling, paralyzing effect of no-go dockworkers. The other is the logistical potential of the Internet.
Reflections for the US Occupy Movement
From Barcelona's Neighborhood Assemblies
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The deeper a struggle’s historical roots, the greater its collective knowledge.
Ten Points for the Occupied Movement
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Against Wall Street’s culture of economic exploitation, environmental degradation and human oppression we stand together to testify that another world is possible, a decent and humane world, a democratic world of liberty, dignity and solidarity.
Wall Street occupation ignites mass movement
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The simple, horizontal structure originally created around a GA using modified consensus has become a barrier to practical and political work by the occupiers and those involved through working groups.
I am Occupied/Yo Soy Occupado
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First Published: 2011
The Price of Torching Mosques
Burning Rage
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By reminding Palestinians on either side of the Green Line of their common fate, Israel may yet unleash a force too powerful to control. The price tag – this time demanded by Palestinians – will be high indeed for the Jewish supremacists.
Autonomy zone on Wall Street?
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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.
Bias in the Eye of the Beholder
“Liberal Media” Misperceptions in the American Mind
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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.”
When Push Comes to Shove
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When the police are ordered to move against the OWS demonstrators, we must move to counter the police. Our response should be that workers in all different kinds of jobs act immediately to interrupt business as usual-regardless of what union leaders say or do. For example, transit workers should refuse any request to assist in the transport of individuals who are arrested. Truck drivers should refuse all deliveries to city agencies-other than those providing health care or emergency services. The more interruptions, the better!
Traité du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations
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Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.
The Day America Died
Assassinating Awlaki
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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.
Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
Where are the Demands?
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The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Sunni v. Shia
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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.
Fuel For Occupy Wall Street's Fire
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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.
Koch Entertained Justice Thomas At His Private Club
Supreme Court Scandal Widens
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Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
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Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
Occupy Wall Street! Observations from a New York Public Sector Worker
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A lot remains to be seen, but if Madison is any indication, upping the ante in this struggle and achieving real results will require more than crowds ... it will require the focused activity of significant layers of the organized working classes, that have the roots and the experience to help leverage the power that is being built against the establishment here and nationally. Even if we don't get concrete wins, this will have been a hugely important protest but there is a potential for it to be concretely effective as well.
The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Occupy Wall Street
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At present, the occupation reveals a lot about where people's politicization begins in the United States.
Strike Wave Sweeps Brazil
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Workers in Brazil—in heavy industry, services, the public sector, and agriculture—are involved in a series of strikes and mass protests such as the country hasn’t seen in decades.
A View of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from the Inside
A Participant’s Critique of the Occupation of Wall Street
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The Occupy Wall Street movement was supposed to be a revolt against a hierarchal, dehumanizing oligopoly. In reality, all that was created was a microcosm of the same system, but with new leaders. Like our nation’s leaders, Occupy Wall Street’s leaders listened to everyone’s grievances, then decided upon a pre-determined plan of action that cleverly borrowed the language of their constituency.
Maybe 99% is a bit much, but…
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It is a fact that over the last couple of decades, much of the growth in total income in the U.S. has gone to the upper reaches of society.
The Nuts and Bolts of Occupy Wall Street
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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
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Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian
A Thought Police for the Internet Age
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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.
Growing Up ILWU in Tacoma, Washington
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I grew up with militancy in a longshore family.
The "Anarcho-Liberal"
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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.
What happened to the SWP (U.S.)?
Recent memoirs stir discussion
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The goal of socialist political cadres must be the development of a broad team leadership working together in a democratically functioning organization, practically united in strategic perspective and tactical projects, allowing multiple tendencies and pluralism, thus balancing out strengths and weaknesses over time and in different places.
Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster: A `realistic’ answer to the ecological crisis
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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 Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood
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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.
Why Kosovo But Not Palestine?
The Right to Exist
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Barak Obama pretends that he is vetoing UN recognition of a Palestinian state because it did not come about as a result of negotations. But meanwhile the US has recognized Kosovo, which came into being without negotations, and in violation of international law.
The Golden Rule Of State Violence: Terrorism Is What They Do; Counterterrorism Is What We Do
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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.
Politics and the Prayer Warriors
Dominionism Hits the Big Time
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Dominionism is a totalitarian movement within Christian evangelicalism that aims at taking over the centers of power—law, culture, government and the like—and establishing a dictatorship. Once having gotten power, Christian Dominionists would then impose their religious practices on the rest of America.
US and Colombia Escalate Attacks on Liberation Church
In the Lion's Den
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The war on liberation theology.
The Koch Whisperers
Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media
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A review of documents and tax records for the dizzying, interconnected web of corporate front groups, frequently created, supported and influenced by Charles or David Koch, shows just how dangerous these groups espousing free markets and liberty have become to a free society. The game plan is to devalue the rights of actual citizens by seeking human voices dangling from a corporate marionette string, that might be willing for the right amount of cash incentive to broadcast the Orwellian reverse-speak: liberty means more liberty for corporations (corporate serfdom for real citizens); freedom means corporate freedom to privatize national resources, pollute the environment and fleece the consumer with impunity; free market means the freedom to draw a dark curtain around how the corporations are actually screwing us and stealing our liberty.
Six True Things Politicians Can’t Say
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Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions
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9/11 and the “War on Terror” - Had the U.S. done the right thing, thousands of lives could have been saved
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In reflecting on the disastrous last decade we might ask, What would the world be like today if the United Sates, Britain, Canada and the other countries using their military might to kill fanatical young people had instead used that money to buy school books, drill wells, educate people, and promote religious tolerance throughout the Middle East – and at home?
Perpetual War
“Grand Strategy” after 9/11
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A decade after the attentats of 9/11, the United States and its European allies are trapped in a quagmire. The events of that year were simply used as a pretext to remake the world and to punish those states that did not comply. And today the majority of Euro-American citizens flounder in a moral desert, now unhappy with the wars, now resigned, now propagandized into differentiating what is, in effect, an overarching imperial strategy into good/bad wars.
When Qaddafi Was Our Friend
The CIA's Libyan Helpers
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It was counterterrorism cooperation, together with Qaddafi’s abandonment of his nuclear ambitions, that cemented U.S./Libyan ties. Qaddafi’s intelligence services opened their files to the CIA, were given CIA training, and took in the CIA’s prisoners.
Workers and Environmentalists Unite!
Obama Has Betrayed Both
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When there are zero jobs available, any job will do. This fact has been exploited by corporations now re-labeling themselves ”job creators,” since being a job creator in a time of depression brings a religious status similar to a rain god during a drought. Democrats and Republicans have lavished eternal praise on the “job creators” and in consequence have created a political atmosphere that is rabidly pro-corporate “job creators” and anti-everything else. In practice this means that ANY new law or regulation that hinders the power or profits of “job creating” corporations is instantly attacked as a “job killer.”
The Battle for Brooklyn
The Abuse of Eminent Domain
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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 CIA and the Drones
How the Agency Became "One Hell of a Killing Machine"
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Was There an Alternative?
Looking Back on 9/11, a Decade Later
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There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. The “crime against humanity,” as it was rightly called, could have been approached as a crime, with an international operation to apprehend the likely suspects. That was recognized at the time, but no such idea was even considered.
The protest march of September 3—where to?
Efrat, Yacov Ben
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We, workers from all sectors, Arabs and Jews, marched to the square on Saturday with a clear message: Bibi, your time is up, go home! We marched with a socialist worldview, according to which the economy should exist to serve society, not capital. Those who truly struggle for social justice must seek universal justice. There will be no true welfare state until the occupation is ended!
Libya and the World We Live In
The Holy Triumvirate
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The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”.
The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?
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The 9/11 conspiracists seize on coincidences and force them into sequences they deem to be logical and significant. Their treatment of eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence is whimsical.
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Against The Current vol. 154
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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
Bloomberg and NYC's Education Wars
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
Bolshevism, Gender & 21st Century Revolution
Against The Current vol. 154
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2017 will mark the Russian Revolution’s 100th anniversary. Socialists will again ask how the revolution was made and why it degenerated.
The Catherine Ferguson Struggle
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
Chris Hedges' Vision & Nightmare: Is There a Human Future?
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
Detroit Public Schools: Who's Failing?
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
Evolution not "Reinvention: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
Exploring Imperial Pathologies
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
The Fate of Vietnam's First Revolution
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
Givebacks in a Deepening Crisis
Against The Current vol. 154
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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.
Introduction to Is There a Human Future?
Against The Current vol. 154
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Following Chris Hedges’ forced retirement as a war correspondent and New York Times reporter (where his reputation was forged by his acclaimed first book War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning), Hedges has emerged as a trenchant and increasingly radical critic of the politics and imperial culture of the United States. His prolific articles and speeches paint a picture of a society well on its way to self-destruction through the dominance of corporate power and sheer greed.
Letter from Tokyo: In "The Zone" of Disaster
Against The Current vol. 154
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On the morning of Thursday, March 17th, six days after the earthquake and tsunamis, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper had just one advertising supplement: a full-color glossy piece from a Buddhist temple, selling grave sites.
Manning Marable and Malcolm X: The Power of Biography
Against The Current vol. 154
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Social movement theorists have written much about the political opportunities, constraints, and levels of organizational readiness enabling or inhibiting popular insurgency. We still know less, however, about the complex framing processes involved in forging and maintaining activist identities and self-narratives.
On 9/11 and the Politics of Language
Against The Current vol. 154
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An interview with Martin Espada. Called "the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published more than 15 books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator.
9/11 and the Clash of Atrocities
Against The Current vol. 154
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Responding to the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Against the Current’s “Letter from the Editors” made an impassioned plea that the alternative to war was a political movement for social justice. Like many on the left, the editors pointed out that only an agenda for social justice could save the people of Afghanistan and Iraq from America’s military wrath and help curb the attraction of individual terrorist solutions.
Ten Years Later: We're Less Free
Against The Current vol. 154
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The abuse of government/police power in this country is not a new or recent phenomenon — as evidenced by the government’s court-sanctioned internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during WWII, the red scare of the 1940s-1950s to repress the labor movement and other progressive causes, the use of grand juries and COINTELPRO during the ’60s to repress the civil rights and anti-war movements.
To Rebuild Teamster Power
Against The Current vol. 154
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An interview with Sandy Pope. Sandy Pope is the candidate for General President of the Teamsters Union in the election this coming October, running against incumbent James Hoffa Jr. She’s a longtime member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union and president of Local 805 in New York City.
The Years of 9/11
Against The Current vol. 154
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The decade that opened with the attacks of September 11, 2011 may have symbolically closed with the elite U.S. death-squad assassination of Osama bin Laden. But the turmoil of these post-9/11 years, notably the self-inflicted wounds of U.S. capitalism, have exceeded the terrorist mastermind’s wildest dreams. There are the wars that George W. Bush, with the support of congressional Democrats, launched in Afghanistan and Iraq — wars that the government promised wouldn’t have to be paid for — leading to a major U.S. defeat in Iraq, a defeat all the more damaging because it is not acknowledged as such, and a quagmire in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A progressive dialogue on the future: Six questions for leftists
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Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be far more successful. Here are six from my list of the most important questions, as well as my answers, which by their very incompleteness and inadequacy should suggest that more people should work on them.
America in Decline
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The murder of the Mon Valley
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Only the combined struggle of the international working class can overcome the tyranny of capital and transform the world into a place fit for human beings. This must be our goal. Otherwise the murderer of the Mon Valley may become the murderer of humankind.
On Tunisia
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When proletarians are willing to defy the forces of repression with bare hands and not retreat from the bullets of the police, they bring to oppositional ferment a determination that can shake state power, despite the more than 100 deaths reported. This is exactly what happened in Sidi Bouzid during the final days of December 2010 and in the first half of January 2011. Thus, in three stages, the movement which began in the south spread to all regions of Tunisia, to finally conclude in Tunis beginning on January 11.
Report from Spain: On the May 15th Movement
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A brief account of the culmination of the “May 15th movement” in Barcelona in 2011.
The Tent Intifada
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The bug that had spread from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Del Sol in Madrid now landed in Tel Aviv. The slogan coined in Cairo, "Social Justice!" became the main slogan in Israel.
Theses for Discussion
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Programmatic points.
Theses for Discussion - Korean text
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Bolivia: WikiLeaks Expose US Conspiracy
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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.
Hope: The Care And Feeding Of
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Hope is based on uncertainty, on the premise that we don’t know what will happen next.
How Change Happens: A Three-Fold Strategy
To build a new economy, we must work on three fronts
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The power of authentic culture stories gives civil society the ultimate advantage in the contest for the human future. Stories alone will not, of course, bring down the institutions of Empire. Nor should we welcome the inevitable chaos that the collapse of Empire will bring if we have not first laid a foundation of the new rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy.
Of Forest and Trees Part Two
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Capitalism is first and foremost a system of accumulation. Value is, if not nothing today, pretty much nothing tomorrow. The reproduction of value is pretty much everything. Swindles, looting, theft certainly exist but only phenomenally, as expressions of moments in the organization, and disorganization, of value production.
The Tragic Ironies of Breivik's Terror
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We need to challenge neo-fascism and anti-Muslim bigotry, just as we need to challenge Islamism. But in both cases we also need to keep a sense of perspective about the nature of the threat.
A response to Paul LeBlanc’s “Marxism and Organization”
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We need to be flexible tactically and organizationally while remaining steadfast on our goals.
Workers’ Assemblies: A Way to Regroup the Left?
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Herman Rosenfeld is a member of the Canadian Socialist Project and the General Toronto Workers’ Assembly, a new initiative aiming to reinvigorate working class and radical politics in the city. He spoke to Tom Denning about the methods and activities of GTWA and the challenges it faces.
Youth Subdued
8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated
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Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. But now young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it.
Anti-Imperialism and the Iranian Revolution
Fetters of the past, potential for the future
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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.
Taksim is not Tahrir—yet
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Much of the talk of “neoliberalism” coming from such leftist organizations is often a call for a return to state-administered enterprises under “workers’ control”, which is nothing more than bureaucratic state capitalism. It should be remembered that even under the most intense periods of nationalization in Turkey, often glorified among the social democrats and the like, was fought against by the working class.
Laughing at the People of Walmart While Class Warfare Rages in America
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What is it that POW and the TSG are really selling? Conformity, my friends. You there, in your comfortable suburban house or your hipster urban condo pad, yes, you are one of the cool people. You’d never be caught dead out in public dressed like one of these freaks.
The Fix Is In: Washington's Planned Social Contract Destruction
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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.
The Death of Democracy
Israel's Flood of Anti-Democratic Laws
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Democracy is dying in both Israel and the United States, and much of the world is turning away in revulsion.
The Earth Grabbers
Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex
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First Published: 2011
Climate justice means that the Minerals-Energy Complex will have to take the same course as apartheid.
Every Crook Can Govern
Prison Rebellions as a Window to the New World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In their self-organization, the hunger strikers have begun to rupture structures of segregation.
Nim and Noam
Skinner, Chomsky and the Chimp
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First Published: 2011
How psychologists abused a chimpanzee in a failed attempt to prove that Noam Chomsky was wrong about language.
Rupert's Empire of Slime
Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
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First Published: 2011
In the name of freedom of the press Rupert’s Fox News and commentators spew verbal venom on notions that smack of socialist, pink or liberal thought – like taxing billionaires and regulating their corporate and banking behavior. Indeed, the Foxers promote billionaires not paying taxes as an example of virtue and freedom. “You don’t want your government squandering taxpayers’ money.” Sure, imagine life without cops, firemen, schools, road repair service, etc.
Boycott the state, not just the settlements
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First Published: 2011
West Bank settlements would not be viable without government aid, so boycotts should target the Israeli state as well.
Israel Shamir and Slavoj Zizek
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Despite my general aversion to Slavoj Zizek, I want to defend him against the misrepresentations found in Israel Shamir’s Counterpunch article from July 14th titled “Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv: Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla“. Zizek is not above criticism but Shamir’s article is nothing but a hatchet job.
Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla
Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
As long as we misunderstand the importance of Palestine for the world’s future, we shall be trapped in an endless “Middle East Crisis”.
Wealth in America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The greatest wealth transfer in America history goes on – into the bank accounts of the nation's 2% upper crust from the increasingly threadbare pockets of the lower 85% - to the sounds of silence.
Rights vs. Privileges
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First Published: 2011
We now owe our 'liberties' to the good will of the government, which can withdraw them at any time, rather than to our ability to force the government to respect them.
Soft-Powering Cuba
Regime-Change in a Box
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First Published: 2011
How the U.S. uses "soft power" to undermine governments abroad and democracy at home.
Foundations and Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Corporate philanthropy is money laundering, pure and simple. It is an institution that serves to legitimate ill-gotten gains, and to hide the fact that were it not for our system of regressive taxation, people could hypothetically exercise some sort of democratic control over money stolen from workers and cheated out of debtors and consumers.
The origins of racism
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First Published: 2011
Racism is so embedded in our society that many people assume it has always existed. But, says Yuri Prasad, it is really a modern phenomenon that developed with capitalism.
The 60-Year Unemployment Scandal
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First Published: 2011
Since the 1940s, the jobless rate for blacks in America has held remarkably, if grimly, steady at twice the rate for whites.
Marxism and organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Austerity and U.S. Decline
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The full frontal assault on public workers and their unions in one state after another — stripping collective bargaining rights and dues checkoff, slashing wages and pensions and health benefits, abolishing seniority and tenure for teachers, mandating yearly decertification votes, threatening jail terms for strikers — is as massive and instantaneous as it was unexpected by the labor bureaucracy and many union members. To say “the class war is back” is an understatement. It’s an authentic firestorm sucking the oxygen from labor rights, from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and other states.
Brief Theory of the Present Crisis
Against The Current vol. 153
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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.
Canada's Imperialism Without Illusions
Against The Current vol. 153
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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.
A Comment on Antiwar Strategy
Against The Current vol. 153
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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.
Drugs, Race & the Gulag Industry
Against The Current vol. 153
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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.
Education Over Incarceration
Against The Current vol. 153
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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.
Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009
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First Published: 2011
The upward redistribution has remained as hidden as possible. The forms it has taken—as bonuses, bloated salaries, elephantine stock options, padded consulting fees, outsized compensation to boards of directors, sumptuous conferences, palatial offices complete with original artwork, retinues of superfluous “support” staff, hunting lodges, private corporate dining rooms, regal retirement agreements, and so on—defy exact categorization. Some would appear as profit, some as interest, some as dividends, realized capital gains, gigantic pension programs, retained earnings, or owners’ income, with the remainder deeply buried as “costs of doing business.”
On a Cross of Coal
How Massey Crucified Miners
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First Published: 2011
Federal investigators investigated the Massey mine disaster in which 29 miners died discovered that Massey Energy was keeping two sets of books (safety logs). One log reflected actual mine conditions, which, alas, were demonstrably unsafe, and the other log was a fictionalized showpiece, a veritable Potemkin village, used to mislead government safety inspectors.
One Year of the BP Blowout
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
In the years after Hurricane Katrina, I saw New Orleanians suffer from lack of health care. The storm and subsequent flooding caused immediate illness, with infections from the foul flood water and debris. As time passed, ever-present mold exacerbated respiratory conditions and mental health deteriorated in the face of immense stress.
A Rejoinder on Antiwar Strategy
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
Let me first restate as concisely as I can the main points of my essay “A New Strategy for Antiwar Organizing: Going Where the Millions Are”.
Remembering Manning Marable
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
Malcolm X has been getting quite a bit of the attention lately, especially with respect to A Life of Reinvention — and deservedly so — but as Professor Marable himself would tell you, no one shaped his intellectual development more than W.E.B. Du Bois.
Remembering the Paris Commune
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
TThis spring marks the 140th anniversary of the revolt that led to the establishment of the world’s first workers’ government, the Paris Commune of 1871. The Paris Commune has always had a special place in the hearts and minds of revolutionaries, and can inspire today’s activist generation with the potential for “power to the people.”
The SEIU as Case Study
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
About 40 years ago I had a job in a rubber molding factory in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where the union in the shop was the IUE (International Union of Electrical Workers). We all knew that there were negotiations going on between the Company and the Union, but we were never told what was happening.
Thinking About Equality
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
Back in 1937, as fascism seemed poised to seize power in much of Europe, George Orwell noted in A Road to Wigan Pier that a “genuinely revolutionary socialism” would have no chance of reversing the tide unless its supporters put aside their factionalism, ceased using jargon that few people could understand, and mobilized around propaganda stressing justice, liberty, and the plight of the unemployed.
Tokyo Letter: After the Disaster
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
Just before 3pm on March 11th, I was standing in the intersection of two small streets in central Tokyo, saying goodbye to my partner before leaving for a work trip to the United States. Earthquakes are common in Japan, but we knew right away this one was different. The earth rumbled and rolled, shifting back and forth and around, the intensity rising and falling and rising again.
The Union in Academia
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
Cary Nelson is a distinguished professor of English and the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a group that is part professional association and part union. This book is perhaps half about academic freedom and half about the AAUP, and Nelson’s struggles to have it become a less staff-dominated institution.
Leonard Irving Weinglass
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
Len was not a ’60s radical. He was something more unusual, a ’50s radical. He developed his values, critical thinking and world view in a time when non-conforming was rare. He told a newspaper interviewer in Santa Barbara in 1980 that “I would classify myself as a radical American. I am anti-capitalist in this sense — I don’t believe capitalism is now compatible with democracy.”
What Did They Know...?
Against The Current vol. 153
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What did they know and when did we know it?
A Whiff of Jim Crow
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
The Republican party and its rightwing base are on a concerted drive to suppress the vote in coming elections. The targets are African Americans, other ethnic minorities, the elderly and young.
A Winter's Tale Told in Memoirs
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
The Socialist Workers (SWP), now a curious sidebar in the history of radicalism, is a linear descendant of the political movement initiated in the United States by pro-Bolshevik followers of Leon Trotsky on the eve of the Great Depression. For 45 years, until the mid-1970s, the movement associated with the SWP was at the crossroads of the Far Left.
Women in the Paris Commune
Against The Current vol. 153
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First Published: 2011
During the Seige of Paris, women organized their own Vigilance Committee in Montmartre, the political center of the working class. La Révolution politique et sociale devoted a major portion of its pages to reporting on the Vigilance Committee and a variety of women’s clubs and societies. This included the Union des Femmes, the women’s union that was a section of the First International.
War Colleges
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education
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First Published: 2011
One consequence of the increasing militarization of American society can be seen in changes that have taken place in public and higher education. Schools have become the testing grounds for new modes of security and military-style authority.
Understanding Class and Species
A Lesson From Thaddeus Russell
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First Published: 2011
University remains a rigidly class-based institution—not only in what it teaches but also in how it operates.
Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret
What's Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research?
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First Published: 2011
Israel's preparations for biological and chemical warfare.
Imperialism 101
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First Published: 2011
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders.
Defining an American State of War
Nine War Words That Define Our World
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First Published: 2011
Nine common terms associated with our present wars that probably don't mean what you think they mean.
The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion
From Serbia to Libya
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First Published: 2011
The weapons makers love the marriage of high-cost precision weapons to coercive diplomacy, because it generates an astronomical need for a never ending flow of money into their financial coffers with orders for new weapons.
Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
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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.
Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn’t Tell You About Capitalism
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First Published: 2011
Chang exposes deadly falsehoods in many of the prevalent neoliberalism’s supposedly self-evident “free market” truths. But Chang’s book is plagued by key difficulties that belie its claim to iconoclasm, suggesting Chang’s own conservative adherence to dominant Western power structures and doctrines.
Us and Them
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First Published: 2011
To move beyond wishing and hoping, our self organization has to overcome and overwhelm the limits, the divisions, the separations of workers and poor by categories of “organized,” “unorganized,” “immigrant,” “native,” “legal,” “illegal. No one’s illegal. Nobody’s organized until everybody’s organized.
War of the Killer Robots
Four Realities About Drones
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First Published: 2011
Drones are "killer robots," they do make war easy and game-like, and therefore likelier, drone strikes do kill too many civilians and they do violate the International Law of Armed Conflict. I am puzzled and disturbed that some feel that the debate over the use of drones in warfare can be enhanced by denying these facts.
The March on Blair Mountain
A Historic Day in West Virginia
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First Published: 2011
The coal industry is an industry which has admitted it can not make a profit without breaking laws.
Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
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First Published: 2011
Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
The Revolt of the Aganaktismeni
Huge Popular Uprisings in Greece
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First Published: 2011
The 'Outraged' movement is getting more and more rooted among lower classes against a Greek society that has been shaped by 25 years of total domination of a cynical, nationalist, racist and individualist neoliberal ideology that turned everything into commodities.
Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck
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First Published: 2011
Excerpted from the book "Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit".
A Concerted Effort From Europe Against Israeli Produce Exporter Agrexco
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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.
First Nations Under Surveillance
Harper Government Prepares for First Nations “Unrest”
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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 well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business
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First Published: 2011
It’s the definitive neoliberal triumph: the monetisation and marketisation of nature, its reduction to a tradeable asset. Once you have surrendered it to the realm of Pareto optimisation and Kaldor-Hicks compensation, everything is up for grabs. The well-intentioned dolts who produced the government’s assessment, have crushed the natural world into a column of figures. Now it can be swapped for money.
Chavs
The Demonization of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
An analysis of Britain's working class and the sociopolitical attitudes regarding them.
A World at Financial War
Will Greece Let EU Central Bankers Destroy Democracy?
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First Published: 2011
The crisis for Greece – as for Iceland, Ireland and debt-plagued economies capped by the United States – is occurring as bank lobbyists demand that “taxpayers” pay for the bailouts of bad speculations and government debts stemming largely from tax cuts for the rich and for real estate, shifting the fiscal burden as well as the debt burden onto labor and industry. The financial sector’s growing power to achieve this tax favoritism is crippling economies, driving them further into reliance on yet more debt financing to remain solvent.
Europe's New Road to Serfdom
Trichet Threatens Greece with Iron Heel
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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.
Wall Street's Role in Narco-Trafficking
"Business is Booming"
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First Published: 2011
Every major bank in the US has served as an active financial partner of the murderous drug cartels.
How Offshoring Has Destroyed the Economy
Nobel Laureate: Globalism Has Been Ruinous for Americans
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First Published: 2011
All of economics is predicated on the notion that resources are inexhaustible, and that the only challenge is to use them most efficiently. But if resources are not inexhaustible and cannot be replicated by human capital, the world economy is being ruthlessly exploited to its detriment and to the detriment of life on earth.
The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried
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First Published: 2011
Anti-wind campaigners are highly selective. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, obsessed by wind farms, says nothing about the opencast coal mines ripping south Wales apart. Nor do you hear a word about the destruction of the ecosystems of upland Wales (and England and Scotland) by sheep grazing. These champions of the countryside want to save it from only one threat.
How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
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First Published: 2011
When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.
Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
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First Published: 2011
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
An Account from Madison
Against The Current vol. 152
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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.”
Assignment 1: LGBT Equality
Against The Current vol. 152
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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.
The Attack on American Muslims
Against The Current vol. 152
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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.”
Budget Woes, Class Wars
Against The Current vol. 152
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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.
Margaret Burroughs
Against The Current vol. 152
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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.
Gutting Cities and Public Education
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
Almost sixty more Detroit public schools are to be closed over the next two years — with up to 45 open to being taken over by charter operators. This is the “Renaissance 2012 Plan” developed by state-appointed “Emergency Financial Manager” Robert Bobb. As Bobb’s two-year term ends it appears to have been a pilot project for the wholesale and anti-democratic restructuring of local governance.
The Lasting Legacy of Florynce Kennedy, Black Feminist Fighter
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
Several decades after the 1960s political upheavals, very few people recognize the name of the Black feminist lawyer and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000). However, during the late 1960s and 1970s Kennedy was the country’s most well-known Black feminist. When reporting on the emergence of the women’s movement, the media covered her early membership in the National Organization for Women (NOW), her leadership of countless guerilla theatre protests and her work as a lawyer helping to repeal New York’s restrictive abortion laws. Indeed, Black feminist Jane Galvin-Lewis and white feminists Gloria Steinem and Ti-Grace Atkinson credit Kennedy with helping to educate a generation of young women about feminism in particular and radical political organizing more generally.
Libya and the Arab Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2011
The sweeping upheavals in Arab countries and North Africa continue to unfold. Among these events, the uprising in Libya and the subsequent United Nations/NATO intervention have provoked intense controversy within the international left and antiwar movement. The debate is an inevitable and necessary one — given both the imminent massacre that appeared likely to occur if the Qaddafi regime recaptured Benghazi and other opposition population centers, and what we well know to be the far-from-humanitarian motives of the imperialist intervening powers.
May Day at 125
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
In the spring of 1886 workers at Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company struck for the eight-hour workday. They were locked out by the employers, who hired strikebreakers in their place. On May 1 a protest parade was held outside of the plant; two days later police attacked the demonstrators, killing one.
Julian Mer-Khamis
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
We mourn the tragic and senseless assassination of the brilliant revolutionary filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was gunned down April 4 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. His documentary film “Arna’s children,” about his mother’s lifelong struggle and her work in founding the Jenin Freedom Theater, and the realities of life for Palestinian youth under occupation, is a masterpiece. The Freedom Theater is a priceless center for resistance as well as the healing of these young people.
No Fooling—Corporations Evade Taxes
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First Published: 2011
Closing corporate loopholes so that corporate income tax revenues in the United States match the 3.4% of GDP collected on average by OECD corporate income taxes would add close to $200 billion to federal government revenues—more than five times the $39 billion of devastating spending cuts just made in the federal budget in 2011. Returning the corporate income tax revenues to the 4.0% of GDP level of four decades ago would add close to $300 billion a year to government revenues.
Ohio Workers, Services Under Fire
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
As in so much of the country after the recent election cycle, a newly-elected Republican administration has taken the reigns of state government in Ohio. The centerpiece of their ambitious austerity agenda is the notorious Senate Bill 5, which will severely restrict the collective bargaining rights of most public sector workers in the state. The bill has galvanized a section of Ohio workers to a degree not seen a decades. On March 31, Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed SB 5 into law, but the movement to defeat the bill still carries on.
Pappe and Israel's New Historians
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
An irony of Israeli political culture is that Zionism is exceptionally rigid in comparison to the democratic philosophy that legitimizes the U.S. political system, yet the breadth of political debate that appears in Israeli mainstream media is much wider than one would find in the United States.
Rebuilding the Antiwar Movement
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
First, thanks to David Grosser for starting an important discussion. However, as two socialists who have been involved in antiwar organizing, we think the problem is more complex than he suggests. Further, the specific solution he calls for would mistakenly shift the focus of the movement away from mass action as a strategic orientation.
Wilebaldo Solano, 1916-2010
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
Wilebaldo Solano, the last member of the original leadership of the Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista (POUM — Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification), died in Barcelona on September 7, 2010, at 94. As an anti-Stalinist communist party, the POUM helped lead the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
Tennessee: Another Battle Front
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
As attacks on public sector workers heat up around the nation, Tennessee has experienced its own battles over collective bargaining — even though few segments of the public sector workforce belong to unions.
The Unfolding Arab Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Suzi Weissman interviews Mark LeVine.
Why the Revolt in Egypt?
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Why has the Arab world suddenly erupted in revolution from Tunisia to Egypt, from Bahrain to Yemen? Above all, why Egypt, the largest and most important of the Arab nations?
Wilebaldo Solano As I Knew Him
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
I first met Wilebaldo Solano in Paris in 1997 after corresponding with him since the late 1980s. I had translated an article Wilebaldo wrote about Victor Serge and the POUM,(1) and finally meeting him was an inexplicably emotional occasion, a moment of warmth, solidarity and enthusiasm for us (Wilebaldo, his wife Maria Teresa and myself).
Wisconsin and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
As the last decade or more have demonstrated, unions don’t grow incrementally as a result of their patient, even persistence efforts to recruit. Rather, unions grow more or less rapidly in periods of intense conflict and labor upheaval. Such was the clear experience of the 1930s. In a somewhat more uneven fashion, the period from the mid-1960s through the 1970s saw rising numbers of strikes, increased rank and file rebellion, and the addition of four million members to the ranks of organized labor.
Workers' Revolts of the 1970s
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In my world as a teenager becoming politically aware in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the issues that mattered most were the war in Vietnam and race relations at my school. The events that shaped my high school years included fights between Black and white students, watching the families of white friends leave the city for Ferndale and Oak Park, the racially charged mayoral race in 1969, the election of the city’s first Black mayor in 1973, and my own increasing involvement in the movement to end the war in Southeast Asia.
Zionism's Many "Returns"
Against The Current vol. 152
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First Published: 2011
Zionist historians — like their counterparts in Australia, South Africa, the United States and other settler societies — hold the dispossession of the Palestinian people to be extraneous to their general history, rather than the integral part that it is. Studying Israel’s foundational myths and historiography through the lens of comparative settler colonialism allows Gabriel Piterberg to keep the Palestinian half of the relational history ever present.
The problem of autonomism
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First Published: 2011
Direct action is crucial to win – but it needs to be orientated to building a mass movement, through strikes, civil disobedience and occupation.
Why aren't people voting?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is much ado about “voter apathy”, with a focus on young people, who in creative and desperate ways are urged and “mobbed” to vote. Unfortunately, much of this effort is barking up the wrong tree: unless we can guarantee that hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are eager to vote can actually do so, we are subjecting them to a nasty piece of Catch 22 where the victims of voter obstruction get the blame for being apathetic and not doing their civic duty.
Why aren't people voting?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Changes in the voting system have create subtle but effective ways of eliminating troublesome voters, students, Aboriginals, the poor and the elderly alike.
A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%
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First Published: 2011
The Palestinian Facebook Movement: Can it take up the baton of revolution?
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First Published: 2011
At the heart of the new movement is a proposal that Palestinians should return to the methods of the first, unarmed, intifada – similar to what has recently been happening in many Arab states. This, they believe, is the right way to achieve the political and social aspirations of the Palestinians, and an alternative to the two failed strategies previously attempted: armed struggle and futile negotiations.
Laying the Groundwork for Change
A Review of Michael Riordon, Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine.
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First Published: 2011
Michael Riordon's new book (published in Toronto by Pluto Press/Between the Lines, 2011, 242 pages) explores what a just peace between Israel and Palestine might look like and how it might be built. It does so by describing the work of a wide range of NGOs and movements, both Palestinian and Israeli, involved in a non-violent struggle for peace and/or justice.
Rebuilding the Left in a Time of Crisis
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First Published: 2011
The type of organizers we need to develop need to be those who have developed the skills and capacities and depth that allow them to be good at taking a defensive struggle and saying ‘we can both fight it, and maybe fight it more effectively, if we can link it to a set of demands that are forward looking. They need to be visionary in terms of a socialist strategy.
Goldstone's shameful U-turn
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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.
Unpacking for a Disaster
What You Need to Survive the Unexpected
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First Published: 2011
In crises, for some authorities, the media, and many outside observers, civilization tends to consist mainly of property relations, and so they pay more attention to whether someone’s taking crackers than whether a grandmother is dying in the wreckage (while law enforcement goes after the cracker-taker).
The Butterfly and the Boiling Point
Charting the Wild Winds of Change in 2011
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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.
Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism?
Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of A Reactionary Ideology: The Case of the Bolivian MNR
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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.
Bleeding Wisconsin
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First Published: 2011
From Cairo to Madison, The Old Mole Comes Up For An Early Spring
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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.
How the French pension system works
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First Published: 2011
Behind the pension reform demonstrations–discontent with politics and politicians, and with the capitalist system itself.
Rethinking Educational Failure and Reimagining an Educational Future
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First Published: 2011
If we start not from the goal of acculturating most children to the demands of an economy which promises only to make things worse, but from the goal of preparing all children to live in a world worthy of human beings, we will find a very different kind of education reform to advocate for. It will have some things in common with some parts of current reform efforts
but it will go beyond and transform them.
Lessons from COINTELPRO
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First Published: 2011
We can best honor those who have been murdered by our government and their agents, not by mourning but by organizing, by building movements that put into practice solidarity across borders that are inclusive in all the important ways - class, gender, race, sexual orientation, language, immigrant status and age - that resist boldly and courageously all forms of inequality and environmental degradation.
Workers Guarantee the Egyptian Revolution
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First Published: 2011
The middle class, which sacrificed much in this astonishing revolution, faces the task of choosing an ally at this critical juncture. If these young, educated people choose the army and the Muslim Brotherhood (who are also part of the middle class), the result will be the foreclosure of freedom. However, if they choose their natural ally, the working class, they will discover a powerful partner in protecting the achievements of the revolution and in building a new democracy.
This Is What Complicity Looks Like: Palestine and the Silencing Campaign on Campus
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First Published: 2011
The campaign to silence Palestine solidarity reaches its annual crescendo during Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW).
The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath
Kenan Malik's "From Fatwa to Jihad"
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First Published: 2011
The Rushdie affair is shrouded by myths—that the hostility to The Satanic Verses was driven by theology, that all Muslims were offended by the novel, that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy, that in a plural society speech must necessarily be less free.
Arabs and the Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 151
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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.
Campaigning with Issues
Against The Current vol. 151
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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.
Change of the Century
Against The Current vol. 151
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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.
Claiming the Power to Resist
Against The Current vol. 151
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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.
Egypt and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 151
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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 Shakes the World
Against The Current vol. 151
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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.
FRANCE: Battling Over Pensions
Against The Current vol. 151
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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.
From Tahrir to Palestine
Against The Current vol. 151
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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?”
GREECE: The Crisis Continues
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
What's happened in Greece after the explosive strikes and street protests that erupted over the terms of the European bailout in 2010?
Interrogating the Feminine Mystique
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
An interview with Stephanie Coontz. Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Dianne Feeley interviewed Stephanie about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.
IRELAND: Slaying the Celtic Tiger
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
Like most nations, Ireland has its share of myths and legends. Most of us know a few of them — Saint Patrick drove out the snakes, the Children of Lir were turned into swans, the ancient warrior Cúchulainn took on all comers. And, since the mid-1990s, Ireland and the international community trumpeted a new myth and legend, the so-called Celtic Tiger.
The Meaning of the Revolution
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
These are the words of Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old woman whose January 18 blog is said to have helped mobilize the million that turned up in Cairo and the thousands in other cities on January 25. Asmaa’s blog, like the stories of many Egyptian women of this revolution, offer a challenge to two key questions framing U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution.
New Orleans' Police Death Squads
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
an interview with Malcolm Suber. Malcolm Suber is a New Orleans community activist and fighter for justice, and a former candidate for city council. Against the Current asked him to comment on the struggle around murders by police during Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing fight over police brutality.
Pakistan's Dark Journey
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The recent verdict of a lower court sentencing a Christian woman to death in a “blasphemy” case, and the subsequent murder of the Punjab Governor who supported the imprisoned woman, has posed the very vital question of whether Pakistani society has become intolerant, violent and extremist to the point of incorrigible.
Renewing New York
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Howie Hawkins. Howie Hawkins, a Green Party and socialist activist, ran for Governor of New York State. Dianne Feeley interviewed him for ATC.
SPAIN: Women's Crises
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Over the past three years there have been numerous debates within the Spanish political and social left about the impact of the current economic crisis on working people, and the (in)efficacy of the measures the government adopted to ameliorate them. There has not been much talk, however, about the specific consequences that both the crisis and governmental response have had on women.
Stieg Larsson in the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
Stieg Larsson came to support the Vietnamese liberation struggle in 1968, when he was only 14 years old. He joined the Kommunistiska Arbetarförbundet — (The Communist Workers League), the Swedish section of the Fourth International –– around 1974 in the northern town of Umeå. There he distributed the party’s paper for soldiers –Röd Soldat (Red Soldier) — among the conscripts in his infantry regiment.
Toward A Queer Marxism?
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
Scholarly approaches to sexuality since the 1980s have become increasingly divorced from practical sexual politics, and both have largely given up on earlier attempts to engage with Marxism. Now this may be changing. A stimulating new book by Kevin Floyd maintains that people in queer studies are paying more attention to Marxism’s “explanatory power.” From the activist side, Sherry Wolf of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) has made an impressive effort to sum up LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) theory and practice from a Marxist perspective.
Triangle Fire Remembered
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
March 25 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 145 workers, mostly young women immigrants. The factory, located on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the Asch building near Washington Square in New York City, employed 500 workers.
A View from Israel
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
Michael Warschawski, a founder of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, spoke with The Real News Network on Israeli reactions to the Egyptian uprising.
Women, Revolution and the Future
Against The Current vol. 151
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First Published: 2011
Valentine Moghadam is director of the Women’s Studies Program and a professor of sociology at Purdue University. She responded to some questions from Against the Current early on February 11, 2011, shortly before the announcement of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation.
An Empire of Lies
Why Our Media Betray Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Contrary to its avowed aim, mainstream journalism invariably diminishes the impact of new events when they threaten powerful elites.
Local and Organic Food and Farming
The Real Gold Standard
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First Published: 2011
When the local chemical grower tells you that local is better than organic, tell them that they should switch to organic so that you can trust their food to be safe, clean, inspected, and environmentally friendly. Local food is not the gold standard, and may not even be safe. Local-organic is the gold standard.
Rightwing Manipulation of the Wisconsin Revolt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Manipulation of opinion surveys is easy enough for those seeking to muddy the waters of political debate regarding the current war on unions.
Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back
Time to Declare War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Unions need to streamline their message, make it less cerebral and more visceral.
The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we stop it?
Home is Where the Hatred Is
A Conversation With Isabel Wilkerson
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First Published: 2011
Hunting the CIA's Keystone Kommandos
On the Trail of Agency Kidnappers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
You cannot overstate the CIA’s capacity to bungle things. Sheer incompetence explains far more of America’s espionage fiascos than most of us might think. The other point is the importance of hubris in CIA history—the idea that the CIA operates in such a different universe, is so far above the law, that its people often feel they can’t possibly get caught, and that if they do, they couldn’t possibly be punished.
Where is Phil Ochs When We Really Need Him?
There But For Fortune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Anatomy of Egypt's Revolution
Conditions and Consequences
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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.
Can the Egyptians Come to Canada to Liberate Us?
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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.
Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico
The Big Clubs in Mexico’s Drug War Aren’t Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole
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First Published: 2011
The deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along the U.S. border appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sector arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars.
Tales of Tyrants: Ben Ali, Mubarak & Suleiman
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First Published: 2011
On the overthrow of Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt's Mubarak.
US Teaching "Counterinsurgency" Courses To Mexican Military in Drug War
State Department Report Details Special Forces “Mobile Training Teams” South of the Border
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First Published: 2011
To fight the drug war in Mexico the US military conducted specialized trainings both inside and outside of the country with a focus on combating “narco-terrorism” and “counterinsurgency” conflicts.
The Domestic War on Protesters
It's Not Just Egypt
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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.
Local Harvest for an Urban Landscape
Laying the Foundations for Sustainable Local Food Systems
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First Published: 2011
How do you create a locally harvested food system for a city of 100,000?
Lupercalian Valentine's Day
Whip It Good
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The tradition of honoring all-inclusive, natural LUST around February 14 pre-dates classical times when Ancient Romans celebrated the Lupercalia, an archaic festival of the now obscure old shepherd god Lupercus (or perhaps Faunus, the Roman Pan), and a celebration of communal sexuality, purification, fertility, the rush of hormones, the howl of the wolf, the crack of the whip and the coming of Spring.
Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle
Lorena's Tale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The working conditions of many domestics, which include 18-22 hour days and violent beatings, cannot but be described except as virtual slavery. Apparently among the items of the "job description" of a domestic slave in Saudi is being forced to minister to the sexual needs of the master of the household.
Why No Reporters in Suez?
The Real Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What is happening in Tahrir Square Cairo has been built on the backs of millions of Egyptian workers who waged 3,000 strikes over the past eight years.
Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What mainstream media consumers will find almost nowhere (perhaps literally nowhere) is a detailed analysis of how US-UK support for Mubarak fits with a pattern of US-UK support for dictators across the world over many decades, indeed centuries.
Direct Action in Hard Times
Activist Strategies from Brazil to Wisconsin
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First Published: 2011
Factory occupations, land occupations, and other tactics.
From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
The Anti-Empire Report
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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.
Mubarak's Last Gasps
From Counter-Attack to Departure Day
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First Published: 2011
Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt.
Death in a New York Food Sweatshop
The Killing of Juan Baten
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For thousands of recent immigrants, the eastern section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is where you go to find work in food processing and distribution factories that service many of New York City's markets and restaurants. If you've ever eaten a meal in New York, you can be assured that you've consumed food that has been produced and distributed through one of these food companies and those in a few adjacent neighborhoods.
The Egyptian Uprising in the American Media
Obscuring the Obvious
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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.
Mubarak's third force terror tactic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime. The tactics of deploying so-called third forces is a tried and tested method of autocratic regimes, usually utilised when the regime realises that it is on the strategic defencive politically.
Burning Truth
Invisible Truth
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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.
Central America Raises Its Voice in Defence of Its Migrants
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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.
Confederacy Redux?
Why We Should Celebrate Reconstruction
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First Published: 2011
Reconstruction is the era that some have referred to as the United States' greatest moment of democracy.
Report Confirms Gang Rapes at Canadian-Controlled PNG Mine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
One of the world's largest mining organisations, Barrick Gold, is in damage control this week following the release of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report outlining longstanding incidents of sexual and physical violence at the company's Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine in Papua New Guinea.
Why Is BDS A Moral Duty Today?
A Response To Bernard-Henri Levy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The reality of the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
BBC Joins Smear Campaign Against Assange and Wikileaks
Indicting the Messenger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The campaign by the establishment press against Julian Assange is intensifying.
Keller's Hatchet Job
The NYT vs. Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For evidence of the sorry state of honesty and integrity in American public life, one need go no further than the New New York Times.
The Making of Egypt's Revolution
People Power in Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Tunisia, Then Egypt
Why Now?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Under what circumstances does passivity turn into revolt?
A Wikileak on the US and Al-Jazeera
Blaming and (Killing) the Messenger
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First Published: 2011
A Wikileaks-released cable from the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar, shows that U.S. officials were angry with Al Jazeera in the wake of Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, because, alone of news networks the world over, al-Jazeera had actually shown what was happening on the ground to Gazan civilians besieged by an unrelenting Israeli air, artillery, and ground attack.
Egypt at the tipping point?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
Egypt Protests Photos
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2011
The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto
What Now?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Unprecedented wholesale and retail control of the organic marketplace by companies employing a business model of selling twice as much so-called "natural" food as certified organic food, coupled with the takeover of many organic companies by multinational food corporations, threatens the growth of the organic movement.
Two Systems of Justice
One for the Corporate Class; One for the Rest of Us
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First Published: 2011
We have two systems of justice. One for the corporate class. And one for the rest of us.
The UAW vs. Indian Casinos
Which Side Are You On Boys
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The issues raised by Indian gambling casinos and their opposition to labour unions.
Bradley Manning's Torture Commonplace In U.S. Prisons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The corrosive, solitary confinement being inflicted upon PFC Bradley Manning in the Quantico, Va., brig is no exceptional torture devised exclusively for him. Across the length and breadth of the Great American Prison State, the world's largest, with its 2.4-million captives stuffed into 5,000 overcrowded lock-ups, some 25,000 other inmates are suffering a like fate of sadistic isolation in so-called supermax prisons.
The Empty Press Room - How Corporate Journalism Happily Lost Interest in Climate Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the media’s coverage of climate change, are we really still stuck on square one of some ghastly board game?
The Persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning
A Sick Game
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The torture and prolonged confinement without trial of Pvt. Manning are the tactics of a totalitarian state. They are exactly what is done in countries like China, Iran, and Burma.
Milton Rogovin: Portraitist to the People
He Gave Them Respect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
His photography did not turn people into victims, nor did it make them heroes.
Chevron's Crude Attacks
Court Sides With Big Oil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Yet another instance of the increasingly pro-business stance of the US legal system.
Defender of the Movement
Albert Goldman for the Defense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A profile of the radical lawyer.
The Murdered Women of Juarez
Trails of Impunity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The murder of young women, often raped and tortured has brought international infamy to Cuidad Juarez.
Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The mainstream media have distorted and deceived in their coverage of the Wikileaks story to manufacture, isolate and target a 'threat' for destruction.
Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
I love the public library service for what it did for me as a child and as a student and as an adult. I love it because its presence in a town or a city reminds us that there are things above profit, things that profit knows nothing about, things that have the power to baffle the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism, things that stand for civic decency and public respect for imagination and knowledge and the value of simple delight.
Anti-Terrorism Begins at Home
Viva House refuses to sign United Way "loyalty oath"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A Baltimore is refusing to certify that it does not use United Way funds to support terrorism, saying the request smacks of McCarthyism.
Authors of Gaza youth manifesto speak to Electronic Intifada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We, the youth of Gaza, who make up sixty percent of Gaza's 1.6 million residents, have increasingly felt repressed in many aspects, starting from the long-standing Israeli occupation of our lands -- particularly the four-year-old Israeli blockade of Gaza -- through the injustice inflicted everywhere by the rulers of Gaza, who we elected four years ago.
Who threatens us most – peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The people challenging corporate power are often defamed as destructive anarchists. Yet they are seeking to defend the fabric of our lives from the anarchic destruction of market fundamentalism. The police, on the other hand, are fighting – often without obvious justification – to shield destructive companies from both unlawful and lawful challenges. They are defending neoliberalism’s atomising, kleptocratic projects from those who question them.
Hate Speech and Free Speech
The Wrong Kind of Climate Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Laws against sedition, in whatever guise, are an attack on free speech. Unlike laws against those rare instances of incitement which trigger immediate and actual violence against a present target (as in "get him boys!"), laws against sedition are always couched in vague, open ended terms because the real target is not the alleged "dangers" protected against but some political agenda or ideology that is opposed.
How Canada Subsidizes Illegal Israeli Settlements
Enabling Crimes Against Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Canada's tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there's nothing that can be done about it.
Shot in the Head
Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the past 10 years Israeli forces have killed at least 255 Palestinian minors by fire to the head, and the number may actually be greater, since in many instances the specific bodily location of the lethal trauma is unlisted. In addition, this statistic does not include the many more Palestinian youngsters shot in the head by Israeli soldiers who survived, in one form or another.
Conservatives have perfected the trick of defending power by attacking it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The UK Cameron government is atempting to use a tried-and-proven trick: defending the elite by pretending to attack it.
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The increasing influence and role of Lockhead Martin, the giant weapons corporation.
Serious Guns and White Terrorism
Two Unasked Questions in Tucson Mass Murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The American Way of Torture
CounterPunch Diary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Urge to Surge
War is a Drug
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Englehardt describes the effects of the US surge addiction with the military issue as an example.
US Justice on Trial
Why Cameron Should Tell Obama to Get Stuffed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The US justice system and extradition treaty.
A Profound and Jarring Disconnect
The Writing on the Wall
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
How the US government has gone against the wishes of the public majority on key issues.
Unlocking Uncle Sam's House of Horrors
Smashing Plato's Cave
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The effects of Wikileaks in showing the public what is really happening.
Phil Ochs Lives!
"There But For Fortune"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Phil Ochs and his influence.
Why Wikileaks Matters
The Lies of Diplomats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
On the secret diplomatic cables disclosed by WikiLeaks.
Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Selective Outrage
What about the Others?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Calls attention to the widespread use of solitary confinement with Bradley Manning as a specific example.
Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
About Connexions - Japanese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
American Dreamers
How the Left Changed a Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
History of the radical left in the United States from the abolitionists to anti-globalization activists. The author sees the left as historically championing a pluralist spirit that runs counter to the "born capitalist" American society.
The Arab Revolts and the Cage of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Though the Arab revolts of 2011 herald a new era where people have powerfully asserted their inalienable right to protest (and we hope they will continue doing so), the powerful cage of political economy has remained intact even after six intense months of protest. The intent of the imperial US power in the region, along with its allies Israel and the European Union (EU), remains unchanged.
Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
Mixed Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishment's fear of the free-flow of information that might interfere with foreign policy and reveal that there are many more Posadas whose service to the empire might be disclosed. And the media's cooperation in this protection of Posada and pursuit of Assange is clear. \
Battle for Brooklyn
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Battel for Brooklyn is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way for the polarizing Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.
Beyond the Fields
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A jurnalistic account of the secret life of water.
The Buckeye Socialist Alternative
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Dna La Botz Socialist for Senate campaign in Ohio represents an important success in the recent context of leftist third party initiatives. Running the first Socialist Party campaign for national office in Ohio since 1936, La Botz garnered 25,368 votes statewide, one of the more successful socialist electoral bids in decades. This experience provides some important lessons for how the left can engage the electoral arena in this period.
Business as Usual
The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
n Business as Usual Paul Mattick explains the recession in jargon-free style, without shying away from serious analysis. He explores current events in relation to the development of the world economy since the Second World War and, more fundamentally, looks at the cycle of crisis and recovery that has characterized capitalism since the early nineteenth century. Mattick situates today’s crisis in the context of a capitalism ruled by a voracious quest for profit.
Captivity
118 Days in Iraq and the Strugle for a World Without War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
An account of a peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation in Iraq.
Chocolate Nations
Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Speculation, pests, political corruption, taxation, land rights, civil war and the IMF are forces at play in this investigation of cocoa agriculture and export in West Africa.
Community Organizing: A Holistic Approach
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Kuyek examines the creation of positive social change based on a coherent and wide-ranging analysis of the context in which the work is done and the principles needed to make it effective.
Counterpower Making Change Happen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Counterpower is the single idea which explains why social movements succeed or fail. It has helped win campaigns, secure human rights, stop wars and even bring down governments.
The Debate Around Liu Xiaobo
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We do not entirely share the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s statement on its decision to award the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, praising China for having “achieved economic advances to which history can hardly show any equal” but regretting that it is in breach of several international agreements on human rights and China’s own constitution concerning these rights.
Destroying Libya’s Welfare State
NATO's Great Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For NATO, its corporate allies, and its media mouthpieces, such prosperity for workers simply will not do. We live in a world where austerity for the workers is the order of the day – for those in Libya, Greece, Italy, Spain, Great Britain and the U.S. as well. And those who stand in the way of such austerity measures, whether they be a nationalist government in Libya, Communists in Greece or Occupiers in the U.S., must be dealt with accordingly – by violent reaction.
Detroit: Disappearing City?
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Forty percent of Detroit today is considered virtually “unoccupied.” The administration of Mayor Dave Bing is trying to figure out how to move the remaining residents of these areas out, in the name of “rightsizing” the city. Of course he hasn’t revealed any specifics — and the devil is in the details! Residents are wary: without the money to relocate people and the services needed, it’s just another round of displacing the urban poor.
Detroit Symphony Musicians on Strike
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra have been on strike since October 4, 2010. Thirty-five concerts have been cancelled, while the musicians have organized nine magnificent performances with guest conductors in various churches and synagogues in the area. They charged $20 admission and got their friends to volunteer to be ushers and ticket sellers. At a concert of 1100 I attended in a Grosse Pointe Woods church, parishioners seated on either side of me were attending their first symphonic concert.
DREAM Deferred, Fight Continues
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Ecology and Socialism
Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
The current environmental movement is at an impasse, stuck on false panaceas like cap-and-trade, cutting individual consumption (“live others so that others may simply live”), and outright reactionary “solutions” that revolve around some form of population control (as if the number of people on the planet was the problem rather than the nature of the relationship between said people and the planet). Williams does an excellent job debunking these notions with a plethora of factual information and empirical data.
The Economic Crisis in Fact and Fiction
Paul Mattick Jr. with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Paul Mattick Jr., the author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism.
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates.
The Enemy That Barely Exists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Al-Qa’ida has proved so elusive and difficult to eliminate mainly because it has never existed in the form that governments and intelligence agencies pretend.
The Face of Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Parenti redefines empire and imperialism to connect the current crisis in America to its own bad behavior worldwide.
Generation NGO
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Young Canadians are increasingly active and engaged in global issues. Many are eagerly poised to contribute—in smaller and even larger ways—to international development and the Canadian national politics that, for better or worse, shape the field.
Get Up, Stand Up
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly: A Hopeful Experiment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
We are living in a kind of transitional era, where the old forms of working class organization and politics are sorely in need of a replacement, and the theoretical and practical bases of those replacements are still in the process of being born. The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly is one attempt to create a working class institution that tries to address this crisis within the class and on the left on the level of a city, in this case, Toronto.
Hell No
Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
In the Age of Terrorism, the United States has become a much more dangerous place—for activists and dissenters, whose rights are all too frequently abridged by the government. A report on government attacks on dissent and protest in the United States, along with a readable and essential guide for activists, teachers, grandmothers, and anyone else who wants to oppose government policies and actions
Historic Declaration by Palestinians, Israelis in Support of Israeli Social Protest, Anti-Colonial Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Some 20 political parties and social movements from both sides of the Green Line issued an historic declaration in support of the social protests currently rocking Israel and their necessary linkage to the struggle against Israel’s occupation and colonial policies.
The Hour of Sunlight
One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Traces al Jundi's evolution from Palestinian militant to prisoner to peacemaker.
How Smart Are the "Smart" Meters?
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What does it really mean when a corporation calls a new product “smart?” Gas and electric corporations are calling their newest technology “smart meters.”
How to Change the World
Tales of Marx and Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
How to Start a Revolution
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
A documentary on the work and ideas of Gene Sharp, a theorist of non-violent revolution.
In Defense of Grand Narratives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
The postmodernist attack on Marxism conflates the crudities of “Marxism-Leninism” with the thought of Marx himself. Its critique of Enlightenment rationality fails on its own terms, but it also fails to discern Marx’s break with his Enlightenment forebearers. Marx’s goal — the emancipation of the human individual from need and the flowering of “rich individuality” — is not that of rationalism, Hegelianism or classical political economy.
In Praise of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Why might Marx be back on the agenda? The answer, ironically, is because of capitalism. Whenever you hear capitalists talking about capitalism, you know the system is in trouble.
India’s Vanishing Vultures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Can the world’s fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?
Inside 15M: 48h with the indignants
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Inside the Global Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Inside the Global Crisis
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
“The roots of the modern financial system lie in developments in the early 1980s when investors of capital could not find avenues where they could obtain reasonable returns after a decline, from the early 1970s onwards, in the profit levels of traditional companies.”
The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The economic context points to the paradox of the Internet as it has developed in a capitalist society. The Internet has been subjected, to a significant extent, to the capital accumulation process, which has a clear logic of its own, inimical to much of the democratic potential of digital communication, and that will be ever more so, going forward. What seemed to be an increasingly open public sphere, removed from the world of commodity exchange, seems to be morphing into a private sphere of increasingly closed, proprietary, even monopolistic markets.
Keep the TTC public
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Privatization of public transit around the world has been a disaster for taxpayers and riders. In this video, we learn of some of these disasters and why Toronto should avoid TTC public-private partnerships. Narrated by Canadian actor Eric Peterson.
Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Let Them Eat Cuts
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The good times are flowing again for Wall Street and bank executives, and U.S. corporate profits have rarely if ever looked so lush. But it’s a brutal moment for working people, with much worse possibly to come. These twin realities set the economic and political agenda heading into 2011-12. Everyone knows the Republicans are hell-bent on “making Obama a one-term president,” but few expected that they’d capture the White House in 2010. If that’s an exaggeration, it’s a mild one.
Let Them Eat Diversity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Alter Benn Michaels says that “'left neoliberals' are people who don’t understand themselves as neoliberals. They think that their commitments to anti-racism, to anti-sexism, to anti-homophobia constitute a critique of neoliberalism. But if you look at the history of the idea of neoliberalism you can see fairly quickly that neoliberalism arises as a kind of commitment precisely to those things."
Letter to the Next Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The problem of agency is especially relevant to what remains of the Left today, and it is the part of C. Wright Mills’ Letter to the New Left that is the most problematic.
Living and Working Uncovered
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An interview with Sonya Huber. Sonya Huber (www.sonyahuber.com) is the author of Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir.
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
The Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan Lomax
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
Moral Poverty and the Riots
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Because the right has appropriated the arguments about moral failure, many on the left have rejected moral arguments altogether. The left talks much about the social and economic impact of neoliberal policies. But little about their moral impact. Such willful blindness is dangerous. Morality is as important to the left as it is to the right, though for different reasons. There can be no possibility of a political or economic vision of a different society without a moral vision too. Moral arguments lie at the heart of our understanding of social solidarity, and of the distinction between notions of social solidarity and pious rightwing claims of ‘we’re all in it together’.
Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same “moral panic,” invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.” The amalgamation of racial, ethnic, religious and national identities into a demonic Islamic “Other,” has been spreading throughout the United States as well as Western Europe.
Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same “moral panic,” invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called “Ground Zero mosque.”
The Next American Revolution
Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making.
No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way
Voices from Symphony Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Accounts from Symphony Way pavement dwellers, joined together in an anti-eviction campaign, living in shacks insisting that the government provide permanent housing.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
In the world of CCTV, email and DNA, this book shows the extent to which Big Brother is watching us all.
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Are we heading for a population ‘explosion’? How many people can the planet sustain?
Occupy Wall Street - Wikipedia article
Connexpedia article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
About the demonstrations in New York City, 2011.
On Egypt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Historical compromise over an attempt at democratic change.
Organic and Beyond
Friendship, Solidarity and Patriotism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Organic is not enough. Organic will be an effective proposal for change only to the extent that it is integrated into the local and global movements that carry on the fight for food sovereignty, climate justice, ecological debt, women's rights and labor organizing; and against enclosures of common goods.
Our Way to Fight
Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The Russian Revolution of October 1917, the first successful revolution made by and for workers in world history, posed an immense paradox for revolutionary socialists. On the one hand, the combination of the most advanced forms of industrial capitalist development with a largely non-capitalist countryside and autocratic-absolutist state institutions made Russia “the weak link” in world capitalism, the society where a workers’ revolution could first succeed. On the other, Russia’s economic underdevelopment and the minority status of the working class in the population made the prospects of constructing a viable, democratic post-capitalist society impossible.
Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
While the pre-World War I Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not leave original theoretical tools to guide the reconstruction of revolutionary workers’ organizations, the study of their historical experience remains invaluable.
A Plague of Prisons
The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Drucker sees prisons as the problem, not the solution.
Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
What clearly sets a number of recent cases apart is not the fact of police violence, but the fact that that violence is being challenged. The controversy, in other words, is not only about violence, but about authority. It is a crisis of legitimacy.
Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
On September 5, 2010, Los Angeles police shot and killed a Guatemalan day laborer named Manuel Jamines.
Political Repression in Russia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
When someone in Russia today calls himself a Communist, in most cases it will turn out that what you have is a particular version of a National Socialist; all too many anarchists turn out to be “national anarchists.”
Political Repression in Russia
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The full implications of the extraordinary drought that struck the European part of Russia this past summer became apparent only in the third quarter of 2010, when accurate statistics on the human casualties and economic losses became available. But from the outset a solid foundation on which to base projections emerged from amongst the potpourri of facts and expert opinions.
Postmodern Imperialism
Geopolitics and the Great Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
An analysis of the development of imperialism over the past century.
Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
This updated and revised edition explores the dynamics of power relationships and international negotiations, and the use of terror between the Western countries and the nations of the Middle East in the post-9/11 era. Chomsky looks back to patterns since the Second World War to show how acts of terrorism today cannot be understood outside the context of Western power and state terror throughout the world, especially in the Middle East. This new edition offers the best opportunity to follow Chomsky’s analysis in its development during the ten years since 9/11.
The Power of Nonsense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Slavoj Žižek's diagnosis of late capitalism is of genuine interest. His remedies, however -- dictatorship and terror -- are a disgrace.
A Primer on Immigrant Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The struggle for immigrant rights is one of the most important struggles of our time, and it occurs under a working-class banner.
A Primer on Immigrant Rights
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In the late 20th century, immigration from Mexico to the United States was at its highest level since the early part of that century. Hunger and poverty, worsened by the inequalities of U.S. trade policies, have forced millions of Mexico’s citizens to leave their homes.
Prospects for African Americans
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Much of the debate in Washington and Wall Street is about the ongoing world economic crisis and what to do about it. The ruling elites’ solution: cut taxes for the rich, who will “trickle down” their investments to hire more people who will then jumpstart the economy. The fact that this hasn’t worked for the past 10 years is irrelevant.
Restless Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A collection of narratives and visual art that strive to capture the essence of life in the city. For the author, the urban dweller is a wanderer, a people watcher, a daydreamer attuned by virtue of his life in the metropolis to potentially transformative experiences.
Saving Face
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid -- the majority women. Many more go unreported. This documentary Saving Face is the story of two survivors of such attacks — their battle for justice and their journey of healing. Saving Face follows their personal stories and that of the nation of Pakistan as it attempts to tackle this vexing social problem.
Slavs and Tatars Presents Molla Nasreddin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Molla Nasreddin was an Azerbaijani magazine published from 1906 to 1930 in Azeri, a Turkish dialect. Named after a traditional figure of fun, the text and numerous illustrations lampoon hypocrites of the period in the clergy and the government. It has been reissued by a group of artists called Slavs and Tatars.
Smoking Typewriters
The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly democratic "movement culture".
Soundbitten
The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Sobieraj argues that activist groups' efforts to get media attention for themselves and their concerns often ends up undermining their capacity to communicate with ordinary people.
Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
A Jewish response to the February 2011 Statement of Jewish Zionist Organizations on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Stop Signs
Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
A Strategy for Antiwar Organizing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
There is a paradox here: The organized antiwar movement’s effectiveness has declined, even while public opinion polls showed that antiwar sentiment among the public as a whole has grown steadily. A movement which declines while opportunities for growth are becoming more favourable is a peculiar one indeed.
A Strategy for Antiwar Organizing
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
According to a recent CNN poll, “American support for the war in Afghanistan has never been lower” and “only 37% of all Americans favor the war, [while] 52% say the war in Afghanistan has turned into a Vietnam.”
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
An expose of the environmental and human costs of turning tomatos into an industrial product.
Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
The Unnatural History of the Sea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that could spell extinction for some species.
Wealth, Illth, And Net Welfare
http://www.countercurrents.org/daly151111.htm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Wellbeing should be counted in net terms — that is to say we should consider not only the accumulated stock of wealth but also that of “illth;” and not only the annual flow of goods but also that of “bads.”
What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
Why Marx Was Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
Why We Loved the Zapatistas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
It would be absurd to admonish the Zapatistas for failing to overcome generations of poverty in a single sweep, but is it too much to ask their privileged supporters abroad to pay more attention to the material conditions in Chiapas and less on the innovative ways they use their laptops to conjure “resistance”?
World Development An essential text
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
The ultimate introduction for school students of World Development, Geography and General Studies.
The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement and Changing the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
If you want to make a significant and sustainable impact on the health of our planet, this powerful and practical guide can help. Author and activist Sharon J. Smith shares proven strategies and lessons learned from the winners of Earth Island Institute’s Brower Youth Awards—America’s top honor for young green leaders. Here are all the tools you need—from planning a campaign and recruiting supporters to raising money and attracting media attention—to turn your ideas into actions and make changes that matter.
Philippines: Resisting Gobble-ization
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
In his latest book, Epifanio San Juan Jr. uncovers the concealed operations of power and the historic inequalities of political economic systems that have impacted Filipinos in an age of globalized crisis and contradiction. While the definition of globalization is often debated, for the majority of people in the Philippines the process of globalization can be more accurately described as “gobble-ization.”
Sacred Roots of A People's Music
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
The goal of Timothy Brennan’s Secular Devotion is an ambitious one, to create an historical map of African culture’s influence on the social politics of the Americas in general and the United States in particular.
Activist Toolkit (rabble.ca)
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2011
A wiki-style of resources for activists.
Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
rabblepedia
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2011
An encyclopedic-like section containing definitions and descriptions of organizations, people and things related to activism.
The Tunisian Intifada
"Yezzi Fock!" (It's Enough!)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011
Venezuela from Below
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2011

2010

Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010 Published: 2012
Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
Connexions Archive Case Statement
In search of a new home for the Connexions Archive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Working together to secure a future for the past
A Welcome Prison Victory at Youngstown
Hunger Strike on Death Row
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Three death-sentenced men were on hunger strike in Ohio State Penitentiary on January 3 to win the same rights as others on death row in the state.
Why Boycott Aroma?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010 Published: 2011
Our boycott call is part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2010
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2010
Framing the Sixties
Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
What is education for?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
There is a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process, a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual. When someone buys a car or a hamburger, he or she is purchasing a pre-packaged, readymade commodity to satisfy a specific need. Education is about creating critical thinkers whose skill is precisely the ability to challenge ideas that are pre-packaged or readymade or designed to satisfy such a need.
Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
Out Lickspittle Press
Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude
What You Sacrifice to Hold a Job in the New Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In terms of "jobs," war is evidently a burgeoning growth-industry. Back in the "Homeland," the demands of "internal-security" offer new openings for countless other "surplus-persons" in need of some "employment"—as law-enforcement and anti-terrorism personnel, prison guards—or prison inmates.
State Lawlessness on the Rampage
The Menu for 2011
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As 2011 dawns, public discourse in America has the country primed for a fascist dictatorship.The situation will be worse by 2012. The most uncomfortable truth that emerges from the WikiLeaks saga is that American public discourse consists of cries for revenge against those who tell us truths.
Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich
Prison Populism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Race baiting broadcast agitators like Beck and Rush Limbaugh have their audiences believing the factually flawed foolishness that the reason they are falling behind economically is because the federal government is fawning over blacks lavishing them with unearned benefits. The reason for the loss of jobs, homes and dreams of comfortable futures driving white working class (and middle class) ire is not benefits to blacks but naked greed on Wall Street and in the suites of mega-corporations that triggered America's economic collapse.
The Techno-Fantasies of Evo Morales
The Consequences of Modernization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
There are two different Evo Morales: the one who makes international eco-proclamations and the one, at home, who is pushing dams, uranium excavation, cell towers, and mega-highways.
The Women Who Gave Us Christmas
Exposing America's Greatest Crime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In 1834, African American and white men and women members of William Lloyd Garrison’s newly formed Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society saw Christmas as an opportunity to expose a hypocritical republic that proclaimed liberty yet held millions of African men, women and children captive as slaves. Women assumed the lead, boldly defying a society that denied them a public voice or political opinions. To finance the abolition cause, these women organized Christmas bazaars that sold donated gifts, and trumpeted anti-slavery messages.
Capital's War on the People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is time to change the parameters of the debate, from “when or by how much social spending should be cut?” to “why should the people pay for something they are not responsible for?”
Mining Peru
Canada's New Territory?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
Australia Rejects Israeli-Ordered Media Censorship
A Little Justice for Al Manar TV
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Australia rejects politically motivated censorship attempts.
Burmese media combating censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Other World Is Here
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
You see what you’re looking for. Most of us are constantly urged to see the world as, at best, a competitive place and, at worst, a constant war of each against each, and you can see just that without even bothering to look too hard. But that’s not all you can see.
PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves
Further Adventures in the Territories of Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Capitalism is only kept going by this army of anti-capitalists, who constantly exert their powers to clean up after it, and at least partially compensate for its destructiveness. Behind the system we all know, in other words, is a shadow system of kindness, the other invisible hand. Much of its work now lies in simply undoing the depredations of the official system.
WikiLeaks Copycat Reveals Indonesia's Bloody Secrets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On Friday, December 10th IndoLeaks, Indonesia’s very own version of WikiLeaks, went live. Over the following weeks the site has posted some sensitive documents including a conversation between former President Suharto and former US President Gerald Ford as well as four autopsy reports of the victims of the infamous 1965 coup attempt.
Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Big Brother defence of WikiLeaks is that if everyone had a camera upon them, society would be a better place. This is a view that fails to distinguish between the need to control those who possess power, and the need to prevent those who possess power from controlling us.
Hot Wet Holiday Sex
From Wikileaky Condoms to Yucky Zuckerburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Whatever your preferences, do go on some kind of holiday sex adventure. Try not to hurt anyone, including yourself, and whatever your pleasure, enjoy it and infuse it with a sense of *sacred* solstice power, a promise to resist the deadly status quo of depression, perma-war and power-grabs, and a passionate commitment to love.
Insisting on Humanity
The Plight of the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is important that we preserve the distinction between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people, who have held on to their rights for so many years, and unleashed two of the greatest expressions of people's power and resolve: the First Uprising of 1987 and al-Aqsa Intifada of 2000. A whole population taking on the self-celebrated "greatest army in the Middle East" is hardly "powerless". The Palestinian people have printed themselves on the practical discourse of this conflict, and they have proved themselves to be powerful players in determining their own fate.
Wikileaks and the Free Press
Exposing the Futility of US Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Wikileaks published documents from sources US journalists should have cultivated instead of behaving like White House stenographers. Exceptions like Seymour Hersh and Dana Priest only dramatize the point: the fourth estate has become an arm of national security policy.
The World: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A comparative/historical sociological review of the world.
Permanent Autonomous Zone
A Conversation With Zine Writers Erick Lyle and Jeff Miller
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
What if our lives were filled with moments of liberation from the everyday? Is it possible to carve out spaces that challenge the dominant logic of the market, where we can pursue meaningful work and actualize our dreams?
Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law enforcement agencies, the airwaves are filled with both propaganda and venom. Today the airwaves, stripped of commons rules, feed hatred.
Gazan Youth's Manifesto for Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!
These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As I see in threads on my articles, the online sabotaging of intelligent debate seems organised. We must fight to save this precious gift.
The Secret Secret
Of Wikileaks and Literacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
PayPal admits US pressure over WikiLeaks account freeze
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department.
Information Terrorists?
The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
Truth in Chains
The Arrest of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
US Government Systematically Spying on Citizens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The US government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.
What the Media Does Not Say About the Anti-Iran Leaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The media is interested in one and only one subject: advancing the anti-Iran narrative that is advocated by the neoconservatives, the War Party, and the Israel lobby.
The Copyright Police
First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Understand this: the seizure of websites without due process, corporate interests lobbying and then writing laws that allow them to be the police and t personally enforce, the battle over net neutrality is all about concentrating power in the hands of a few. This is about controlling the flow of information and being a gate keeper in the communications arena. Its the first step in moving a democracy toward a dictatorship.
Defending Palestinian solidarity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Electronic Intifada, the online publication about Palestine, finds itself at the centre of a storm as a pro-Israel group applies pressure to have a grant from a Dutch foundation withdrawn. This assault is part of a well-coordinated, escalating Israeli government-endorsed effort to vilify individuals and cripple organisations that criticise Israel's human rights record and call for it to respect Palestinian rights and international law.
The Return of Debtors' Prisons
Reservations for the Poor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Nearly a quarter of the people spending time behind bars on Riker’s Island in 2008 - one in four inmates - were there because they didn’t have the money to pay bail on a misdemeanor charge. These unfortunate souls may have been presumed innocent of the criminal charges by the judge, but they were nonetheless jailed for being poor.
Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Can't Recover Anytime Soon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
There is a larger disease in the international economic system, a disease that cannot be cured by politicians who swear allegiance to this deteriorating system and to the wealthy elite who benefit from it.
The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom
Hillary the Identity Thief
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The leaked Wikileaks documents show that the last thing the US government wants anywhere is a government that is accountable to its own citizens instead of to the US government.
WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the face of an unprecedented campaign of US harassment and intimidation, the Internet-based WikiLeaks group is continuing its efforts to expose the predatory role of American foreign policy around the world, releasing secret diplomatic documents every day.
From Wikileaks to TSA
Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head.
Why we walked out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war crimes committed by the army.
Wikileaks is Good for America
Get Over It!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning did not create the mess we now find ourselves in. But what they have had the courage to do may just eventually let enough sunshine in for change to happen.
The Borrower and the Billionaire
A Foreclosure Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In this excerpt adapted from The Monster, Michael W. Hudson writes about the nation’s largest subprime lending empire through the fortunes of its owner and one of its customers.
Banamex v. Narco News Precedent Protects WikiLeaks, Too
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The story – one that defines the times we live in - has been going on for a while now: State power (and that includes private-sector “states” such as corporations and commercial media organizations) can no longer hide behind commercial (and State-owned) media to consolidate and centralize power when citizens deploy decentralized, small scale, and even temporary media resistances outside of those institutions in these ways that make big media irrelevant.
Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It appears irrelevant to many policymakers, journalists, and people in the US generally that Pakistan has, for example, peasants, unions, working-class politics, LGBTQ organizations, feminist groups—that, in short, the overriding ethic of Pakistani democracy and resistance movements is secular.
Fabricating Terror
The Portland "Bomb" Plot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots? Could it be that the US government needs terrorist events in order to completely destroy the US Constitution?
Organizing with Love: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Great organizing campaigns are like great love affairs. You begin to see life through a different lens. You change in unexpected ways. You lose sleep, but you also feel boundless energy. You develop new relationships and new interests. Your skin becomes more open to the world around you. Life feels different, and it’s almost like you’ve been reborn. And, most importantly, you begin to feel things that you previously couldn’t have even imagined are possible.
Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The US has been going in the wrong direction for years by classifying millions of documents as secrets. Wikileaks and other media which report these so called secrets will embarrass people yes. Wikileaks and other media will make leaders uncomfortable yes. But embarrassment and discomfort are small prices to pay for a healthier democracy. Wikileaks has the potential to make transparency and accountability more robust.
Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
Documents Show NYT and Washington Post Shilling for US Government on Iran Missile "Threat"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A key Wikileaks document which should have resulted in stories calling into question the thrust of the Obama administration's ballistic missile defense policy in Europe based on an alleged Iranian missile threat has instead produced a spate of stories buttressing anti-Iran hysteria.
The National Security State Cops a Feel
Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It’s finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your “safety” will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
Why NGO Monitor is attacking The Electronic Intifada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
NGO Monitor has launched a campaign targeting a Dutch foundation's financial support to The Electronic Intifada, accusing the publication among other things of "anti-Semitism." NGO Monitor is an extreme right-wing group with close ties to the Israeli government, military, and West Bank settlers,
Wikileaks and the New Global Order
America's Wake-Up Call
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The impression of a world running out of American control has become a theme touching all our lives over the past decade. The US invented and exported financial deregulation, promising it to be the epitome of the new capitalism that was going to offer the world economic salvation. The result is a banking crisis that now threatens to topple the very governments in Europe who are Washington’s closest allies.
Canadian Mining Corporation Receives Permits in Mexican Indigenous Territory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Canadian mining companies have found a way to expand their operations in Mexico. Recently the Mexican government awarded 22 permits to British Columbia-based First Majestic Silver to mine for silver in the western region of the country.
First a Hand on Your Crotch, Next a Boot in Your Face
False Choices and Airport Security
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Since 9/11, we have given up many of our rights and our government has condoned practices like torture, legalized assassination, kidnapping, indefinite detention without access to council or trial – all in the name of keeping us 'safe' and 'free'. We have adopted practices and behaviors that we used to abhor in other nations and regimes. These practices, as demonstrated by the TSA, have nothing to do with keeping us safe or free – quite the opposite.
Tear Down the Dam; Restore the Commons
Temacapulin Fights for Its Survival
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Over 47,000 large dams around the world have displaced some 40,000,000 people. The World Bank has invested more than $60 billion in 600 dams.
TSA's Gestapo Empire
A Greater Threat Than the Terrorists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is a far greater threat to the lives and freedom of Americans than the 'terrorists' it claims to be protecting them from.
Legal Lessons From the Green Scare
When the Constitution is No Obstacle to the FBI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Green Scare prosecutors and their coordinators in Washington are willing to destroy individual lives to score political points, and to trample their own rules in the process.
Honoring Helen Thomas
A Great Journalist, Traduced By Hacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Helen Thomas was done in because she embarrassed the group of lap dogs who call themselves White House reporters.
Insouciant Americans
Blinding Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed.
Authentic journalism: weapon of the people
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.
No News is Not Good News
Cops Taping Protesters & Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If cops photograph and videotape protesters and journalists, it's news if it happens in China, but when it happens in the U.S., as it routinely does, the media are silent.
Abraham Serfaty, communist, anti-Zionist, democracy activist, Moroccan Jew, dies aged 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Towering Moroccan activist Abraham Serfaty died Thursday aged 84, after a lifelong struggle for freedom, first against the French colonial rulers and then against King Hassan II's monarchy.
The Fear Factor
Stephen Harper’s “Tough on Crime” Agenda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
This study analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely lead to more crime and a bigger deficit.
The Political Slaughterhouse
Statism's Death Knell for Liberty and Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The issue of government coercion has been taken off the radar screen of politically correct thought. The more government power has grown, the more unfashionable it becomes to discuss or recognize government abuses- as if it were bad form to count the dead brought about by government interventions.
Put the Palestinians On A Diet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
Put the Palestinians on a Diet
Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel's Deliberate Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Debate with the International Socialist Organization Continued
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From a libertarian socialist point of view, the “self-emancipation of the working class” can’t happen unless the working class builds organized mass movements that they control, such as labor organizations. This is the fundamental basis of syndicalism as a revolutionary strategy.
Working in Nonprofit Organizations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If people want to work in jobs that provide some satisfaction and flexibility, nonprofits jobs can be good for a while. They’re also a way to learn some skills. But don’t have illusions about nonprofit organizations. A job in a nonprofit organization is still a job. A nonprofit job is not a good way to make a contribution to revolutionary change and it’s often not a very good contribution even to smaller scale reformist change.
Liberating Thought: Toward an Independent Mass Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Prospects for democracy are dependent upon the growth of an independent media with wide exposure in the general population comparable to that of the corporate press.
The CPCCA should be reconfigured to combat racism against all peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Confronted with evidence of a decline in anti-Semitism, Irwin Cotler creatively claims that it is anti-Semitic to accuse Israel of apartheid. Since this accusation seems to be growing and is being promoted by campaigns on Canadian campuses, Cotler then has "evidence" of anti-Semitism.
Wikileaks - The Smear and the Denial
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that journalists monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that.
After Oaxaca's Popular Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“Think about it,” a popular bumper sticker read, “6 more years would be 86.” On July 4, 2010, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca held statewide elections. Despite open vote-buying and other fraud perpetrated by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), it was not enough to ensure victory on this occasion, thereby ending 81 years of uninterrupted PRI rule in Oaxaca.
After the Democrats' Debacle
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How far have politics “moved to the right” in the United States — and for how long? Although we’re going to press before the November 2 midterm elections, you’re probably reading it after the anticipated Democratic debacle and the attendant speculation about the viability of the Obama presidency. Whether the Democrats have retained slim majority control of one or both houses of Congress obviously matters for some legislative purposes and power relations, but our view of the broad trends is pretty much the same either way.
After the Floods, the IMF
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Pakistan in recent years has found itself in the headlights of the international press with increasingly regularity. As Obama’s surge into Af-Pak has taken shape over the last 12 months, the country and its people have been thrust to the forefront of political discussion for forces left, right and center.
Analyzing the Crash
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The present economic crisis, which began in the United States late in 2007 and picked up speed early in 2008, may have caused production in the American economy to fall precipitously, but had the opposite effect on the production of books seeking to analyze the world economic crisis.
Bob King and the "New" UAW
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Last June the 35th UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit elected new national officers headed by Bob King. Even before his election, King had been heralded in the media as desirous of transforming the UAW into an activist union. He supported the US Social Forum, co-sponsored the August 28th Detroit march for “Jobs, Justice and Peace” and encouraged UAW participation in the October 2nd “One Nation Working Together” demonstration in Washington DC.
Capital's War on the People
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Instead of calling the recent G-20’s brutal austerity declaration (issued at the conclusion of its annual summit in Toronto) an orchestrated declaration of class war on the people, many progressive/Keynesian economists and other liberal commentators simply call it “bad policy.” While it is true that, as these commentators point out, the Hooverian message of the declaration is bound to worsen the recession, it is nonetheless not a matter of “bad” policy; it is a matter of class policy.
Chronicle of a Labor Victory
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Most union members see nothing but hugging and kissing between their leaders and their bosses on a daily basis. It takes a different kind of union to break with this culture, which has become second-nature to U.S. unions and is arguably the main reason for their current weakness. Leonard Riley’s longshore workers union in Charleston, South Carolina is a different kind of union, however, and On the Global Waterfront by Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger tells their gripping story.
1810, 1910, 2010 and Mexican Labor
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In the midst of a deep depression, an ongoing crisis of legitimacy and a brutal internal war amongst the different fractions of the drug cartel/state complex, Mexico is celebrating its two great revolutions, the Revolution of Independence (1810) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
Kashmir: A Brief Background
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Kashmir was divided between India and the newly created Pakistani state in the chaotic division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947-48, with little reference to the wishes of Kashmir’s people. The larger part is occupied by India, with a volatile “Line of Control” separating it from the Pakistan-administered zone. The formal name of Indian-occupied Kashmir is Jammu and Kashmir; the Pakistan-controlled region is known as the Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) and Azad Kashmir. The territory’s largest city is Srinagar.
Kashmir: A Time for Freedom
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“Freedom” represents many things across rural and urban spaces in India-ruled Kashmir. These divergent meanings are steadfastly united on one point: freedom always signifies an end to India’s authoritarian governance.
Abbey Lincoln and Freedom Now
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Abbey Lincoln — singer, composer, actor — left us on August 14 at age 80. A prolific and multidimensional artist (born Anna Marie Wooldridge), she took her performing name in the 1950s by combining “Westminister Abbey” and “Abraham Lincoln.” Composer and percussionist Max Roach, her partner in life — they were married from 1962-1970 — and in music and in political action, died on August 16, 2007.
The Long War at Staley
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Staley recounts the epic struggle of workers in a corn-processing plant in Decatur, Illinois in the 1990s and provides insight into how a pivotal struggle ended in defeat. That ending was not inevitable.
Pakistan Women's Voices
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An interview with Bushra Khaliq. Bushra Khaliq is general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line (www.wwhl.org.pk) and a member of Labour Party Pakistan.
Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
Reflections on October 7th
Against The Current vol. 149
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Students, workers, teachers, parents and faculty throughout the country participated in the October 7th National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. As part of a growing movement, activists from 25 different states were involved.
Resisting Agent Orange
Against The Current vol. 149
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Following an early April round of visits in private residences and care facilities with children suffering from a range of debilitating birth anomalies, classified by the Vietnamese government as “victims of agent orange,” a delegation of six American veterans sponsored by Veterans for Peace (VFP) was received in Hanoi by Nguyen Tan Dung, the Prime Minister of Vietnam.
A Tale of Two Social Forums
Against The Current vol. 149
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From June 22-26, 2010, fifteen thousand social movement activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan for the second United States Social Forum (USSF). Less than two months later, about half that number met at the other end of the continent in Asunción, Paraguay for the 4th Americas Social Forum (ASF).
U.S. Socialists and the Mexican Revolution
Against The Current vol. 149
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Eugene Victor Debs was America’s most impressive Socialist figure: founder of the American Railway Union and of the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the Socialist Party and its repeated candidate for president. He was jailed for his role in the Pullman strike in 1894 and for his opposition to World War I in 1918, and he strongly defended the Russian Soviet Revolution. If any person would stand for revolutionary socialism in the United States, surely it would be Debs.
Book Review: Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins (2010)
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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.
Lessons from the Tekel strikes: class solidarity and ethnic (in)difference
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First Published: 2010
A worker puts it: “There are no differences between Kurds, Alevis, Sunnis and Turks. We have no party.”
Tailoring to Needs: Garment Worker Struggles in Bangladesh
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First Published: 2010
The class struggle in Bangladesh is fought at a consistently high level and concentrated in the ready made garment (RMG) sector, the country’s dominant industry. Mainly unmediated by trade unions, struggles frequently assume an explosive character.
When Drones Come Home to Roost
Monsters, Human and Mechanical
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First Published: 2010
The use of remote-controlled killing machines by the United States guarantees that in the future these same technologies will be used to strike targets in the U.S.
Wimps Can't Win
The Sissy Left
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First Published: 2010
When did we on the left forget how to fight back in dark alleys?
Auto Industry Strikes in China
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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.
Book Review: "Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?" by Wayne Price
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First Published: 2010
The Demise of Andy Stern and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
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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.
Not Another Disaster Movie
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Whose will is it that keeps us going the way we are? The will of capital, albeit a capital that’s been refurbished for our modern times. That will cloaks itself in the garb of progress, science and technology. At the same time, it justifies itself by the invocation, in the developed countries and those (like China) on the fast track to development, of an apparently all but incontrovertible need to maintain “our way of life.” That way of life threatens to fairly quickly become a threat to the possibility of life in any form that we would want to be part of.
Body Parts and Bio-Piracy
Tissue, Skin, Bone and Organ Harvesting at Israel's National Forensic Institute
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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.
The Class War at Home
The Rich Getting Richer
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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.
Jurassic Ballot
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First Published: 2010
This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding.
The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group
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First Published: 2010
Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
The Media and the Far Right
Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
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First Published: 2010
The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
No longer a real newspaper, new Globe betrays Canadians
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First Published: 2010
The new tarted-up, glossy, colour Globe and Mail is many things, but it is not a real “news paper.”
From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine
"To Exist is to Resist"
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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.
Looking for Trouble
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First Published: 2010
Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can#t afford to use existing reserves?
The Collapse of Western Morality
The Indispensable People?
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First Published: 2010
Moral degradation is reaching new lows.
The FDA and Frankenfoods
Will the Agency Protect Consumers or the Profits of a Few Corporations
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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.
Lessons From Arizona
Direct Action Organizing From 1999 to Now
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First Published: 2010
What we saw in Arizona over the summer showed a new model of organizing, wherein cooperation between people who are dedicated to different tactics as well as space for accountability within the struggle takes centre stage.
The Real Merchants of Death
The Global Arms Trade
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First Published: 2010
The global arms trade is a $60 billion yearly business, of which the U.S. controls nearly 40 percent, and a political and economic juggernaut that defends its turf with the ferocity of a junkyard dog.
Why the Swedish Left Lost
An Analysis of the Electoral Fiasco and Lessons for the Democrats
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First Published: 2010
Analysts and political leaders on the left focus on how the right wing#s lies go unfiltered by the establishment mass media. The media bias theory has some plausibility but the limit to the media-bias argument is that the extremist Sweden Democrats largely faced a media blackout but still managed to be one of the biggest winners in the electoral system.
Five Reasons To Plant Trees Now
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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?
The Next Mexican Revolution
Don't Look Now, But It's Already Started
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First Published: 2010
If this is to be the year of the next Mexican revolution, the time to move is now.
The Persecution of Pfc. Bardley Manning
The Leaker as American Hero
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First Published: 2010
If Manning did what he is suspected of doing, he should be honoured as an American hero for exposing war crimes.
You Are What You Think
Markos Moulitsas' "American Taliban"
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First Published: 2010
America#s main international enemy#Islamic radicalism#favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
A New Age Of People Power: Lessons From The Dongria Kondh
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First Published: 2010
With greater power to build alliances across boundaries, the Davids of the world are having more success throwing off the Goliaths.
The Crimewave That Shames The World
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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'.
Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
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First Published: 2010
The Trickledown Revolution
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First Published: 2010
The first step towards re-imagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination#an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfillment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for the survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past, but who may really be the guides to our future.
Vancouverites Stage Picket Against Israeli Shipping Company
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First Published: 2010
Dozens of activists set up an information picket at Deltaport on August 24, designed to slow the transport of containers belonging to the Israeli shipping company Zim.
Cars and Class
"A Reckless, Blood-Thirsty, Villainous Lot ... "
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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.
The Growing Boycott of Israel
A Force for Good
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First Published: 2010
To join the boycott is good the world#s future in general. It is certainly good for the Palestinians, and yes, it is good for the Jews too.
Idiot Bosses and Valiant Women
Labor and Capital in Actual Practice
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First Published: 2010
No matter what the enterprise, most employees know who the hard workers are, even though it#s not their job to know. They know who hustles, pitches in and lends a hand, who goofs off and avoids work, and who strives to keep the operation going by performing those thankless little tasks that don#t necessarily get noticed by management.
Goldstone Report Dramatized
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First Published: 2010
So Different Yet So Familiar
Book Review by William Bowles
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First Published: 2010
A fascinating and extremely readable account of a life now vanished, destroyed by the insatiable appetite of capital and told with acid wit and great style making it enjoyable to relish the language but not too much, it's not a travelog but a rare account of life that most of us are barely aware exists.
Take Back The Land, Give Root To Democracy
Book Review by Alex Knight
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First Published: 2010
In many ways, Take Back the Land is a direct heir of the bottom-up, Black self-empowerment, civil disobedient, movement-building tradition, and is one of the most inspiring examples of a group renewing and developing that tradition today.
Der Zor Diary: A Pilgrimage To The Killing Fields of the Armenian Genocide
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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.
Global BDS Against Israel Is Working
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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.
Strong Meat
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First Published: 2010
The meat-producing system Simon Fairlie advocates differs sharply from the one now practised in the rich world: low energy, low waste, just, diverse, small-scale. But if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience.
The Danger of SB1070
Against The Current vol. 148
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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.
Feminism's Global Contradictions
Against The Current vol. 148
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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.
Genealogies of the Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
An interview with Adolph Gilly. Gilly is a longtime activist and prominent historian of the Mexican Revolution.
How Race Fuels Rightist Agenda
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
Nearly 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, the conservative movement is mobilizing its electoral base by using the wedge issues of race and racism. The principal targets are not new — African Americans and “illegal immigrants” from Mexico.
Edmond Kovacs, 1924-2010
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
I first met Edmond Kovacs in the fall of 1961. I was then 19 and he 37. He was teaching a class for the Los Angeles chapter of the Young Socialist Alliance, the youth group of the Socialist Workers Party. He was the SWP’s Southern California Chairman, introduced under his party name, Theodore Edwards. Most of us in those days had nommes de guerre, fake names that we rather optimistically hoped the FBI wouldn’t figure out. It was only years later that I got in the habit of calling him Edmond.
Letter to Readers
Against The Current vol. 148
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We are writing you this letter to invite you to support the effort to preserve and renovate the Leon Trotsky Museum (IDA-MCLTAC) in Mexico City as we mark the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the 35th anniversary of the opening of the Trotsky Museum, and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Institute on the Right of Asylum.
Mexican Women -- Then and Now
Against The Current vol. 148
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Araceli's gnarled hands knead the corn dough in a smoke-filled lean-to next to her kitchen, as the 5 a.m. sunlight begins to squint through the slats. She will make about 48 pounds of tortillas, as she does every day. By noon they’ll be on the table in houses all over the 500-inhabitant town she has lived in her whole life, half-way between Mexico City and Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico.
Mexico 2010: The Spreading Crisis
Against The Current vol. 148
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On July 4, in an atmosphere of widespread insecurity, unabated violence, and an uncertain allocation of authority and impunity,* Mexico held local elections in 15 of its 32 states.
Mexico's Crisis in Context
Against The Current vol. 148
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In this article I offer an historical context for understanding Mexico’s current economic, political, and human crisis triggered by 28 years of neoliberal economic policies. Neoliberal governments have privatized most sectors of the economy and reduced the Mexican state’s role to one of being a repressive apparatus. NAFTA and related neoliberal policies have left the economy without a dynamic internal market for local products and with a socio-economic inequality that is one of the most extreme in the world.
Oaxaca: Autonomy Under Seige
Against The Current vol. 148
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On April 27, 2010, the Mexican state of Oaxaca again garnered international attention as a humanitarian aid and solidarity caravan comprised of national and international activists heading to the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala was ambushed by state-backed paramilitaries, resulting in the deaths of two activists, leaving several wounded, and others disappeared for days.
Obama's Reform, Recovery Stalled
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
The Reform agenda of president Obama and the Democrats, such as it was, is exhausted. Two failing wars, a fragile and almost jobless economic recovery teetering on the cusp of a double-dip Great Recession, and an all-out rightwing racial, economic and political offensive have defined the ground for the November midterm election and the period to follow.
Obama's RTTT vs. Teacher Unions
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
The 165 Washington, DC public school teachers terminated for poor evaluations on July 23 may be the first victims of the Obama reform agenda. The teachers were fired because of low scores on the DC school system’s new evaluation procedure — one which ties teacher evaluations to student scores on standardized tests.
October 7: Defend Education!
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
Students, faculty and campus workers across the United States will kick off the 2010-2011 school year with an October 7 national day of action to defend public education. This day of action will attempt to pick up from where last year’s movement to defend public education left off. March 4 represented the broadest point of last year’s organizing, with strikes, major rallies and marches, and smaller local speak-outs taking place throughout California, across the country, and to some extent around the world.
Orwell in the Maze of Memory
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
On 23 June 1937, George Orwell and his wife Eileen boarded a train in the Barcelona station, destination Portbou.
The Rawick File: How Do People Revolt?
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
George Rawick (1929-1990) was a powerful socialist scholar in the C.L.R. James tradition, sometimes an equally powerful mentor for young radicals, and also a tortured soul. He is largely forgotten today, because he did not write easily or found a “school” with his methods — or even get along with his friends and allies very well.
Remembering Barbara Zeluck
Against The Current vol. 148
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Remembering Barbara Zeluck
Venezuela: Voices on the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
In mid-June 2010, we caught up with three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process.
¡Viva la Revolución! Part 2
Against The Current vol. 148
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While the most violent stage of the Mexican Revolution was over by 1920, the country faced a series of new crises in the 1930s. The era opened in 1928 with the assassination of former President Álvaro Obregón, killed by a Catholic militant opposed to the secularizing Revolution in the formerly officially Catholic country.
Wikileaks and the Truth of the Af-Pak War
Against The Current vol. 148
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First Published: 2010
In the aftermath of the much-discussed leak of the Afghan war documents, few aspects of the Af-Pak imbroglio have been as scrutinized as the supposed duplicity of the Pakistani security establishment. The New York Times editorial board, for example, promptly declared that of all of the revelations, the reports detailing the “cynical collusion between Pakistan’s military intelligence service and the Taliban” were the “most alarming.” (This, too, from a paper that had been privy to the leaked material for some time before the database went public).
Small country, big struggle
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First Published: 2010
Swaziland suffers a repressive and corrupt regime.
Let’s Talk About Another Burning Color: Black Flame vs. Red Fire Extinguisher?
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First Published: 2010
Class struggle anarchists are not the only revolutionary forces on the left, and are not the only libertarian left revolutionary forces. In my opinion, anarchists can learn a lot from some marxists.
A Case of Decency Deficit
Eden's Photoshoot
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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."
Eat Pray Love Strike
The Law of the Bargaining Table
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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.
The Secrets in Israel's Archives
Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Kept Under Lock and Key
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First Published: 2010
Israel has extended the time limit for releasing documents in its archives to 70 years, to prevent disclosure of evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing. The state#s chief archivist says many of the documents #are not fit for public viewing# and raise doubts about Israel#s #adherence to international law#, while the government warns that greater transparency will #damage foreign relations#.
The Tyranny of False Consciousness
Know-Nothings of 2010, Part Two
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First Published: 2010
Today#s nativists are beset by the crisis of capitalist globalization and its accompanying waves of forced migration. Sadly, nativists refuse to acknowledge the relationship between capitalism and migration. Instead, they seek to resolve the mounting social crisis by returning the country to a fantasy way-of-life that never existed, a white Protestant homeland. Rightwing ideological hacks promote this fictitious solution, setting the stage for a far deeper neo-fascist, racist (and anti-Muslim) upsurge.
Our Promiscuous Prehistory
A Review of Sex at Dawn
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First Published: 2010
Most otherwise topnotch evolutionary psychologists, primatologists and anthropologists come up with flip, vague or convoluted ways to explain away unpopular evidence. They seem to be trying to squeeze the square peg of monogamy into the round hole of humanity. Ryan and Jethá have chosen a more well-rounded term to characterize the essence of human sexuality as practiced by our prehistoric progenitors: promiscuity.
Homeless and Hungry at College
Falling Through the Safety Net
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First Published: 2010
With students and their family members losing jobs as tuition increases escalate and social services are cut, more and more students are falling through the tattered social safety net.
Lock 'Em Up
The Prison State
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First Published: 2010
Without a doubt, most of those enmeshed in the (in)justice system are not dangers to society and would not have been in it at all in a society that wasn#t so racist and so shot through with every kind of social and economic inequality. Unfortunately, whatever the reasons why so many men and women have been denied their freedom, once the numbers began to rise dramatically, constituencies came into being#lawyers, police, probation officers, prison guards and staff, drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselors, sex offender counselors, vendors of all sorts, clerks and other clerical support staff, court officers, judges, community service employers#that have a strong stake in milking the new cash cow.
Racist Universities?
New Rules Favor Former IDF Soldiers
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First Published: 2010
Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups.
While Everyone Else Went to College, I Went to Jail
A Conversation With Saad Nabeel
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First Published: 2010
Know-Nothings of 2010
The New War of the Christian Crusaders
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First Published: 2010
Over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.
Disenfranchisement as Political Repression
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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.
A War on Wikileaks?
Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
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First Published: 2010
If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
Turning Estates into Villages
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First Published: 2010
How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
Shock and Au-sterity
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First Published: 2010
Scared to death that all the lights were about to go out after pulling the plug on Lehman Brothers, the bourgeoisie rolled up its sleeves, girded its loins, crossed its fingers, and reached deeper than deep for that thing of all things, that relation of all relations that is the life of all lives for the bourgeoisie—OPM, other people’s money.
A New Type of Political Organization?
The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
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First Published: 2010
Shooting Back
Young Palestinians With Cameras
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First Published: 2010
For the past three years, Btselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has provided cameras and training to young Palestinians as part of its camera distribution project, to collect video evidence of abuses and misconduct by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter Of Gentile Babies
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First Published: 2010
Rabbis who are among the leading idelogues of the growing fascist movement in Israel say that violence against non-Jews, including the killing of babies, is justied by religious law. According to Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, Jewish law permits the killing of non-Jews in a wide variety of circumstances. In a recent boo, they say #There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us".
The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary
Reason for Celebration, Cause for Concern
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First Published: 2010
The release of Wikileaks acquired records from U.S. forces in Afghanistan is an event of major significance which in some ways deserves to be celebrated by those opposed to the war in Afghanistan, but there are also some serious problems with the records and with the way Wikileaks released them.
Women Take On the Orthodox
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First Published: 2010
Increasing religious domination by the Orthodox is increasing conflict within Israeli and tension between American Jews and Israel.
Keeping the Record Straight: About Noam Chomsky's Trip to the Middle East in May 2010
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First Published: 2010
The End of (Military) History?
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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.
Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama's Gitmo
Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier
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First Published: 2010
Give our government credit for breaking new ground: no nation has tried a child soldier for war crimes since World War II, and the decision to prosecute Khadr has drawn protests from UNICEF, headed by a former U.S. national security adviser, as well as every major human-rights group.
US tax-exempt donations fund Israeli settlements
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First Published: 2010
Millions of tax-exempt dollars from the US are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the occupied Palestinian West Bank in flagrant violation of international law.
What's in a name? In a racist society, everything
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First Published: 2010
In our society refusal to contemplate a relationship with a person from another ethnic or religious background is described and denounced as racism or bigotry. In Israel it is protected by law.
The Poor Must Die
Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101
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First Published: 2010
For more than 30 years, the world-dominating Anglo-American alliance has been under the sway of factions which, for all their internal squabbling and hair-splitting, are strongly united in their steadfast, unshakeable adherence to the perpetuation -- and expansion -- of elite power and privilege. They have shown themselves willing -- eager -- to degrade their own societies (and destroy many others) in the service of this brutal, barbaric, inhuman faith. The poor have no place in this system.
Israeli Police Impunity
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First Published: 2010
Israeli police expect, and usually receive, impunity for using violence against Palestinians.
The Opposites Game
All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
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First Published: 2010
The surpassing strangeness of the American way of war in distant lands.
Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
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First Published: 2010
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
Land of Impunity
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First Published: 2010
If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there#s no justice in Britain.
Rejoinder to Criticism of Chomsky: Asset or Liability?
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One can learn much more about Chomsky’s actual views from the real Chomsky than from reading about some imaginary Chomsky which some critics have manufactured.
Criminalizing First-Graders
Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
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All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian #zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
Cuba's Prisoner Release
Surprise! Mainstream Media Omits Context and Key Facts
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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.
How to Write about Haiti
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How to make sure that you stick to the tried and proven cliches.
Not Bad Policy, But Class Policy
Holes in the Keynesian Against G20 Austerity Plan
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Liberal critics of the vicious austerity policies passionately argue against such policies as #bad,# #misguided,# or #unwise# as if the governments that make such policies do not know what they are doing. Accordingly, these critics offer all kinds of elegant Keynesian arguments in favor of stimulus deficit spending that could lead to improved economic conditions, increased tax revenues, and decreased debt and deficit. What these critics tend to overlook, however, is the fact that the governments that impose austerity policies are serving as bailiffs or debt-collecting agencies on behalf of their corporate/financial masters.
The End of Capitalism?
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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.
Remote-Controlled Killing
The Spot-and-Shoot Game
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The Israeli military is increasingly using remote-controlled weapons to kill Palestinians. Israel's remotely controlled weapons systems are in high demand from repressive regimes and the burgeoning homeland security industries around the globe.
European Social failure?
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The sixth European Social Forum in Istanbul left something to be desired
Beyond the dross
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Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
What isn't wrong with Sharia law?
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To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.
In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
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The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
African Americans' Forced Labor
Against The Current vol. 147
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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.
After Obama's Health Care Law
Against The Current vol. 147
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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.
An analysis of the G20 protest and the black bloc
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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.
Arizona's Racial Profiling Push
Against The Current vol. 147
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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.”
Bigger Slicks, Sicker Society
Against The Current vol. 147
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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.
Contemporary anarchism
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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.
Fighters with Disabilities
Against The Current vol. 147
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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.
Berta Langston, 1926-2010
Against The Current vol. 147
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Berta Langston (1926-2010), a founder and member of Solidarity, died of lung cancer at age 84 in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 23. Born Berta Green on the Lower East Side of New York City, she was one of four sisters. She joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1940s and throughout nearly four decades of activity she was widely esteemed on the Left as one of the party’s most devoted and capable militants, a person who could work with sundry individuals to develop coalitions and political defense committees of national and international import. From time to time she used the party name “Berta Graham,” and she received a Marxist education at the “Trotsky School” at Mountain Spring Camp in New Jersey. During the mid-1960s she served briefly on the SWP National Committee.
Lena Horne & Her Times
Against The Current vol. 147
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If there were any doubt that the blues could be elegant, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne Hayton (as she signed her name) dispelled it. At age 26, she sang the title song to the film “Stormy Weather” and her sultry, silky voice branded the tune as hers forever.
The Limits of State Intervention
Against The Current vol. 147
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The Nation, as befits the preeminent journal of left-liberal opinion, has run a series of articles by Robert Pollin and by James K. Galbraith that have sparked great attention. These, as well as numerous other arguments in a similar vein, mount a spirited defense of job generation through deficit spending as effective counter-cyclical measures.
Louisianans, Oil & Petro-Addiction
Against The Current vol. 147
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The Deepwater Horizon oil horror has again focused the nation on South Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of America’s newspapers. Again, this region is being misunderstood. Easy explanations miss the reasons why this area is so vulnerable, and why we in Louisiana are paying for the American economy’s dependence upon petroleum.
Miners Protest Brutal Beatings
Against The Current vol. 147
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Five thousand members of the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union and their families and other unions and social movements marched five kilometers May 24 to protest the brutal police beating of more than 20 union leaders and activists. The march ended at the port which serves the local steel mills in Lázaro Cárdenas, a steel mill city in the state of Michoacan, blocking it for two hours or more.
The 1960 Sit-ins in Context
Against The Current vol. 147
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We think of the Sit-In Movement as beginning on February 1, 1960, fifty years ago. In the minds of many this was the initiating event that led to many subsequent developments in the broader civil rights movement, indeed as a turning point in Black, and more generally, U.S. history. But the sit-ins, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s had their origins in vast social changes that began long before.
The 1960 Sit-ins in Context
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The Civil Rights Movement that we associate with the 1960s was the culmination of a vast set of social and economic changes. The tradition of Black struggle itself, going back to the very beginnings of slavery in the New World, was also part of the context for the new movement.
Peace, Freedom and McCarthyism
Against The Current vol. 147
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The title of this volume is a bit misleading. It has hardly anything to do with the ideological substance of U.S. anticommunism in its encounter with the African-American freedom movement.
Recollections of Harry Press
Against The Current vol. 147
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Harry Press, a veteran of the U.S. Trotskyist movement and the American Socialist current, died this year at age 94. In recent years he was a loyal reader and made several very generous donations to this magazine. These recollections of Harry Press were told to Carl Finamore for Against the Current.
SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
Against The Current vol. 147
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The SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference was convened April 15-18, 2010 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina — where the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born on Easter weekend in 1960 — celebrating SNCC’s legacy and of course the historic sit-ins. About 300 people had pre-registered. In order to advance the “passing of the baton” intent of organizers, students were allowed to register without paying the $75 registration fee.
SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
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Celebrating SNCC#s legacy.
Toronto Before the G20: A History of Violence
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The notion that Toronto is “a city with little history of violent protests” is laughable. Newspapers across North America have spent more than a century reporting on eruptions of violence and protest in Toronto’s past.
Trotsky, Guest of the Revolution
Against The Current vol. 147
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“Infamous and impotent handful of vile assassins and traitors!” “raging dogs that must be brought down with no pity!” These were some of the words that Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet Prosecutor General, pronounced on August 24 1936, against four founding members of the Bolshevik Party, among them Zinoviev and Kamenev.
The Unfolding Epic Recession
Against The Current vol. 147
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The Department of Labor’s June 4 release of May 2010 U.S. employment numbers sent shock waves through the business community, erasing all doubt that U.S. economic recovery — much touted by business press and government policymakers in recent months — may not actually occur.
The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
Against The Current vol. 147
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Under the threefold heading “Another World is Possible/ Another U.S. is Necessary/ Another Detroit is Happening,” the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF) convened in Detroit June 22-26 for a celebration of resistance and strategic thinking to advance our struggles for justice globally and at home.
The Victory for Workers' Rights in Honduras
Against The Current vol. 147
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Progressive followers of politics in Honduras have had little to celebrate recently. The June 28, 2009 coup that toppled president Mel Zelaya — a democratically elected reformer, though never the radical populist depicted by the mainstream media — was a terrible blow to democracy, echoing the worst chapters of Central America’s dark history.
¡Viva la Revolución!
Against The Current vol. 147
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The Mexican revolution, which began in 1910 and ended in 1940, transformed Mexico. During the course of those 30 years, tens of thousands of men and women fought in battles in many regions of the country to end the Porfirian dictatorship and to determine the course and goals of the revolution that had overthrown it. In a nation of 15 million, a shocking one million were killed while two million migrated to the United States to escape the violence (many of them subsequently returning), a movement which established the paths of future migrations.
Waging the War on Slavery
Against The Current vol. 147
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The settlement of Lawrence in the territory of Kansas, summer of 1856: Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers are trying to colonize the territory. The former want a slave-soil, the latter a free-soil state. Armed pro-slavery gangs from Missouri are harassing and attacking the free-soil settlers. The U.S. government and U.S. Army are pro-slavery.
World Cup Woes for South Africa
Against The Current vol. 147
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The overspending, crony capitalism and increased poverty the majority of South Africans now suffer are taking the fun out of the beautiful game, soccer. According to leading researcher Udesh Pillay of the SA Human Sciences Research Council, in 2005 one in three South Africans hoped to personally benefit from the World Cup, but this fell to one in five in 2009, and 1 in 100 today.
Barbara Zeluck, 1923-2010
Against The Current vol. 147
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Our comrade Barbara Zeluck died at her home June 5, 2010 in New York City.
To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
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The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict.
Is this what a police state looks like?
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The corporate security state is not static - it will keep filling more and more space to the extent that they are allowed to by civil society. The police actions in Toronto are one of those key moments, one that we will look back on as a time when the authoritarian governments we now endure tested our resolve. They know exactly what they are doing. There was no spontaneous 'over-reaction.' There were no cops 'out of control' - the obvious fact is they were always in control. The decision to allow the Black Bloc to do its destructive work without any intervention at all was strategic. They were assisted in their work by the Black Bloc, some of them agents provocatuers, all of them enemies of social change.
Summit Protests Are Obsolete
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I can understand why a lot of folks went to the G20 protests in Toronto, sincerely wanting to stand up and be counted against savage global capitalism and its consequences. The problem is, almost nobody who didn't participate, especially those who only heard of the protests through the media, has any idea what the protests were about, or why the protesters were there.
Death of the university?
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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.
How the 'black bloc' protected the G20
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The black-clad mob in Toronto has left a lot of people not only in the general public but in the wider nonviolent social/global justice movements in Canada feeling disgusted, demoralized and dispirited. Just the result you want if your goal is to marginalize and stifle dissent. The blocistes, in other words, are the most effective tool on the ground for silencing the valid concerns of the broad social movements.
The Root of the Mid-East Conflict and the Reason Our Government Supports Israel#s Government
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How should decent people respond to the Middle-East conflict? We should support equality, not Zionist ethnic cleansing. Equality is the way to make a better world for ordinary people from Watertown to Ramallah to Tel Aviv, and it is the only way to end racist ideologies such as anti-Semitism and Zionism.
California Is Not Dreaming
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First Published: 2010
Discussion of March 4, 2010 Day of Action in California.
Capitalism is a Waste of Time
Godwin, Malthus & the Ideology of #No Alternative#
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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#
Crisis in the US
Social and Economic Effects, Restructuring and Methods of Adapting
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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 Report on Recent Struggles in Greece
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In periods of crisis, such as the current period of overaccumulation crisis, capitalists use the politics of #public debt# in order to devise new ways to intensify exploitation. In contrast with capitalist upturns when the private debt is increased, downturns are characterized by the increase of the #public debt#.
Sharia Law in Britain – A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
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First Published: 2010
One Law for All says that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights.
Wildcat Strikes in China
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First Published: 2010
Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism
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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.
From Iron Mines to Iron Bars
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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.
Connexions Archive Information Sheet
Working together to secure a future for the past
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First Published: 2010
Looking for new space for the Connexions Archive and those who work on it.
Presenting Insurgent Notes
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First Published: 2010
We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
"Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
What Bhopal Started
From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP
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First Published: 2010
Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. The ongoing BP spill in the Mexican Gulf -- with estimates ranging from 30,000 to 80,000 barrels per day -- tops off a quarter of a century where corporations could (and have) done anything in the pursuit of profit, at any human cost.
Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
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First Published: 2010
The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
Who is Afraid of a Real Inquiry?
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First Published: 2010
If a real Commission of Inquiry had been set up into the Free Gaza Flotilla attack (instead of the pathetic excuse for a commission), here are some of the questions it should have addressed.
Why the French Hate Chomsky
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First Published: 2010
Chomsky's criticism is laden with facts, a substance that seems to elicit ennui among contemporary French thinkers. No doubt the importance of the essay in the French educational system has bred a world of 'philosophers' whose skill at manipulating fact-free ideas was the guarantee of a distinguished career. If the social object is to entertain, then the French school reaches its goal -- mystification is often far more entertaining than straightforward descriptions of reality. On the other hand, if the object is to help readers reach their own understanding of reality, especially political reality, then their first need is to be provided with the basic relevant facts, which most people do not have time to ascertain through their own research. Thus Chomsky is useful to citizens by providing them with the raw material to develop their own ideas in a way that the purveyors of ready-made but flimsily supported ideas are not.
Veiled Values
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It is important to defend liberal social values, the secular society and the heritage of the Enlightenment. But we cannot do so by promoting illiberal policies.
Hypocrisy Reigns
Don't Forsake the Struggle
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First Published: 2010
When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
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First Published: 2010
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to #follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
The Historical Moment That Produced Us
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As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
It's Not Piracy!
The International Law Framework
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First Published: 2010
The crimes that Israel committed during its assault on the vessels and civilian passengers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla fall firmly within the category of #high crimes.# The assault, rather than an act of piracy, must be defined as a #crime against the peace# and a #crime against humanity# as Israel subjected #part of the high seas to its sovereignty# in a murderous attack on unarmed civilian vessels. The severity of these crimes is magnified precisely because the criminal actor is not an individual but a highly militarized state.
Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1
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First Published: 2010
We are trained to react to violent acts, not on the basis of their objective legality and human cost, but on the basis of the perceived legitimacy of the people committing the act. Violence committed by authority figures will tend to be viewed as legitimate and well-intentioned. Violence committed by non-state actors or #rogue states# resisting the state will tend to be seen as illegitimate and malevolent.
An Act Of State Terrorism
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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.
CIA Experiments in Torture
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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.
Eyes With Legs
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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.
Gaza Occupation And Siege Are Illegal
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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.
The Money Gusher
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The oil industry#s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.
On Cowardice and Violence
Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marmara
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On the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day.
Shot in the Back
Did the IDF Execute Mavi Marmara Victims?
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First Published: 2010
In the Israeli commando assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, if victims were shot in the back or in the back of the head, then one is left really with only two possible conclusions: either the shooters, who were the Israeli commandos (according to Israel, no Israeli soldiers were themselves shot, plus all the recovered bullets were 9 mm, the type of shells in the Israeli weapons, making it clear who had the guns), fired at people who were fleeing from them, or alternatively they shot people from the front, and later executed them with shots to the back of the head, which is maybe even worse (certainly a war crime).
The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda
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The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists # and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships # are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.
A Chinese Alternative? Interpreting the Chinese New Left Politically
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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.
Bring In The Paper, Bring On The Torches
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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.
The Flotilla In The Israeli Press
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First Published: 2010
An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
Israel's vivid act of piracy may yet turn the tide of global opinion
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First Published: 2010
In the summer of 1947 a steamer named the Exodus set out from France to run the British blockade of Palestine. The British authorities boarded and seized the ship, and killed three passengers who tried to fight the British attackers. The British succeeded in preventing the ship from landing, but the event helped to turn world public opinion against the British. Israel's attack on the Gaza aid convoy may prove to have the same result.
The myth of Israeli morality
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First Published: 2010
Israel has consistently reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.
The Real Motive Behind the Gaza Flotilla Attack
Sabotaging Peace
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First Published: 2010
Israel's leadership is committed to "a dynamic state bent upon expansion". The greatest threat to continued expansion is the threat of peace. Whenever Israel's leadership is faced with the threat of peace, it initiates violence designed to stop it.
The Semantics of Terrorism
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A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
Dershowitz to the Rescue?
The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
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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.
From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
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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.
Israel's 'mad dog' diplomacy doesn#t make it more secure
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First Published: 2010
Israel is feeling cornered on every front it considers important # and like Dayan#s #mad dog#, it is likely to strike out in unpredictable ways. These trends are likely only to deepen in the coming months and years. The mad dog is baring his teeth, and it is high time the international community decided how to deal with him.
The Massacre and the Cover-Up
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First Published: 2010
Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
Worse Than North Korea
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First Published: 2010
The reality is that we are dealing with a pariah state, no better at this point in its respect for international law and basic human rights (where non-Israelis are concerned), than North Korea. And maybe worse. At least the North Koreans fired their weapon at a South Korean military vessel. The Israeli Defense Force attacked a vessel filled with civilian peace activists, including elderly Holocaust survivors, members of foreign parliaments, and young children.
America's Complicity in Evil
Barbarism on the High Seas
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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.
Israel Is Now a Lunatic State
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First Published: 2010
What happened with the Gaza flotilla was not an accident. You have to remember that the Israeli cabinet met for fully a week. All the cabinet ministers discussed and deliberated how they would handle the flotilla. At the end of the day, they decided on a nighttime armed commando raid on a humanitarian convoy. Israel is now a lunatic state. It's a lunatic state with between two and three hundred nuclear devices. It is threatening war daily against Iran and against Hezbollah in Lebanon. We have to ask ourselves a simple, basic, fundamental question: can a lunatic state like Israel be trusted with two to three hundred nuclear devices when it is now threatening its neighbors Iran and Lebanon with an attack?
Israel's Attack on Us All
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First Published: 2010
If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel#s propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself. The passengers on the ships, meanwhile, have been kidnapped by Israel and are unable to provide an alternative version of events. We can guess they will remain in enforced silence until Israel is sure it has set the news agenda.
Watching the Pentagon Channel
The New Socialist Realism
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First Published: 2010
The oddest aspect of the Pentagon Channel is how completely they shield their audience#potential soldiers, current soldiers and former soldiers#from what they are defending, which is to say: capitalism.
The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
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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.
From one apartheid state to another: Israel#s secret military alliance with apartheid South Africa
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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.
The Greeks Get It
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First Published: 2010
Here#s to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare#the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
The Heresy Of The Greeks Offers Hope
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First Published: 2010
Greece is a microcosm of a modern class war rarely reported as such.
Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors
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First Published: 2010
The implication, that Iran must be stopped because it would proliferate to neighbors, may come back to haunt pro-Israeli propagandists, given Tel Aviv#s own secret role in attempting to proliferate nukes to South Africa.
No surrender in Greece
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First Published: 2010
A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers# growing radicalization.
Universal Cure
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First Published: 2010
Here#s a simple means of transforming the UK#s universities, schools and society.
Journalism and 'the words of power'
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First Published: 2010
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
Out of Sight, Out of Trouble
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First Published: 2010
The UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.
Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
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First Published: 2010
Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank.
From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis
The Long Struggle Over the Xingú Dams Comes to a Climax at Belo Monte
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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.
Taking Back Homes From The Banks: Exercising The Human Right To Housing
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First Published: 2010
Most people recognize that international human rights guarantee all humans a right
to housing. With the millions of homeless living in our communities and the millions of empty foreclosed houses all across our communities, groups have decided to put them together. Organizations across the US are engaging in #housing liberation# and #housing defense# to exercise their human rights to housing.
Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
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First Published: 2010
Church leaders seem to forget that pedophilia is a felony crime and that, as citizens of a secular state, priests are subject to its laws just like the rest of us. Clerical authorities repeatedly have made themselves accessories to the crime, playing an active role in obstructing justice, arguing that criminal investigations of #church affairs# violates the free practice of religion #- as if raping little children were a holy sacrament.
The People v. the Bankers
Greece Today, US Tomorrow
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First Published: 2010
The Greek "bailout" is actually a bailout of the international banks.
'Diversity of tactics' as a justification for violent tactics - a debate, part 1
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First Published: 2010
How Canada's Christian right was built
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First Published: 2010
The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
An Answer to Charlie Post
Against The Current vol. 146
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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.
The Death of NUMMI
Against The Current vol. 146
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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.
Islamophobia Sets the Terms
Against The Current vol. 146
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The Dutch government didn’t fall in February over involvement in Afghanistan, the unstable governing coalition stumbled over it. But the Islamophobic right wing might be the beneficiary.
Making Sense of This Economic Crisis
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
While it now is generally agreed that the main source of the 2008 financial implosion was the accumulation of too much toxic debt, there is little agreement on the factors that precipitated the buildup of all that unsustainable debt. Whereas neoclassical/neoliberal economists blame the “irrational behavior of the agents” (both lenders and borrowers), Keynesian economists blame financial deregulation and insufficient public policy.
Myths of the Exile and Return
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
So where did “the Jewish people” come from anyway? Was there an Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon, an Exile ending in a triumphant Return to Zion? Does any of it matter and if so, why?
The New Sexual Radicalism
Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism
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First Published: 2010
What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision # whether implicit or explicit # of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
The New Sexual Radicalism
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
From its beginning in the 1990s in the United States, a “queer” activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism, emphasizing visibility, difference, direct action, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and the fluidity and diversity of sexual desire.
Obama's Imperial Continuity
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
Despite the rhetoric of hope and promises of “change we can believe in” that ushered him into the White House, Barack Obama has offered anything but a marked shift in the fundamental course of U.S. foreign policy. The change Obama has brought — to the relief of U.S. and global elites — is away from the George W. Bush-era fantasy that U.S. military firepower and ideological muscle could unilaterally dominate the globe. But his underlying policy goals are very much in continuity not only with Bush but with a century of his predecessors.
Ohio Socialist Runs for U.S. Senate
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
I’m running as the Ohio Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Senate because I believe that the severity of the crisis, and the depth of dissatisfaction and discontent in our society, obligate socialists to put forward our alternative and to organize to achieve it. We on the left need to present the vision of a democratic socialist society, a society which can only be achieved through building a mass social movement and a radically different sort of political organization.
On the Legacy of Che Guevara
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
Peter Drucker's letter (ATC 144) commenting on Kit Wainer's review of Besancenot and Löwy's new biography of Che (ATC 143) rehearses many of Besancenot and Löwy's arguments that Che's Marxism was some sort of alternative to Stalinism. I, for one, am no longer convinced by these claims.
Public Education in California--What's After March 4?
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
On March fourth, we marched forth. Hundreds of marches, rallies and direct actions in defense of public education took place on March 4 across California. Now what?
Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
Consider the following contradiction of modern African-American politics: We have the first African-American president (he checked “Black” on the new census form) offering hope to millions of working-class Blacks. Yet we see a drawdown of protest politics by longtime civil rights leaders, even though the “Great Recession” is causing the greatest harm Black communities have seen in decades.
Reply to A Reviewer
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
My old friend Paul Buhle has developed a neat general formula for reviewing the books he is out of sympathy with. Paul begins by making laudatory comments and concludes by expressing overwhelmingly negative judgments. But he has gone too far in his review of my The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class by falsely accusing me of using “a club to beat [E.P.] Thompson.”
Republic of Dunces
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
For its entire 142-year history, the University of California has served the state’s wealthiest businessmen well as a taxpayer-funded R&D facility. Its graduates have gone out into the world to serve as their mining engineers, attorneys, inventors, weapons designers, and business associates.
Response
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
Oldtimers, across geographical space and chronological time, tend to swat at each other, responding to insults both real and imagined, long past and present. I know that in my family, Ma and Pa did it with increasing vigor over the years. Probably not all of the swatting within the greatly diminished U.S., UK or any other Left can be attributed to political disappointment.
Teachers, Parents, Community Together
Against The Current vol. 146
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interview with Joshua Pechthalt. ATC interviewed Joshua Pechthalt, an activist who is Vice President of the United Teachers Los Angeles/American Federation of Teachers and President of AFT Local 1021. He also sits on the Executive Boards of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and the California State Federation of Labor.
Terror As It Was and Is
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
Despite the centrality today of “terrorism” as a political phenomenon, justifying a re-ordering of global power relations as well as the suppression of dissent and civil liberties domestically, it is in fact a far older phenomenon, as Nivedita Majumdar’s wonderful anthology of writing on the subject reminds us. The work excerpted in The Other Side of Terror includes fiction, poetry, and essays on the subject of terrorism by South Asians over the course of more than a century.
Undisputed Success
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
March 4th was an undisputed success in California. Students, workers, teachers, parents and UC faculty found a way to participate. The major demonstration in San Francisco of 10,000, and other demonstrations in Sacramento and Oakland and in Southern California brought people together from different sectors, K-12, community colleges, state universities and university of California campuses. The California Teachers Association, representing most of the K-12 teachers, initiated rallies and picket lines across the state involving their teachers and students. The California Federation of Teachers reported that events happened at all the state universities except Chico which travelled to join the Sacramento rally.
U.S. Social Forum in Detroit
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
2010 is a year of one, two, many Social Forums around the world, including the second U.S. Social Forum. The first USSF, attended by more than 12,000, was held three years ago in Atlanta. It featured an opening march that wove through the city streets, stopping for rallies at important sites of social struggle, including Grady Hospital, where activists from AFSCME Local 1644, explained their opposition to the privatization of the city’s largest public hospital. The Forum, the result of two years of planning by a National Planning Committee, included plenaries each evening and 800 workshops.
Who's Dysfunctional Now?
Against The Current vol. 146
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First Published: 2010
The good news is that the Republicans and the Tea Party movement not only lost the health insurance reform vote, but made such a obscene spectacle of themselves that everyone now knows who and what they really are. The bad news is that the Democrats now take credit for passing “health care reform” when in fact they’ve gutted it — hiding who and what they really are.
May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee
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First Published: 2010
Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it is historical. It was concrete not abstract. It was expressed in real voices, voices of the past and voices of the present. The skill is in the listening.
The Tactical Utility of Violence
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First Published: 2010
What place does violence have in the struggle to overthrow the capitalist system? What place does it have in any struggle? Is the current definition of violence as accepted by the ruling regime and the loyal opposition relevant or realistic?
The Future of Palestine
Righteous Jews vs. New Afrikaners
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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.
A Ginger Revolution
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First Published: 2010
Grassroots campaigns could break Britain#s corrupt political system.
The Welsh Revolution
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First Published: 2010
Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?
Death in the Desert
Migrants Risk Everything to Cross the Border
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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.
They're Recharging Democracy
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First Published: 2010
How to Become a Real Muslim
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
When I was growing up in the 1980s the concept of a #radical# in a Muslim context meant someone who was a militant secularist, someone who challenged not just racism but the power of the mosques too. Someone like me. Today, of course, it means almost the opposite # a #radical# is a religious fundamentalist.
The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
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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.
Israel Targets Ha'aretz
"A Shin Bet State"
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First Published: 2010
Israel uses police state tactics to crush journalists who expose crimes committed by the military.
SNCC: Same Lesson, 50 Years On
Power Yields Nothing Without Demand
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First Published: 2010
The SNCC lesson is that power yields nothing without demand and the guts to back it up.
Upper Big Branch Mine and the Race to the Bottom
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First Published: 2010
Without union representation, workers are afraid to report unsafe conditions because they will be fired. Without union representation to pressure coal companies, politicians, and federal regulators, the American coal industry is in a race to the bottom as it enforces third world labor standards and economic and safety conditions on its workers.
Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
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First Published: 2010
Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
The Global War on Tribes
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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.
Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
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First Published: 2010
An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would #remove the gloves# to track him down.
A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and Zionists
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First Published: 2010
On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is a Zionist state, not a Jewish one, another important distinction to make in future articles on this burning subject.
SNCC at 50
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First Published: 2010
The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is vitally important not just for learning and understanding the past but, more importantly, for imagining and working for a more righteous future.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do
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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.
Martin Kramer, Harvard and the Eugenics of Zion
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First Published: 2010
At Herzliya the cream of the Zionist security elite gather to raise the alarm about Arab births and hear scholarly analyses of family size and fertility rates among Jews and Arabs as 'existential' threats to the State. Meanwhile, in the Israeli Knesset there are elaborate debates on how to define who is a Jew and who is not - along with legislating what extra privileges should be allocated to the former and denied to the latter. It would be hard to imagine another modern country where such discussions are part of the intellectual mainstream, rather than isolated in the more shadowy fringes of racist right-wing politics. Similar attitudes are expressed in the Zionist Diaspora, where bemoaning Jewish assimilation, promoting Jewish childbearing and financing Aliya to strengthen Israel#s Jewish demography are common themes. Early eugenicists (and their successors) once warned against 'miscegenation' and 'mongrelization' as a danger to the White Aryan Race. Today, Jewish charities like the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation announce their prime mission as education against 'intermarriage.'
Holocaust survivor - why I support Palestinian rights
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First Published: 2010
For me, the Israeli government#s actions toward the Palestinians awaken horrific memories of my family#s experiences under Hitlerism: the inhuman walls, the check points, the daily humiliations, killings, diseases, the systematic deprivation. There#s no escaping the fact that Israel has occupied the entire country of Palestine, and taken most of the land, while the Palestinians have been expelled, walled off, and deprived of human rights and human dignity.
Blau-Kamm case exposes the dark underbelly of Israel#s security state
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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.
The Cover-Ups That Exploded
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First Published: 2010
The Railroading of Tonya Craft
A New Wave of Prosecutorial Hysteria
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As we have seen countless times before, the media always is ready to run over the cliff with the prosecutors, and no matter how many times the prosecution is discredited, there always is another reporter ready to serve as a PR mouthpiece for a dishonest state official. And it always will be that way, for like the Bourbons, the media learn nothing, and they forget nothing.
Silent Coup
How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses
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First Published: 2010
Why They Call It King Coal
A Killer Industry Continues to Call the Shots
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Political corruption first puts coal workers at risk of death, trapped by circumstances: either work underground for King Coal and risk your life, go fight our wars in the US military and risk your life, or work for the government defending King Coal and its prerogatives. For working class West Virginians, that's the economy in a nutshell, accompanied by plaintive Civil War violins.
Blasted in a West Virginia Mine
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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.
The Sun Behind The Clouds Gives A Voice To Tibetan Dissidents
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First Published: 2010
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam's The Sun Behind the Clouds is the latest offering in a long line of documentaries about Tibet. The distinctiveness of this edition derives from its willingness to portray the internal debates of the Tibetan movement and in the movie#s attempts to give voice to Tibetans living in Tibet. These features moved the film from a typical propaganda piece about the oppression faced under the brutal grip of the People#s Republic of China (PRC) to a serious examination of resistance strategies in Tibet and in its influential Diaspora.
The Assault on Israeli Legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel has consciously orchestrated acute misery and poverty in the Palestinian territories over the past two decades in an effort to subdue and ethnically cleanse the captive population. Israel, despite warnings from many within the Israeli establishment, has embarked on a course that will see it, like the South African apartheid regime, become ever more isolated and reviled.
Why There Are No #Israelis# in the Jewish State
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First Published: 2010
A group of Jews and Arabs are fighting in the Israeli courts to be recognised as #Israelis#, a nationality currently denied them, in a case that officials fear may threaten the country#s self-declared status as a Jewish state.
Globalizing the Culture Wars
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
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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.
How to Light a Prairie Fire
The Spell Can be Broken
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
If there's one thing I think many people need to understand, it is this: sustained mass movements rarely happen unless many of the participants believe they might win.
Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
Hospital pays compensation over 'racism' death
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First Published: 2010
Harinder Veriah's death helped to expose an ugly truth in Hong Kong: that racism is a serious problem. A report "Hong Kong's big dirty little secret" acknowledged that racism was so ingrained that derogatory terms for ethnic minorities such as gwei lo ("ghost people") for whites and hak gwai or ("black ghost") for blacks were barely noticed.
Open Letter to German Left Party (Die Linke)
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First Published: 2010
The state of Israel does not deserve prizes for its occupation, racist separation and its war crimes. Only international policy which emphasises to Israel that violations of international law are not tolerated will succeed in promoting a just peace for all residents of this land.
Widerspruch gegen linkes Lavieren
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First Published: 2010
Israelische Linke rufen in offenem Brief an die Linkspartei zu Dialog über Nahostkonflikt auf
In einem Offenen Brief an die LINKE haben über 100 linke Israelis ihre Erwartungen an eine solidarische Politik der deutschen Linkspartei deutlich gemacht und Kritik an Teilen der Partei geäußert, die die israelische Politik im Nahen Osten unterstützen.
Morality Policing
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First Published: 2010
The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power.
The Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
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First Published: 2010
Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people#their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
Taking on the Religious Right
A review of God and His Demons
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First Published: 2010
Michael Parenti confronts the dangers of religious fundamentalism.
Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis
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First Published: 2010
Arundhati Roy on Obama#s Wars, India and Why Democracy Is #The Biggest Scam in the World#
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy on President Obama, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, India and Kashmir and much more. Roy also talks about her journey deep into the forests of central India to report on the Maoist insurgency.
Journalists assaulted and censored
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First Published: 2010
Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedom (MADA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Meanwhile, Israel continues to target and detain scores of Palestinians involved in protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank with freedom of movement and expression violations, reports Human Rights Watch.
U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy Wikileaks
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First Published: 2010
This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whisteblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site''.
Israel's Apartheid
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First Published: 2010
Blacks in South Africa never faced a 20-foot wall dividing their communities. Palestinians' land is still being seized, their orchards bulldozed.
The Unpersuadables
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First Published: 2010
In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
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First Published: 2010
Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
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First Published: 2010
Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel is losing legitimacy in the world because of what their government is doing to the Palestinians, not because of anti-semitism.
Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal
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First Published: 2010
In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India, protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor Mittal. "We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch of our ancestral land," the villagers cry. "The forest, rivers and land are ours. We don't want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go Back."
AFSCME 3299 Fights Back
Against The Current vol. 145
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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 the Wheeler Occupation
Against The Current vol. 145
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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.
Daniel Bensaïd: The Power of Indignation
Against The Current vol. 145
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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.
Dennis Brutus: Honored by the Enemies He Kept
Against The Current vol. 145
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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.
Celebrating the Past -- the Legacy of the Free Speech Movement
Against The Current vol. 145
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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!
The Crisis and the Potential
Against The Current vol. 145
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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 Cuts and the Fightback
Against The Current vol. 145
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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.
Fighting Fires & Breaking Barriers
Against The Current vol. 145
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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.
Forging Change, Breaking Chains
Against The Current vol. 145
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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.
Gay Marriage: End of the World?
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
Gaza Freedom March Blocked
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Fourteen hundred international activists mobilized in Cairo, Egypt in late December for a Gaza Freedom March (GFM) to break the siege imposed by the U.S., Israeli and Egyptian governments. The marchers were blocked and attacked by Egyptian police and military forces; there can be no doubt that the authorization for these assaults and the orders to block the march from reaching Gaza came directly from the U.S. administration.
Guatemala Coup Fails
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
While the coup in Honduras was successful, in Guatemala an attempted “cold” coup unraveled. Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered on May 10, 2009; the following day the media ran a video filmed shortly before his death. In it Rosenberg stated that if he were killed, President Alvaro Colom and his wife were responsible.
Haiti, Imperialist Disaster
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
The pictures and news reports tell the stories of Haiti’s physical destruction, the agony and heartbreak, the heroism of rescue efforts — and the filthy business of “missionary” child-snatchers — reporting the unfathomable scale of the reconstruction that may take decades.
Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The comparison between Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and to apartheid is a legitimate part of that debate and this is an analogy frequently used by Israelis and also by South Africans.
Labor at War or in the Tank?
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
Steve Early is one of a small handful of extraordinarily keen-eyed observers who see things from within the shrinking world of U.S. organized labor — and who hold nothing back from readers.
Lost Liberties in the Age of Obama
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
When World War II broke out on September l, l939 the poet W.H. Auden sat in a bar on 42nd Street and penned a poem using that fateful date for its title. He reflected that the past ten years had been “a low dishonest decade.” And so has our last ten.
Noam Chomsky: Moral & Social Thinker
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
Noam Chomsky is a powerhouse of insightful thought – this book attests to that. So analyzing or even summarizing Anthony Arnove’s The Essential Chomsky is no simple task. A moderately lengthy and notably chronological collection of texts plucked from Chomsky’s enormous output, The Essential Chomsky leaps from linguistics to Palestine to libertarian socialism and back to linguistics again. Given the political nature of Against the Current, we will focus on Chomsky’s views on political philosophy, morality, U.S. foreign and domestic policy, and propaganda, ending with thoughts on the editing. But first, a few introductory remarks on the man himself.
Questions for a New Movement
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
Public universities in California during Fall 2009 saw the eruption of a movement to defend public education — and more broadly, public services and goods — from an onslaught of cuts and fee hikes in the wake of the 2008-09 economic downturn and federal and state budget cuts.
Race & Class: Obama Forgets Black Community
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
What I found most striking about President Barack Obama’s first “State of the Union” address before Congress on January 27 was what he didn’t say. In his 70-minute speech on the economy as the first president of the United States of African heritage, I expected that Obama would highlight the special impact of the recession on Blacks.
Resistance with the Scent of a Woman
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
“They're afraid of us because we’re not afraid. They think, act, and are going backwards as they stay behind their military armor. They see us laughing, struggling, loving, playing as they watch us from behind their military armor.”
Lester Rodney: The Long Ball Hitter
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
I am writing this piece after reading the New York Times obituary of Lester Rodney, where both the role of the Daily Worker and Lester’s role as its sports writer were given their due credit in the fight to integrate major league baseball. Irwin Silber’s book Press Box Red has previously told Lester’s story in depth, and Dave Zirin’s recent articles round out his significance to sports in a more contemporary fashion.
The Save Public Education Fightback
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
The Coalition of University Employees (CUE) represents workers on ten University of California campuses and one national laboratory. We have been involved in bargaining statewide for the last two years, with no end in sight. For several years our members had not received raises. Additionally there had been hundreds of layoffs on campuses and at the Office of the President.
Sex & Iran's Upstoppable Resistance
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
Since Iran's presidential “election” in June 2009 and the protests that followed, the world has caught a partial, albeit highly mediated, glimpse inside that country and its politically active citizenry. The state, frequently misrepresented as a monolith and in neoconservative circles tarred as “Islamo-fascist,” is now more accurately understood as a diverse and fractured set of actors. The reform movement that had ushered in President Khatami suffered defeat by the hardliners with Ahmadenijad’s 2005 election, and hailed by many as dead, has come back to life. To many, it appears unstoppable.
Solidarity Alliance: A Call to Action
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
A historic alliance was born at UC Berkeley on August 28, 2009. Lyn Hejinian, Professor of English and a member of SAVE, a newly formed faculty group, had issued an invitation to student groups and the union coalition to come together and share our plans to fight the cuts.
Washington's Magical Realism
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
A coup becomes a coup — for U.S. magical realists — when Washington defines it as such. On March 10, 1952 Cuban General Fulgencio Batista grabbed power and sought to legitimize his coup by holding fake elections. Magically, the coup makers won; Washington recognized Batista.
Washington's Post-Cold War Coup
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
The pretext for removing Honduran President Manuel Zelaya — that holding a civic consultation to replace the Constitution of 1982 was his power grab, enabling him to run for a second term — doesn’t hold water. Such a document could only have come into effect well after his term of office ended.
A Year of Banking Bailout
Against The Current vol. 145
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First Published: 2010
Welcome to what to what I call the Second Great Bank Depression. Why that name? Because this period of economic chaos, loss, and global financial destruction was manufactured by the men who shaped the banking sector.
Banning of Books Alarms Freedom Advocates
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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.
Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals
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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.
Israel#s new #attack on freedom of speech#
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First Published: 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a #McCarthyite# campaign against human-rights groups.
The New McCarthyism In Israel
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First Published: 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a #McCarthyite# campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel#s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say.
Take Israel To International Criminal Court
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First Published: 2010
It is imperative that the international community view the Israeli response to the Goldstone report as a blatant attempt to whitewash its crimes in Gaza, and refer the matter to the ICC without further delay. To do otherwise will only continue to encourage Israeli intransigence.
Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
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First Published: 2010
Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
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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.
Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
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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.
Rebutting Israel's "We don't kill civilians on purpose" argument
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First Published: 2010
The difference between intentional and accidental killing is only relevant when the aim of the violence is a just one. Accidentally killing civilians in the course of using violence to stop oppression is one thing. Doing it in the course of using violence to oppress people is a very different thing. In the case of Israeli violence, the question is not whether Israel intentionally kills civilians. The question is: What is the purpose of Israel's violence?
Haiti - The Broken Wing
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First Published: 2010
The courage and compassion of thousands of people willing to enter a chaotic disaster zone threatened with aftershocks are very real. Compassion arises out of a recognition that 'their' suffering is no different to 'my' suffering. Joining compassion with reason means asking why over 80 per cent of Haiti's population of 10 million people live in abject poverty. Why less than 45 per cent of all Haitians have access to potable water. Why the life expectancy rate in Haiti is only 53 years. Why seventy-six per cent of Haiti's children under the age of five are underweight, or suffer from stunted growth, with 63 per cent of Haitians undernourished.
Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions
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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.
Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
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First Published: 2010
We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
A Tribute To American People#s Historian - Howard Zinn
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First Published: 2010
With the death of Howard Zinn there is no doubt that the anti-war and peace movement in the USA has lost one of its best activists and an honest historian.
Helping the occupation bloom: An open letter to Cargoflora
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First Published: 2010
Flowers from illegally occupied Palestinian land are being shipped to Europe.
Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In Lieu of Flowers, Organize
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First Published: 2010
Where other leftish icons have spent these decades gnashing their teeth, lecturing and bemoaning how awful everything that happens up above has been (as if most folks born down below didn't already know that by the time we were eight), Howard answered the call, again and again, to help us do something about it. He walked out to the picket lines every time he was called - by neighborhood organizers fighting against his university's real estate grabs, by striking workers that cleaned and fed the students and professors, by almost anyone who organized and fought that asked, and often before they asked, for his support.
The Kidnapping Of Haiti
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First Published: 2010
Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington's "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela's abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation.
A Memory Of Howard
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First Published: 2010
A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees # the leadership of the popular struggle # who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
Presidential Assassinations Of US Citizens
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First Published: 2010
Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests." They're entitled to no charges, no trial, no ability to contest the accusations.
Veolia's dirty business: The Tovlan landfill
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First Published: 2010
Ever since the first Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in 2005, French multinational Veolia has been on campaigners' list of boycott targets. Corporate Watch has investigated the impact of Veolia#s Tovlan landfill on occupied land.
Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
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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.
How Alternative Media Provide The Crucial Critique Of The Mainstream
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First Published: 2010
The closeness of the mainstream to dominant economic, cultural and ideological forces means that the mainstream largely functions to promote the interests of the military/industrial/political complex. Yet within advanced capitalist economies, the contradictions and complexities of corporate media have provided certain spaces for progressive journalism.
For Israel, A Reckoning
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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.
Hard Core Green
How to Kick Corporate Butt
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First Published: 2010
Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
Nuclear Deceit: The Times and Iran
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First Published: 2010
Is the Times engaged in reporting or propaganda in its coverage of Iran's nuclear program?
The Myth of Muslim Conquest
Less Threatening Than Imagined
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First Published: 2010
It#s easy to mistake the high visibility of Islam in the West for a massive return to piety in Muslim communities. But for the last 20 years religious observance has stagnated, even slightly waned.
Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
Racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
An overview of racism
Parecon & Participatory Society
An Interview with Michael Albert
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to workers and consumers self managed say over their economic lives, a condition of solidarity with others, equitable incomes for their labors, diverse opportunities and options, and ecological balance.
Canadian Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
Calling Bono
Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
The Dead End of Climate Justice
How NGO Bureaucrats and Greenwashed Corporations are Turning Nature Into Investment Capital
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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.
Temping Down Labor Rights: The Manpowerization of Mexico
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First Published: 2010
The continuing erosion of labour rights and labour standards in Mexico.
Coal's Ruptured Landscape
Navigating the Ruins of Appalachia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is more apparent now than ever before that coal mining, especially mountain top removal, is unethical and inhumane. It displays stark irresponsibility in land stewardship as well as depraved practices within a diverse region. It#s time to shake off the flawed belief that we are reliant upon coal and other fossil fuels.
Consumer Hell
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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.
We are the Student Movement?
Remembering the Rise and Fall of the Canadian Union of Students 1965-1969
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Accumulation, Imperialism, and Pre-Capitalist Formations
Luxemburg and Marx on the non-Western World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
African-American Socialist Pioneer
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America, Winston James singled out Hubert Henry Harrison for his “pioneering role in what became known as the New Negro radicalism of the 1920s.” Yet, James noted, Harrison remained an understudied figure who had not been the subject of a major biography.
All That We Share
A Field Guide to the Commons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons is a wake-up call that will inspire you to see the world in a new way. As soon as you realize that some things belong to everyone—water, for instance, or the Internet or human knowledge— you become a commoner, part of a movement that’s reshaping how we will solve the problems facing us in the twenty-first century.
American Taliban
How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
America#s main international enemy#Islamic radicalism#favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
Anarchism & Socialism
Reformism or Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
In these essays grouped around common themes, Wayne Price draws on decades of extensive practical experience in antiwar and student movements, marxist tendency groups and affinity-based anarchist organizations, to make an insightful case for "pro-organizational," class-struggle anarchism.
Anarchy is struggle for life, freedom and dignity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A communique by the Circle of Fire anarchist collective and the Anarchist Bulletin BLACK FLAG on the events of May 5th, 2010 in Athens, when three bank workers were murdered by 'anarchist' arsonists. The murders came as an ultimate result of an irrational, meaningless and needless violence which is promoted by an autistic, un-political and anti-social concept that has become a parasite to the anarchist # antiauthoritarian movement, sucking its blood and disparaging it, leading it to criminalisation and social isolation.
Beyond the Echo Chamber
Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
According to the authors, a new breed of networked progressive media are informing and engaging millions. By harnessing a participatory media environment, they have succeeded in influencing political campaigns, public debates, and policymaking.
The Billionaires’ Tea Party
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire
Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Political Map
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the US. Activists of various stripes want to form new states, even new nations. According to Kauffman, the American Empire is dying, in this investigation into modern-day secession.
The Canadian War on Queers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the Canadian state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in a series of so-called national security campaigns. This book traces this history, revealing acts of state repression and forms of social resistance.
Climate Crisis Hits Pakistani Women
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Pakistan is among the countries that will be hit hardest in the near future by effects of climate change, even though it contributes only a fraction to global warming. The country is witnessing severe pressures on natural resources and environment. This warning has recently come from the mouth of Pakistan’s prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, who alarmed the countrymen by disclosing that Pakistan is the 12th most vulnerable country in the world to environmental degradation.
Dancing with Dynamite
Social Movements and States in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
The complex ways in which grassroots movements work for, with, against, and independently of national governments in Latin America.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
Democracy Seized -- and Lost
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Reconstruction was among the messiest, most complex periods in U.S. history, and certainly one of the most emotionally exhausting to revisit. Accounts of the period resonate with hope of almost millenarian proportions and are tainted by tragedy — not the kind of tragedy that brings release, but the kind that leaves one sick with incredulity.
Do Workers Lose Their Rights?
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Gertrude Ezorsky's Freedom in the Workplace? is a unique and highly useful book. Unique, because it combines sophisticated philosophical analysis with compelling examples from the lives of low-wage workers and an Appendix on 20th century U.S. labor law — all in a text of 77 easy-to-read pages! — and highly useful, because it refutes a central myth about capitalism.
Don't Mourn, Balkanize
Essays After Yugoslavia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Don't Mourn, Balkanize! is the first radical account of Yugoslav history after Yugoslavia, surveying this complex history with imagination and insight. Grubacic's book provides essential information and perspective for all those interested in the recent history of this part of the world.
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011
Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
Elixer
A History of Water and Humankind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A cultural history of water.
The Enigma of Capital And the Crisis of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Every Woman for Herself
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Factory Girls shows the reader what it’s like to live inside the largest human migration in history. It feels, apparently, pretty lonely. Leslie Chang’s subjects are the young women who’ve left tiny farms throughout China for a chance at making money in the big city. Their lesson and mantra is that each person can depend only on herself. “The easiest thing in the world was to lose touch with someone,” Chang notes.
Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Floodlines is a firsthand account of community, culture, and resistance in New Orleans. The book weaves the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists in the years before and after Katrina. From post-Katrina evacuee camps to torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the family members of the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines from an unforgettable time and place in history.
From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
From Reconstruction to Capitalist Crisis
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The outcome of the Civil War registered the defeat of the Army of the Confederate states, the defeat of the army of the slaveholders, and a victory for the army of the owners of the railroads and big industrial enterprises committed to free, or wage labor. The political party of the big property holders, the Republican party, was supported by the mass of small farmers, urban workers, small business owners and the abolitionist movement.
Gasland
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.
German Auto Workers in the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
German auto workers, unlike their U.S. brothers and sisters, were somewhat sheltered from the economic crisis in 2009. Given that it was an election year, the government passed a law last March that supplemented their wages when they worked a “short” week. Between what they were paid by their employer and the government supplement, they earned 65-90% of their usual wage. The government also had a version of “cash for clunkers” so some auto plants were at full production.
Global Capitalism in Crisis
Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Global Directory of Palestine Activist and Related Organizations
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 2010
A listing of organizations working on Palestinian justice issues.
God and His Demons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Parenti examines the dark side of religion, the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history. This is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. The focus is on the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.
Grassroots media relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
History's Mad Hatters
The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Tea Party anger reaches far beyond the ranks of the modest Tea Party movement. It resonates with other Americans who understandably feel that political and economic elites, serving themselves at the expense of everyone else, have failed Americans. The big question is just exactly how (or even if) that private and personal rage gets transformed into moral and political outrage.
How to End the Tea Party (and Scare Obama at the Same Time)
A Black / Brown Coalition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
One of the reasons the left doesn#t do better is because it tends to view the right's transgressions as a moral issue rather than as a pragmatic problem as, for example, a baseball coach would do if the Tea Party were the other team. In fact, calling someone a racist is not a particularly useful political move whereas figuring out why they#re getting to first base all the time, and you#re not, is. The right keeps it simple. It speaks plain talk, not bland abstractions devised by some third rate branding coach. There is hardly anyone in the country who doesn#t know the right opposes gay marriage, abortion and illegal immigration. Now try describing three primary goals of liberals or the left and you see the problem.
Ill Fares The Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
In and Out of Crisis
The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Political economists Albo, Gindin and Panitch lay bare the roots of the crisis, which they locate in the dynamic expansion of capital on a global scale over the last quarter century – and in the inner logic of capitalism itself.
In the Crossfire
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
This book is the story of those other movements and revolts in Vietnam, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.
Inspired by Injustice: Scottsboro in History
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
“In many respects this is an archival project,” writes James A. Miller, Chair of the American Studies Department at George Washington University, at the end of his introduction to Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial.
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
A Report by the Solidarity Center
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
Letters to My Torturer
Love, Revolution, and Imprisonment in Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
In these letters, Asadi confronts the man who tortured him while he was held prisoner in Iran.
Live Working or Die Fighting
How the Working Class Went Global
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Mason realtes a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
Loren Goldner speaks on the current capitalist crisis
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
Writer and activist Loren Goldner contextualizes the current economic crisis and class struggles in a theory of capitalist development.
Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
Mass Murder at Colfax, The Bloody Death of Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On April 13, 1873, white supremacists laid siege to a Black Republican stronghold in rural north Louisiana, brutally slaying freedmen and altering the course of the United States. The Colfax massacre happened at the courthouse of newly created Grant Parish, located in a town named after Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Colfax is situated in cotton country along the Red River.
Meat: A Benign Extravagance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
An exploration of the difficult environmental and ethical issues that surround the human consumption of animal flesh.
Moffatt, Gary
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Canadian anarchist and activist.
Moffatt, Gary (Italian text)
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Gary Archibald Moffat era un attivista Canadese specializzato nella costruzione di movimenti radicali ai fini di cambiamenti sociali e politici.
The Monster
How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America -- and Spawned a Global Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Hudson explains the rise and fall of the subprime mortgage business by chronicling the rise and fall of two corporate empires: Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers, who did more than any other institutions to create the feeding frenzy that flooded the U.S. with high-risk, high-profit home mortgage loans.
Mountain Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
In recent years, local people fighting against Mountaintop Removal's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. This on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots effort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a fascinating account of why building solidarity across geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such struggles is so important but so hard.
New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Argues that Jim Crow and legal racial segregation have been replaced by mass race-based incarceration as a system of social control.
The New Jim Crow: A talk
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Nothing short of a broad-based social movement can address this problem. Such a movement has to be multi-racial: Latinos and women, especially women of color, are the fastest growing segment of the prison population. If we don't create care and compassion across racial lines, then, even if this system collapses, we will recreate it in another form.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
In the near future there will be no politics but green politics…
The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Symon Hill's No-Nonsense Guide to Religion tries to explain what religion means, how we relate to it, how it was created and how it affects us culturally, politically and spiritually today.
Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers search the sky and explore the origins of the universe. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones murdered and dumped in the desert by the Pinochet dictatorship.
The Obama Syndrome
Surrender at Home, War Abroad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A merciless dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat.
Once a Jolly Hangman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
When this book was first published in Asia in July 2010, UK journalist Alan Shadrake was arrested and tried, then sentenced to jail—for daring to put the Singapore justice system in the dock. This revised and updated edition covers Shadrake’s arrest, and his ongoing campaign against the death penalty.
Out of the Frame
The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Links Pappé's personal struggle against Israeli McCarthyism with a broader struggle for human and political rights of which "academic freedom" is merely one aspect.
Pakistan on the Brink? The Real Threat from Within
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The American antiwar movement must understand that what is unfolding in Pakistan bears no resemblance to the “failed-state” proclamations of establishment hacks the world over. The danger is not at all that the country will fall to the Pakistani Taliban, drowned in a tidal wave of instability said to be cascading eastwards from Afghanistan. While sham elections in Afghanistan have hopefully helped clarify the venal, corrupt character of NATO’s efforts there, at times an unhealthy haziness still afflicts the Left’s thinking on Pakistan.
Palestine: Israeli Love Song
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
A video response to Israeli propaganda and PR efforts.
A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
A Poetics of Resistance
The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Combining narrative history, literary criticism, ethnography, and media analysis, A Poetics of Resistance provides a refreshing take on Mexico's Zapatista movement by examining the means, meanings, and mythos behind the Zapatista image.
The Poisoned Pill of Obama's War
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Obama administration looked into the abyss of endless war in Afghanistan, considered all its options, pondered the consequences — and jumped. This is a war without honor, or purpose, or hope.
The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Third Reconstruction?
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
When Union Army troops under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler entered and occupied New Orleans in April of 1862, so began the first Reconstruction of the city and the state of Louisiana. The rise and then the defeat of the historic democratic struggle known as the first Reconstruction — discussed in the accompanying sidebar [as well as reviews by Robert Caldwell and Jim Toweill elsewhere in this issue] — sets the context in which we find today’s New Orleans, four years after the levee collapse.
Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A statement endorsing the idea of a new International.
Race and Class: Blacks Still Taking the Hit
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It took ten months before the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) stood up and challenged President Barack Obama. In a surprise move, 10 CBC leaders refused to participate in a key House financial committee vote in December until some more relief is provided to Black businesses.
Rainbow Pie
A Redneck Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A fascinating and extremely readable account of a life now vanished, destroyed by the insatiable appetite of capital.
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
The Power of Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Rise of the Left Party: Germany's Election and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On September 27, 2009 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1945. After four years of governing as a junior partner in a “Grand Coalition” with the right-of-center Christian Democrats (CDU), the SPD garnered only 23% of the vote (down from 33% in 2005) and now appears to be a shadow of the party that had taken the reins of government in 1998.
The Road from Copenhagen
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The handwriting about the long-anticipated Copenhagen climate change conference has been on the wall for months, and its message is not promising for our human civilization or the thousands of species we may take down with us. By the time of that frantic final day of backroom arm-twisting, blackmail and president Obama's lead-balloon speech, it no longer really mattered whether the conference's failure would be openly admitted, or thinly disguised behind a “political framework statement” without serious mechanisms for implementation, measurement or enforcement.
Rosa Luxemburg and the Global Violence of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
New Perspectives on Capitalist Development and American Hegemony
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
From a Luxemburgian perspective post-war capitalism developed in two phases, each of which was possible because class-struggles and international conflicts had opened non-capitalist environments for capitalist penetration. The first phase gave rise to consumer capitalism and neo-colonialism; the second was characterized by accumulation by dispossession that rolled back welfare states in the North and developmental states in the South, while also integrating formerly state-socialist countries, notably China, into the capitalist world-system.
Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform and Revolution, written at a high point of socialist struggle, contains invaluable lessons for today's new generation of activists as they confront the political and organizational challenges of the day.
The Saga of Stella D'oro, Inspiration and Lessons
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The powerful labor struggle at the Bronx-based Stella D’oro Biscuit Co. recently came to an abrupt end after 14 long, hard months. The 136 workers at the plant, all members of Local 50 of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union, withstood 11 months on the picket line before winning a court order in July that returned them to work under the terms of their previous contract. But the workers and their supporters were unable to prevent the factory’s closure.
Scottish Workers in History
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
So much has happened to the world’s working class in the last 30 years that we oldtimers may, perhaps, be forgiven for losing focus on the deeper histories of industrial life and struggle. Thanks to the publish-or-perish academic reality, ever more studies in social history actually appear, but fewer treat the labor movement as an important part of that history. Working people are more often seen as victims, too often self-victimized in myriad ways.
Sex at Dawn
The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Ryan and Jethá contend that humans evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors argue that monogamy is by no means part of human nature.
The Socialist Alternative
Real Human Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Lebowitz takes the reader through an examination of the workings of capitalism and the problems of not only a transition to socialism, but ultimately to a society that represents freedom from class exploitation.
Sources - Portal para Periodistas y Escritores
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Sources es un portal de información para periodistas, escritores independientes, editores, autores e investigadores, especialmente si están enfocados en recursos humanos: expertos y portavoces quienes están preparados para responder preguntas de los reporteros, o se disponen a ser entrevistados en los medios de comunicación.
SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
Texas Tough
The Rise of America#s Prison Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A history of imprisonment, race, and politics from slavery to the present, with an emphasis on Texas, the most locked-down state in the USA.
The Town That Food Saved
How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
An account of how cooperative agricultural enterprises are revitalizing the economy of a town in Vermont.
The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
The Truth Will Always Win
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
On June 8, 1967, while sailing in international waters, the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of the Liberty's crew of 294, more than half were killed or wounded. More than 40 years later, survivors are still seeking justice.
The Verso Book of Dissent
From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Bagdad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
An anthology presenting voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos.
A Vision from the Heartland
Socialism for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
La Botz argues that to solve the problems of our economy and the environment, and to end America‘s wars abroad, we must begin to create a socialist society. A socialist society is one where the working people collectively own and democratically plan and manage the major industries and enterprises. I call for the abolition of the corporations and of capitalism in order to create a society of plenty for all. I believe that such a society can only be created by building a powerful movement for democracy and for working class power.
Visioning a World Without Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
As leftists we have something infinitely more precious to win from our rich history than sentimentality and sectarianism, as we struggle to renovate the revolutionary tradition in the twenty-first century.
War is a Lie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good. This is a handbook of sorts, a manual to be used in debunking future lies before future wars have a chance to begin.
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
What Really Happened to the 1960s
How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A historical overview, critical analysis, and appraisal of the 1960s. Drawing upon historical and media studies, theories of capitalism and democracy, and in-depth study of the era's social movements, Morgan provides an extremely comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the events and aftermath of the 1960s.
What Would it Mean to Win?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions.
Where Is Venezuela Going?
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Steve Ellner's latest book, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics, is an important contribution to our understanding of Venezuela under Hugo Chávez. It brings a deeply historical perspective to the topic, something almost universally lacking in the growing number of short-sighted texts on the country’s politics. It also offers the opportunity for a discussion of the complexities of the “Bolivarian process” as it unfolds.
Wherein We Meet Genial Radicals by the Shores of Lake Champlain
The New Secessionists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Secession is the next radical idea poised to enter mainstream discourse#or at least the realm of the conceivable. You can#t bloat a modest republic into a crapulent empire without sparking one hell of a centrifugal reaction. The prospect of breaking away from a union degenerating into imperial putrefaction will only grow in appeal as we go marching with our Patriot Acts and National Security Strategies through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and all the frightful signposts on our road to nowhere.
Wild West Journalism
Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
World War II and Ethnic Conflict in LA
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
In The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, Scott Kurashige provides new insights into the struggle for racial equality in Los Angeles by focusing on collaboration, and competition, between African-American and Japanese American residents of the city.
The Year America Dissolved
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A vision of collapse.
Corporate Watch # Tracking Corporate Complicity in the Occupation of Palestine
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2010
A blog to track companies profiting from the Israeli occupation of and apartheid policies in Palestine. In addition to research blogs, the site also includes all Corporate Watch's recent articles on Israel/Palestine.
A Marxist History of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
A series of articles charting the development of humans from their beginnings to socially co-operative human beings.

2009

The Global Fight for Climate Justice
Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009 Published: 2010
A guide to the debate on climate change, a sourcebook that makes the case for anti-capitalist action as the only effective way to stop global warming.
Welcome to Orwell's World 2010
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude.
Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The notion of religious-ethnocentric entitlement and exclusivity for one people at the expense of another has been rejected the world over. Palestinians reject it and we assert that we are human beings worthy of the same human rights accorded to the rest of humanity; that we are worthy of our homes and farms, our heritage, our churches and mosques, and our history; and that we should not be expected to negotiate with our oppressors for such basic dignities. The two-state solution was and remains an instrument to circumvent the basic human rights of Palestinians in order to accommodate Israel#s desire to be Jewish. Polls show that Palestinians refuse to be the enemies of our Jewish brothers and sisters anywhere, just as we refuse to be oppressed by them.
Reporting Gender Based Violence
A Handbook for Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
"Sure, Stick It In"
Who Will Organize the Organizers?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
One has to recognize when the movement is all there, ready to go, and just needs a little impetus.
Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of #anti-Semitism# - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
What It Takes to Build a Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Activism = self-expression; organizing = movement-building.
Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
Doom and Gloom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
Düstere Aussichten
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Ist es schon zu spät? Wir wissen, dass bereits vieles verloren ist. Aber wir können nicht wissen, ob bereits alles verloren ist. Man kann im voraus nicht wissen, was eine gemeinsame Aktion alles bewirken kann. Wir befinden uns in der Lage von Eltern, die bereits ein Kind verloren haben, und die sich jetzt überlegen müssen, ob sie für ihre anderen Kinder kämpfen wollen, die in Gefahr aber noch am Leben sind.
Grassroots activist and human rights defender Jamal Juma' arrested
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Jamal Juma's is the most high profile arrest within an intensifying campaign of repression of grassroots mobilization against the wall and the settlements. Initially only arresting local activists from the villages affected by the wall, the Israeli authorities have recently begun to shift their attention to the detention of internationally-known human rights defenders such as Mohammad Othman and Abdallah Abu Rahmeh.
Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia#s leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
Steel walls cannot contain the struggle for freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If siege is an act of aggression and war, then breaking out of it by any means is an act of self-defense and resistance.
Too Damn Old!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age -- sometimes as early as 40 -- and it can make the victim feel unwanted, unneeded and oppressed.
Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
David Harvey says that there is a lot of work to be done to coalesce various tendencies around the underlying question: can the world change materially, socially, mentally, and politically in such a way as to confront not only the dire state of social and natural relations in so many parts of the world, but also the perpetuation of endless compound growth? This is the question that the alienated and discontented must insist upon asking, again and again, even as they learn from those who experience the pain directly and who are so adept at organizing resistances to the dire consequences of compound growth on the ground.
Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to Work
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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.
Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
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First Published: 2009
In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
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First Published: 2009
Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence
A Reflection almost Ten Years After the Water War
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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.
Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
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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.
Grinding Down the U.S. Army
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First Published: 2009
Prolonging a stalemated war will, in fact, only mean more hurt for both Afghans and Americans. The hurt to Afghans will undoubtedly be worse, for their homes are the battlefield, but our own hurt shouldn#t be underestimated. More broken bodies and shattered minds. More echoes of the horrifying violence that accompanies war.
This Is About Us
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First Published: 2009
The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
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First Published: 2009
The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
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First Published: 2009
Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
Spot The Difference
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First Published: 2009
When I first brought up the similarity between Prussia and Israel (in a chapter dedicated to this theme in the Hebrew and German editions of my 1967 book, #Israel Without Zionists#) it might have looked like a baseless comparison. Today, the picture is clearer. Not only does the senior officers corps occupy a central place in all the spheres of our life, and not only is the huge military budget beyond any discussion, but our daily news is full of typically #Prussian# items.
Targeting Earth First!
Dave Foreman and the First Greenscare Case
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First Published: 2009
The war on environmentalism.
Worst Companies for Union Organizing Highlighted for International Human Rights Day
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First Published: 2009
The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) has released #Working for Scrooge: Worst Companies of 2009 for the Right to Associate# # a list of the four worst multinational corporations for union organizing.
Climate change: the eco-socialist solution
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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.
Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
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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.
The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
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First Published: 2009
The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
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First Published: 2009
The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
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First Published: 2009
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
Obama's "We Got No Money" Rap
Why It Augurs a Sinister Banksters' End Game
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First Published: 2009
Obama is deliberately precipitating another crisis on the advise of his chief lieutenants. Summers and Geithner are steering the economy back into recession so they can implement the same austerity measures and "structural adjustment" programs which have been used throughout the developing world. It's "starve the beast" all over again. As the stimulus dries up, revenue-depleted states will be forced to auction off public lands, resources, parks and other assets to the highest bidder. The banksters and robber barons will feast on the country's treasures while the middle class is crushed by the freefalling dollar, lost home equity, and persistent high unemployment.
What#s at stake in Copenhagen
The crucial debates at Copenhagen
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First Published: 2009
Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
Speech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
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First Published: 2009
Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
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First Published: 2009
With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise # climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
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First Published: 2009
A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
The Height of Kitsch
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First Published: 2009
The attitude of the German government towards Israel is a Sonderbehandlung. It, too, says: the Jews are something special. The #Jewish State# must be treated differently than all other states. That is to say, the Jews are different from all other peoples, their state is different from all other states, their morals are different from those of others.
Dead Palestinian Babies And Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009
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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."
Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
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First Published: 2009
The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
The Rape of Irish Children
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First Published: 2009
A State which had genuine concern for its children would have responded to the report by taking decisive action to remove the Catholic bishops as patrons of primary schools. Three thousand of 3,200 primaries in the Republic have bishops as patrons - with the power to hire and fire and complete control over the school#s #ethos#. No less appropriate category of men could be imagined to have such power over the moral formation of children.
Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
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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.
Occupation Industries: The Israeli Industrial Zones
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First Published: 2009
In a climate in which the call for a consumer boycott of Israeli goods is finally gaining strength, one area of Israel#s economy is, as yet, surprisingly under-researched. Most of Israel#s industrial zones in the West Bank are connected to illegal residential settlements and provide an indispensable economic backbone to the local settler economy. Business areas like the industrial zones are at the forefront of Israel#s brutal occupation of Palestine, facilitating ethnic cleansing and acting hand-in-hand with the Israeli state in their quest for territorial dominance.
2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
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First Published: 2009
The support provided by Israel#s primary media to the security and political moves of the government#any government#is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the #public#s right to know,# in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists# association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.
Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
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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.
How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess?
Tweedle Destruction and Tweedle Disaster
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First Published: 2009
On the nauseating hypocrisy of our good friends on the regressive right. You know the rules. One set of sexual standards for us, another for them behind closed doors. Big thumping militarist patriotism when our kids go off to war, rather less when it#s their turn. Itsy-bitsy small government ideology for the lil# folk, Washington as a great big candy-covered sugar teat for them. Etc., etc.
Israel's Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply
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First Published: 2009
Israel#s private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
Pay-to-Print
"News" Stories for Cash Scandal Rocks India
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First Published: 2009
On "paid news".
Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense
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First Published: 2009
Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course - some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
Chavez calls for new international organisation of left parties
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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.
The Caracas Commitment
Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, Caracas, Venezuela
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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.
Citizens Protest Lack of Consultation about Canadian Mine in San Jose del Progresso
Popular Forces Occupy City Hall and Threaten to Incinerate Hostages
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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.
A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
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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.
Just say no to Sharia law
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First Published: 2009
Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
Electoral Reform: Do the right thing
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First Published: 2009
The Chartist goal of a representative parliament and majority govermment is still sadly unrealised.
Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
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First Published: 2009
Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
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First Published: 2009
Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
Bloody Oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
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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.
Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
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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.
Chronicles from the Front
Against The Current vol. 143
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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
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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.
A Classic Study Revisited
Against The Current vol. 143
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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.
A Critical Defense of Charter '08
Against The Current vol. 143
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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.
Leon Despres, Chicago Rebel
Against The Current vol. 143
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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.
Fighting Lynch Laws in America
Against The Current vol. 143
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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.
Introduction to Spain's Revolution & Tragedy
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
The year 2009 marks a tragic 70th anniversary, not only globally – the beginning of the Second World War, which would claim the lives of tens of millions and give rise to a whole new lexicon that includes “genocide” and “nuclear weapons” — but also the final defeat of the Spanish Revolution and the onset of 26 years of fascist rule under Francisco Franco.
Introduction to the POUM's Seven Decades
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
We present this leading participant’s account of the Party Of Marxist Unity (POUM) as an historical document. The POUM was the most important organization of the revolutionary left in the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39. Its historic role is twofold: as a critical political and military force in the struggle against fascism, and as a target of the murderous Stalinist campaign that ultimately destroyed the revolution from within. Wilebaldo Solano was General Secretary of the Iberian Communist Youth — Juventud Comunista Ibérica (JCI) in 1936, member of the Executive Committee of the POUM, imprisoned until 1944 and later elected as General Secretary of the POUM (while in exile). He is the author of El POUM in la Historia. Andreu Nin y la revolución española, and founder of the Fundacion Andreu Nin.
The Journey of James Neugass
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
At the age of 32, Isidore James Newman Neugass (1905-49), a lesser poet of the Lost Generation crowd who published as “James Neugass,” departed New York City to spend six months mostly on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. In late 1937 and early 1938, Neugass, serving as a volunteer ambulance driver as part of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, was present at Teruel, one of the conflict’s bloodiest battles, claiming over 100,000 casualties.
Looking at Che Guevara
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
That Che Guevara's silhouette has found its way onto walls and T-shirts around the world is nothing new. A traveler through Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s would have seen Che’s face spray-painted onto walls in working-class neighborhoods. In revolutionary Nicaragua Che graffiti was officially sanctioned, as was the massive outpouring of pro-Sandinista, anti-contra wall art. As a fallen martyr Che symbolized commitment and hope for anti-imperialist guerilla organizations throughout the Americas.
Mexico's PATCO Moment?
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), made up of approximately 43,000 active and 22,000 retired workers in Mexico City and surrounding states, is fighting for its life. The union’s struggle has rallied allies in the labor movement and on the left in Mexico and solidarity from throughout the country and around the world, but if it is to survive the union and its supporters have to take stronger actions than they have so far, and time is not on their side.
On Darwin's 200th Anniversary
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of his celebrated book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Darwin left an indelible mark on our understanding of the world we live in and our place in history.
The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6- November 2009
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A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital and the preservation of the earth. The system can continue to expand by creating a new “sustainable capitalism,” bringing the efficiency of the market to bear on nature and its reproduction. In reality, these visions amount to little more than a renewed strategy for profiting on planetary destruction.
The Politics of Surrealism
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
In the first notebook of his Grundrisse, composed in 1857, Marx predicted that the “romantic viewpoint” would “accompany [capitalism] as its legitimate antithesis up to its blessed end.” He believed that romanticism, with its celebration of the richness — real or imagined — of pre-capitalist life, would remain a perennial reaction to the reification of social life under capitalism.
The POUM's Seven Decades
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
The Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista (The Workers Party of Marxist Unification, POUM) was founded in Barcelona on September 30, 1935 in a small house in the Horta district. That was 70 years ago. The event was not public, since we were still in a phase of relative clandestinity imposed on the movement after October 1934, so we felt it prudent to limit the number of delegates.
Reform Is Not A Tea Party
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
The Nobel peace price notwithstanding, Barack Obama’s presidency, contrary to the hopes of many, has not produced a big political space for the left, let alone “a seat at the table.” Most visibly, it has been the right wing that succeeded in seizing the initiative, in some truly grotesque ways that have thrown a spotlight on the deep paranoia — and straight-up old-style white racism — that persists in this society, and on the ways it can be opportunistically pandered to and manipulated. The tea-party mob phenomenon, however, cannot be dismissed as merely a freak show created by rightwing talk media and massive covert corporate funding, although that is certainly part of the story.
Remembering Spain's Revolution
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
On the second page of Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's memoir of the Spanish Revolution, he writes, “I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do. The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing….it was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.”
The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
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The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80s during the greatest period of growth of the penal state, and at a time of government anxiety about the rise of radical political movements, both in and out of prison. However, the enormous expense of supermax-style solitary confinement and its evident failure to decrease prison violence or recidivism, combined with lawsuits alleging abuse and a rising tide of public anger at U.S. complicity in torture, predicts its eventual demise.
Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
The heat is on the Obama administration. The energized conservative base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are “birthers,” “deathers” and just pure haters. President Obama has been personally attacked as a racist, socialist, communist, Stalinist, fascist, Nazi, Pol Potist, foreigner and every other name the right finds in its vocabulary.
South African Workers Tackle Neoliberalism
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
Can the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) be credited with a sudden high-profile career change — from central banker to academic — by Tito Mboweni? The Reserve Bank Governor made a mistake in May when he refused to take a petition from thousands of Numsa members marching to the Banks’ Church St. headquarters. In July Governor Mboweni was rewarded with early retirement.
Tearing Down the Gates?
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
Peter Sacks describes Tearing Down the Gates as a work about the staggering injustices in the American educational system. Sacks utilizes a seldom-employed tool to analyze the educational system in the United States: the role of class. Importantly, Sacks understands class in a multi-faceted way, discussing not only the money a family has but its income-producing capital and its educational background and what he describes as its “cultural capital.”
Terror Takeover
The monstrous march of the security state
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2009
Has our panic over terrorism given permission for unchecked abuse? The fear of terrorism has been used to curtail our liberties and violate human rights.
Theories of Stalinism
Against The Current vol. 143
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First Published: 2009
Karl Marx and his comrades deemed their own approach “scientific,” as compared to “utopian” intellectual efforts on behalf of socialism, because they believed that practical efforts to challenge and ultimately replace capitalism with something better must be grounded in a serious study of economic, political, social, historical realities and dynamics.
What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
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First Published: 2009
What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
Conspiracy, Inc.
Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
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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.
Facing Down the Machine
Mike Roselle Draws a Line
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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.
Football, Class and Sexuality in America
A Review of "Big Fan"
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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.
Interior Ministry protection programme for journalists also used for "close-quarters spying"
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First Published: 2009
Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, has been harassed and intimidated by Colombia's intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors.
Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
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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.
Impossibleism
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First Published: 2009
Impossibleists want unrestrained sustainable growth in the face of its inevitable impossibility. It is a mystery how they think this way, knowing as they surely do that eventually the bill will come due, and the engine will run out of gas - literally. Think about it - growth that never stops, ever. Even with limitless resources, it is simple intuition that eventually, somewhere, sometime....
Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
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First Published: 2009
Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating nonviolent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community. They see non-violent activists as a major threat because they undermine the legitimacy of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.
Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
No One Else Will Stop The Killing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
US Workers Starved Into Military Service
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Humanity has passed the tipping point # economically, culturally and environmentally. The #consuming and killing# model embraced by Americans as cultural norm is, in reality, a cultural aberration. It is destroying everything and everyone in its wake - including those who are fighting and dying to preserve it.
Feeling Racism
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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.
From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News
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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.
The new language of diversity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Racial talk today is as likely to come out of the mouths of liberal anti-racists as of reactionary racial scientists.
Thirty years on, the holocaust in Cambodia and its aftermath is remembered
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First Published: 2009
John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his epic dispatches and documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and that Cambodia was again "punished" when its liberators came from the wrong side of the cold war and the Thatcher government send special forces to train the Khmer Rouge in exile.
West Bank land belongs to Jews says Israeli judge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Major Adrian Agassi is a senior Israeli judge who first served in the legal department that oversaw the confiscation of land in the West Bank to build Jewish settlements and was then appointed to the military court that decides -- and almost always denies -- Palestinian appeals against the seizure of their property, and that also rules on legal disputes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. Judge Agassi maintains that people like himself, a Jew born in Britain, have more right to live in Palestine than people who were born there. He denies, however, that his beliefs affect his ability to make fair and impartial rulings.
A Brief History of Loyal Opposition to War
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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.
Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation of another people, the Palestinians, particularly when doing so goes against human values and cannot be explained on grounds of security.
Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right
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First Published: 2009
An IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Rabbis Take on Settlers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
The Medical Cannabis Victory: A Textbook Case of Organizing and Resistance
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First Published: 2009
Shifting from mere activism and advocacy to a referendum strategy also forced significant swathes of drug policy reform movements to enter a new phase: that of community organizing. Referenda in most states require the collection of signatures, which means advocates had to get out of the circle jerk cycle of endless meetings and internal debate and go out there, door to door, to recruit from the general public. Once they got the proposed laws on the ballot that meant campaigning for votes. This marked a paradigm shift in what had been a self-marginalized reform movement: a wake up call.
A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
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First Published: 2009
It's high time that Israel must understand that criticizing Israeli government's foreign policy for assassinating people or for shooting children, is by no way Anti-Semitic, it's just being humane.
The court does not sympathize
The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
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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.
The Humble Tuna
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The humble tuna, "the chicken of the sea", is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional about our contemporary, western, capitalist world. The story of the Tuna is the story of our triumphant world, and provides a unified theory of its runaway excess
How not to understand Islamist politics
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First Published: 2009
Which side are you on?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The women's question has haunted the Islamic regime from the start. The Islamic Republic has been in continuous conflict with the women's liberation movement, which has grown considerably in the past decade in opposition to the misogyny and gender apartheid of the Islamists. Despite brutal assaults on this movement, the regime has not succeeded in silencing it.
Veolia tries to bail out of one apartheid project, two to go!
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First Published: 2009
In 2005, just after the publication of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, Palestinians began calling for an international boycott campaign against Veolia, a company involved in the Citypass Consortium, a scheme to build a tramline on occupied territory in the West Bank. Veolia is a huge multinational, that arguably has the biggest financial commitment of any international company to Israel's colonisation of the West Bank.
Fearsome Words?
Nationalism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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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.
Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Iran#s crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US#s favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a #right to exist# in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington#s behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.
Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
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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.
Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
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First Published: 2009
Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
Deconstructing The Israeli Narrative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel has revealed its nature; a nation built on actions normally termed war crimes by world institutions; a nation that does not follow international law; and a nation that does not heed United Nations Resolutions. Distracting and deceiving the world community with contrived and fallacious narratives permits Israel to continue its illegal maneuvers. Setting the record straight will straighten the road to Middle East peace.
Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
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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.
Feedlots and E. Coli
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Improving processing plant inspections is a good idea, but it is only part of the solution. The real solution is minimizing the potential contaminant. Secondly, slow down the processing line so the workers can do their jobs. CDC tells people to wash their hands, their cutting boards and to cook meat thoroughly. Good sound suggestions, but why is the burden of safety inordinately placed on the consumer? Why are the processors allowed to hide behind the #safe handling instructions# and maximize their profits with impunity?
The Twitterest Pill
Policing Dissent in the Information Age
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First Published: 2009
Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
An Answer to Uri Avnery
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First Published: 2009
The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.
How Israel Bought Off UN#s War Crimes Probe
Report#s Fate Sealed by Threats to Palestinian Economy
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First Published: 2009
Palestinian officials faced threats that Israel would retaliate by inflicting enormous damage on the beleaguered Palestinian economy, unless the Palestinian authority agreed to stop pursuing international action against Israel for war crimes.
Our exclusive right to self-defense
Rattling the Cage
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First Published: 2009
This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. And there are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate."
The Property Waiver Regime: Nicaragua#s Continued Punishment
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First Published: 2009
Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009 Published: 20009
The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as #a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.# Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
Your Money, Or Your Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Single Payer will save lives, but it also will save money. The exorbitant salaries of Insurance Company CEOs will be eliminated. The profit motive for investors will be eliminated. Administrative costs will be reduced because one single payer will replace a large number of insurance companies - all with different forms, different standards, and different requirements for an endless stream of mind-numbing paper work.
Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As Anarchists At G20
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First Published: 2009
At every single major summit over the past few years, authorities have inserted agent provocateurs into protest groups in order to spy on them and if necessary, provoke violence to justify oppressive police brutality in the eyes of the watching world.
We have documented numerous different occasions where the leadership of the black bloc anarchists were actually working with the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.
During the previous G20 protest in London, black bloc anarchists were allowed by police to smash up bank buildings while being accompanied by more press photographers than other protesters in what was obviously a stage-managed spectacle for mass consumption
Chomsky in Mexico
La Jornada at 25
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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.
Guinea Pigs Spell Independence for Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Raising guinea pigs has become an important means for Peruvian women to earn money to support their families, as well as to learn how to defend their rights.
Is Socialism Really Dead in Europe?
After the German Elections
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First Published: 2009
With over 12 percent of the vote, the Left Party became Germany#s fourth strongest, just ahead of the Greens. This was a promising score, considering the way the mildly left Left Party has been ostracized by media and the political class as though it were a reincarnation of the Bolsheviks. For the media, a party calling for a minimum wage and a pullout from Afghanistan is the #hard left# # not fit to be associated with. The SPD and the Greens stressed that they would never consider a coalition with such disreputable folk.
Lazy Journalists are the Darlings of the Corporations
Indian Country and the Lessons of McCarthyism
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First Published: 2009
Lazy journalists are great friends of the corporations. They are known as "armchair journalists" because they sit in comfort and rewrite press releases from politicians and corporations. To spice it up a bit, they dial a few numbers, get a few comments and call it a news story. They are the "darlings of the energy companies," as Buffy Sainte Marie says.
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Investigation of oil as major driver in the power dynamics of the world, and of the 'oil curse', which seems to make the countries that export it poorer, not richer.
Farmers vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
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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.
Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
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First Published: 2009
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
Iran - The War Dance
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First Published: 2009
Last Frontier
Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes
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First Published: 2009
Afro-descendant communities in Colombia are fighting to retain control of their ancestral goldmines in the face of pressure from private interests.
No, Not All Bi Women Love Threesomes
Silly Myths About Women and Bisexuality
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First Published: 2009
Being bisexual means that you are attracted to members of both sexes, even if you#re not sleeping with them. Here are some things bisexuality doesn#t mean.
Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"
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First Published: 2009
The cause du jour for the Republican Party is to make as many rapid-fire comparisons between the Democrats and the Nazis as humanly possible.
The Squeeze: Oil Money and Greed in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A review the big business of the oil industry across the globe, and the lengths (depths) to which they will go to maximise profits.
Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
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First Published: 2009
Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
Gaza Peace Protester Is Prisoner In Own Home
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel#s attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door.
Israeli Military Resisters# Tour Hits New York City
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First Published: 2009
A 19-year-old Israeli military resister explains why she refused to join the Israel Defense Forces.
Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
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First Published: 2009
The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
The Google Matrix
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First Published: 2009
Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently use violence against the protestors - and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and 'non-lethal' ammunition against them.
Who's afraid of the BNP?
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First Published: 2009
How should a liberal democratic society respond to an organization such as the BNP? Should the political mainstream ostracise the BNP or engage with it? And if engage, how?
United States: The Ultra-Right Pot Boils Over
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First Published: 2009
The appearance of right-wing mobs at town meetings organized by Democratic Party representatives to discuss the proposed health-care reform has set off alarm bells, in particular because of the blind fanaticism of the right-wing protesters and their threats of violence, including armed violence. These outbursts show many features of historic fascist developments#and on a scale as yet unseen in the United States.
Goodbye "Norma Rae"
Eulogy for Crystal Lee Sutton, Labor Hero
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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.
Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
The #democracy# that can do no wrong
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First Published: 2009
Paul J. Balles considers the #lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia# inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel#s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis
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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.
How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
"Local" Goes Loco
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First Published: 2009
Buying "local" has become a popular movement in American agriculture and commerce. Some corporations, however, are taking "local" a step farther.
Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
Stun-gun maker Taser blogs to beat bad buz
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First Published: 2009
The company, whose main product is a lightning rod for criticism, is increasingly using blogs and social networks to promote new products and dispel anxieties about them.
What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis
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First Published: 2009
Clueless desk editors like those at the New York Times titled these conflicts "Riots in Honduras." But you don't need to be able to understand Spanish to see and hear that, distinct from rioters, the young people of the neighborhood that came out and violated the military curfew to defend their neighborhood from this police invasion know and have memorized complicated political slogans and rhymes which they chanted in unison. "Riots" are disorganized explosions. This neighborhood, and others like it, however, have been forced by the realities of the coup to organize themselves to a greater extent than ever before.
The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
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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.
Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist
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First Published: 2009
The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.
Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
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First Published: 2009
During Israel#s Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 # January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly#the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.
Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians
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First Published: 2009
Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.
The misbegotten 'war against cancer'
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First Published: 2009
Spain Excludes Settlement University from Academic Competition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The "University Center of Ariel in Samaria" (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in or profiting from Israel's illegal Wall and colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
Statement of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain Regarding Boycott of Israel
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First Published: 2009
To increase the pressure for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, and the removal of the separation wall and the illegal settlements, we will support a boycott (where trade union members should not put their own jobs at risk by refusing to deal with such products) of those goods and agricultural products that originate in illegal settlements -through developing an effective, targeted consumer-led boycott campaign working closely with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -and campaign for disinvestment by companies associated with the occupation.
Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests
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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.
Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
In 1968 various student movements had risen up in post-war Europe. The movement in Germany, however, had the long shadow of their parents' roles in Nazism and World War Two.
Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners'
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First Published: 2009
Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line
Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements
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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.
The great #success# of a carbon trading failure
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First Published: 2009
The #right to pollute# has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
Meet the Real Death Panels
44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance
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First Published: 2009
Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
Towards a #Israeli War Criminals Watch#
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First Published: 2009
It is upon us, every woman and man, in Israel and abroad, who fear for international public hygiene and international law#to unite forces in order to place before those war criminals the dilemma: risk being tried if they are found in countries in which the law permits this or remain locked in Israel.
Zionism vs. Zionism
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First Published: 2009
Mainstream and right-wing Zionism has always been tangled up in this catch 22: wanting to be normal, yet at the same time wanting to be seen as totally unique, singled out, attacked more unfairly than any other nation and, thus, quite abnormal. The more Israelis have tried to become normal by naming and defeating their enemies, the deeper they've entrenched themselves in their myth of being the uniquely persecuted people.
Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
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First Published: 2009
While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light#about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care#the dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate#and know how to cultivate#the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
Mobile Schools Help Nomadic Somalis Fight Drought
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First Published: 2009
Mobile schools - secular pre-schools which follow these groups as they move to find pasture and water for livestock - are an attempt to help nomadic communities develop more options as the climate becomes increasingly hostile.
War Is Peace
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First Published: 2009
Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it's hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere at any moment.
How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
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First Published: 2009
The Israel Project#s training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world#s civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
Israeli guards 'humiliated inmates'
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First Published: 2009
A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of subjecting them to intrusive and degrading treatment.
The not-so-hidden persuaders
The Israel lobby#s global propaganda manual
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First Published: 2009
A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
The Right's Fringe Festival
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First Published: 2009
Milling around the crowd, it was impossible to miss the references to issues as disparate as blocking investigations of CIA torture, promoting assault weapons and God "judging" America for homosexuality. Confederate flags were flown, Obama was told to "go back to Kenya," and so forth and so on. The crowd itself was almost exclusively white--and its members had come to get their country back.
A turning point for the US solidarity movement
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First Published: 2009
We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
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First Published: 2009
A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year's brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women and children.
How US Tax Breaks Fund Israeli Settlers
Peace Group Targets Settlement's Charitable Status
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First Published: 2009
In Uganda, Rioters Strip Women Wearing Trousers
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First Published: 2009
Rioters attacked and stripped about 20 Ugandan women who were wearing trousers last week during deadly riots in Kampala. The humiliations were part of a major confrontation between a traditional kingdom and President Yoweri Museveni's government.
Women Are Not Wallpaper
Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker Erik Gandini
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First Published: 2009
Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
Can Journalism Schools Be Relevant In A World On The Brink?
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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.
Company Secretary To Replace Inspector
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If all goes to plan, India Inc would no longer have to deal with labour inspectors turning up at their premises to check compliance with 43 central and myriad state labour legislations. Instead, firms can submit a certificate from a company secretary that validates their compliance with the numerous employment laws.
Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
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First Published: 2009
The right is never truly defeated; its leaders are patient, and they learn from their errors. When they're out of power, they stay busy, building institutions and mailing lists, all the while waiting for their moment to strike.
Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions # and are fighting to export them
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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.
How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
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First Published: 2009
Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry # and hundreds are feared to be victims.
Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
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First Published: 2009
The fight against the world's biggest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, is being waged from a tiny tea stall in Ranchi, eastern India.
Women Recycle for Income and Environment
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First Published: 2009
The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
BBC High Court defence against Trafigura libel suit
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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.
I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
The Denial of My Parole
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First Published: 2009
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
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First Published: 2009
This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
Defending the right to offend, shock or disturb
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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.
South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
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First Published: 2009
Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country#s maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
Desert Winds Stir New Hope
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First Published: 2009
With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses
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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.
No Platform Won't Work
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First Published: 2009
It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything #establishment# is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
The Corporate Stranglehold on Education
Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
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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.
From villages to New Delhi to Geneva: Indian farmers protest against the WTO
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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.
Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
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First Published: 2009
Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
Killing America's Kids
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First Published: 2009
Why is the Secretary of Defense so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping, acquiescent, ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends. The Pentagon is acutely aware of this.
Latin America: Women in History - More than Just Heroines
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First Published: 2009
Women in Latin American struggles.
Brazil: Changing Lives Through the Power of Dance
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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.
Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
"Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel
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First Published: 2009
The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
Left Needs Soul Searching
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First Published: 2009
The left fears that the people it is trying to persuade and mobilize aren't capable of imagining or accepting a truly radical vision of the future.
Crisis And Hope: Theirs And Ours
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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.
Growing Poverty And Despair In America
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First Published: 2009
Increasing homelessness and hunger highlight the growing problem as, in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and growing human needs, administration policies are indifferent, counterproductive, uncaring and hostile.
Education gap divides Jerusalem
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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.
Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Military Giant Elbit
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First Published: 2009
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund # Global, on the basis of the Council on Ethics# recommendation. The Council on Ethics has found that investment in Elbit constitutes an unacceptable risk of contribution to serious violations of fundamental ethical norms as a result of the company#s integral involvement in Israel#s construction of a separation barrier on occupied territory.
Playing the #Anti-Semitism# Card Against Venezuela
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First Published: 2009
Even after the attack on a Caracas synagogue was shown to be an inside job, a robbery perpetrated by employees of the synagogue's security firm, the international media has continued to portray the incident as an anti-Semitic attack, while suggesting that the Chavez government is somehow to blame.
Did Leviev's Empire Succumb to Boycott?
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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.
Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
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First Published: 2009
As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival#s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.”
A Cosmetic Cover for Occupation
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.”
Cuba Today
Against The Current vol. 142
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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?
Debating how to change the world
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
Disasters You Can Believe In
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.
Dissecting Congo's Modern Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.
Ecuador: Left Turn?
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.
J. David Edelstein
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.
Egyptian Labor Erupting
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.”
Egypt's Long Labor History
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.
A Fifty-year Old Process
Against The Current vol. 142
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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.
Joe Frantz, 1950-2009
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Joe Gelders Frantz died unexpectedly on February 4, 2009.
Iran: Which side are you on?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why are some U.S. leftists siding with the repressive Iranian regime against pro-democracy protesters?
LA Teachers Face the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 142
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First Published: 2009
Interview with UTLA activist. Against the Current interviewed a longtime activist and current leader in the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) about the impact of California’s devastating budget crisis on public services and on education in particular.
The limits of anti-racism
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First Published: 2009
The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of 'racism' -- over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither 'overcoming racism' nor 'rejecting whiteness' qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the 'revolution' or urging God's heavenly intervention.
A Mandel for All Seasons
Against The Current vol. 142
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First Published: 2009
The German New Left activist Rudi Dutshcke declared just prior to his death in 1979 that his friend Ernest Mandel “continues to surprise and yet remains the same.” Dutshcke’s appraisal draws attention to the appeal of Ernest (born Ezra) Mandel (1923-95), the Belgian Marxist economist and revolutionary activist, for a generation of young people impelled toward Leftist politics in the 1960s era of decolonization, civil rights activism, and the student revolt.
Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
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First Published: 2009
An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.
Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
Against The Current vol. 142
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First Published: 2009
The critical lack of quality and affordable health care is devastating for African Americans. Twice as likely as whites to go without insurance, African Americans suffer chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes at an escalating rate.
Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
Against The Current vol. 142
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First Published: 2009
New York state is experiencing its worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s, with profound impacts on the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. CUNY has been under public scrutiny since its founding in 1847 as The Free Academy, an institution dedicated to the experiment of providing education to “the children of the whole people” at a school “controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few.”
Three Decades of Iranian Women's Activism
Against The Current vol. 142
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First Published: 2009
Before the June elections and the protests that ensued, 2009 was hailed as a milestone in Iran for another reason: it marked the 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
Timeline of the Congo Conflict
Against The Current vol. 142
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First Published: 2009
Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
Gross Violations of Human Rights
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First Published: 2009
The US led the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because of South Africa#s apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the white government to hand over political power to the black population. Israel practices a worse form of apartheid than did the white South African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it is #anti-semitic# to criticize Israel for a practice that the world regards as abhorrent.
Health Care Around the World
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First Published: 2009
Overview of the various ways health services are provided around the world, as well as accompanying issues and challenges. Topics include health as a human right, universal health care, and primary health care.
Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
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First Published: 2009
Carbon trading schemes are causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
Coral Reefs
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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.
Militarizing Latin America
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First Published: 2009
Establishing US military bases in Colombia is only one part of a much broader effort to restore Washington's capacity for military intervention. There has been a sharp increase in US military aid and training of Latin American officers, focusing on light infantry tactics to combat "radical populism" -- a concept that sends shivers up the spine in the Latin American context.
What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs
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First Published: 2009
It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush#s push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
The Last Refuge
Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
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First Published: 2009
Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
Anti-fascism isn't working
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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.
Boycott Israel
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First Published: 2009
It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
How to really fight anti-Semitism
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First Published: 2009
A winning formula
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First Published: 2009
Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
India's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance
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First Published: 2009
The perils of establishing nationwide identity systems have always been a hot topic of debate in countries that attach great value to privacy and human rights of its citizens. In India, there is not even a whimper of protest from politicians and civil society groups.
Coming out in Kenya
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First Published: 2009
Rape has always been used to intimidate assertive women in Kenya, like feminists and female politicians.
Health and environmental victories for South African activists
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First Published: 2009
In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
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First Published: 2009
A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
On Islam And Gender Equality
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First Published: 2009
A review essay on Salbiah Ahmad's book Critical Thoughts on Islam, Rights and Freedom in Malaysia.
Top 50 US War Criminals
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First Published: 2009
Brief profiles of men and women who planned wars of agression and other war crimes.
Théories et militantismes queer : réflexion à partir de l'exemple français
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First Published: 2009
The Globalization of Garbage: Following the Trail of Toxic Trash
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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.
White Flag Deaths
Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead
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First Published: 2009
Documents incidents where Israeli soldiers fired on civilians with small arms during Israel's military operations in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. These attacks killed 11 civilians, including five women and four children, and wounded at least another eight.
Endless War: The Suicide Of The United States
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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.
Gaza's Kite Runners
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First Published: 2009
Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
Echo Platoon
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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.
Israel#s School Apartheid Highlighted By Court Case
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First Published: 2009
Instances of Arab children being denied places at kindergartens and junior schools have become more common in recent years. Now, an Arab couple whose daughter was expelled from an Israeli daycare centre on her first day because she was Arab is taking the case to court.
Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
An interview with Robert McChesney
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First Published: 2009
Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
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First Published: 2009
Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage For Jewish #Untouchables#
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First Published: 2009
New immigrants to Israel from Russia with inadequate documentation have found themselves on a collision course with Israel#s Orthodox rabbis, who regard themselves as guarding the Jewish people#s ethnic and religious purity.
Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi
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First Published: 2009
The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist lies about blacks that constituted the dominant ideas of the day is not nearly as important or significant as the fact that their working class values led them to ally with slaves to fight the racist ruling class. Racism came from the upper class, and anti-racism came from the working class--black and white.
Rockets from Gaza
Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups# Rocket Attacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Documents rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups in Gaza.
Sex Workers' Rights in Kenya: "It's Better to Be a Thief Than Gay in Kenya"
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First Published: 2009
"It's better to be a thief than gay in Kenya," says a gay sex worker. Both are often punished by death, but being the latter means never revealing yourself to the public and remaining perpetually closeted. It means dealing with homophobes at day and pleasuring them at night.
Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights Groups
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First Published: 2009
In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel#s winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
Why The U.S. Government Hates Venezuela
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First Published: 2009
Having lost in the realm of ideas, those supporting capitalism must compensate by other means.
Urban Cavemen (Living Life out Of Balance)
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First Published: 2009
Pediatricians nowadays see fewer kids with broken bones from climbing trees and more children with longer-lasting repetitive-stress injuries, which are related to playing video games and typing at keyboards. Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, calls this #nature deficit disorder.#
Food Among the Ruins
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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.
Queer theories and militant practices
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First Published: 2009
A critical look at queer theories.
Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo
'Yell,' 'Stand Up And Shout Out,' 'Rattle Him'
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First Published: 2009
#Rachel# screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that #Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.# Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
Nature and Animal Conservation
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First Published: 2009
Conservation of ecosystems and the species within them would help to maintain the natural balances disrupted by recent human activity. Unfortunately, despite the effort put into conservation by organizations and activists, their work can easily be undermined by those who have other interests. This occurs, for example, from habitat destruction, illegal poaching, to influencing or manipulating laws designed to protect species.
The White Cop and the Black Professor
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First Published: 2009
Police are trained to act as authoritarian thugs when they are dealing with people who are not obviously of, or loyal to, the very wealthy elite who rule the nation. The police are trained to enforce law and order in an unjust and unequal society, and a big part of doing this requires that they make ordinary people obey them out of fear.
Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
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First Published: 2009
Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
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First Published: 2009
Local people protest a project that attacks the region#s biodiversity and communities.
Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
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First Published: 2009
Israel#s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government#s line on the Middle East conflict.
Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
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First Published: 2009
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
How the World Depression Hits Orissa
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First Published: 2009
The recession in the West is having a profound impact on the deep rural interior of Orissa.
Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli agents to screen judges before appointment
Fury as security service gets veto over judiciary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel's internal security service has been given a de facto veto over the appointment of judges.
Season of Travesties
Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009
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First Published: 2009
Noam Chomsky criticizes the elections in Lebanon and Iran as being inherently flawed - unlike the "free and fair" election held in Palestine in 2006 for which the people were punished for voting the "wrong way". He tries to illustrate a general picture of the health of democracy and freedom in those areas which are of most concern to the US.
Five years of illegality
Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
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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.
Whom Should We Support in Iran?
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First Published: 2009
The people we should support in Iran are those who are trying to make Iran more equal, more democratic and more friendly to the principle of solidarity--concern for one another. Since we want the world to move in this direction, we should support those who are pushing it in that direction. The people doing this are working class Iranians.
An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Against the Politics of Tolerance: Islam, Sexuality and Belonging in the Netherlands
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Can We Build Socialist-Anarchist Alliances?
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
"Climate Justice" and the Left: The Necessity of a Mass Movement
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Cuba in Search of Renovation
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
The Cuban Five--Injustice Prolonged
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Dancing with Death: "Waltz with Bashir"
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Doctors Under Attack
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
The Economy After A Half Century
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Ecuador's Indigenous Socialism
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Emma Goldman: Voice of a Rebel
Against The Current vol. 141
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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.
Exploring the Roots of the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 141
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On several points there is general agreement among most, if not all, radical and revolutionary anti-capitalists and socialists regarding the current economic crisis.
"Illegals" of the World Unite?
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
An interview with David Bacon.
A Letter to the ATC Editors
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
A brief letter doesn’t allow much space to speak on markets and planning under socialism, but perhaps these few notes will help clarify the issues.
The NUHW Revolt
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
The largest battle within the U.S. union movement in decades is happening right now. It is an organizing campaign to leave the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for the newly formed National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
Pirates of the Mediterranean
Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew
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First Published: 2009
On June 30, 2009, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the #Spirit of Humanity# and kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries.
Political Controls from Above
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
When in 1961 Fidel Castro proclaimed “inside the revolution everything; outside the revolution, nothing,” he left out the key question of who decided what was and who qualified as being “inside the revolution.” The slogan was immediately followed by repressive measures directed not against right-wing counterrevolutionaries but against non-Communist leftists.
Race and Class: The Agenda of Pure Racism
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
There is a sinister aspect of the attacks by the far right against President Barack Obama that does not sit well with me, and with a vast majority of African Americans and other ethnic minorities, no matter our political or ideological point of view.
Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left
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First Published: 2009
Perspectives for socialist renewal in the 21st century.
Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009)
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
Poet, artist, historian, editor, labor militant, musician, amateur ornithologist and surrealist activist Franklin Rosemont, who died on April 12 at age 65 refused the limitations that civilization, especially under capitalism, attempts to imposes on us all. Not a “one dimensional man,” he was inspired by Charles Fourier’s ideas of what humanity could aspire to. He wrote, “All I know defiance and dream, the rest just comes naturally. A ‘Success in Life’? Don’t make me laugh! If you’re looking for me there, you’ll have to look elsewhere.”
Sri Lanka: Behind the Massacre
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
An interview with Ashok Kumar.
A Struggle in Solidarity with Others: Lessons from a Student Campaign Battling a Giant Corporation
Against The Current vol. 141
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First Published: 2009
I am a graduate student from India, studying at a university in Michigan. Some time ago, I became involved in a campaign to kick the Coca Cola company off the campus because of their treatment of workers and the surrounding community at their plants in India and Colombia.
The Transition to Socialism
Against The Current vol. 141
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In his January, 2009 speech commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President Raúl Castro, known popularly as Raúl, repeated Fidel’s oft-quoted 2005 speech to University of Havana students: “This nation can self-destruct… those who can’t destroy it are them [the U.S. imperialists]; we, yes, we can destroy it and it would be our fault.”
We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
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First Published: 2009
Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel#s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
Iran and Leftist Confusion
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First Published: 2009
Why are some leftists siding with the Iranian rulers rather than the popular demonstrations against the regime?
Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
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First Published: 2009
The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
Turning Children Into Consumers
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First Published: 2009
Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard
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First Published: 2009
The problem with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is that it creates a thought crime and also categories of crime victims for disparate treatment. Goodbye to equality under the law.
The Two Main Trends in Anarchism
Alternate Tendencies of Anarchism
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First Published: 2009
The broad anarchist tradition of class struggle anarchism overlaps with libertarian interpretations of Marx.
Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
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First Published: 2009
The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico#s northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
What the Left Should be Learning From Iran
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First Published: 2009
There are those on the left who mirror neocon thought: They argue that since Washington is in opposition to it, Iran must therefore be considered a 'good' government, worthy of solidarity. Others argue that if the Iranian state offers social programs and even if it only somewhat resists global capitalism then therefore its violent and authoritarian actions can somehow be justified, forgiven or denied.
Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
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First Published: 2009
To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society
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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.
Guidelines for exiled journalists
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First Published: 2009
A guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice Through Hip-Hop
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First Published: 2009
Making music is a form of resistance to war and occupation, and also a tool to communicate the reality of life in Palestine.
Tom Paine, restless democrat
Profile of a radical
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First Published: 2009
Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that #my country is the world and my religion is to do good#.
Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
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First Published: 2009
The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business#a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
Educate, agitate, occupy!
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First Published: 2009
An account of the occupation Visteon factory in Enfield, London.
Movement Pachamama: Indigenous Movements in Latin America
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First Published: 2009
It is no accident that most of the remaining natural resources are on indigenous land. First the white world destroys their own environment, then they come asking for the last pieces of land they have put us on, the earth we have protected.
The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009
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We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is job one for socialist politics as we put the neoliberal hell in our rearview mirrors.
An Unlikely Alliance: Indigenous and Campesinos Build an Alliance for Self-Defense
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First Published: 2009
In Colombia, campesinos are mostly non-indigenous family farmers who have often been pitted against indigenous people by wealthy landowners and corporations. Yet despite being traditional rivals, the Barí and campesino communities have been driven to a partnership by common enemies, including multinational mining companies, complicit Colombian regulatory agencies, and the US government.
Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
Sources News Release
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First Published: 2009
Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
The Real Expenses Scandal
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First Published: 2009
One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry#s two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
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.
The Torture Memos
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First Published: 2009
Chomsky comments on the revelations of and reactions to the White House report. He examines the proposed justifications and reasserts that despite the idea of "American exceptionalism", allowing instances of torture to be forgotten lays the foundation for future crime.
Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
Unintended Consequences
Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It will prove difficult to separate speaking against members of protected classes, or criticizing their practices, from hate. The two things are easily conflated. Once enacted, hate crimes will become independent of specific violent acts. An eventual likely outcome will be that speaking against members of specially protected classes will itself become a violent act of inciting violence.
The Left-Wing Media Fallacy
Jeremy Bowen, The BBC, And Other National Treasures
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First Published: 2009
The issue is not complex, not esoteric: in a world dominated by corporate power we rely on media corporations for news about that world. Future generations will surely be aghast that so few people today are able to perceive the perfectly obvious problem, the very clear source of mass control, that this implies.
Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
The End of Free Speech?
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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.
On the Question of Revolutionary Organization: the Case of the NPA in France
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First Published: 2009
The challenge of creating an anti-bureaucratic, democratic revolutionary socialist party.
Capitalism and Social Rights
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
China's Disposable Labor
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
Code Pink's Gaza Delegation
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
Crisis from Pakistan to Motown
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
The Crisis of Revolutionary Power
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
Dissidents Looking Beyond Zionism
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
The FMLN's Historic Victory
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
John Hope Franklin's Message
Against The Current vol. 140
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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.
Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies
An Interview with Beverly Bell
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First Published: 2009
People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
Israel: Obama's "Bibiyahu" Problem
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
Is this the government of Biberman [Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud Party, and foreign minister Avigdor Liberman of the ultra-right Israel Beitenu], or perhaps of Bibarak [Bibi and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak]?
The Lessons of Gaza 2009
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
First the numbers: "1285 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, including 167 civil police officers. 4336 Palestinians wounded, mostly civilians. Two political leaders of Hamas assassinated, Nizar Rayan and Said Siam, in bombs that flattened their home and also killed many of their family members and neighbors. Tens of thousands of people forced to abandon their homes: 2400 houses completely destroyed, and 17,000 semi-destroyed or damaged. Tens of mosques, public civilian facilities, police stations, and media, health, and educational institutions either completely or partially destroyed. 121 industrial and commercial workshops destroyed and at least 200 others damaged."
The Many Faces of Bank Nationalization
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
Calls for nationalization of the banking industry have been bubbling since at least September 2008, when the current banking panic began in the wake of the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the initial AIG bailout, and the quick absorption of Merrill Lynch-Wachovia-Washington Mutual banks by their larger competitors, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase.
The NAACP at 100
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) marks its 100th anniversary this year. It plans a full celebration at its centennial national convention July 11-16 in New York City.
Peace Prospects in the Middle East?
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
The primacy of economic concerns notwithstanding, the interplay between peace and the Obama Administration’s policies toward the Middle East can be considered a defining measure of the new administration’s success. It was only natural and also telling that President Obama decided to cut the ribbons on his foreign policy making journey by initiating phone calls to leaders in the region.
Pinkney Fight Continues
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
Reverend Edward Pinkney was ordered released from prison last Christmas Eve while his conviction and 3-10 year prison term — for quoting Deuteronomy in regard to divine punishment of a racist judge — is on appeal. He remains under house arrest and is prohibited from speaking out on racism and corporate abuses in Berrien County, Michigan.
Race, Politics and Christianity in America
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
11:00AM on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in American life, and the implications of this stubborn fact have been known to unexpectedly erupt into our national political culture. In the invocation at the presidential inaugural, Pastor Rick Warren reminded us that we are not a nation united by race, or blood or religion — but he left our divisions on these grounds unarticulated, despite the role he has played in helping to generate them.
Rachel Corrie Presente!
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
The following is an excerpt from a statement from the family of Rachel Corrie.
Reviewing Red: Love and Revolution
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
At the dawn of the 1960s, the modest tradition of novels depicting men and women active in Marxist movements morphed abruptly from a comparatively marginal to a mainstream phenomenon.
Saving Corporations, Sacrificing Workers
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
President Obama’s March 30th report on what General Motors and Chrysler must do to obtain further government loans demands that all “stakeholders” make additional sacrifices.
Take Back the Land
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First Published: 2009
It is immoral for human beings to be forced to live on the streets while perfectly good structures stand vacant, sometimes just blocks away.
The United States and Gaza
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
The courageous Israeli journalist Amira Hass, in her 1996 book Drinking the Sea at Gaza, tells us that in Israeli slang “go to Gaza” means “go to hell.”
U.S. Poetry and the Politics of Form
Against The Current vol. 140
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First Published: 2009
Laura Bush's 2003 “Poetry and the American Voice” symposium is infamous because it never happened. Intended to be a White House celebration of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes, the event was cancelled when several poet-invitees (including former laureates) declined the invitation and, instead, composed poems protesting U.S. involvement in Iraq. When the symposium was called off, the First Lady’s spokesperson explained that a celebration of poets was in danger of being turned into a political event.
For Free Expression on Palestine
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First Published: 2009
'Take me to your leader'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
"Two State Solution" Equals Racism
Palestinians and Jews CAN Live Peacefully as Equals in One Democratic State
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First Published: 2009
The mutual fear and distrust between Jews and non-Jews in Palestine today is no more innate to these people than the belief in anti-black stereotypes so widely accepted by white Americans in the past was innate to white people. The animosity between Palestinians and Israeli Jews was deliberately fomented by Israeli Zionist leaders with the help of British and American leaders for decades. It was not the presence of Jews in Palestine, per se, that angered the native Palestinians; rather it was the intention (and then the reality) of Zionists removing non-Jews from their homeland to turn most of it into an exclusively Jewish state.
Jewish Peace Activists Defend German Critic of Israel Calling for a Boycott of Israel for its Treatment of Palestinians is not Anti-Semitic
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First Published: 2009
More than 370 Jewish peace activists from around the world signed a statement defending German politician Hermann Dierkes against charges of anti-Semitism.
Black Bloc Provocateurs Set Strasbourg Hotel on Fire
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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.
Keeping Books Safe
A Bad Law Threatens Our Past
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First Published: 2009
Imagine a dystopian horror tale in which virtually all books from the past were destroyed...Books that did not meet the ideologies of the publishers, the demands of the mass market, the trends of the day would be destroyed...That incredible scenario is actually playing out in terms of children's books under a law meant to protect toddlers from lead contaminant in toys. Called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), the law was passed in August 2008 -- quickly, without scrutiny and nearly unanimously.
Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
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First Published: 2009
Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can#t overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn't going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
Race Obsession harms those it is meant to help
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First Published: 2009
Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only as a means of collecting data but also as a way of distributing political power # by promoting certain #community leaders# # and of disbursing public funds through ethnically-based projects. Once the allocation of power, resources and opportunities becomes linked to membership of particular groups, then people inevitably begin to identify themselves in terms of those ethnicities, and only those ethnicities.
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
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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.
Selective Vision: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Arms
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First Published: 2009
For many years, the corporate media has been amplifying supposed "fear" in the West about Iran becoming a nuclear-armed nation alongside the US, the UK, France, Russia - and Israel.
Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
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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.
Israeli Spying in the United States
Full-Spectrum Penetration
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First Published: 2009
Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S.
Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
Getting the Balance Right
Gender Equality in Journalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Gender equality in journalism.
Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident - that even at its best and certainly at its worst capitalism is a decrepit monstrosity of a system. As a proposed replacement for capitalism, Parecon rejects: Private ownership, Authoritarian decision-making, Remuneration for property, power, or output, Corporate divisions of labor, and, Markets and central planning.
The Israel Advocacy Push to #Reclaim# York University
Putting Current Events in Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
York is a longstanding hub for #Israel advocacy# organizations (as they designate themselves). This reality expresses itself in various ways. At the grassroots level, far-right Zionist organizing has been common at York since at least the early 1980s, and seems to have even included direct recruitment for armed settler movements in the West Bank (and more commonly for the Israeli military itself). At the level of university fundraising, York has thoroughly integrated some of Canada#s leading Israel advocacy figures into its main administrative bodies. And at the level of university governance, York has earned a reputation for deep association with the Israeli state and for heavy-handed regulation of campus politics in favor of Israel advocates.
Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the end, the Zionist thing is basically, from a Jewish point of view, a failure. It's not safe and it doesn't preserve the Jewish identity.
After the Destruction
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As Barack Obama mounted the Washington, DC inaugural stage on the euphoric morning of January 20, 2009, in Gaza the sounds of Israel’s invasion — the U.S.-supplied F-16s’ bombing runs, the artillery shells that accurately hit their targets of hospitals and clinics and refugee schools with children inside, the clearly-marked made-in-USA canisters of white phosphorus that burn people alive from the inside, the newly field-tested “DIME” bombs that efficiently tear multiple limbs off the victims — had gone at least temporarily silent.
The Battle for Puerto Rico's Labor Movement
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The teachers' union Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR) is the island’s largest labor union. Its evolution has considerable impact on Puerto Rico’s labor movement as a whole. In fact, recent events surrounding the FMPR reflect many of the debates and tensions that have shaped the island’s largest labor struggles over the past decade. These include:
Peter Camejo: A Red-Green Life
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Progressive movements lost a major advocate last September 13th when Peter Camejo died after a long battle with lymphoma at the age of 67. The broad, historical impact he had was obvious in the national media response and the hundreds of emails and blog entries following his death.
Peter Camejo at Berkeley
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I met and worked with Peter Camejo in Berkeley during the latter half of the ’60s. He was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party and the Young Socialist Alliance there, while I was active in the Independent Socialist Clubs, which later became the International Socialists. Peter was always a hard-driving speaker who always knew what he wanted to say, and he could say it elegantly.
Camejo's Early Political Years
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I first met Peter Camejo in 1958, when we were both students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He had joined the Young Socialist Alliance in New York, politically aligned with the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, the year before, and I was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League, politically aligned with the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation.
A Carbon-Free Future
An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
A Comrade and Friend
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Steffie Brooks, a member of Solidarity in New York, died Monday evening, February 9, 2009 after a struggle with a cancer that had spread from her lungs into her spine. Steffie’s final few months were difficult and painful, but she remained committed to her political activism, which included giving a presentation at a summer school our organization co-sponsored with others last August.
Critical Resistance at 10
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On the weekend of September 26-28, 3,500 people gathered in Oakland, California to hasten the death of the prison system.
The Economy in a World of Trouble
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
interview with Robert Brenner.
The Enemy of Nature
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Images of the rapidly melting polar icecaps, the receding snows of Mount Kilimanjaro and human suffering at the hands of ever more violent storms all over the world occupy central places in our present-day collective culture.
Ethnic Cleansing: Palestine Reality
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
While the term “ethnic cleansing” has come into use only very recently, the act that it describes, namely the forcible expulsion of one or more ethnic groups from a region, has been practiced for millennia.
Feminism, The Global Struggle
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Coming to feminist consciousness in the early 1980s, I belong to a generation of U.S. feminists caught between the second and third “waves” of the movement. The activist energy of second-wave feminism was inspiring indeed. It challenged the ideological presuppositions of heteronormative patriarchy, established some legal protection against discrimination in the workplace and educational institutions, and enabled a significant percentage of women to enter the ranks of the professional-managerial class.
Foremothers and Fathers
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Socialist feminism is usually said to have begun in the 1960s and ‘70s, but in fact it was a significant radical current 100-150 years ago.
The Future of Israel/Palestine
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s address to both houses of the U.S. Congress in May, 2006 — which until today represents the Israeli government plan — was the clearest, most explicit presentation of Israel’s conception of where it is going vis-à-vis the Palestinians. It is perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel 1984. Just as Orwell’s totalitarian propagandists proclaimed WAR IS PEACE, so Olmert declared in Washington: ISRAELI EXPANSION IS WITHDRAWAL and UNILATERAL REALIGNMENT IS PEACE. (He had help with the language. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel drafted large sections of the speech together with an American advisor who specializes in “Republican language.”)
Health Care Unions at War
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its former section United Health Care Workers-West (UHW) are at war after SEIU’s leadership ordered the seizure of UHW’s headquarters. UHW’s elected officers, deposed in the SEIU takeover, are forming a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
Intersectionality Coming Alive
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It's hard to choose just one thing to recommend for a socialist feminist “must-read,” as there are so many writers that influenced my thinking, from Audre Lorde to Meredith Tax. However, when I think about the works that have had the greatest impact on my thinking, I’d have to focus on fiction. While I appreciate reading history and theory, I’ve found that novels give me the opportunity to visualize other worlds in a much deeper and lasting way.
Meeting Alexandra Kollontai
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
My first encounter with Wikipedia was several years ago when I was looking up some female Bolsheviks — there was very little about them by way of normal Googling, and I had never tried this collective online encyclopedia before.
Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Although the historic election of president Barack Obama has led to big cheers in the Black community and society in general, the reality for the vast majority of African Americans is growing uncertainty if not joblessness and poverty. Cities like Detroit, and the Rust Belt in the Midwest, are reeling under the blows of the recession and structural changes, including overseas outsourcing and shifting work to nonunion companies in “right to work” states.
Richmond, CA vs. Chevron
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There was no shortage of attention-getting politics in the fall of 2008. Yet even in the context of the history-making national election, the local city council campaign and vote on business license fees in Richmond, California should be of interest to readers of a national magazine.
Stirring Up Racism
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In an attempt to discredit the progressive candidates, the Richmond Police Officers Association (RPOA) put out a flyer which claimed the Latino community and particularly undocumented immigrants were the source of Richmond’s drug and violence problem and that the progressive candidates opposed police efforts to control it.
Toward A New Socialism
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Richard Schmitt and Anatole Anton correctly insist in the introduction to their anthology Toward a New Socialism that we are in need of a new socialism for the 21st century. This claim has little currency in contemporary academic or even activist cultures. “To speak of ‘socialism’ in today’s academy in the U.S.,” says Anton, “is to betray a lack of academic breeding.”
Obama's Afghanistan War: Morally Wrong, or Incompetently Waged?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
For our rulers, the point of a war is to make us Americans feel the way only a war can--determined to prevail over a dangerous foreign enemy by supporting our leaders when we would otherwise oppose them over domestic issues. Wars are waged for domestic social control and to justify enormous arms expenditures and contracts. Our leaders need wars to drag on so the enemy can be deemed sufficiently dangerous and implacable and thus the war made to seem important or necessary.
Is It Realistic to Demand the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israel Lobby's Power Comes from The American Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
By ensuring that the American mass media refrain from telling Americans the true reason (Israel's ethnic cleansing) why Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims take up arms against Israel, the American ruling class ensures that Americans will believe the lie that Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are hateful, irrational, anti-semitic terrorists who kill decent Israelis "just like us" and would likewise kill Americans if we fail to obey our upper class rulers who protect us from terrorism.
Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
Academic Freedom Threatened in Ontario Universities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
While most academics would agree that a university should be a place where critical debate is fostered, what is academic freedom when the freedom to attend classes without being bombed isn't even assured? Academic freedom falters it seems when it comes to Palestine, whether in the Middle East or in North America. Not only is there no realizable academic freedom for Palestinians, but also, even in North America, students and faculty raising critical viewpoints about Israel find themselves muffled, accused of anti-Semitism, threatened with disciplinary action, or, in the case of former Depaul University professor, Norman Finkelstein, out of a job entirely.
Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
A climate of fear endangers press freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
Support the Iranian people, oppose Tehran#s clerical fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Tragically, the leadership of the UK and US anti-war movements have been sleep-walking into making the same mistakes over Iran as they made over Iraq. They are silent about the regime#s despotism and oppression. Mirroring the neo con indifference to human rights abuses in Iran, they refuse to show solidarity with the Iranian peoples# struggle for secularism, democracy, social justice, human rights and self-determination for national minorities. There is nothing remotely left-wing about this is sad and cruel betrayal. Put bluntly: it is collusion with tyranny.
Self-Defense Against Peace
Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
The Case for Academic Boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Academic boycott targets Israel's intellectual leadership, the educated elite whose record consists largely of misinforming Israelis about their history, distorting their understanding of current conflicts, normalizing the racism of their society, and providing to the Israeli military and government the legal, technological, and political tools it needs to facilitate the continued theft of Palestinian land and the containment of its restive population.
The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
Women of the revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Thirty years after the toppling of the Shah in Iran, Azar Sheibani looks at how Iranian women have defied the reign of misogynist terror.
Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An analysis on the formation of Charles Darwins' views on slavery and the impact of those views on his theories and publications.
The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The great fear of Israel's Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter what their religion, versus those who oppose that goal.
"Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
Why Israel Won't Survive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power # Western support and complicity # is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
Why Israeli Leaders Love Qassam Rockets
A Reply to Michael Neumann
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli leaders want Jews to believe that they are surrounded by violent anti-Semites. This is how the billionaires and generals and politicians who rule over the Israeli population get away with what they are doing: getting richer and more powerful while driving the rest of the population down economically. They need the Israeli population to believe that the rulers of Israel are protecting Jews from the "real enemy"--violent anti-Semitic Arabs. To make sure the "real enemy" remains credible, non-combatant Jews must die at the hands of apparent anti-Semites.
Addiction and Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
Time for a New Divestment Campaign
From South Africa to Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years # as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
For a Worker's Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
History will record Israel#s onslaught in Gaza as noteworthy not only for the wide destruction of institutions of state and civil society, but for the deliberate targeting of the United Nations and the refugees it aided and sheltered. And it certainly would not be the first time Israel has done so.
Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
Seeing Through the Lies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
How Many Divisions?
Israel is losing this war
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army - with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks - and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.
Israel#s Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
How Israel Created Its Monster
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The critical reframing we offer, that of Israelis committed to human rights, international law and a just peace as the only way out of this interminable and bloody conflict, argues that security cannot be achieved unilaterally while one side oppresses the other and that Israel's attack on Gaza is merely another attempt to render its Occupation permanent by destroying any source of effective resistance.
Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
The lying silence of those who know
Holocaust Denied
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel#s actions.
Outcry Over Israel's War Crimes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Jonathan Cook describes legal actions underway to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.
Turn off the Canadian Media, Please
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If you want to have the first idea what is happening in Israel/Palestine (or most of the rest of the world), the best thing to do would be to turn the Canadian media off completely.
The War Isn#t Over, But Israel Has Lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israelis # and their backers in the American political establishment # appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
And Then They Came For Me
Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has once again flared up following Israel's ongoing air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, the IMEU presents a comparison of Israeli and Palestinian military capabilities. (Jaunary 2009).
In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
Of Sowing and Harvests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working Peole Need to Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
Afro-Asian Collaborations
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of “creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.”
After the Party
Corruption and the ANC
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Andrew Feinstein is a former member of the African National Congress, and a critic of corruption within the congress. In his analysis, Feinstein discusses things such as the repression of debate within the party, lack of investigations into arms deals, and a failure to criticize Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe.
The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Robin Blackburn, an acclaimed historian of slavery, discusses the emergence of anti-slavery ideas and the important events that paved the way for abolitionist movements.
America#s Kingdom
Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order. America#s Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States#s special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as #the deal#: oil for security.
Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
When General Motors and Chrysler received pre-Christmas bridge loans of $17.4 billion, President Bush specified that the unionized work force had to become “competitive” with non-unionized workers in wages, benefits and work rules. This blatant attempt to destroy an already weakened United Auto Workers (UAW) illustrates how, in the midst of an economic crisis, U.S. capital is bailed out as working people are fleeced.
The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A partical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more health, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society.
Beautiful Ruination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Iin the last half-century, even as the prophets of prosperity have spurred the U.S. on to ever more growth, ruins have become increasingly common features in the American landscape. Braddock, littered with decrepit hulks, is not alone.
Beyond Radical
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
Broonland
The Last Days of Gordon Brown
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Broonland is a scathing and witty indictment of the architect of New Labour, Gordon Brown. Chris Harvie shows how Gordon Brown came to preside over a bankrupt country on the brink of economic and political breakdown.
Budrus
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
A documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel#s Separation Barrier.
Bus Driver
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Follows Karnel Basi, a public transit driver in South Vancouver, along his regular route through the downtown east side to the heart of the city and back again. Along the way he picks up a variety of passengers, struggles to stay on schedule and keep his bus safe.
The Candy Machine
How Cocaine Took Over the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Feiling is interested in the hows and whys of the trade. Everything cocaine touches turns to lead. How it came to this is the question he explores in this extensively researched, passionately argued book.
Ron Carey, Militant Union Reformer
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
“Ron Carey was the nation’s most charismatic and successful labor leader as the twentieth century was coming to an end. He will be remembered as a major figure in American labor history on the basis of just two of his accomplishments: In 1991, running as a reformer with the backing of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), he was elected general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In 1997, he led the successful 15-day strike against the giant United Parcel Service, the biggest victory organized labor had experienced in at least three decades.”
Changing for Real
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
A Child in Palestine
The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Presents the work of Naji Al-Ali, a leading Palestinian political cartoonist, and is introduced by Joe Sacco, author of Palestine.
Civility
A Cultural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Through a historical, social, and psychological discussion of the civility practices in 3 nations - England, France and the United States, Davetian addresses major topics in public discourse today regarding the ideas and practices of civility and the possibility of a future civility ethic capable of inspiring cooperation across cultural and national boundaries.
The Civility Solution
What to Do When People Are Rude
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Climate Cover-Up
The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.
The Cultural Turn
Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983#1998
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of capitalism.
Cutural Warriors of the Freedom Struggle: Miriam Makeba and Odetta
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It felt like the end of an era to realize that South Africa’s Miriam Makeba and our own Odetta died within weeks of one another, having been born only months apart, these twin pillars of the struggle for justice on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Darwin's Sacred Cause
How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Dear John
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Chronicles the closure of the Welland Canal, Ontario's oldest and leading industrial employer: John Deere Welland Works. The film explores what Welland has in store for its future, while helping those that worked at the plant tell their story.
Defamation
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
An expose of the Anti-Defamation League and the way it uses the memory of the Holocaust to silence criticism of Israel.
Diary of Bergen-Belsen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
The Economics of Global Turbulence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Brenner presents a survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present. He charts the post-war history of the global system and is critical of the results which include over-production and over-competition. He is then able to examine the systematic factors behind wage repression, high unemployment and unequal development.
The End of the Revolution
China and the Limits of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Wang Hui is a leading member of China's "New Left". He challenges both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm. He calls for alternatives to both China's capitalist transformation and its repressive and authoritarian past.
50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A collection of essays from international figures in fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who explain why they are atheists.
The Food Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Walden Bello presents an analysis of the various causes of hikes in global food prices and their effects on poverty in the countries of the global South.
Forget Shorter Showers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why personal change does not equal political change.
Frames of War
When Is Life Grievable?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Butler explores the media's portrayal of war and its effect on audiences' understandings of human life. Such portrayals, Butler argues lead to the rationalization of modern warfare and state violence.
Free Speech
A Very Short Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Covers a wide-range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. Offers a concise quide to many of the vexing issues concerning our right to speak freely.
'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
From Fatwa to Jihad
The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
Fugitive Days
Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Gender Equality (Real Utopias Series)
Transforming Family Divisions of Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers propose a set of policies # paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care # designed to foster more egalitarian family divisions of labour by strengthening men#s ties at home and women#s attachment to paid work.
General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We begin with a rather complex historical elaboration of the context in which a socialist and later specifically Marxist left arose in Japan, China and Korea, first of all to show the importance of the entire region (including Siberia) for the early Korean left, especially after colonization by Japan in 1910 made most legal socialist activity in Korea itself impossible. More importantly, this East Asian left, it will be argued, was as statist as the German-influenced modernizers building the region#s capitalism. There was nothing specifically Asian about this, as it characterized mainstream currents of the international left everywhere.
Global Leveraged Buyout or the "Longest Boom in Capitalist History"?
A Reply to Robert Fitch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Fitch's recent article, while making some good points about the unraveling of the world financial system, is seriously flawed.
Globalization
A Systemic Marxian Account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Smith examines the issue of globalization using a systemic dialetics approach. This two-part novel first examines the models of globalization and in the second part, reconstructs a Marxian model of socialist globalization.
The Green Zone
The Environmental Costs of Militarism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Environmentalism - it's the word on everyone's tongue. Reusable shopping bags, hybrid cars, and green home energy solutions allow us to reduce our carbon footprint, but it's only the tip of the quickly melting iceberg. The Green Zone presents a sobering revelation: until we address the attack that the US military is waging on the global environment, the things we do at home won't change a thing.
Half the Sky
Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Describes the health and situation of women worldwide by investigating issues such as rampant gendercide in the developing world and gender discrimation in the labour force. The authors aim to bring attention to the plight of women in developing countries.
HERstory: Jeritan
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting of mainly Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.
Hold the Line
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
A restrained story-telling of the 2009 CUPE strike in Windsor, Ontario. Excellent shots of Windsor backed by a moody soundtrack, this film tells the story of the Windsor CUPE strike from the workers' point of view.
Hopes and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Chomsky shows how new social struggles, from Bolivia to Venezuela, are challenging the Washington Consensus and posing democratic alternatives for the continent, and explores the potential for change - as well as continuity - under the new Obama administration.
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Arab scholars were exploring and extending the great works of the Persian, Hindu, and Greek civilizations. There were striking advances in the sciences and mathematics, but more fundamentally, the Arabs taught the importance of experimentation and rational thought. Eventually, through the efforts of men like Adelard, the accomplishments of the Arabs got through to the West, and shaped it.
Imperialism and Global Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Callinicos critically assesses the classical theories of imperialism developed in the era of the First World War by Marxists such as Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bukharin and by the Liberal economist J.A. Hobson. He then outlines a theory of the relationship between capitalism as an economic system and the international state system. He also traces the history of capitalist imperialism from the Dutch East India Company to the specific patterns of economic and geopolitical competition in the contemporary era of American decline and Chinese expansion. Imperialism, he concludes, is far from dead.
In Memory of Tim Costello
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Remembering Tim Costello.
Introduction to Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
This book is aimed to guide the first time reader through a difficult and intricate text. Harvey makes CAPITAL relevant to the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
The Invention of the Jewish People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
In this new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times # when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.
Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Whether or not the current economic crisis and a historic presidential election open up hidden potentials for renewed popular protest and collective action, it is obvious that the radical Left has lost a great deal of its size, visibility, élan and influence since the 1970s.
Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
Israel and Palestine
Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Reflections on the causes and consequences of the Israel Palestine conflict, by the author of The Iron Wall.
Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
It's Never Been Easy
Essays on Modern Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Most of the labor essays included here were written over the last seven years and appeared originally in various publications, including CounterPunch, The Exception Magazine, Liberalati, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, State of Nature, and Synthesis/Regeneration. This book is dedicated to working men and women everywhere, but particularly to the members of America#s labor unions# those individuals who carry out the work, solve the problems, make it happen, but who, alas, rarely share in the treasure or glory.
Jews of All Colors
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, a long-time feminist activist, disabuses the Jewish left of its most common assumptions: that Jewish culture is Ashkenazi culture and that Jews are white people.
Journalists Killed since 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
Just Another Cog in the Machine
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Using wordplay & a photocopier to promote starting a union.
Justice for All?
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
An informative short on how Legal Aid fails low-income workers in BC.
Keeping Independent Politics Alive
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It's important for us on the left at least to salute the most courageous candidacy of 2008: Cynthia McKinney (former Georgia congresswoman) and Rosa Clemente (Puerto Rican hip-hop cultural activist), the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Green Party.
Land, Food, Freedom
Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
The Left Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Unger writes a manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? In his analysis, Unger examines the major debates in the world today and he rallies for alternative forms of change.
Legalize It!
Why Decriminalization of Drugs Won't Get the 10,000 Ton Monkey Off of Mexico's Back
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Decriminalization is turning into a bonanza for Mexico City cops who have taken to carrying scales to weigh confiscated drugs and shaking down those "criminals" who exceed the decreed limits. Shaking down small-time users and dealers is nothing new in this the most corrupt, crime-ridden, and conflictive city in the western hemisphere. Indeed, crooked cops have been planting drugs on unwary citizens as long as cops have patrolled these mean streets.
Letters to the Editors: What Are You For? Democracy Vs. Politics
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
I’ve been reading Against the Current for a long time. I agree with 99% of it, because we’re against the same things. But what are you for?
"Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Life You Can Save
Acting Now to End World Poverty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
This is the right time to ask yourself: "What should I be doing to help?" For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the world's population, we must become part of the solution.
LIVING IN THE U.X.A.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn#t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.
Long Before "Boondocks"
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Black newspapers presented a picture of African-American life rendered invisible by the white media. Like white newspapers, they carried a funnies page where Black readers faithfully followed the foibles of cartoon characters like Ollie Harrington’s “Brother Bootsie,” Samuel Milai’s “Bucky” and Wilbert Holloway’s “Sunny Boy Sam.”
Long March to Revolution
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Revolutions at first appearance may seem sudden or spontaneous events. But they are also built over the long-haul, through generations of resistance and the preservation in collective memory of traditions of struggle and solidarity.
A Magical Moment
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Penelope Rosemont, poet, artist and essayist, is the well known author of Surrealist Women. An International Anthology. Her new book is a lively and fascinating document, based on her personal notes from the 1960s, a time when a window to the impossible seemed to open. The story begins in Chicago, and takes us to Paris, London, and back to the United States; the author did not make it to the Seven Cities of Cibola, because they exist only in an Uncle Scrooge comic strip…
Making a Killing
The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
Meltdown
The End of the Age of Greed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, discusses the current economic recession and how it has caused for the neo-liberal orthodoxy to be undermined. He explores the roots of the crisis , and envisions a new era of hyper-regulated capitalism.
Los Mexicanos: The Struggle for Justice of Patricia Perez
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico, labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick our vegetables. In the summer of 2006, Patricia Perez a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms south of Montreal.
My Studs Terkel, and Yours
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
When Against The Current asked me to write a piece on Studs Terkel, I wondered why me? But after I pondered the idea, I thought, of course me. And you. All readers of his books, Against the Current and other magazines, large and small that serve as a mouthpiece for those with the desire for a better world and anger against the hypocrisy of our times.
The Myths of Liberal Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Yitzhak Laor, one of Israel's most independent writers and prominent dissidents, demystifies the "peace camp" liberals.
The New-Old World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Perry Anderson presents an analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War. In his analysis, Anderson cuts through some myths about continental Europe and the European Union.
New World Coming
The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Newspeak in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An incisive introduction to global finance – where money comes from, the current mechanisms and the need for control and reform.
Obama on Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Noam Chomsky criticizes Barack Obama's vague stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict and warns that there is much importance in what he is not expressing.
Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
On Richard Wright's Centennial: The Great Outsider
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the spring of 1940, Richard Wright’s Native Son was published to such acclaim that Black Marxist C.L.R. James decreed the novel “not only a literary but also a political event.” By means of a riveting naturalist fictional technique, depicting the world through the eyes and ears of a 20-year-old unemployed African American named Bigger Thomas, Wright evokes the volatile brutality of poverty and segregation on Chicago’s South Side during the latter part of the Great Depression.
On Rumours
Why Falsehoods Spread, and Why We Believe Them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Describes the social and pyschological forces that make the spread of misinformation inevitable. Its argument runs like this: whether or not we choose to believe something, and whether we feel inclined to pass it on, depends largely on what we already believe.
On Rumours
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
As a work of populist social science, On Rumours is compelling. More an extended essay than a full-sized book, it describes the social and psychological forces that make the spread of misinformation inevitable. Its argument runs like this: whether or not we choose to believe something, and whether we feel inclined to pass it on, depends largely on what we already believe.
The Other
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
The Other is made up of a series of lectures that Kapuscinski delivered in Austria and in Poland, eloquent speeches in which he considers the history, the present and the future of our relationship with the Other, a term he employs to distinguish Europeans from "non-Europeans, or non-whites -- while fully aware for the latter, the former are just as much 'Others'."
Painting Red Square
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
7000 kilometres from Moscow, there's another Red Square. Witness the struggle of the labour-left in Whitehorse, Yukon to find a friendly watering hole where they can share a glass with their comrades and debate which shade of red is best.
The Perils of Obamamania
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Reed discusses the Left's support for Obama as a phenomenon in which the "lesser evil" is supported at any cost. Reed examines the implications of this support seeing as Obama's policies are shifting toward the center ground. In his analysis, he suggests that progressive support for Obama may permanently shift American politics to the Right.
Utah Phillips 1935-2008
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Bruce “Utah" Phillips, who died in May 2008, was a living, singing museum of radical working-class culture. Through his songs and stories he connected three generations to the living memory of class struggle martyrs, hobo lore and life, and the pacifists and anarchists of the early 20th century. In addition to being a world beloved folksinger and performer, Phillips spent time as a peace campaigner, a freight train hopper, and a union organizer. Phillips will be best remembered for his countless renditions of the songs of Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Wobblies.
Poor No More
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
In the present economic crisis, many Canadians are destititute and many others are on the brink. Against this climate, a couple of Canadians go on a road trip to Ireland and Sweden, with comedian Mary Walsh as their guide, and get a chance to see how other countries have helped people like themselves.
The Price of A Bargain
The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Describes a world where the economy's collateral damage includes oil spills and the poisoning of developing nations' working poor; the low wages and illegal labour practices of corporations leading to the ultimate collapse of a system based on minimizing costs, high volume sales and low profit margins; and a world where debt is the cornerstone of the economy.
Property and Progress
The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-Sustaining Growth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A collection of texts on the origins of capitalism with substantive material on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2009
Reading, Writing and Union Building
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
Reclaiming a Continent: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An in-depth and accessible introduction to Latin American politics. Avoiding superficial analysis and simplistic leftist cheerleading, this book addresses the complexity and diversity of the new Latin American left.
Reclaiming Utopia: The Legacy of Ernst Bloch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Bloch's Marxism was from the start unorthodox as the result of his abiding interest in the notion of utopia. This notion was held in disdain by many orthodox Marxists.
Revolt On Goose Island
The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
The story of a workers' takeover.
Revolutionary Traveller
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
John S. Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved.
Ruling the Void
The Hollowing of Western Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Analyzes democratic trends over the last few decades in Europe and America.
Saviours and Survivors
Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Mamadani examines the Darfur crisis within a context that considers Sudan's history. He illuminates the deeply rooted causes of the current conflict by examining its colonial and Cold War origins as well as its escalation during the 1990's. In his analysis, Mamadani is also critical of the world's response to the crisis.
Say It Loud, Say It Proud: There is No God
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Seeds of Peace
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Jawdat Talousy worked in a Jewish Settlement located on the West Bank. He was fired because he established a labour committee in order to get equal labour rights as Israeli co-workers.
Segregation and Black Labor Before the CIO:
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
C.L.R. James urged listeners at a 1971 Institute of the Black World event in Atlanta to study W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction as a way to understand the meaning of Marxism, the Civil War, and emancipation. James implored his audience to grapple with Du Bois’s statement that Reconstruction was “the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution.”
Self-Liberation
A guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Sex Scandals America
Politics and the Ritual of Public Shaming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A comprehensive history of sexual scandals in America from colonial times, including Pocahontas and the Puritans, to today which exposes the scandals of national political figures and celebrities and ties these scandals to the deeper changes in sexual culture. It assesses the role of political scandals as a form of public shaming and shows how, scandals have changed, evolving from a morality tale to an entertainment distraction.
Sexuality and Socialism
History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression — including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory — and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality.
Shadow Boxing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Multiculturalists and clash of civilization warriors both start with the question: #Can Europe be the same with different people in it?#. They give different answers. But the question itself is the problem. It assumes that minority communities are homogenous wholes whose members will forever be attached to the cultures, faiths, beliefs and values of their forebears.
The Shape of the Suburbs
Understanding Toronto's Sprawl
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water, and sewage systems, highways and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city. Also demonstrates the ways in which suburban political, economic, and cultural influences have impacted the older, central city, culminating in the forced Megacity amalgamation of 1998.
Side with the Living
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A note to those who would demonize nature.
Snake Oil Science
The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Illustrates how the placebo effect conspires to make medical therapies appear to be effective - not just to consumers, but to therapists and poorly trained scientists as well. Explores this phenomenom and explains why research on any therapy does not factor in the placebo effect will inevitably produce false results.
'Socialism in One Country' Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary 'Anti-Imperialism'
The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Today's climate of "anti-imperialism" compels us to turn back to the history of such a profoundly reactionary ideology, deeply anti-working class both in the #advanced# and #underdeveloped# countries, by which any force, no matter how retrograde, that turns a gun against a Western power becomes #progressive# and worthy of #critical# or #military# support, or for the less subtle, simply #support#.
Socialists and the Capitalist Recession
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Anyone seeking to understand the ABCs of the meltdown would benefit greatly from reading this collection.
Sources News Release Archive 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
News releases from 2009.
Sources (Portal für Journalisten and Autoren) - Wikipedia Artikel
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Sources ist ein Informationsportal für Journalisten, Redakteure, Autoren und Forscher mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Personen als Quellen: Fachleute und Repräsentanten, die bereit sind Fragen von Reportern zu beantworten oder sich für Live-Interviews zur Verfügung stellen.
Ssangyong Motors Strike in South Korea Ends in Defeat and Heavy Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The hard-right Korean government is signaling with these measures -- its latest and most dramatic "take no prisoners" victory over popular protest in the past year and a hal f-- its intention to steamroller any potential future resistance to its unabashed rule on behalf of big capital.
Staatlichkeit & Anarchie in der Spanischen Revolution
Proletarische Revolution statt Staatsverneinung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Struggle for Tibet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya debate Tibet's history under Communist rule. While both are critical of China's crackdown on resistance movements, Wang, a Chinese intellectual draws a picture of a struggle that is bureaucratic, religious and is opposed to Communism. Shakya, a Tibetan national historian, on the other hand, describes a struggle that is nationalistic and anti-colonial.
This Little Kiddy Went to Market
The Corporate Capture of Childhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Analyses how people and planet are being systematically subordinated to profit.
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Provides a list and indepth analysis of the top 25 stories that were censored throughout the year in 2009.
Transforming Power
From the Personal to the Political
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
The Transition Initiative
Changing the scale of change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
People never need communities more than when there are threats to security, food, and lives. The Transition Initiative recognizes how much we need this scale now, because of peak oil and climate change. But beyond this concrete need, the lack of a sense of community has negative psychological impacts on individuals across the 'developed' world, as people report persistent and widespread feelings of loneliness, isolation, dispossession, alienation, and depression.
Transitional demands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Transition movement aims to move us from oil dependency to local resilience, using the power of community.
Tree Spiker
From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Roselle # cofounder of the Rainforest Action Network and Earth First! # offers a memoir of his career in radical activism # from teenage Yippie to career environmentalist.
Turning Point?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Chomsky examines if Obama's speech in Cairo can reasonably be understood as an indication of a turning point in US Middle East policy. He expresses doubt in consideration of the intricate relationship between America and Israel.
Twenty Million Jobless by the End of 2009
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Throughout the past year, U.S. government statistics have consistently underestimated and underreported the extent of joblessness. The techniques by which this has been done were described in prior articles on the subject by this author. With November 2008’s Department of Labor report of 530,000 additional workers losing their jobs, it would appear that the government was finally reporting the true extent of rising unemployment in the United States.
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Mark Rudd recalls his personal journey from idealistic freshman to student radical to the Weather Underground. He says: "It's about good organizing (Columbia), leading to worse (Weatherman), leading to horrible (the Weather Underground). I hope it's useful to contemporary organizers, as they contemplate how to build the coming mass movement(s)."
Urban Honey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the winter of 2003, three Chicago beekeepers joined forces to create a bee farm on the former Sears-Roebuck property right in the heart of our city. We abut an old railroad embankment wall with both prairie remnant and concrete in equal amounts.
U.S. & Israel: Dog Wags Tail Wags Dog
Against The Current vol. 138
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First Published: 2009
A tremendous amount of ink and energy has been expended interpreting the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel. The debate over Israel’s influence on U.S. Middle East policy has engaged critics across the political and ideological spectrum. While some have long questioned the reasons for the unparalleled U.S. military and economic support bestowed on the “Jewish state,” the debates over Israel’s influence on U.S. foreign policy have increased dramatically in the wake of Bush administration military responses to September 11th.
Victors's Justice
From Nuremberg to Baghdad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Victors# Justice is an articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law as an instrument of Western power. Zolo#s key thesis is that contemporary international law functions as a two-track system: a made-to-measure law for the hegemons and their allies, on the one hand, and a punitive regime for the losers and the disadvantaged, on the other.
Victory in Chicago: Republic Workers' Occupation
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
“For once in our lives we had the perfect storm. Usually we don’t get any support from politicians or any coverage from the mass media...but this time, everything came together,” said Tim Curtin, International Representative for United Electrical workers (UE).
Vincenzo Pietropaolo: Witness to the Harvest Pilgrims
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Vincenzo Pietropaolo has documented the story of Mexican migrant workers over a number of years. This is a brief look into that story.
Voices of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Voices of the World is a collection of life stories from activists in the global justice movement.
Walter Benjamin
Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Eagleton's goal here is to to contemplate Benjamin#s approach to language, history, and art and to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism.
Waltz with Bashir
A Lebanon War Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A graphic novel depicting an Israeli soldier's experience during Israel's war in Lebanon. See also the film with the same name.
The War in the Country
How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Chronicles the gradual disappearance of Canada's family farms.
What Obama's Victory Means About Race and Class
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
There was euphoria in every Black community household November 4. High fives and tears of joy. No one could believe it. It didn’t matter Obama’s politics. A Black man had won! The election of the first Black president of the United States has a dual meaning: social and political.
What Should Be Done in Palestine
Israel Shamir's Talk at the Ankara Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Indeed, the whole story of Palestine is a story of immigrants taking over a country. Such things happen: immigrants from Britain took over North America and Australia. This is a sad thing, but it happened. Now it is not realistic to hope that they will sail back to England - they won't. It is wrong to try and create an 'independent state' for the native Americans - such independent states are called 'reservations'. The right answer is equality for native and immigrant alike. Some Jews would complain that they want a state of their own. We shall answer them: you have built on sand, and a house built on sand can't stand forever. If you want a state of your own without anybody else, find yourself a lonely uninhabited island. Palestine was, and is, populated; the best you can wish is to be equal citizens in Palestine with everybody else.
While We Were Sleeping
Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Public health has made our lives safer--but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, "while we are sleeping."
Who Killed Chea Vichea?
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Chea Vichea served as president of Cambodia's garment workers' union until he was gunned down on the street in 2004. Filmed over four years, it explores motives for Vichea's assassination and unravels a police plot that framed two men, who were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Why Not Socialism?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
World at Gunpoint
Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Global warming (or global climate catastrophe, as some rightly call it), as terrifying as it is, isn#t first and foremost a threat. It#s a consequence. we#ll have a better chance of succeeding if we recognize it as a predictable (at this point) result of burning oil and gas, of deforestation, of dam construction, of industrial agriculture, and so on. The real threat is all of these.
You Don't Play With Revolution
The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A collection of never-before-published lectures by the Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered in Canada in 1967-68, at the height of James's political maturity.
You, Me & the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens' rights have in common? The Security and Prosperity Partnership.
Agenda for a New Economy
From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth - Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Korten offers in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on locally owned, community oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.

2008

Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
Connexipedia
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First Published: 2008 Published: 2011
Sources Wikipedia article - Korean
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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First Published: 2008 Published: 2011
Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Connexions (volledige naam Connexions Information Sharing Services) is de voornaamste online bibliotheek en het archief voor Canadese organisaties voor sociale verandering. Dit project dat geen winstoogmerk heeft, beheert ook een uitgebreide gids van Canadese en niet-Canadese verenigingen en niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
Connexipedia
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First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Connexions ist die Zentrale Online Bücherei und Archiv für Kanada#s Bewegung für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
The necessary revolution
Working together to create a sustainable world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Originally published in 2008 as: The necessary revolution: how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
Sources (portal for journalister og skribenter)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Sources er en informationsportal for journalister, freelance skribenter, redaktorer, forfattere og forskere som især fokuserer på menneskelige kilder: eksperter og talsmænd som er parate til at svare på journalisters sporgsmål eller som er disponible til live interviews.
Sources (portal para jornalistas e escritores)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Arabic text
Connexipedia
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First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Farsi text
Connexipedia
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First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Connexions - Services de partage d'information Connexions - Wikipedia Article - French text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Connexions -- dont le nom complet est Services de partage d'information Connexions [Connexions Information Sharing Services] -- est la bibliothèque et l'archive en ligne centrale pour les mouvements canadiens partisans du changement social. Le projet à but non lucratif entretient également un vaste répertoire d'associations canadiennes et d'organisations non gouvernementales.
Connexions Serviços de Compartilhamento de Informaçoes - Wikipedia Article - Portuguese text
Connexipedia
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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
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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.
Resistance
One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
The memoiir of a French resistance fighter and museum worker who chronicles the undergroud network of resistance in Paris during the occupation. She then chronicles her imprisonment and the slave labour she endured in Germany. The final section of her memoir recounts her release by the Americans and the time she spent helping them hunt Nazis after the war.
Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Por que fazer um alarido sobre o assassinato de uma garota muçulmana morena?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
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First Published: 2008
Pourquoi faire toute une histoire à propos du meurtre d'une musulmane à peau mate?
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First Published: 2008
L#Histoire donne de nombreux exemples de mouvements sociaux qui avec le temps adoptent des positions directement opposées aux principes sur lesquels ils ont été fondés.
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
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First Published: 2008
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
'The movement is ours!': Lesbian activist critique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We have recently claimed a right to reciprocity in the support of our struggles, but how many in the Queer rights movement have actively worked for the liberation of those groups whose endorsement we demand?
What Is a Liberal to Do?
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First Published: 2008
Seventy percent of African-American voters in California voted for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. Liberals, however, say that opposing same-sex marriage is a form of bigotry no better than the racism of those who wanted inter-racial marriage to be illegal and Jim Crow laws to remain. How, liberals wonder, can African-Americans--the victims of racism-- switch from being champions of equality to champions of bigotry? It is a true paradox. Liberals, by definition, support the victims of racism. But how can they do that when those very same victims are bigoted against gays? Oh dear! What is a liberal to do?
Agrarian-Industrial Revolt
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Reformers and radicals in the post-reconstruction South faced a daunting set of circumstances. Many of these are well known: In the former confederacy, Black laborers were eventually shut out of the electoral process via disfranchisement, terrorized by legislation, a lien system not dissimilar to slavery, and rampant violence. The convict-lease system put the state, via farmers' prisoners (largely Black men), in conflict with free labor that might be organized. Prospects for organizing biracial resistance were slim as the color line was diligently policed by force and ideology.
Arab Sexualities
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The issue of same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and other rightists who were hostile for decades to the lesbian/gay movement have repackaged themselves as defenders of oppressed Arab women and gays. Responses from the left have been divided.
Bill Banta, 1941-2008
Against The Current vol. 137
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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.
B.J. Widick and the UAW
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Bolivia After the Referendum
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The month following Bolivia's recall referendum on August 10, 2008 tragically confirmed the class polarization of that country. The right-wing autonomists of the Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, Tarija and Sucre departments (states or provinces) escalated their destabilization campaign against the Morales government, while the latter singularly failed to assert its rightful democratic control over all Bolivian territory. A small, racist and virulently right-wing minority has been able to shut down large parts of the country and spill indigenous peasant blood with impunity.
The Crisis Beneath the Bailout
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In early September, 2008 the Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy in August had lost another 84,000 jobs. This was followed on October 2 with an announcement that officially recorded September job losses accelerated to 159,000. That made nine consecutive months of increasing unemployment, adding up to well over one million jobs lost over the past year.
Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing!
Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
France: A Sea Change on the Left
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In contrast with the United States, where the political arena has been dominated by two entrenched parties for a century, France has gone through major changes since the end of World War II. Back then, workers' demands were mostly put forward by the French Communist Party (PCF) which had over 30% of the vote, and the fear of a revolution forced the ruling class to concede to demands such as universal healthcare (called Sécurité sociale).
Honoring Mahmoud Darwish
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Mahmoud Darwish lived through every major event in recent Palestinian history, and his experiences and his art made him a hero to his people and a companion of every Palestinian. Beloved and revered, he will continue to move every generation of Palestinians. As Nathalie Handal put it, "no other poet captures the Palestinian consciousness and collective memory the way he does… His work speaks of his internal exile and uprootedness, his meditations on his historical, collective, and personal past."
Labor's Disaster at American Axle
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The 87-day strike earlier this year at American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) ended in a rout that has devastating implications for the organized U.S. labor movement. Begun on a snowy morning early February 26, the strike ended on May 22, a late spring day just before the Memorial Day weekend.
Mexico at War
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Mexico is at war. The drug war has become all the news this fall: Real war. Bloody war. With bombings, massacres and body counts.
Patricia Isasa's Quest for Justice
Against The Current vol. 137
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Patricia Isasa turned 16 on April 24, 1976 in her home town of Santa Fe, Argentina. She was an honor student, a delegate of her school and a member of a Catholic group in support of the poor - all completely open and legal activities.
Raymond Williams, and Why Culture Matters
Against The Current vol. 137
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First Published: 2008
This year sees the 20th anniversary of the death of Raymond Williams, one of the towering socialist thinkers of the 20th century. A superb biography of him, Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Life, has just been published by Dai Smith, who ranks among the finest scholars of Welsh culture and history of our time. Smith charts Williams's passage from the Welsh border country, where his father was a railway signalman, to Cambridge and then into adult education, a vocation he chose for political motives along with his New Left colleagues Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson.
The Realities of China Today
Against The Current vol. 137
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First Published: 2008
Interest in the post-1978 Chinese market reform experience remains high and for an obvious reason: China is widely considered to be one of the most successful developing countries in modern times. The Chinese economy has recorded record rates of growth over an extended time period, in concert with a massive industrial transformation. Adding to the interest is the Chinese government's claim that this success demonstrates both the workability and superiority of "market socialism."
Visualizing Justice for Labor
Against The Current vol. 137
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What's the Matter with the System?
Against The Current vol. 137
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Whose Wipeout? Whose Bailout?
Against The Current vol. 137
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First Published: 2008
Is this what 1931 looks like? Years ago, we recall, two themes for popular cinema were people trapped in burning skyscrapers ("Towering Inferno") and market sharks engaged in financial manipulations ("Wall Street"). After September 11, 2001 the former disaster movie genre suddenly seemed much less fun, and we suspect that after September 2008 the spectacle of stock market crashes on the big screen may not be so entertaining either.
It's Fantasy Economy!
Some Expert Views on What Should Happen Next
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First Published: 2008
What happens next should be up to the public. It's striking to note that this is not even an option here.
Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
The God That Failed
The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult
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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.
Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
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First Published: 2008
Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
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First Published: 2008
However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain#s #leftwing# media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the #character# of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking # when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
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First Published: 2008
Keeping the media safe for big business.
The Biggest 'October Surprise' Of All: A World Capitalist Crash
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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.
A Biological Walk Down Wall Street
Economics, Symbiosis and Parasitoids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Wall Street today, with the collapse of Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, AIG, Lehmann Brothers, Washington Mutual and the rest as to come, is highly reminiscent of that scene in #Alien# where the parasite begins to burst out. The host is the free market. Feeding the parasitoid more, in sense of allowing it to nourish on public funds as new host, will have the same denouement, only this time the host will not just be a particular market, but the whole market, and the society reliant upon it.
"Just Say No!" to the Robin Hood-in-Reverse Bailout
And What to Do Instead
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First Published: 2008
The reverse Robin Hood deal to bail out the rich cannot be allowed to stand. It's time to take to the streets.
The Whole World Stopped Watching
"Diversity of Tactics", Repression, and the RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota (Part I)
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First Published: 2008
I must engage those of my activist friends who believe in the "Diversity of Tactics" framework, the now established modus operandi of summit and convention protests. I have come to believe a sorry record of repeated protest failures must be laid squarely at the foot of this ideologically tainted utopia.
The OIC does not speak for Muslims
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First Published: 2008
Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
What We Mean By Social Determinants of Health
International Journal of Health Services, Volume 39, Number 3, Pages 423-441
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First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Analyzes the changes in health conditions and quality of life in the populations of developed and developing countries over the past 30 years, resulting from neoliberal policies developed by many governments and promoted by international agencies. Critiquing a WHO report on social determinants of health, Navarro argues that it is not inequalities that kill people; it is those who are responsible for these inequalities that kill people.
The Evil of the Lesser Evil
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First Published: 2008
Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
An Agenda for Change
The Right to the Freedom of Expression in Nepal
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First Published: 2008
Publication on the Agenda for Change: The Right to Freedom of Expression in Nepal.
B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
Against The Current vol. 136
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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.
Democracy Against Politics
Against The Current vol. 136
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“¡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.
The Elephant in the Room
Against The Current vol. 136
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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.)
The God Question
Against The Current vol. 136
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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.
Humanitarian Imperialism
The New Doctrine of Imperial Right
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First Published: 2008
Chomsky considers "humanitarian intervention" and "the responsibility to protect" as new norms in international affairs by examining the institutional structures which produced the policies responsible for such developments.
The Legacy of 1968
Against The Current vol. 136
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In 1989, the world systems theorists Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein wrote the following five short sentences: “There have only been two world revolutions. One took place in 1848. The second took place in 1968. Both were historical failures. Both transformed the world.”
The New Chinese Nationalism
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
Corporate globalization has been remarkably successful in driving down wages and the welfare of working people across the world. Resistance to this is necessary and inevitable, hence the birth of the anti-globalization movement. The movement is vastly heterogeneous, but internationalist aspirations are strongly visible.
No Outside Saviors!
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
Against The Current spoke with Gwendolyn M. Patton as part of our retrospective on the events of 1968 and the surrounding years.
Obama and the Empire
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
As Barack Obama’s campaign shifted focus to battle John McCain following his victory over Hillary Clinton, various observers began to suggest that Obama had begun to “move to the center” in order to get elected. Supporters explained that shift as a necessary pragmatic step; others, airing varied degrees of disappointment, went so far as to suggest that he had somehow “lurched to the right.”
On May '68
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
Interview with Michael Löwy. Michael Löwy is the author of numerous works on socialist thought from Marx to the present as well as on liberation theology in Latin America.
Rev. Edward Pinkney Imprisoned
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
The corruption and deceitfulness continues in the Berrien County, Michigan courthouse. My husband, Reverend Edward Pinkney, leader of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) was convicted in March 2007 by an all-white jury motivated by something other than the truth. He has now been thrown in prison for writing an article about the case and the injustices in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
The Russian-Georgian Clash
Against The Current vol. 136
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Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny.
The Russian Revolution in Retreat
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
The relationship between “Leninism” and Stalinism has been a highly controversial topic between the political left and right as well as within the left itself. The “totalitarian” school of thought, historically associated with the political right and with many liberals, has held that there are no qualitative differences between the two regimes and that the main source of Stalinism was the Bolshevik ideology and politics that existed before the October Revolution.
Victor Serge: For Our Time
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
Voices of Asian Americans
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
Asian Americas: The Movement and the Moment is an anthology of some 30 entries written by Asian Americans who initiated or participated in social and community movements in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is about how they perceived the world, how they became involved in the movements, what they think they accomplished and learned through their involvement, and how their experiences and lessons shaped their own lives and can be linked to present-day struggles for social justice.
War(s) With No Exit
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
When Human Beings Are Illegal
Against The Current vol. 136
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First Published: 2008
Once the government assumes the task of separating citizens from "impossible subjects," historian Mae Ngai points out, "the border" is everywhere, not just between countries. Thus, the border has come to the Midwest. In the two years since the immigrant rights marches of spring 2006, there have been federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids of workplaces, especially meatpacking plants, in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
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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.
The Global Battle Against Noise Pollution
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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.
Gaza's Shocking Devastation
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First Published: 2008
A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
Inclusao ou Exclusao?
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First Published: 2008
Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as #comunidades étnicas# nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
Inclusión o exclusion?
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First Published: 2008
Inclusion or exclusion
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First Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
Inclusion or Exclusion - Arabic text
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Inclusion or Exclusion - Chinese Text
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Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
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First Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
Inclusion or Exclusion - Japanese text
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Inclusione o Esclusione?
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Integracja czy wykluczenie?
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Integration oder Ausgrenzung?
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Intégration ou Marginalisation?
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Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
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First Published: 2008
A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
Free speech for me - you shut up
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First Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007
Against The Current vol. 135
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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.
Bolivia's Autonomist Right -- A Dangerous Threat
Against The Current vol. 135
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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.
Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
Against The Current vol. 135
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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.
Elissa Karg Chacker, 1951-2008
Against The Current vol. 135
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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.
Empire, Religion and Liberation
Against The Current vol. 135
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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.
Globalization and Feminism
Against The Current vol. 135
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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.”
History on the Printed Page
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
A small volume could be produced listing the books dealing with the times I have written about here. I will offer only a couple dozen.
The Housing Mess
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
Despite recent CNBC and MSNBC media hosts suggesting we may be at the ‘bottom’ of the housing market crisis, and Market Watch June 3rd commentary headlines like “Housing market may turn more quickly than you expect,” statistics continue to say otherwise, in sobering fashion.
Indianapolis' Extortion Dome
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
The Indianapolis Colts’ new Lucas Oil Dome portends to be exorbitant for the taxpayers of Marion County, where Indianapolis is situated. But the cost is genteelly hidden, so the taxpayers are liable to overlook what this new Dome is going to cost them. This is the new Dome the Colts’ owning Irsay family insisted had to be built for them by public funds, or else they’d leave as they formerly abandoned Baltimore.
Killer Coke Exposed
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
Labor on the Ropes
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody focuses on why the organized labor movement went into decline and points to potential signs of revival. The author’s explanation begins with the worsening economic situation in the 1970s and a harsher anti-union climate, both politically and in the workplace, as “business refined its ability to act as a class.”
Loosing Another Round
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
The strike at American Axle, which we reported on in ATC 134, ended when workers voted to go back under a concessionary agreement. The 25% who voted no didn’t feel they were close to winning but they said they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror if they voted yes. Yet the strike idled nearly three dozen assembly plants and put enormous pressure on GM. The UAW did not develop a longterm relationship with the union at the AAM plant in Mexico. All during the strike that plant produced 6,000 axles a day, thus enabling GM to keep some production going.
Mistaken Identity
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First Published: 2008
Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
A New Phase of Economic Crisis
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
In early AprilL 2008 the general consensus was that the U.S. economy had clearly fallen into recession. A long list of key economic indicators from November 2007 through March 2008 were all flashing red — from retail sales, job loss, business and consumer confidence and spending to industrial production and other prime indicators.
Opa Nobody
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
In Opa Nobody, Sonya Huber — an activist struggling to reconcile her politics with the demands of human relationships and the realities of contemporary U.S. life — undertakes an ambitious task: the political nonfiction novel.
Public Universities in Peril
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
It's hare to imagine that only a year ago the privatization of a public university would emerge as a major political issue in Bloomington, Indiana. That is not to say the topic took the community by surprise. As early as 1994, the Indiana University’s Board of Trustees formed various tasks forces to evaluate the university’s potential for privatization.
Racism and Structural Solutions
Against The Current vol. 135
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First Published: 2008
When Barack Obama raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” “inner-city,” “street crime,” “states’ rights” and so on. We all welcomed a shift away from such discourse. By dealing a bit more squarely with the issue, the speech had the potential to ignite a national debate that could grapple with the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years,” as Obama put it.
Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 135
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I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
Why both sides are wrong in the race debate
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For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
Law and the wives of others
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First Published: 2008
How does a modern, plural democratic society deal with the desire of some minority groups to observe cultural norms at odds with the law of the land?
This Land Is Their Land
Reports from a Divided Nation
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First Published: 2008
A look at the effects of corporate Americ on the general populace, pointing out the tactic of side-tracking those who would protest onto more superficial issues.
The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
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First Published: 2008
Building socialism is the only alternative to barbarism.
Facebook Facts
Finding Friends and Foes
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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?
Two Years Later in Oaxaca
Commentary from Oaxaca
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First Published: 2008
A sketch of what has changed since the brutal repression of the 2006 social movement’s five month control of the city of Oaxaca.
Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
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First Published: 2008
Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
Edward Said's shadowy legacy
Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
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First Published: 2008
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
Gaza: Health System in Collapse
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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.
Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
Against The Current vol. 134
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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.
Coming Home to the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 134
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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.
Detroit Politics Embroiled
Against The Current vol. 134
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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.
Everything's on the Line at AAM
Against The Current vol. 134
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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.
Gaza, The World's Largest Outdoor Prison
Against The Current vol. 134
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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.
Global Crisis and Opportunity
Against The Current vol. 134
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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.
Machismo and Its Discontents
Against The Current vol. 134
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The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
Against The Current vol. 134
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Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
Notes from a Revolution Dying
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
A Parable of Women's Liberation
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
Interview with Meredith Tax.
The Power of Women United
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
Interview with Kipp Dawson.
Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in several crucial yet previously neglected ways. What’s most valuable about the book is her attempt to encompass such subjects as race, labor radicalism, Black religion and the civil rights movement all in one narrative.
A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
Report from Winter Soldier
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
On Friday, Day 2, testimony began at 9 AM with a panel about the "Rules of Engagement". Speakers from the Army and Marine Corps recounted the atrocities that they not only witnessed but participated in. The stories they were telling about the rules of engagement they learned while training at boot camp, or on a military base "back home," were the same as what I had heard from my son. I broke down sobbing. The photographs they were showing on the five viewing screens of bloodied bodies torn apart by close gunfire, 50-calibre Machine guns, rocket launchers, and every other damn weapon our great military industrial complex has created, were all too familiar to me.
Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
The groundswell of broad support for Barack Obama (both among Blacks and whites) is a phenomenon that deserves a serious analysis and understanding. It cannot be down played by passing it through the lens of pure-and-simple lesser-evilism.
The Survival of Education
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
I remember reading Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politically sharp but also deeply humanizing way in which Kozol documented how institutional racism and class inequality shape the experiences of students in American schools, a reality that all of us who have been educated in this country have experienced first-hand in one way or another.
Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
Winter Soldier 2008
Against The Current vol. 134
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First Published: 2008
More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary
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First Published: 2008
We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
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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.
Profit motives behind sexualization of 'tween girls
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First Published: 2008
The sexualization of 'tween girls - those between the ages of 8 and 12 -- in pop culture and advertising is a growing problem fueled by marketers' efforts to create cradle-to-grave consumers.
Remembering Jim Campbell
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First Published: 2008
Canadian anarchist.
Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
An Exchange With The BBC#s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
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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.
A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
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First Published: 2008
Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
The Lion and the Gazelle
On Jewish History
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First Published: 2008
If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
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First Published: 2008
An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
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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.
Michel Foucault: friend or foe of the left
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First Published: 2008
Examines why a man who was a technocrat working for the state came to appeal to people both on the left and the right of the political spectrum.
Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
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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.
If I Can't Dance ....
Why is the Left So Boring?
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First Published: 2008
Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
Merkel in the Knesset
Israel, Israel Above Everything!
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First Published: 2008
We are still confronted with the phenomenon that critics of the Jewish State are labeled as anti-Semites or as self-hating Jews, respectively.
Of National Lies and Racial America
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
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First Published: 2008
To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
Israeli Deaths Matter More
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First Published: 2008
The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC#s claims to #impartial# reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the #Third World# are presented as being of far less importance than those who are #like us#.
After Pakistan's Election
Against The Current vol. 133
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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.
Becoming a Revolutionary
Against The Current vol. 133
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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?
Can Soldiers Resist?
Against The Current vol. 133
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First Published: 2008
Interviews with Tod Ensign and Phil Aliff.
Confronting the -isms
Against The Current vol. 133
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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.
Congo's War, Women's Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Which current war has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
Domestic Work and Rights in China
Against The Current vol. 133
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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.
Forty Years of Defying the Odds
Against The Current vol. 133
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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.
Funding Revolutions?
Against The Current vol. 133
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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?”
Globalization in the Academy
Against The Current vol. 133
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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.
Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents
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First Published: 2008
Advice and technical tips for the best way to launch a blog and how to get round online censorship. It includes an explanation of how to blog anonymously and contains articles by bloggers, particularly in Egypt and Burma.
Hitting the Maternal Wall
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The “Maternal Wall” is not a new method of contraception, and it’s not the look mom gives when the kids miss curfew. In this slim and accessible book The Motherhood Manifesto, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner update the two-dimensional “glass ceiling” to describe the maternal wall as “employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children.”
"Intersectionality" in Real Life
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Interview with Loretta Ross. Loretta Ross is National Coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network of 80 organizations.
Kenya's Opposition Party
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
That the elections in Kenya were rigged is no longer in question. And for most people that the culprit is the sitting president, sworn in so quickly that the ceremony has been jokingly likened to a lightning wedding, is no longer a question.
Kicking Ass for the Working Class
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
There it was, staring at me from the AFL-CIO’s very own blog: a black sign with bold red letters saying “KICKING ASS FOR THE WORKING CLASS,” signed AFL-CIO. Surely they meant to say “working for,” or in SEIU-speak “uniting” “working families” or “working people” or some other euphemisms for struggle and class. Had the decline and split of organized labor pushed our otherwise moderate business union leaders to new extremes?
Looking Back -- and Ahead
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
My 1968 in the Heartland
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
“Ezekiel's brother got arrested. He’s a Communist!”
My Year of Transition
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
On Hunger and Capitalism
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
On September 11, 2001, approximately 35,000 of our brothers and sisters died from what is perhaps the worst possible cause of death — starvation. A decade after the 1996 World Food Summit set the goal of cutting the rate of hunger in the world by half, today approximately 854 million people are still starving, which is a great increase in comparison to the 842 million in the year 2000.
Racism and Responsibility
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Malik Miah writes in Against the Current 131, “[Orlando] Patterson, and others in Black academia and middle-class civil rights organizations, are right to point to internal problems within the Black community. But the ‘take personal responsibility’ critique targets only a secondary factor. It has little to do with addressing racist attitudes still prevalent among many whites, even as a large majority of whites and society oppose blatant racial discrimination.”
A Rejoinder to Joel Kovel
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Joel Kovel is to be congratulated on the successful struggle to overturn the outrageous University of Michigan Press decision to halt distribution of Overcoming Zionism. To whatever extent the controversy has boosted the book’s sales and stimulated discussion of the issues it raised, so much the better.
Response to George Fish
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
George Fish raises an important point about the “taking personal responsibility” debate taking place within the Black community, especially at the academic and leadership level. But his criticism of my argument that it is a “secondary factor” to prevalent institutional racism is way off.
A Time for Learning
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I don't recall being aware of the events in France in May-June 1968. I was in college, beginning to get radicalized on several fronts, notably the war. Something called the “Free University” was started in Washington, D.C., and I signed up for a class on communes. I remember well a presentation that spring, in which the speaker kept referring to “the Establishment.”
Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The close primary election inside the Democratic Party between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shows that every vote counts. The fiasco in the 2000 presidential election because of “hanging chads” also proves that every vote “not counted” does matter. And voter suppression under any circumstances — not just when elections are close — is a crime, a violation of basic rights and an attack on democracy.
A War Plan Scuttled?
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
As the Bush era draws to a close, there been increasing speculation on whether or not the United States will attack Iran. Spurred by the posturing and rhetoric coming from the White House and a subservient media, much of that discussion has narrowly focused on Iran potential nuclear threat and the character of the current administrations in Washington and Tehran.
Women Stand Up, Fight Back
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
What would it mean to truly end gender-and-race-based violence? How can radicals acknowledge the totalizing violence of white supremacy while also accounting for the very diverse, and sometimes conflicting, experiences and survival strategies of Arab, Asian, Native, Latina and Black women?
A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
As a 35-year veteran of union activity in America, I can personally attest that Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (OCAW) was a rare bird, perhaps the last of his kind.
The Year of Awakening
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
There are good people on either side of the same-sex marriage debate. Unfortunately, however, it has been one of the most divisive issues in society. Opponents of same-sex marriage perceive the other side as part of a cabal of gay activists and social-engineering judges and politicians, intent on making a mockery of important social values. Proponents of same-sex marriage often perceive the other side as "homophobic" bigots or religious fundamentalists who want to deprive gay or lesbian couples of a right enjoyed by others because they hate homosexuals. The debate over same-sex marriage has divided people who share common values and beliefs on many fundamental questions--war and peace, economic security, democracy versus the increasingly anti-democratic and repressive nature of American society. This divisive debate cripples the ability of ordinary Americans to unite around the things that we agree on.
The Most Wanted List, International Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Revealing the difference between America's use of the term "the world" and the conception which would actually include the entire globe, Chomsky demonstrates that if the "world's" voice were heeded, other terrorist concerns would likely top the agenda.
Criticism not disloyal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis # in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis# well-being.
The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The West's entire approach to Kosovo has been marked by sordid dishonesty and bad faith, supporting national self-determination and the right to secession in one place and territorial integrity in another, cheering on ethnic cleansing by one ethnic group and demanding war crimes trials for another, trumpeting the virtues of majority rule when it's convenient to do so and threatening to impose sanctions and penalties on majorities when that's convenient. For the Americans, Kosovo is nothing more than the hinterland of a giant military base.
The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
'Creative Destruction' - The Madness of the Global Economy - Part 2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s.
Creative Destruction: The Madness of the Global Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The current system of economics, particularly the latest stage of #turbo-capitalism#, known inoffensively as #neoliberalism#, is built upon painful boom-and-bust cycles fuelled by corporate greed and maintained by cynical deception of the public. The costs to the planet # in terms of human suffering and environmental collapse # are staggering.
People#s struggles in Latin Asia # I # Philippines, colonial protests during the Spanish era
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Philippines was the first country in Asia to be liberated from colonial power. The first anti-colonial revolt against Spanish rule occurred from 1896 to 1898.
The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
Leader and Vassal
Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
Revolution of the Snails
Encounters with the Zapatistas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Give the Zapatistas time -- the slow, unfolding time of the spiral and the journey of the snail -- to keep making their world, the one that illuminates what else our lives and societies could be. Our revolution must be as different as our temperate-zone, post-industrial society is to their subtropical agrarianism, but also guided by the slow forces of dignity, imagination, and hope, as well as the playfulness they display in their imagery and language.
Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
Access Denied
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
Adding Insult to Injury
Debating Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
This volume collects the responses of leading American social theorists to issues dealing with the rise of identity politics. Nancy Fraser#s widely-cited work looks at ways to combine multiculturalism with a commitment to egalitarianism.
All options on the table?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky responds to the 2008 meetings of world powers which addressed the topic of nuclear proliferation. He highlights the numerous ways in which these talks failed to live up to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Anti-Semitism and Socialism
A Reply to Gorelick
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Appreciating Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. passed away on April 11, 2007, from a head injury sustained from a recent fall. Despite his best efforts to do away with himself by smoking heavily for many years, cigarettes, he had joked, were unable to do the job they promised. “If the washing don’t get you, the rinsing will” as the blues song says. So it goes.
Behind the Dirty Cleansing of New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Commentaries on the viciousness of Congressman Richard Baker’s (R-LA) oft-cited comment that “we couldn’t get rid of public housing, but God did” often miss the fact that it is, in many ways, an accurate assessment of the intentions of U.S. public housing policy.
Beyond Homelessness
Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Beyond Homelessness looks at the socioeconomic, ecological and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. Going further than seeing housing as being bricks and mortar the authors see it as a search for belonging, identity and security. They argue that if we see the world as holy instead of earth as home and we understand the Gospels, faith will heal the disharmony in which we have mired ourselves.
Beyond the Hoax
Science, Philosphy and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Exposes the faulty thinking and outright nonsence of the postmodernist critique of science, which asserts that facts, truth, evidence, even reality itself are all merely social constructs.
The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A look at the darker side of Canada's foreign policy record.
The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Burma: Ripe for change
New Internationalist May 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
Bush's bankrupt vision
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Looking at the stops during Bush's visit to the Middle East, Chomsky offers an explanation of the ambitions Bush aimed to establish as his legacy; namely, good relations with those regions rich in resources, especially Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Bottomfeeder
How the Fish on Our Plates is Killing the Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Can a Democrat change US Middle East policy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In response to the Bush Administration's open disregard for public opinion polls, Chomsky considers the likeliness of a Democrat taking a new stance on the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He asserts that the possibility is somewhat greater - even if only marginally.
Canada's 1960s
The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement.
Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right."
Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - English text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Connexions (full name Connexions Information Sharing Services) is the central online library and archive for Canada's movements for social change. The non-profit project also maintains a comprehensive directory of Canadian associations and NGOs.
Conquest
How Societies Overwhelm Others
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Tells the gripping history of conquest, illuminating the ways in which invaders have justified their conquests, highlighting a bloody and often prolonged process that can last centuries. He argues that while each individual conquest in ultimately unique, they nevertheless often share a number of qualities.
Costos y riesgos socializados vs. Ganancias privatizadas
La crisis en los Estados Unidos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Crossing Hitler
The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Explores the first full-length biography of Litten, the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933.
The Death of Retirement?
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us, Robin Blackburn’s followup masterpiece to Banking on Death (2002), is another sobering and insightful examination of retirement security. In Age Shock, Blackburn delves into the realities of an ageing demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
Decolonization and Empire
Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said#s Orientalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A methodical deconstruction of Edward Said's Orientalism.
Defiant Publics
The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Drache says that the new communications technologies of the contemporary information revolution are permitting new forms of transnational communication that are creating global consciousness and global citizenship.
Devastating Crisis Unfolds
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Contains over 8500 entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation. Embraces a broad spectrum of environmental areas including sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, environmental ethics, philosophy, and history, resource management, sociology, and policy on the environment.
Dirty Wars
Britain#s Collusion with Radical Islam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Historian Mark Curtis, presents the history of the British government's sponsorship of radical Islamic terrorism, from Iran, Afghanistan and Libya to the July 7 bombings.
The Dismal Science
How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Doubt is their Product
How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitious tactics spawned a multimillion-dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be restored by taking the politics out of science and ensuring that concern for public safety, rather than private profits, guides our regulatory policy.
Dropping the bomb: How to ban nukes and save the planet
New Internationalist June 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
A look at nuclear weapons and their transportation in Britain.
Dubai Labor Fighting Back Vs. Indentured Globalization
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
October, 2007 saw the government of the United Arab Emirates halfway through a “humane” immigration amnesty which, in turn, paved the way for a clampdown on labor. In November a huge strike wave erupted, culminating in pitched battles between militant laborers and Dubai police.
Economics for Everyone
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Edible Action
Food Activism and Alternative Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
The Election, Economy, War, and Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky points out that the Democratic triumph in the 2008 election was indeed historic, but also relatively slight. He explores the factors that played a role in preventing a landslide victory for President Obama.
The First Legal Russian Strike in a Decade
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The almsot month-long strike at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk assembly plant, a small plant near St. Petersburg, ended December 16 with an agreement that negotiations would resume. The strike began on November 17, 2007, after four months of talks failed to produce any result. In fact, Ford management had initially refused to hold negotiations “during or under the threat of strike.”
The Global Gang Thang
A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A history of the sanitation worker strike in Memphis.
"Good News," Iraq and Beyond
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky explores why the issue of Iraq seems to have fallen to the wayside following the 2006 mid-term election. He cites the necessity for diversion of the masses away from (lacking) political options to PR-created "character" and "good news". But he insists that the question of "the clash of civilizations" must indeed remain prominent in the minds of voters.
Great Game II
From Tallinn to Seoul and Tokyo, by Way of Kiev, the Declining American Superpower Lashes Out on the Borders of Russia and China
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The US is playing the Great Game II from Estonia to Korea as a strategy to keep the Eurasian powers off balance and to preserve the ever-growing mass of nomad dollars from deflation and displacement.
Great Peacemakers
True Stories from Around the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Profiles 20 world's most effective activists in this five-part book. Each part highlights different types of peacemakers. Part One recognizes activists who stand out for their efforts of choosing non-violence for change. Part Two covers those who spent their lives living peace. Part Three showcases people who have made their life’s work honouring diversity. Part Four highlights those who value all life. Part Five deals with those who have dedicated their lives to the health of the planet.
Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World
True Stories from Around the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Guantanamo North
Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
HAMAS Under the Spotlight
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In a seemingly dramatic move in mid-2004, Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement which hitherto refused to participate in the Palestinian political system, expressed its willingness to be a part of that system.
The 'Honor' Killing of Aqsa Parvez
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Feminists and reformist left have for the most part met the spate of 'honour' killings within Canada with disgraceful silence.
Human Rights: in a time of terror
New Internationalist January/February 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
A look at human rights in various countries including women's and sex rights.
Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
Identity is that which is given
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
If I Am Not For Myself
Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
In a journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Inhuman Bondage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Looks at slavery in the American South, desribing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more.
It makes economic sense to kill people
Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
It's the Oil, stupid!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Noam Chomsky questions why the USA is in Iraq. He determines that the suspicion of oil-induced motivation is indeed an understatement.
Jealousy, Friendship, and Bisexual Chopped Liver
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
According to this theory, bisexuals could never, ever have any friends at all. We couldn#t be friends with gay men, straight men, straight women, lesbians. And we definitely couldn#t be friends with other bisexuals. According to this theory, the fact that we#re attracted to both women and men makes us ineligible to be friends with anybody, of any gender, ever.
The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Lenin Rediscovered
What is to Be Done? in Context
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Letters from the Edge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A powerful collection in which women home in on nuances of life in far-flung countries.
The Liberal Defence of Murder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A searching examination of the influence of the #pro-war Left# on US foreign policy.
La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Myths of Cultural Dysfunction
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
This is another “blame the victim” book faulting Latino immigrants for not being as prosperous as other ethnic and racial groups, such as the Asians, in the United States. According to the author, the cause is Latino culture, particularly its “counterproductive” values such as living for the moment, valuing and having large families, and, most important of all, resisting and not wanting to learn English.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Political and moral analysis of the causes and contexts of terrorism the world over.
The No-Nonsense Guide to The United Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Conveys the complexity of the UN, assesses its record, and considers options for reform.
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A world tour of food—from industrialized production and consumption to community food security.
Noam Chomsky on 1968
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky explores the milestones achieved in this monumental year, including human and ethnic rights, global solidarity, environmental concern, etc. Despite simultaneously tragic realities of 1968, the results have been long-lasting and positive.
Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation#technically and socially#for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.
Obama and "I Have a Dream" in 2008
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
As we enter the 2008 presidential election, it is noteworthy that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is still a serious contender for the Democratic Party nomination. I say “noteworthy” because his campaign has been marked throughout with ambivalence among many African Americans.
On Kindness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Ossetia-Russia-Georgia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky points out the hypocrisy of threatening Russia with exclusion from international society due to the violation of the international principle of respecting other nations' sovereignty. He further explores how to integrate and handle Russia in the context of the modern world order and the threat of a Cold War II.
Our History Recovered
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
For thirty-six years since its apogee in the late 1960s during the worldwide movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam, the global Left, including the Left in the United States, has been in decline. Globally, perhaps the most significant causal factor accelerating decline at the beginning of the 1990s was the collapse of the Soviet Union as a perceived alternative to dominant capitalist economic and governmental modes.
Paradise Lost at Sea
Rethinking Cruise Vacations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Klein's book looks at the hidden realities of cruise ships. The cruise lines prefers to keep some of the ugly truths from media scrutiny: cruise ship safety, sexual assaults, onboard crime and injury and death from accidents at sea. He also questions their claims of environmental protection and its impact on local communities to protect their marine nature. Further exposed are the health risks and medical care and the dark side of life below deck. He concludes by summarizing the issues and challenges that must be faced by all who use curise ships.
Participatory Democracy
Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Twenty or more arguments for participatory democracy written contributors including Goerge Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Gerry Hunnius, Colin Ward, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Don Calhoun.
Peace
A History of Movements and Ideas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Cortright shows that it is possible to prevent the scourge of war and create a more just and peaceful future, if we are prepared to learn the lessons of history and apply proven peacemaking knowledge.
Peace Beyond Annapolis
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
What are the prospects for progress toward Israeli-Palestinian and regional peace coming out of the one-day conference called by president George W. Bush? One leading Arab-American organization offering a positive vision “hopes to see a just, comprehensive and lasting peace result out of the initial Middle East peace discussions taking place in Annapolis, Maryland.”
People First Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty. How can we rein in these beasts unleashed by the free market economy?
Plowshares into Swords
From Zionism to Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.
Porn can be good for you
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
While pornography can be dehumanising and exploitative, it can also be educative, liberating, empowering, fulfilling and immensely socially beneficial. It all depends on how it is made, who makes it, what it depicts and why it is being used.
Puerto Rico, The Oldest U.S. Colony
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
When I was a high school senior, my history teacher promised the class that the Americans “would land” in Puerto Rico by the New Year. What he meant to tell us was that, different from most Puerto Rican history courses, our class would spend considerable time studying more recent historical events, and therefore the most controversial period of Puerto Rican history — the American Century. He kept his promise and many of us, including me, left the class with a deep sense of uneasiness against Puerto Rico’s colonial condition under the United States.
Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
Palestine Activism Handbook Module
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Glenn Loury argues that the extraordinary mass incarceration rate in the USA is not a response to rising crime rates. Instead, it is the product of a decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies.
Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2008
Reading Orientalism
Said and the unsaid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An extensive discussion of Edward Said's influential 1978 polemic 'Orientalism'. Varisco mounts a sustained critique on Said's flawed methodology, his skewed and selective handling of literary evidence, his inadequate historical knowledge, and his distorted and tendentious conclusions.
Real Utopia
Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
Reasoning Otherwise
Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada 1890 - 1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920, and highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
Recovering Forgotten Voices
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A lover of American literature will come away from reading Alan Wald’s Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade excited about the prospect of investigating a long list of currently unheralded writers who collectively constitute a voice that deserves to be recognized as major.
A Reply on Overcoming Zionism
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
David Finkel and I see eye to eye on most basics where Israel is concerned, and he is generous in praising my recently published Overcoming Zionism. For years I have known him to be a stalwart anti-Zionist and one of the best-informed people on the socialist left concerning this most vexing and intractable of conflicts.
The Returns of Zionism
Myths, Politics and Scholarship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.
Review: Riding the Bus to Freedom
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The 1961 Freedom Rides challenged a racially segregated society by openly defying its customs, riding in interracial groups on interstate buses going South and desegregating the stations’ facilities. Asserting their constitutional right to travel, participants employed direct action in the face of intimidation, violence and police complicity with the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens’ Councils.
Rhetoric for Radicals
A Handbook for Twenty-first Century Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Activists often suffer from a credibility gap because of their lack of coherent message and strategic delivery. Rhetoric for Radicals addresses and helps solve these problems. It provides the tools to develop the all-important communication skills necessary to be effectively heard.
School Zone
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Humourous video that explores the benefits and protection the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has gained for members through advocacy and collective bargaining.
The Seventh Decade
The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
The Seventh Decade reveals many things. Amongst them is the history of global nuclear politics and the Bush government's policies that endanger the security of Americans and the world. Schell asserts that the Bush/ Cheney administration has forsaken traditional diplomacy and treaties that restrain nuclear proliferation preferring a first-strike military option. In so doing they have attacked Iraq using the excuse that they had WMD's, and have threatened North Korea and Iran with no results-North Korea now has the bomb and Iran is on the way. The administration has also encouraged the development of new generations of such weapons. He contends that the policies of the American government has intensified the trafficking of nuclear weapons which pose a renewed threat to humanity.
6 Floors to Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
On the outskirts of Tel Aviv, in an underground world, live hundreds of Palestinian workers sleep in this hell in order to find a day's work in Israel and bring money home to their families in the West Bank.
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An account of how African Americans were forcibly enslaved by a corrupt legal system in the southern States, from the end of the Civil War through WWII.
Social Reproduction for Beginners: Bringing the Real World Back In
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We can grasp the social reproductive dimension of the post-1973 crisis in various phenomena in the U.S., but none stands out more sharply than the disappearance of the one-paycheck working-class family.
Sources News Release Archive 2008
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
News releases from 2008.
Sources (portal for journalists and writers) - Wikipedia article
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
An information portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers, focusing especially on human sources: experts and spokespersons who are prepared to answer reporters# questions or make themselves available for on-air interviews.
Storming Heaven
1968 Revisted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The eruptions of #68 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
Strange Fruit
Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
Survivors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The enormous role played by Jews in the events of May 1968 in Paris and their aftermath is striking. All currents of the far left, anarchist, Trotskyist, Maoist had Jews among their primary leaders. Though they did not act as Jews, that they were Jews, and occupied a particular place in post-war French society because of this, cannot but have weighed in their participation.
Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Tanaka-san will not do Calisthenics
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Filmed in Japan, this film follows Tanaka-san who was let go from his job at Oki Electric Manufacturing Company 25 years ago when he refused to conform to militaristic working expectations. Tanaka-san sings in front of his old office each day.
The Thin Blue Line
How Humanitarianism Went to War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An account of the failure of humanitarian intervention in places like Iraq and Somalia. Conor Foley explores how the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has been used to allow states to invade other nations in the name of human rights.
The Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A Time to Speak Out
Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A collection of strong Jewish voices, drawing on an established tradition of Jewish dissidence, come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews, notably in relation to the ongoing conflict in Israel-Palestine.
Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
Trick or Treatment?
Alternative Medicine on Trial (North American title: Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Evaluates the scientific evidence for acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, and chiropractic, and briefly covers 36 other treatments. It finds that the scientific evidence for these alternative treatments is generally lacking. Homeopathy is concluded to be completely ineffective: "It's nothing but a placebo, despite what homeopaths say"
Although the book presents evidence that acupuncture, chiropractic and herbal remedies have limited efficacy for certain ailments, the authors conclude that the dangers of these treatments outweigh any potential benefits. Such potential risks outlined by the authors are contamination or unexpected interactions between components in the case of herbal medicine, risk of infection in the case of acupuncture and the potential for chiropractic manipulation of the neck to cause delayed stroke.
The Trouble with Theory
The Educational Costs of Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused, and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality."
Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
Viewpoints
Where now for capitalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Noam Chomsky discusses the failure of financial institutions to calculate costs to those who do not participate in transactions and the effects of this in the wider context.
The Violence of Incarceration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Argues that the revelations of extreme brutality perpetrated by allied soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo represent the inevitable end-product of domestic incarceration predicated on the use of extreme violence including lethal force.
Violence Today
Actually Existing Barbarism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today#s actually-existing barbarism.
Viva Yasuni! Life vs Big Oil
New Internationalist July 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
A look at the Yasuni rainforest in Ecuador and its imminent destruction by oil companies.
The war everyone forgot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Chomsky probes what prompted the issue of Iraq to disappear from the agenda following the 2006 mid-term election.
We need to think about Toilets
New Internationalist August 2008 - #414
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
A look at the history and facts about toilets. A look at sanitation and employment opportunities surrounding toilets.
What Is America?
A Short History of the New World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
"All who delve into American history must contend with a language of misnomer and condescension," Wright states in his author's foreword. "Whites are soldiers, Indians are warriors; whites live in towns, Indians in villages; whites have states, Indians have tribes."
When the Prisoners Ran Walpole
A true story in the movement for prison abolition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
In the months before they took over running the Walople maximum-security facility in 1973, prisoners and outside advocates created programs that sent more prisoners home for good. This account reveals what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it.
Where's the Iraqi voice?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Despite the "shared beliefs" identified amongst Iraqis, for example the belief that the presence of foreign troops is a main cause of the escalation in violence, only the conquerors - in this case America - can decide when troops should be withdrawn.
Why They Voted For Obama But Against Same-Sex Marriage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
People who think that it is wrong to make same-sex marriage legal because it would give social approval to the practice of using sperm or egg donors to conceive children who will, by design, not know their biological mother or biological father are, according to liberals, "hateful and bigoted." In the world of these liberals, placing the welfare of children before the desires of adults is "hateful and bigoted."
The Wisdom of Whores
Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Pisani's book The Wisdom of Whores is a scathing attack on the bureaucratic international aid communities that deal with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: injection of drugs and the idea of harm reduction by the use of clean needles and methadone to prevent the spread of HIV, the question of economic resources and how and where they are spent, the concept of abstinence and how the U.S. administration views has undermined the use of condoms.
Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
The World According to Monsanto
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Distributed and Produced by Image & Compagnie # ARTE France # Productions Thalie # National Film Board of Canada.
World Cup 2010: Showcase South Africa
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
September 15, 2007, marked the beginning of a 1,000-day countdown to the 2010 International Federation of Football Associations World Cup hosted by South Africa, the first African nation ever to host the event. President Thabo Mbeki calls the premier soccer tournament “a golden opportunity to showcase Africa to the world” and adds that the South African government is determined to “show that the African renaissance is upon us and Africa’s time has come.”
The Wrecking Crew
How Conservatives Rule
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
How Republican conservatives govern in Washington and how they enrich others through their methods.
Environmentalists Do Not Support Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Sources Wikipedia Article - Arabic
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Sources Wikipedia Article - Chinese
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008

2007

Whither Diversity?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We love race - we love identity - because we don't love class. That is, the upper income groups in society, including many liberals, prefer to believe that a fair and just society can be realized primarily by celebrating and embracing diversity -- but excluding class considerations.
Crisis en Gaza: el sistema de salud y los niños en peligro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Sources Calendar Simple HTML version
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2007 Published: 2010
Event calendar in non-java-script format.
Stuffed and Starved
Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2010
This investigation into the global food market postulates that the current state of population health, where one billion people are overweight and one billion people are starving exemplifies the disequilibrium resulting from the liberalization of agriculture in the developing world by the forces of globalization and the policies of the IMF and World Bank.
Hatred of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2009
Rancière defends the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression. He argues that the West can no longer simply extol the virtues of democracy by contrasting it with the horrors of totalitarianism.
Many Minds, One Heart
SNCC's dream for a new America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2009
Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time.
Writing in an Age of Silence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2009
Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.
The Essential Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2008
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky#s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time.The Essential Chomsky assembles the core of his most important writings, including excerpts from his most influential texts over the past forty years.
A Persistent Peace
One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2008
Jesuit priest John Dear ministers to the needy at the margins of society. He is a pacifist and anti-war activist who has spoken out against the Pentagon and the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. His views about Christ's teachings on nonviolence have also made him a rebel in the Catholic Church.
We Own the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007 Published: 2008
The whole debate about the Iranian #interference# in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
The Professor of Torture
Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
Justice denied: Latimer case exposes flaws in legal system
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Robert Latimer believes it was his moral duty to save his daughter from a life of unbearable pain. Many Canadians agree with him.
Stephen Harper opens door to prison privatization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Whatever Harper has in mind for the prison system, one thing is for sure: There's little chance he'll unveil any plans for privatizing prisons before the next federal election. Unless Harper wins a majority, it seems suicidal for him to take a chance on such a controversial idea.
Homes in illegal Israeli settlements for sale at London expo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The Politics of Servility
Congress and the Israel Lobby
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Our legislators, fearing their own potential loss of their House or Senate seat, continue to support the desires of the Neo-cons and AIPAC and its fellows despite the condemnation of the world's communities that see nothing but hypocrisy in their behaviour.
Can We Live and Eat Too?
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In 1579, the fleet of British explorer Sir Francis Drake met the coast of what we now call California. Drake, who would dub his discovery “New Albion” (Albion being the Latin name for Britain), thought he had happened upon an island. Though the source of California’s present-day name is obscure, at least one etymological theory suggests that Drake was not alone in imagining the place as a world apart; the first literary reference to “California,” in a 1510 novel by Spanish writer García Ordóñez de Montalvo, Las Sergas de Esplandián, depicts an island in the Pacific inhabited by Amazonian women.
Carol L. McAllister (1947-2007)
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
I remember meeting Carol on a public transit bus, I believe in 1980 –- when, almost out of the blue, she approached me and started talking to me about Central America. She recognized me from some earlier meeting on repression and revolution in Central America and wanted to know if, by any chance, I had been in the audience viewing a documentary on women in El Salvador that she had just seen (I hadn’t) and if I would mind if she shared some thoughts about it.
The CIA and Questions of Torture
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Alfred W. McCoy's A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror is a chilling, eerily fascinating account of how the CIA used physical and psychological torture as a method of interrogation.
Debunking Columbus
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
“I knew it couldn’t be true!” exclaimed my then eleven-year-old daughter when I explained the premise of Restall’s book. “The Ancients knew that the earth was round,” she continued, “so Columbus could not have been the only one.”
Facing the Toyota "Pattern"
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Highly praised as a “breakthrough” in the mainstream and business press, the new United Auto Workers contract at General Motors is a stunning retreat for the union, threatening the existence of most high-paying production jobs throughout the U.S. auto industry. (Skilled trades face drastic downsizing through outsourcing and combining of the trades.)
Grace Paley (1922-2007)
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Grace Paley described herself as a “somewhat combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist,” and saw the role of the artist as that of “listener” who would relay stories of those made invisible by society. And she told it plain.
Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A Left Voice in Pakistan
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
The Movement Comes to Jena
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2007 — the day Mychal Bell was initially scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the beating of a white classmate — and northeast central Louisiana, on the border of Mississippi, was looking anything but sleepy.
An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
This appeal from Russian intellectuals and artists on the 90th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution comes to us from veteran leftists, social democrats, artists and even children of Left Oppositionists, most of them politically active at least since the Gorbachev years of glasnost and perestroika. It has been abridged here for space reasons.
On Immigration and Wages
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The Press and the Class Struggle
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white population had never seen anything like this — a Black-led protest against modern-day racism.
Report from Dubai
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Dubai — This gulf emirate is shaping up into a key tourist destination. For golf, luxury hotels and high-end shopping, it is firmly established as a key player in the Middle East region. Dubai’s geographical location means it can position itself as a meeting point between east and west, a global business hub for the 21st century.
Review: Political War Over Palestine
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
It has become impossible to review titles like these, or discuss the issues they raise, without reference to the rise of an exceptionally vicious campaign against critical activist voices and academic scholarship on Palestine and Israel.
The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong echoes in colonial countries. Between 1918 and 1921 union membership and days lost in strikes everywhere reached new heights, while the ranks of the revolutionary wing of the socialist movement swelled.
The Sub-Prime Market Crisis
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
It wasn't until I flew to the United Kingdom on Saturday, September 15th, that the globalized nature of the sub-prime contagion really hit home, as it were, for me. On my flight over, I grabbed a copy of the UK Telegraph newspaper, the front page of which looked like something shot at a Great Depression bread line.
Tide Turning in Latin America?
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
Revisiting the partition of Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
Safe streets
Not pedaling can kill you
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Not pedaling can kill you.
The Power of the Israel Lobby
Two knights and a dragon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Capitalism has always been a shock doctrine of selfish predation, as one can discover from Hobbes and Locke, Marx and Weber, none of them saluted by Klein. However there are huge third world economies that have been ravaged by neoliberalism that haven't endured "the shock doctrine" as defined by Klein. Ultimately Klen's analysis is limited and she is too gloomy and pessimistic about the power of capitalism.
The Israel Lobby and the "National Interest"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Israel's ethnic cleansing does, in fact, serve the elite's interest. It is a classic example of divide-and-rule applied to the population of the Middle East: foment an ethnic war of Arab versus Jew. Israel plays the same role in the Middle East that the Klu Klux Klan played in the American South for the benefit of the South's upper class: keep the working class population fighting each other along racial lines.
Who owns knowledge?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
Cliffites Deal in Religious Opiate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
All religions and all religious organizations serve to mystify and obscure the class basis of oppression in capitalist society.
Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Although you wouldn't know it if you followed Jewish life simply through the activities of such major Jewish communal bodies as the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League, the extent to which the eight million Jews of the Diaspora identify with Israel is increasingly open to question (much to the horror of the Zionist-oriented Jewish establishment).
Challenging Kim Moody
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Two reports challenge Kim Moody’s assertion (“Immigrant Workers in the United States,”Part 1, ATC 127) that “[t]he claim is raised by some that the rapid growth of immigrant Latinos in the workforce has had a negative impact on wages. In any overall sense, the answer has to be no...”
Envisioning Economic Justice
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The organizers of the U.S. Social Forum must be commended for making possible this political happening with its 900 workshops. The USSF has succeeded in bringing together activists from many diverse sectors working for global justice — thereby contributing to the strengthening of the entire movement.
A Festival of Radical Energy
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The culmination of years of discussion and thousands of hours of planning, the 1st United States Social Forum brought together over 12,000 activists to sweltering Atlanta June 27-31 for a week of conferencing, networking and marching. With lead organizing initiated by nonprofits, especially Project South, with ties to the Grassroots Global Justice network, the USSF resulted from two years’ work by a National Planning Committee (NPC) composed of several dozen nonprofits, left “thinktanks” and social movement organizations.
Finding Workers Power
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Socialists identify the working class as a potentially powerful agent of change. Working people have that potential because we keep the economy running. We therefore have the power to stop production through a general strike, create bottlenecks through which a relatively small number of strikers can significantly disrupt the economy, or we can stay on the job and work to rule, slowing down production.
Irene Morgan, Max Roach: Two Soldiers of Liberation
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Two pioneers of the freedom struggle died in August, leaving legacies for the ages.
Karen J. Kassirer: Artist, Friend and Comrade
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Karen was my oldest and dearest friend. We were young women together in Detroit, working for the newspaper of the International Socialists beginning in the early ‘70s. She had moved to Detroit along with IS members from other cities, mostly on the West or East coasts, to help establish our political center and an infrastructure to support our factory and trade union activism.
Miss Calculatsia: Danger of War That No One Wants
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Introducing Miss Calculatsia, that fashionable foreigner, the new star in Israeli discourse.
New Red-Green Politics
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In their preface to the 43rd volume of the Socialist Register, Coming to Terms with Nature, editors Leo Panitch and Colin Leys admit that this edition “has been one of the most challenging to put together.”
On Hal Draper's Zionism
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
I would like to add some more information on the book by Hal Draper, Zionism, Israel and the Arabs, which is the source of the excerpt from his 1948 essay “How to Defend Israel” printed in the May/June 2007 issue of ATC.
Our Life, Work, Struggles
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
At the time I joined Solidarity about a year and a half ago, I had been involved with activist and organizing work for about five years, which comprised most of my post-college life. Specifically, I was active in an organization called Jews Against The Occupation (a Palestine solidarity organization) and working as staff organizer for a housing group. I wanted a way to understand what I was doing in a bigger context, and to be around people who were thinking about how their current work fit in to a much longer term struggle.
Resistance Stirring Again
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In 1968 the worldwide explosion of struggle, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the streets and factories of France and Czechoslovakia, opened a new opportunity to challenge the capitalist system. In the United States, the Civil Rights struggle against racism sparked a wave of radicalization and struggle to challenge a whole host of American capitalism’s inequities — from its war in Vietnam to its sexism, homophobia, and class exploitation.
"SiCKO," Are We Sick, Or What?
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Years ago, when I worked the sports unit of a commercial TV station, I spent many hours in a van traveling to various games with a lot of folks who were all smarter than I (pilots in their spare time, people who repaired and operated sophisticated video equipment), which didn’t keep me from getting into political arguments because I was younger, dumber, angrier and relatively new to the finer points of Marxism.
Slums, 21st Century Wars
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
How have homo sapiens managed to achieve a highly technological, seemingly advanced “civilization,” while producing the horrors described by Mike Davis in Planet of Slums?
The Study of a Russian Factory
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
This book is a study of the Moscow Hammer and Sickle metallurgical factory between 1905 to 1932, based largely on four factory-specific archives that became available to Western historians after the fall of the Soviet Union. Its main focus, covering two-thirds of the book, is the post-revolutionary, post-civil war period.
Tim Flannery: "It's Over to You"
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The twenty-first century will be either the century of a “sustainability revolution” — extending the industrial and scientific revolutions of the 18th through 20th centuries, bringing their benefits to all humanity while eliminating massive global poverty and inequality, and in the process beginning to repair the massive damage wreaked on the environment by blind industrial expansion and capital accumulation — or else the century in which the progress of human civilization goes into reverse and faces the real possibility of collapse.
SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
Why Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why ‘improper’ or ‘bad’ veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan ‘neither veil nor submission’ has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
How Can We End the U.S. Government's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We need to start thinking about building a revolutionary movement and not a reform movement focused just on one issue.
Who Should Bomb Iran First?
The Myth Of Left-Leaning Media Bias
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Mainstream media discussions of media balance are limited to a single question: Is the media too critical of powerful interests?
Azmi Bishara and Muslims Worldwide Say No to Attacks on Non-Combatants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We need the public to know that the choice is between supporting equality or supporting racism, not between opposing or supporting the killing of non-combatants, as the Zionists try to make the public believe. We should tell the public that, yes, we do disagree with the actions of some Palestinians, but that doesn't at all take away from the fact that Zionist ethnic cleansing is the root of the conflict and must be abolished.
Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
Zimbabwean feminist speaks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
If one looks at the experience of women in Zimbabwe and one looks at the role of the state in relation to women#s lives, the state has never had the interests of women at heart. Women are only considered citizens when the state has something to gain.
One State is Not Snake Oil: A Reply to Michael Neumann
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The income of the 18 wealthiest families in Israel is equivalent to 77 percent of Israel's national budget, which is NIS 256 billion a year. This means that in less than 4.4 years the 18 wealthiest families in Israel could pay the entire debt owed by Israeli Jews living in homes and land stolen from Palestinians. It means that in 4.5 years a fund set up by these 18 wealthiest families could offer every Jewish Israeli who lives on stolen land a million U.S. dollars which they would use either to buy their home from the rightful Palestinian owner or buy another home (probably it would have to be newly constructed) so they could return the stolen one but not end up homeless.
Starving the Poor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Chomsky demonstrates how deficits in the international order and its policy-making can lead to negative effects, especially for the poor. One such example is the promotion of biofuels.
Military Inc
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Ayesha Siddiqa probes into the Pakistani military's long and troubling relationship with corporate giants, and its disastrous effects on the development of a healthy democracy and civil society.
Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Jennifer Gordon discusses her years spent working with the organization she founded, the Long Island-based Workplace Project.
Uri Avnery Is Dead Wrong
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In order to move forward and overcome the arguments people like him will hurl against us, we will need to get outside the reformist box and adopt a frankly revolutionary outlook, one that clearly sees the class conflict that rages all around us, that speaks to people about it directly, that asks people to evaluate ideas and events in light of their own insights into the world based on their personal experience of the class war, and that aims not merely to act as a cheerleader for this or that "lesser evil" scheme of our capitalist rulers but to win the class war so that ordinary people can shape society by their positive values.
Maze of Injustice: The failutre to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they know they will be met with inaction or indifference. Index Number: AMR 51/035/2007.
The St. Petersburg Declaration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.
What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
Das Leiden der Kinder im Gazastreifen
Katastrophale Lage im Gazastreifen - Unzureichende Gesundheitsversorgung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Opieka zdrowotna i dzieci Gazy w kryzysie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Gaza: cuidados de saúde e crianças em risco
As crianças de Gaza estão em risco
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
Health care and children in crisis in Gaza - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Salute e bambini in crisi a Gaza
I bambini di Gaza sono in crisi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Les soins de santé et les enfants en perturbation à Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Why has the left gone soft on human rights?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A perverse interpretation of multiculturalism has resulted in race and religion ruling the roost in a tainted hierarchy of oppression. In the name of "unity" against Islamophobia and racism, much of the left tolerates misogyny and homophobia in minority communities. It rejects common standards of rights and responsibilities; demanding that we "make allowances" and show "sensitivity" with regard to the prejudices of ethnic and faith communities. This attitude is patronising, even racist. It judges minority peoples by different standards.
What's all the fuss about the veil?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
Criticizing Israel is Not an Act of Bigotry
Jewish Opposition to Israeli Human Rights Crimes is Growing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A grassroots revolt is underway in Jewish communities throughout the world, a revolt that has panicked the elite organizations that have long functioned as official mouthpieces for the community.
How the Left Should Frame Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
How green are your ethics?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
Carter's Inconvenient Truths
An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
The Abolition of the State
Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
Affirmative Action or Class Solidarity?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Affirmative action continues the game of pitting people against each other. It distorts what people mean by racial justice, which would require decent jobs for all. Instead the government promotes unemployment while it encourages competition among racial groups. There is only one "group" that the powerful do not want us to identify with-the working class. The ruling elite know that they can keep groups based on race or gender fighting each other forever. The elite cannot control a united working class.
Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Alternatives to the Death Penalty
The Problem with Life Imprisonment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Anarchy and Art
From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Another view: The South takes the pictures
New Internationalist August 2007 - #403
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
A look at the states of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, and South Africa and their experience of change presented in pictures.
The Art of the Possible
A Handbook for Political Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Between the Lines
Readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror"
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A collection of essays that addresses the situation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the need for changes. It provides the background of the conflict and an analysis of the resistance and repression that have intensified due to post 9/11.
The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies # particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan # in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
Canada's Deadly Secret
Saskatchewan uranium and the global nuclear system
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The struggle over Saskatchewan#s uranium mining, and the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and environmental health, and the effect of free trade. Nuclear energy cannot address global warming and there is no such thing as a #peaceful atom.#
Canada's Young Activists
A Generation Stands Up for Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Twenty five personal accounts of the important work of some of Canada's most prominent young activists championing causes from child labour to environmentalism.
Changing Venezuela By Taking Power
The History and Policies of the Chavez Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Explores the historical and socioeconomic roots of the Venezuelan initiatives of recent years, the conflicts they have engendered, the achievements and pitfalls, the animating ideals of a genuinely participatory society, and the prospects for realizing them.
ChestDoc in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Cold War II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Chomsky depicts the growing US-Israeli conflict with the Middle East as a potential precursor to the escalation of tensions to Cold War standards - except with nuclear technologies now threatening a very "hot" outcome.
Constituent Imagination
Militant investigation, collective theorization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Cotton: The peril and the promise
New Internationalist April 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
A look at the cotton industry in India and how it is affecting the workers. Discusses alternatives to cotton and sustainability.
Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
An account of the toll that depression has taken on European and North American health since the 18th century.
Democracy in the Unites States? Fugetaboutit!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We who want a more equal and democratic society are the vast majority. There is no reason for us to feel hesitant about speaking our minds and talking revolution to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, and even people we meet in the course of shopping and so forth. When millions of Americans feel that they are not alone in wanting a revolution, that's when things will start to change. That's when people will start to think creatively and concretely about how to make it happen. Until then, we'll remain on a treadmill to nowhere, with everybody feeling that they are just one lonely person who "can't fight city hall."
Depleted Uranium
New Internationalist November 2007 - #406
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
This is a special edition with 7 different articles devoted to the subject." Toxic souvenirs"-DU ammunition; Dont' look dont find-Iraqi doctors; We were expendable-US army veterans; The Facts; Who's the real criminal-largest DU manufacturer in the U.S.; Action-building the ban with Belgian activists
Dr. Makdisi on a One State Solution
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
A video clip featuring Dr. Saree Makdisi presenting the case for a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine - a democratic secular state.
The Economics of Happiness
Building Genuine Wealth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Anielski's premise is quite simple: how can we go beyond mere material wealth to achieve veritable wealth-good health, meaningful relationships, spirituality, a clean environment, peace, justice and happiness. He believes that economic systems should orient us to what we really want.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Israel historian Ilan Pappe recounts the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
Everyhing Must Change
Jesus, Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
Footage from the field
B'Tselem Camera distribution project
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 2007
In January 2007, B'Tselem launched its camera distribution project, a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories. We provide Palestinians living in high-conflict areas with video cameras, with the goal of bringing the reality of their lives under occupation to the attention of the Israeli and international public, exposing and seeking redress for violations of human rights.
The Gentle Subversive
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision.
GreenTOpia
Towards A Sustainable Toronto, uTOpia Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The third volume of the uTOpia series features a collection of essays that look at innovative and imaginative ways to promote sustainability in Toronto. Also included is a directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs in and around the GTA.
Guillotining Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky briefly depicts the many factors which prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and promote ongoing conflict in the region.
The Hollow Land
Israel#s Architecture of Occupation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Groundbreaking exposé of Israel#s terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.
Hope in Troubled Times
A New Vision for Confronting Global Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
How to Re-Imagine the World
A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
A conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.
Impeach the President
The Case Against Bush and Cheney
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
In Defense of Atheism
The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
In Defense of Leninism: Anarchist Organization and Vanguardism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The question of what, if any, type of revolutionary organization is necessary has always been a thorny one for anarchists.
Infidel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
Inside Iran
New Internationalist March 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
A look at Iran from history to present. Discussion of women's rights and the youth of Iran.
Inside Israel-Palestine The Conflict Explained
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
An ideal guide, in question and answer format, to this most complex of conflicts.
Inside Lebanon
Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Documents Noam and Carol Chomsky#s journey and situates it within the tragically altered context of Lebanon and Palestine before and after the war of 2006.
Interventions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it#s a responsibility. Concise and fiercely argued, Interventions covers the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency, Israel and Palestine, national security, the escalating threat of nuclear warfare, and more.
Invisible Force: Women Workers in Pakistan
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Millions of women workers in Pakistan remain unaccounted for in official figures. Even those who are in the formal workforce face problems like lower wages for the same work as men and sexual harrasment.
The Iron Cage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America#s posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America#s national interest nor Israel#s long-term interest.
Israel/Palestine: "It's Complicated" ... Or Is It?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We often hear it said that the Israel/Palestine conflict is complicated. But is it really?
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A study and history of the legacy of community organizing in Mississippi.
Latin America after Neoliberalism
Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America. The region is an epicentre of dissent from neoliberal ideas and resistance to U.S. economic and political dominance.
Left Communism and Trotskyism: A Roundtable
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Less Than 2 Dollars a Day
A Christian View of World Poverty and Free Markets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
Married to Another Man
Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The news media played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Local media fueled the killings, while international media either ignored or seriously misunderstood what was happening. This is the first book to explore both sides of the media equation. Examining how local radio was used as a tool of hate, encouraging neighbors to turn against each other, the book also presents a critique of international media coverage.
Media Censorship in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Examines Middle-Eastern media censorship and shows how the censorial culture grew as the media developed in this region. It also illustrates the illusionary and deceptive arguments presented by the authorities citing articles and stipulations from the constitution that speaks for the freedom of the press and free speech.
More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
Move into the light?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The New Left at 40
Legacy and Continuity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A collection of memoirs and commentaries.
Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.
Northland
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
A touching look back at the director's father, Albert Steiner, and his life as a miner. Detailing his death, caused by working in the mine and the reality of getting compensation from mining companies at that time.
Occupation 101
Voices of the Silenced Majority
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Outside the Box
Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
Peace Parks
Conservation and Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The Politics of Immigration
Questions and Answers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Tackles questions and concerns about immigration with compelling arguments and hard facts, laid out in straightforward language and an accessible question-and-answer format.
Poverty and Policy in Canada
Implications for Health and Qualityof Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The Power of Persuasion
The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Kozolanka looks at how the Mike Harris's new right conservative government came to power in Ontario Premier Mike Harris by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public accquiescence for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
Rebuilding the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Beginning with an overview of the Left in Latin America, from the Cuban Revolution to the present, Harnecker goes on to analyze developments now taking place and stresses the necessity of developing an alternative to present forms of globalization.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Roots of Empathy
Changing the World Child by Child
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
Sisterhood, Interrupted
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
The Situation of Left Communism Today
Interview with the Korean Socialist Workers Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
South America: Toward an Alternative Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
With the death of Chilean dictator, Pinochet, and talks about a continent-wide union resembling the EU, Chomsky discusses the potential of South America to move in a new direction.
State of the World's Oceans
New Internationalist January/February 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
A look at the how the world's ocean is being destroyed and its effects on the earth.
Sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World
Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The Tactic of Calling People Anti-Semitic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Instead of calling people who criticize Israel and US policy towards it anti-Semitic, a morally committed response would be to face up to the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine and do our best to remedy it.
Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
Their Multiculturalism and Ours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Reactionary interpretations of multiculturalism ignore, tolerate or excuse prejudice and abuse in the name of pluralism and diversity. They foster social division, moral confusion and double-standards # often to the detriment of the most vulnerable: minorities within minority communities. Progressive multiculturalism is about respecting and celebrating difference, but within a framework of universal equality and human rights. It is premised on welcoming and embracing cultural diversity, providing it does not involve the oppression of other people.
Thinking Outside the Box
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
Trafficked: For sexual exploitation
New Internationalist September 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
A look at slavery and sexual exploitation of women. Discussion of anti-trafficking measures.
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Argues that a focus on cultural diversity at the expense of economic equality has stunted resistance to neoliberalism.
24 Days in Brooks
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
Centred on the 24-day Lakeside Packers strike, this film is a nuanced portrait of people working together for change. They are people like Peter Jany Khwai, who escaped war in Sudan and Edil Hassan, a devout Muslim born in Somalia.
The University in Chains
Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Details how two decades of shifts in university funding brought increased intrusions by corporate and military forces onto university. After 9/11, the intelligence agencies pushed campuses to see the CIA and campus secrecy in a new light, and, as traditional funding sources for social science research declined, the intelligence community gained footholds on campuses.
The Water Front
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
A documentary about water privatization. Residents of Highland Park, Michigan, known as the birthplace of the auto-industry, have received water bills as high as $10,000; they have had their water turned off, their homes foreclosed, and are struggling to keep water, a basic human right, from becoming privatized. The Water Front is the story of an American city in crisis but it is not just about water. The story touches on the very essence of our democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles.
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What We Say Goes
Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World: Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
In this new collection of conversations with David Barsamian, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran#s challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America.
Why do we still believe in race?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
Why Our Government Supports Israel's Government, and Why We Shouldn't
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Israel's Leaders Harm Both Jews & Palestinians.
The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century
A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A User's Guide to the 21st Century is a compendium of everything a generation of environmental activists has to offer.
The Writing on the Wall
China and the West in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The increasing global fear of the rise of China's economic power is misplaced and reflects the parallel rise of protectionist sentiment in a western world that has lost its moral authority to act as a legitimate international trade advocate.
Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
The Political Thought of Stan Weir
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
News and Comment
Allan Nairn's blog
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2007
News and comments in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, and Danish.

2006

Un journaliste du National Post traumatisé d'avoir à attendre son tour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Jonathan Kay retourne à l'hôpital pour un traitement de suivi, et - horreur - il doit s'asseoir et attendre avant d'être vu. En fait, il nous dit « tous les cas sauf les plus graves » doivent s'asseoir et attendre leur tour. Il n'y a pas - c'est dur à croire mais c'est vrai - de file spéciale pour les nantis et les privilégiés, même s'ils sont journalistes au National Post.
Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism
Writers' statement on cartoons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2006 Published: 2010
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006 Published: 2009
How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2006 Published: 2009
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
Merry Christmas from an Atheist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent out my Christmas cards, bought my Christmas presents and I will cook goose on Christmas Day. And I will probably listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio or to Mahalia Jackson's wonderful gospel singing while I am doing so. Yet I don't have a religious bone in my body.
Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2006 Published: 2008
Failed States
The abuse of power and the assault on democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006 Published: 2007
Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis. Chomsky systematically dismantles the United States# pretense of being the world#s arbiter of democracy.
Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The state of Israel practises its own, quite violent, form of Apartheid with the native Palestinian population.
National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Those of us in the first documented generation of donor babies -- conceived in the late 1980s and early '90s, when sperm banks became more common and donor insemination began to flourish -- are coming of age, and we have something to say. I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion. It's hypocritical of parents and medical professionals to assume that biological roots won't matter to the "products" of the cryobanks' service, when the longing for a biological relationship is what brings customers to the banks in the first place. We offspring are recognizing the right that was stripped from us at birth -- the right to know who both our parents are.
Israel boycott may be the way to peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
We must speak out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
The Academic Boycott Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
Now Is The Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The world must be offered the chance to see the good Palestinian, the good Arab and the good Muslim. We must be offered the chance to see the good Jew and the well-intentioned Christians and West. It is all in our grasp, but, we need to take that important leap by acting now with courage and wisdom. A unified vision and strategy on the Palestinian side must lead us toward peace.
After the Revolution, What?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A revolution to politically defeat a social class can take place relatively quickly compared to the task of re-shaping an entire society and economy by very different values. A fundamentally new kind of economy must therefore be able to arise somewhat gradually from the old, or it probably can never arise at all.
Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists
Canada's progressive Muslims wonder why left would embrace theocrats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Canada's anti-war movement has become not only the primary vehicle for an obscure, formerly left-wing group that attacks anyone who opposes Shariah courts in Canada, it's also now the main source of public respectability for a Toronto think-tank that advocates for the establishment of theocracies that hang gay people.
Give your Sources media profile an extra boost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Creating a link from your Web site to your Sources listing boosts your visibility.
How does your Web site rank? Alexa tells you
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Find out your Web site's reach and what other sites are popular with the people who come to your site.
Caroline Lund-Sheppard, Sept. 24, 1944-Oct. 14, 2006: A Life Fully Lived
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It's my favorite photograph of Caroline: She’s just a girl, standing straight up, hands neatly folded in front of her, wearing a long, white tunic, and an exuberantly silly grin.
The Case of Northwest Airlines: Workers' Rights & Wrongs
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Four years ago, when asked by an academic journal to write about whether the strike was still a viable weapon in labor’s “arsenal,” my title was blunt: “Is the Strike Dead?”(1) As is my style, I introduced some historical material and offered an analysis of the anti-labor bias of the past 25 years, during which the number of “large” strikes (involving 1,000 or more workers) had declined from more than 400 per year to less than 30.
Creating A Giant Ghetto in Gaza
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
I is possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment in order to obtain a definitive answer.
David Roediger's Working Toward Whiteness
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A disturbing aftermath of the pro-immigrant demonstrations recently held in dozens of cities across the United States, besides the obvious anti-immigrant backlash, has been the increase in Black/Brown tensions. Particularly alarming has been the way in which Latinos are being accused, not only by conservatives but by Progressives as well, of being the latest permutation of a long history of immigrant groups arriving to this country and making it, to quote Toni Morrison, “on the backs of Blacks.”
Dual Power or Populist Theater? Mexico's Two Governments
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be the “legitimate president of Mexico.”He is now creating an alternative government, and says he will call a constituent assembly that will write a new constitution. What is happening here? Is this a radical fight for reforms? A potentially revolutionary movement? Or a spectacular piece of populist theater?
Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
The End of the Regime?
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Permanent Detention and Torture Enabling Act of 2006 was the final obscene gesture of a dying Congressional session. (Actually, make that next-to-last: They topped it off with the billion-dollar appropriation to double-fence the Mexican border, even though this means humiliating Bush’s own pals in Mexico, the right-wing politicians whom he helped steal the Mexican election. That’s another crisis we cover elsewhere in this issue.)
George Bush's Unending War and Israel
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The present U.S. strategy, defined by the neo-cons at the end of the 1980s, is no longer a strategy of stabilizing world order and building a “new Middle East” through multilateral negotiations, but imposing the “American age,” i.e. U.S. total hegemony, by a global non-ending preemptive war. The Israeli war against the Palestinian people and against Lebanon is part of this global war; indeed, it is the United States’ most advanced and important front.
Israel, Lebanon and Torture
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
James Green's Death in the Haymarket
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
James Green's Death in the Haymarket tells the story of the anarcosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers’ rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886. They were subsequently framed, convicted, and four martyrs hanged by the judicial system of Cook County on “Black Friday,” November 11, 1887.
Latin America to Iraq: Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The decade of the '70s was not good for U.S. imperialism. The American defeat in Southeast Asia led to the development of the “Vietnam syndrome” and with it the reluctance to use U.S. troops in wars abroad.
New Challenges to Tenant Organizing in New York City
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On June 16, 2006, 305 West 150th Street, a rundown 84-unit apartment building in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, sold for $6.95 million. The City of New York has documented 274 housing maintenance code violations on this property, reflecting the presence of leaks, broken front door locks and exposed lead paint. The tenants are mostly poor and working class Latinos from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; many depend on subsidies, such as Section 8, to pay rent.
Paul Buhle's Tim Hector
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Paul Buhle's account of Tim Hector, Caribbean radical of Antiguan origin who passed away in 2002, is provocative and welcome. Its span is broad and appropriate for a general rather than specialist readership.
The Post MFA Era and the Rise of China, Part 1
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing expired in 2005, ending 30 years of a quota system under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). Ending the Agreement signalled the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) promotion of free trade in this sector; but phasing in free trade here has proved to be far from frictionless.
The Profits of War: Planning to Bomb Iran
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It is no longer a secret that the Bush administration has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Although it is rarely mentioned in the so-called war on terrorism, racism is an undercurrent in every action and decision taken by the Bush-Cheney government. It is a dangerous element that has long-term implications.
Remembering Dorothy Healey: An Activist with Vision
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Dorothy Healey had a grand vision of a world in which there was no poverty, racism, or war, a world of genuine democracy. To me she represented what was most appealing about the Old Left — commitment, dedication, selflessness.
War and the Culture of Violence
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
Free Speech in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
Respect is a Two-Way Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There is a whiff of hypocrisy among some Muslims who, in the name of being spared offence, want to censor other people's opinions.
A Veiled Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We certainly need to challenge the iniquities of Islam and refuse to bow to Muslim blackmail that certain debates are off-limits. But equally we need to keep the problem of Islam in perspective and not pretend that it is the root cause of every social ill.
An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Persistent struggle can have an effect, and can lead governments to act. Such struggle begins with the Palestinian people, who have withstood years of brutal oppression, and who, through their spirit of zumud--sticking to their land - and daily endurance, organizing and resistance, have managed to keep the Palestinian cause alive
Unveiled
Art and Censorship in Iran
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
The Theology of Respect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that turns the notion of respect on its head.
The Left and the Jihad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends?
Binge and Hangover
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
Bird, Diz and Max at Town Hall, 1945: Birth of a Revolution
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Hip-hop had a musical parallel in the 1940s. It was the music now called be-bop, although it wasn't called be-bop then. It was "the new thing" or "the revolution in music."
California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In California the Green Party is changing both in its social composition and in its political diversity. The party's support for immigrants' rights, especially around the issue of state driver's licenses, has won the party growing support among Latinos. Leading activists such as Nativo Lopez, Chair of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), and Miguel Araujo, from Centro Azteca, have come into the Green Party.
Elections and Regime Crisis
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Will the Democrats "regain control of Congress"? Will Joseph Lieberman change parties? Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic frontrunner for 2008? How much does any of this matter?
The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
The Lessons of Lebanon
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
So what has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war.
Liberation, Then What?
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
The Massachusetts Plan: "Universal Coverage"?
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On April 12, 2006 Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed legislation that is being touted nationally as the model for providing health care for all people. The goal of the legislation is to provide health insurance for the State's 780,000 people who have no health insurance, by July 1, 2007.
Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Middle East in Flames
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
Morris Slavin: 1913-2006
Against The Current vol. 124
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Morris Slavin, a historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
Strike Lessons from the Last Twenty-Five Years: Walking Out and Winning
Against The Current vol. 124
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Labor's strike effectiveness and organizational strength have long been connected. Throughout history, work stoppages have been used for economic and political purposes, to alter the balance of power between labor and capital within single workplaces, entire industries, or nationwide. Strikes have won shorter hours and safer conditions, through legislation or contract negotiation.(1) They've fostered new forms of worker organization -- such as industrial unions -- that were badly needed because of corporate restructuring and the reorganization of production. Strikes have acted as incubators for class consciousness, rank-and-file leadership development, and political activism.(2) In other countries, strikers have challenged -- and changed -- governments that were dictatorial and oppressive (plus union leadership no longer accountable to the membership).
The Vogeler Senate Campaign
Against The Current vol. 124
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With just four months until the general election, Green Party candidate Rae Vogeler has established herself as the main opposition to millionaire incumbent Senator Herb Kohl. Vogeler's campaign took off last September when the mother of two decided that Wisconsin needed a Senator to stand up for working people, end the war, and fund good jobs, quality education and affordable health care.
What Happened - and Didn't: Behind New York's Transit Strike
Against The Current vol. 124
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Early on December 20, 2005, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, representing some 33,000 of New York City's subway and bus workers, called a strike. When dawn broke, there was no public transportation in NYC and millions of people walked, hitched rides, rode their bikes, or stayed home.
Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
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Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
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The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
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The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
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The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
In Hebron, a South African Compares Israeli Occupation to Apartheid
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Israelis have generally blinded themselves to the apartheid in the back yard because if they did acknowledge it they would have to do something. This complacent blindering recalls the American south during the civil rights movement, or the founding fathers during slavery.
Rocket Attacks on Israeli Civilians
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I challenge anybody to show how attacks on Israeli non-combatants help defeat the Israeli ruling class. It is as clear as day that it only strengthens our enemy. If the Israeli rulers didn't have rockets landing in Haifa and other civilian targets, they wouldn't have nearly the support for their war on Gaza and Lebanon that they unfortunately enjoy today from the Israeli Jewish population and much of the North American and European population, gentile as well as Jewish.
Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
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How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
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We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know
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We are supposed to think that the current crisis in the Middle East has no historical roots.
Shame on you, Mr. Harper
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Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
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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.
If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
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There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
Stop That Shit
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Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
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The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
American Cartoonists Rap on the Danish Flap
Against The Current vol. 123
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"It's really surreal," cartoonist Matt Wuerker observed. "It's like something out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel."
Bolivia: Evo Morales' First 100 Days
Against The Current vol. 123
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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.
Damu Smith: A Life of Giving
Against The Current vol. 123
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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.
An Interview with Patricia Campbell
Against The Current vol. 123
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Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
Legalize Free Movement of Labor: Viewing A National Debate
Against The Current vol. 123
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The immigration debate is exposing deep social, racial and class divisions within American society. The arguments are sharp, furious and divide many families - immigrant as well as native born.
Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
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Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico during several days in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed only a little more than a week after a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. President Vicente Fox argued that police had moved in to deal with small cells of violent groups whose presence threatened the public peace. Local residents believed that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport. Others speculated broader political motivation: that the Fox administration's Secretary of the Interior Carlos Abascal Carranza may be using violent confrontations with steelworkers and community activists to create the sense that under a leftist administration led by presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador the country would fall into chaos.
Mexico: The Zapatistas' New Fight
Against The Current vol. 123
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"We are fighters, but not with guns," said the man in the ski mask, one of a group of masked peasants addressing us and a dozen other visitors. "We invite all of the common people, who are of the left, who are not with the government, to join us in struggle," he continued, speaking in the Mayan Tzotzil language. "Because we know the government will never hear our word, and will never help us."
The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
Against The Current vol. 123
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The persistence of reformism and outright conservatism among workers, especially in the imperialist centers of North America, Western Europe and Japan, has long confounded revolutionary socialists. The broadest outlines of Marxist theory tell us that capitalism creates it own "gravediggers" - a class of collective producers with no interest in the maintenance of private ownership of the means of production. The capitalist system's drive to maximize profits should force workers to struggle against their employers, progressively broaden their struggle and eventually overthrow the system and replace it with their democratic self-rule.
Pioneers of Resistance
Against The Current vol. 123
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Emancipation Betrayed attempts to fill in the historical gap between the end of Reconstruction and the post-World War I period through examining Black organizing in the state of Florida. The author, Paul Ortiz, worked on oral histories for the study "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South" at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His research peeled back a lineage of struggle several generations long, connecting the post-World War II civil rights movement to how African Americans dealt with the reimposition of anti-Black laws following the collapse of Reconstruction:
The Real Costs of Empire
Against The Current vol. 123
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Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
A Response to Critics
Against The Current vol. 123
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David Finkel's comments (ATC 122) about my book Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, and about my position against immediately withdrawing the US military from Iraq, were well-informed and fair. So were the judgments of Gilbert Achcar in his interview with Susan Weissman, though his focus was on the withdrawal issue in general and not on my essay specifically. Likewise, Michael Schwartz's current ATC response reflects an impressive familiarity with Iraq and the Middle East, and his critique of my analysis is well-taken.
The Unruly Revolution
Against The Current vol. 123
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Gary Nash's The Unknown American Revolution fully discloses its aims to propagate both historical and social lessons. Nash retells the story of the American Revolution, complicating and radicalizing its core narrative as "a people's revolution, an upheaval among the most heterogeneous people to be found anywhere along the Atlantic littoral in the eighteenth century."
The Workers' Party and Political Crisis in Brazil: Lula at a Crossroads?
Against The Current vol. 123
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In June 2005, the first allegations of a rogue politician in a rightwing party in coalition with Brazil's governing Workers' Party (PT) seemed spurious enough. The politician himself, Roberto Jefferson, had a long history of allegations of corruption, and of narrowly escaping indictment in Brazil's last corruption crisis in 1993. According to celebrity magazines, he had had a makeover, including plastic surgery, before coming forward with the allegations of a "payment for votes" scheme in congress in which the ruling PT doled out a monthly allowance for sympathetic politicians in congress.
Israel#s appalling bombing of Gaza
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Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Solution in Sight
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Chomsky presents the steps that must be taken in order to obliterate the threat of a potential nuclear apocalypse. Naturally, they do not include military solutions.
We Stand with the Teachers of Oaxaca
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The values and aspirations of teachers and families everywhere are the same: to see the healthy, secure, peaceful development of their students and children to the fullest of their abilities in an environment of mutual support and respect. Everywhere these values and aspirations are under attack: in Mexico, throughout Central and South America, in the United States and Canada, and across the globe.
How the Unions Killed the Working Class Movement
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Unions are vertically organized to minimize relationships and solidarity between union members in different locals, maximize the power of national union staff and officials over local unions, and fractionalize the working class. Away from the workplace the role of the unions is no less destructive. Unions train workers not to rely on themselves as agents of change with direct action, whether on the job or in society. Instead they steer their members into the arms of the capitalist political parties and encourage workers to rely on politicians and courts. The central myth on which contemporary unions depend is that workers# power comes not from their friendships and solidarity but from union structures. The most destructive effects of the unions have been on the self-concept of the working class. Workers have been led to think of themselves as helpless, to believe that their strength comes from institutions outside themselves, and to lose sight of their revolutionary mission.
Why #Pick On# Israel? Here#s Why
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There are a lot of excellent reasons for singling Israel out, and none of them have anything to do with anti-Semitism. Israel is the only nation that self-righteously accuses any critic of its ethnic cleansing of being a bigot (anti-Semite.) It is the only nation that insists that its racist policies are #a light unto the nations.# If we let Israel get away with this we are contributing not only to its actual ethnic cleansing, but to its glorification of the principle of ethnic cleansing, which aids and abets this crime everywhere in the world.
With A Little Help From Outside
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The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos# 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals
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South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
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South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
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Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
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Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group#s path to success with director Ben Fine
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An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
After Katrina: A View from the Ground
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
Arroyo on the Brink
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
Beyond Iraq: The Spreading Crisis
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
The Case for Staying in Iraq
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
Collective Action - and Victory! France: CPE Goes Down
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
Feminism in Canada
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
Follies of the War
Against The Current vol. 122
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Three years later, it is hard to believe that a gloating and triumphant Christopher Hitchens could write this (April 18, 2003):
French Students Speak for Themselves What We Won—and Need
Against The Current vol. 122
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The following collective interview was conducted for ATC by Patrick Silberstein of Editions Syllepse.
Giants and Immortal Legacies
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
A Gran Marcha and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 122
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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.
Immigrant Students and Workers Take to the Streets: Outpouring in Chicago
Against The Current vol. 122
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In late February, word began to spread around Chicago about a protest against HR 4437, a bill passed by the House of Representatives to criminalize undocumented immigration, as well as aid given to undocumented immigrants (for more information on HR 4437, see http://www.ilrc.org/HR4437.html). A humble-looking activist website announced, in English and Spanish, "Unite!.March against HR 4437 General Strike!"
Interracial Antiracism
Against The Current vol. 122
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The wide range of topics covered in Romance and Rights: the Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 by Alex Lubin and Stacy I. Morgan’s Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953 converge around the central importance of the Second World War and anticommunism.
Interview with Gilbert Achcar
Against The Current vol. 122
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On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Susan Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program, "Beneath the Surface," on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. In the following excerpt, Achcar discusses the questions of immediate withdrawal and civil war in Iraq.
A Living Wage in London
Against The Current vol. 122
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At a time when the United States is associated with the export of neoconservatism in the form of George Bush, readers will be heartened to read this tale of a more positive export as the living wage movement has leapt across the Atlantic over to the United Kingdom.
Melville and A Lot More
Against The Current vol. 122
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More than a decade ago, an unpublished manuscript began filtering its contents into the minds of a fairly wide circle of erstwhile New Left intellectuals. It was fascinating, like no other theorizing on the text of Moby Dick and its significance; or rather, resembling many others in some of its evidence but ranging far beyond them in its implications.
A People's Science
Against The Current vol. 122
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Historical narratives of science tend to be triumphant tales of magnificent men (and an occasional wily woman) who, through brilliant insight and/or dedicated persistence, changed the way we understand the world and, frequently, how we manufacture our space in that world. An opposite tendency is the cautionary tale of mad scientists aiming to invent ice-nine, the technology that will ultimately spell doom for us all.
Plight of Young Black Men: The Scars and the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 122
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Recent studies have reaffirmed a long known reality: young poorly educated Black men are disproportionately disconnected from mainstream society. The numbers are significantly worse than for Latinos, Asians and whites.
The Sleeping Giant Awakes
Against The Current vol. 122
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Los Angeles—Pressure is building. Times are getting nastier. The stakes are incredibly high. And on the streets, during this time of unseasonable cold for this city, the "sleeping giant" of Latino and immigrant communities has begun to awake.
A Test of Our Courage
Against The Current vol. 122
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Mike Davis was interviewed by Jon Wiener on KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, on March 29, 2006. The interview has been slightly abridged for publication.
Textbook Tempest in California: Who Speaks for Hinduism?
Against The Current vol. 122
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Decades after their arrival in the United States in significant numbers following the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, Indian Americans are entering the political fray. Like other ethnic communities, Indian Americans are not a monolithic group. Yet the most conservative Hindu elements have had some success in claiming to represent the whole community in recent debates regarding the certification of sixth grade history textbooks in California.
Ethnic Nationalism Versus Common Sense
Response to a Zionist Book Review
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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.
Journalism as a Weapon of War
John Pilger address to Columbia University
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On 14 April 2006, the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York brought together John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass for a discussion entitled 'Breaking the Silence: War, lies and empire'. The following is a transcript of John Pilger's address - 'War by Media'
New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
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"Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward
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In New Orleans, the people have stopped being patient with false choices. They have stopped trusting in politicians who represent only themselves and their contributors. They have chosen the common good, and they have bypassed the system that failed them in order to reclaim their lives through direct and positive action.
The Sharia socialists
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China's Worker Protests: A Second Wave of Labor Unrest?
Against The Current vol. 121
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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.
Engendered Surgery: Women Surgeons Reveal their Experiences
Against The Current vol. 121
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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.
Evidence and Evolution: A Controversial Theory
Against The Current vol. 121
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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.
For the Love of Country?
Against The Current vol. 121
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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.
A Movement's Loss
Against The Current vol. 121
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Puerto Rico is neither a state of the union, nor an independent nation-state. Its residents are U.S. citizens, go to war, have one representative in Congress who cannot vote or even present a motion, pay no taxes and do not vote for president, have no influence or say in federal law, yet are held to all federal standards. Thanks to this legal limbo, for years the island and its people have been used as testing ground for chemicals (e.g. the pill), war agents (e.g. Agent Orange), and even Monsanto is reaping profits now from transgenic crops (Puerto Rico has the highest proportion of Genetic Modification experiments per land area in the world).
Museums, Art and the Rackets
Against The Current vol. 121
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In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
New Strategy and Tactics for Labor in the Airlines: Beyond Bankruptcy
Against The Current vol. 121
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The airlines have been leading the way in the transformation of labor-management relations. The goal of the owners is the radical restructuring of labor costs and working conditions, to provide the maximum payout to executives and value to major shareholders.
New York Transit Activists' Account: The Strike and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 121
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ATC interviews Josh Fraidstern and Jaime Veve. The transit strike that shut down New York City for three days in December dramatically showed the power of labor, yet ended after three days by order of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 leadership. This was followed by a rank and file rejection of the proposed contract, to universal amazement—with the result that the critical issues of the strike remain unresolved.
Palestinian Democracy
Against The Current vol. 121
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Few elections throughout the world have been perceived by the local population, as well as international observers, as democratic and transparent as the Palestinian ones. At first glance, Palestine seems to be the perfect example of the “democratization of the Middle East” that President George W. Bush and his administration are fighting for.
A Record of Resistance
Against The Current vol. 121
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Here is a stunning book, filled with photographs that record the suffering and strength of the indigenous population in the Guatemalan countryside over the past 15 years. In short essays and photos Our Culture Is Our Resistance records the harsh life of those who survived the army’s “scorched earth” of the early 1980s and fled to isolated areas of the country.
A Slice of Socialist History
Against The Current vol. 121
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The following correspondence sheds light on a lesser-known period in U.S. socialist history during the 1950s. Frank Fried was a member of the Socialist Union, led by Bert Cochran, following the “Cochran Faction” expulsion from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1953. He wrote this letter in response to a query from Hal Smith, a student engaged in research in the history of the Trotskyist movement. The subsequent comment by Lester Rodney, the longtime journalist who waged a long campaign in the 1930s and ’40s to break the “color line” in Major League Baseball, offers further perspective on the politics of the Communist Party in the period. Both are retired and living in California.
State-Sponsored Violence Against Women
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The words of Latin American women continue to have no value to those who legislate, govern and administer justice. The permissiveness and omissions of state laws, institutions and functionaries in response to the violation of women’s rights are part of gender violence. The advances have been minimal and the need to dismantle this theater of illusions is urgent.
A Transformed Force
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The following essay is a translated and edited version of a recent op-ed piece by Félix Córdova Iturregui, a veteran socialist activist, member of the Taller de Formación Política and the Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico, and ex-President of the Association of University Professors of the University of Puerto Rico. In this essay, he argues that the massive popular demonstrations after the assassination of Machetero (Popular Puerto Rican Army) leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, occurred in a context where U.S. institutions, particularly the FBI and the U.S. military, are in a rapid period of deterioration, which is being particularly felt in its colony, Puerto Rico.
25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
Wal-Mart's Real Cost
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The long-brewing struggle between retail giant Wal-Mart and those concerned with reforming its corporate practices burst onto the mainstream consciousness of the American public this past November. An unprecedented convergence of labor, small business owners, environmentalists, activists and communities of faith blossomed into a full-scale movement to change the world’s largest retail company.
Rushdie rails against Islamic 'totalitarianism'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits
Six-part article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Inside the Financial World, Government Agencies and their Private Contractors Lies a Hidden System of Money Laundering, Drug Trafficking and Rigged Stock Market Riches.
Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state.
Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
Sharia "Socialists"
I.S. Upholds Anti-Woman Religious Courts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It is mind-boggling that self-styled leftists would champion a campaign by the most reactionary, anti-woman forces in the Muslim community to have their religious law backed by the authority of the capitalist state.
Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An argument against what Collini calls the 'declinist thesis', the belief that contemporary intellectual life is getting increasingly dumbed down and stagnant. Declinists, Collini suggests, are in denial of reality and ignorant of history. Collini also skewers those who, like Edward Said, represent themselves as 'outsiders' while basking in the glamour of in-group recognition.
Advertising overload
New Internationalist September 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at big brand mass advertising and the effects on how people think and feel.
An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
New Internationalist May 2006 - #389
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
Age Shock
How Finance is Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Blackburn examines the realities of an aging demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
America: From Freedom to Fascism
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
An attack on the erosion of civil liberties in the United States.
American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War on America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
American Methods
Torture and the Logic of Domination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A damning audit of the US record in underwriting human rights violations around the globe and at home, and about the centrality of rape, racism, and conquest to both the state and US national culture..
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
Banks exposed: Would you trust this pig?
New Internationalist August 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at capital movements and people robbing governments of tax. Advice on how to make banking fair and relevant.
Beyond the Ballot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Rather than focusing upon the establishment of elections in Iraq, Chomsky points out that popular will is the essential element of democracy. The vast majority of Iraqis were, however, opposed to coalition forces.
Books of Interest - Sources 58
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
When someone is outside the hold of a stupid opinion, its inanity is so apparent that one wonders how it could ever be held by anyone. But when people are caught believing something that isn't reality-based, most believe it far more rigidly than they believe facts.
Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
Canadian Activism Archives
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2006
Site which is attempting to build a historical archives of, and useful guides for, social justice and environmental activism in Canada.
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
On human nature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world#s leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as #innate# human nature independent of our experiences and external influences? What begins as a philosophical argumentsoon evolves into a broader discussion encompassing a wide range of topics including the struggle for justice in the realm of politics.
Clausewitz on the Pampas: An Argentine Snapshot as Latin America Moves Leftward
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Cold War and the New Imperialism
A Global History, 1945#2005
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The Cold War is an account of global history since 1945, which ties together the narrative of the Cold War to that of neoliberalism and the new imperialism.Written for the general reader, it draws together scholarly research on a huge range of events, countries, and topics into an intelligible whole.
Color of Violence
The INCITE! Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence, such as police brutality, militarism, attacks on immigrants and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic neo-colonialism, and violence from the medical industry.
Conned, Carbon offsets stripped bare
New Internationalist July 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
Discussion of the myths about carbon offsets, and details of more positive climate change steps to take. Carbon offsetting is exposed as a scam, one that's been sold to the guilt-ridden general public as an easy answer to a complex problem.
Consuming Cultures Globalization and Local Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A wide-ranging and sensitive exploration of local versus global, underlining the economic roots of cultural identity.
Contradictions of the Iraqi Resistance: Guerilla War vs. Terrorism
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
One of the most complicated aspects of the war in Iraq is that the Iraqi resistance is divided into a multitude of different groups with a multitude of different goals.
Corruption: Can the rot be stopped?
New Internationalist December 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at the people standing up to challenge corruption and make a difference.
Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
Crisis of the Regime
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
"A government headed by right-wing extremists has been returned to power, to preside over a divided country and a potential for real catastrophe in Iraq!" That's what we wrote a year ago, in the immediate wake of the 2004 election (editorial statement, ATC 113). In other words, the Republicans were firmly installed as the country's ruling party, albeit with a razor-thin majority, unless and until they were to screw something up really, really badly—and have they ever, from Baghdad to New Orleans and back!
The Danger in Lebanon
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The assasination [of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri] resulted in the intensification of the campaign by the USA and France against the Syrian presence and influence in Lebanon. This pressure was able to base itself on the mass mobilization inside Lebanon, which forced the withdrawal of Syrian troops.
Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
The Invisible Web
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
Deaths in Custody and Detention
Volume 33, No. 4 (2006) of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A special issue on the investigation of, and inquiry into, deaths in custody and detention (including state hospitals and mental health, police and prison custody, and young offenders' institutions). The volume sets out to consider how advanced democratic states inquire into and investigate deaths in controversial circumstances. Also considered are the deadly force and exceptional incarceration policies associated with the "war on terror" waged by the U.S. and U.K. Articles and essays cover the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. (including, Guantanamo), and Australia and mix academic pieces with accounts from prisoners and campaigners.
The Dershowitz Treatment
Slime Throwing as Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An expose of Alan Dershowitz's record, showing that he has repeatedly resorted to lies, slander, fabrications, falsifications and plagiarism in public debate and in his published works.
Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Effective Media Relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
Empire's Workshop
Latin America, the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Looks at U.S. foreign policy post 9/11 and its antecedents.
The End of the Line
How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
Ethical Shopping: A Magic Bullet to Save the World?
New Internationalist November 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at shopping ethically and its limitations. Discussion of why consumerism is contributing to a negative impact on the planet.
Europa! Resisting corporate design
New Internationalist October 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at the European Union ranging from migration to concerns over corporate takeover.
The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
Faces of Latin America (Third Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Examines some of the key forces # from conquest and the growth of the commodity trade, military rule, land distribution, industrialization and migration to civil wars, the debt crisis, neoliberalism and NAFTA # shaping the region#s political and social history.
Favela Rising
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
The story of Anderson Sa, and his quest to create a non-violent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
Food Fanatics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Ill-informed dogmatism has no place in a healthy lifestyle.
For Lust of Knowing
The Orientalists and their enemies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The French Riots: Dancing with the Wolves
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
In French suburban slang, to "dance with the wolves" means to provoke the cops, make them run and, obviously, to escape without being arrested. The unfortunate reality is much less romantic. The three weeks of recent riots may be seen as a long overdue political response to the profound racism of French society; but in this writer's view this uprising is more an index of desperation of French youth, of all national origins, than the beginning of a new political movement.
Gatekeepers
Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The German Revolution, 1917-1923
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The God Delusion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Dawkins' basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious.
Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Great Turning
From Empire to Earth Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Heat
How to Stop the Planet From Burning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of the Kyoto protocol.
Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
Hizballah Through the Fog of War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
An interview with Middle East specialist Augustus Richard Norton on the nature of the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group, in which he attempts to dispel some of the shibboleths that hamper Western understanding of its aims and design.
How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
Humanitarian Imperialism
Using Human Rights to Sell War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world#s leading economic and military powers # above all, the United States # in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks.
Intractable: Hell Has a Name
Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A firsthand account spanning two generations of high-security confinement in the 1970s NSW Australian prison system.
Iraq for Sale
The War Profiteers
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
A film about what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war which uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
The Irresistible Revolution
Living as an Ordinary Radical
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The Israel Lobby?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Noam Chomsky comments on an article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in which they assert that "the Lobby" dominates over strategic-economic interests in Israel's policy-making. Although Chomsky praises this courageous stand, he explains why he does not agree with this thesis.
Israeli Left Archive
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2006
An evolving data base of the Israeli Radical Left. The long range vision of this project is to continue to digitalize thousands of items (leaflets, internal documents, newspaper articles and press clippings, movement periodicals, photographs, protocols and other materials). The origins of the current developing data base are in the private archive of Dafna and Reuven Kaminer. In general, the data base is devoted mainly to the radical left and the women's peace movement during the sixties, seventies and the eighties.
Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
Israel's "Withdrawal" Toward Apartheid
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
David Finkel interviews Jeff Halper. “From Sharon's point of view it’s a done deal. Israel has won its century-old conflict with the Palestinians,” writes Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
Jeff Halper's Obstacles to Peace
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
“The occupation challenges us all… Can a system of control, displacement, denial of fundamental rights and repression actually prevail? What does it mean if we are unable to end an occupation that is growing continually stronger by the day, before our very eyes, in defiance of international law and more than 200 UN resolutions? If occupation and repression actually defeat a people’s aspirations for freedom and fundamental human rights, then what are the implications for oppressed peoples in other parts of the world far from public attention?”
A Just War? Hardly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Chomsky identifies the premises of "just war theory". He claims that in both the case of Kosovo and Afghanistan these were not adhered to, thus the foundation for "just war" was absent.
Keeping Current
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Latin America and Asia Are at Last Breaking Free of Washington's Grip
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Chomsky discusses the growing independence of these regions from US domination.
Latin America Declares Independence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
After centuries of foreign domination, South America is rising to shed the dependencies of North America on the continent's resources, markets, and investment opportunities.
The Library at Night
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
Looking at Israel from the other side
Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A review of two books: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, by Suad Amiry, and The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.
Manufactured Landscapes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Massive projects of modern civilization that have devastating impacts on the surrounding environment.
A Massive Crisis in Auto: Delphi, GM, the UAW, and Soldiers of Solidarity
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On December 19, facing a strike threat and pressure from GM, Delphi Corporation backed away from its "final offer" to the United Auto Workers, pushing the deadline back to the end of February. With the demand for a 63% wage cut off the table, complicated horse trading will ensue—but what's clear is that rank-and-file anger and mobilization makes a big difference.
Max Eastman: One American Radical#s View of the #Bolshevization# of the American Revolutionary Movement and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Mixing Metaphors and Diluting Memory: Lynching - The Reality
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On October 9, 2005, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter appeared on ABC's "This Week" to defend Harriet Miers, President Bush's confidante whose nomination to the Supreme Court had evoked howls of protest, particularly from the Christian Right. Specter told George Stephanopoulos that Miers' verbal critics made up "one of the toughest lynch mobs ever assembled in Washington, DC, and we assemble some tough lynch mobs." In claiming Washington's penchant for "tough lynch mobs," Senator Specter was not speaking literally—though he could have been. It is unlikely that Specter meant to evoke the actual lynch mobs roaming the streets of Washington D.C. for four days during the "Red Summer" of 1919, attacking African-Americans in a frenzy whipped up by racism, anti-communism, fears of joblessness, and post-war jingoism.
Naked Imperialism
The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Examines the important transformation in U.S. global policy and ideology, showing the political and economic roots of the new militarism and its consequences both in the global and local context.
A New Way to Solve Problems: Do It Like Zidane
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
A short video illustrating how to deal with conflict using the Zidane method.
New World Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Chomsky describes the relationships developing between China, Europe and Latin America while the US remains occupied in the Middle East, leaving the nation as the odd one out.
News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The world today is poised between the U.S. and East Asian centered phases of capitalist expansion.
No laughing matter: Cartoonists take issue
New Internationalist March 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at the strengths of comics and cartoons as an educational and development communication tool.
Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
NYU: Nerds on Strike!
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On November 9, 2005, graduate student employees at New York University (NYU) put down their red pens and picked up their picket signs. After a 2004 ruling by a Bush- appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NYU administration seized the opportunity to refuse to recognize and renegotiate with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)/ UAW Local 2110.
The Occupier Defines Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Oracle Bones
A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A first-hand exploration of contemporary China through the accounts of its living citizens as well as through ancient artifacts uncovered in archeological digs -- a psycho-social examination of who the Chinese are today.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
Panoply of the Absurd
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Conspiracy theorists are filling bestsellers with their supposed evidence about September 11.
Peace Mom
A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
Pictures Bring Us Messages
Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
Post 9/11 Conspiracism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The tendency to explain all major world events as primarily the product of a secret conspiracy is called conspiracism. The antidote to conspiracism is Power Structure Research.
Pretensions to Empire
Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Adminstration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Latham's hypothesis's is that the Bush administration perverted the democratic legacy of America. He argues that Bush attempted to transform America into a Global empire -- the one superpower that would strike anywhere on the planet and catalogues the mistruths, evasions and deceptions of the administration.
Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
A Question of Torture
CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Chronicles the US government's use of terror as a political instrument
Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
The Rage of the "Righteous"
On Muslim Outrage at a Danish Cartoon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Over and over, in the wake of 9/11, Muslims (and many non-Muslims) have proclaimed that all Muslims must not be judged on the basis of the few that are terrorists. Yes, it was Muslims that flew the airplanes into the World Trade towers, but most Muslims are not like that. That's very true. Each individual should be judged only on the basis of his or her own behaviour. So then why are all Danes being judged on the basis of one Danish cartoon? Why has an embassy been burned? Why have Danish products been taken off shelves?
Raging Against the Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Influential articles from 30 years of hard-hitting, independent journalism from New Internationalist.
Railroading Economics
The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Explores how even in the United States, the market has always been subject to constraints. Perelman examines the way in which these constraints have been defended by such figures as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, and Herbert Hoover, and were indeed essential to the expansion of U.S. capitalism.
Refugee Sandwich
Stories of Exile and Asylum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Resistance and Rebellion
Lessons from Eastern Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Looks at how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes.
Resistance on the Mexican #Riviera#: The Zapatistas Visit Manzanillo, Colima
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Review: Cyber-Marx - Aufheben
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Aufheben critically review Nick Dyer-Witheford's Cyber-Marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism and its basis in the flawed theories of Antonio Negri.
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Israel/Palestine Since 2003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An urgent and searing exposé of the #peace process# by a prominent Israeli thinker.
Seth Farber's Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
My grandparents came to America from Hungary in 1912. My family who stayed there and the Hungarian Jewish population were mostly killed by the fascists in the bitter winter of 1944, some 800,000. Twenty thousand alone died of the cold and disease, huddled in the great unheated synagogue, the largest in the world, on Dohany Street in Budapest.
Squatter Town: The South's urban explosion
New Internationalist January/February 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look at squatter communities and the social injustices they face.
Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behavior, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
Subterranean Fire
A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Smith explores how the connection between the U.S. labor movement and the Democratic Party has repeatedly held back working-class struggles. She also examines the role of the labor movement in the 2004 presidential election following the shrinking electoral influences of labor.
The Targeting of Walter Rodney
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the country attending a Black Power conference in Canada. The Guyanese-born Rodney was no stranger to Jamaica, having graduated from UWI in 1963. He returned to his alma mater as a faculty member at the beginning of 1968, after doing graduate studies in England and working briefly in Tanzania.
Three Brothers In Blood
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission To Promote Peace ... One School At A Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Through a Glass Darkly
American Views of the Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Draws on a lifetime of immersion in contemporary Chinese politics and society, beginning with the seven years he spent in China.
Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
Toronto Pride 1981 - setting the historical record queer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Pride event in 1981 would not have taken place without the new political and social context created by the massive resistance that took place against the bath raids that year. Thousands of queer men, lesbians and our supporters took to the streets on a number of occasions.
Trade Justice! Yes, but what is it?
New Internationalist April 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
Discusses Trade justices and the effects its has had on different parts of the world. Voices the opinions of people from the around the world on the topic of trade justice.
Transit Union Shuts NYC Down: Standing Up for Our Rights
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
What do you get when you mix 35,000 angry workers, an arrogant management, a union leadership under pressure from its membership, a decades-long drive to shrink the public sector, a racial divide between bosses and workers, and miscalculations?
The Truth About the "9/11 Truth Movement"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
A rebuttal of some of the claims made by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
An Unfragmented Movement: The People are the City
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Joanna Dubinsky Interviews Shana Griffin. "I'm not interested in developing an action plan to rebuild/organize a people's agenda in New Orleans without a gender analysis and a demand for community accountability."
Unspeakable Love
Gay amd Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
The Venezuelan Revolution
New Internationalist June 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
A look inside the Venezuelan Revolution and facts and history of the country.
The Way We Eat
Why Our Food Choices Matter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The authors make a case for how people's everyday food choices affect others' lives.
We are All Complicit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Chomsky responds to Oliver Kamm's critique of his "crude and dishonest arguments". He illustrates that many people remain committed to complicity despite the crimes of the state for which we are all responsible.
What is anarcho-syndicalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one#s life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
What Went Wrong in Ohio
The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Documents fraud in the 2004 U.S. election.
Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Power can't be "abolished" any more than gravity can be. Rather, building a self-managing society means a shift from hierarchical structures that concentrate power at the top to new structures through which the mass of the people collectively exercise the power to control their work and the society as a whole.
You Can't Read This
Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Written for children ages ten and up, You Can#t Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.
From Gaza, with Love
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2006
A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
Oaxaca protests 2006
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).

2005

The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society basedf on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2008
What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
Silenced
International Journalists Expose Media Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2008
What happens to journalists who expose uncomfortable truths? How far are journalists prepared to go in order to report a difficult story? Silenced provides answers to these questions with the stories of journalists who risked their careers so that the public might be informed.
The Wall Must Fall
End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005 Published: 2007
A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
Commonwealth of Thieves
The Improbable Birth of Australia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
Race Against Time
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
The Ramallah Concert
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
This concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra took place in August of 2005 in the Palestinian Territory in the city of Ramallah and includes repertoire that Daniel Barenboim is famous for, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola and the ""Nimrod"" variation from Elgar's ""Enigma Variations."" Also includes a feature-length documentary: ""Knowledge is the Beginning"", which was filmed over a six-year period and tells the story of Barenboim's development of the orchestra through interviews, rehearsal and concert excerpts.
Telling it like it isn#t
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall.
Art, Religion and Hatred
Religious Intolerance in Russia and its Effects on Art
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Report on religious intolerance in Russia and its effects on artists and their freedom of expression.
False Freedom
Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This report examines internet censorship policy and how theIinternet has transformed the accessibility of information mainly in the countries of Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. When examining each country the following is considered: government policies on Internet access, theIinternet's role in affecting freedom of expression, restrictive laws and cases in which individuals have been detained for their online activities.
Background to Bush's Debacle: Iraq and the Empire
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The stated objective of the neoconservatives in control of United States foreign policy today is to carry out a war on terror by spreading freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world, if necessary by American power alone, and if necessary by guided missiles, Humvees, and fighter jets.
Bush to New Orleans Survivors: "You're On Your Own"
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Like everyone who "got out" before Katrina hit, my exit was a private one. My partner and I took heed of the voluntary evacuation because we had the means to do so. We packed three changes of clothes and our passports, got in our trusty 1998 Ford Escort station wagon with some friends, and left our green-shuttered 100-year-old Victorian shotgun house in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
A Commentary from Israel: Peace Camp - Dead or Alive?
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A few weeks ago my friend Ilan Pappé published an article under the title "There is no peace camp in Israel." These words were originally spoken in a lecture delivered by the intellectual activist—or the activist intellectual—at a conference that took place in Fribourg, in the framework of the Swiss Social Forum.
From 1905 to Our Time
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The 1905 revolution consisted of a series of mass strikes which pushed the Tsarist regime into at least the promise of major constitutional change. The focus here, however, is not on the “results” of the 1905 revolution, but on its “prospects”; on what its process promised and still can promise, even in so much less revolutionary times. 1905 was a crucial year not only for its revolutionary content but for its expression of the dynamic, and form, of working-class struggle.
Globalization's Damages
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The main argument in favor of neoliberalism is simple enough: individuals will freely exchange whenever mutual gains result. It follows that restricting trade and investment across borders both infringes liberty and prevents people from enjoying benefits. At this point an appeal is made to historical evidence: previously poor regions have lifted more people out of poverty at a faster rate than ever before in human history by opening up to trade and investment.
Hoffa Jr.: The Real Record
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many savvy Labor movement activists and observers are understandably puzzled by Teamster President James Hoffa’s sudden and enthusiastic endorsement of the Change to Win Coalition. Within the Teamsters, it’s been the reform movement and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) who have championed the need for structural reform to free up resources to organize the union's core industries-usually in the face of boos and catcalls from the Hoffa crowd.
Indigenous Resistance to Gold Mine Gains Momentum
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Last June 13 indigenous communities in Sipacapa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, voted overwhelmingly to reject gold mining on their lands. Oxfam’s press release announced the results: 2,486 people cast their vote against the mine, 35 voted in favor, 32 abstained and one cast a blank vote.
John Brown, Abolitionist
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Why do some people take literally the admonitions of our faiths, both religious and secular? We are all advised to “do unto others.” We all hear, from early childhood, that “all men are created equal.” Yet, not all of us abide by these “faiths of our fathers.”
The Northwest Airlines Strike: Where is Labor Going?
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) strike at Northwest Airlines offers a window into class relations and the state of the labor movement in the United States. What we can see through that window is very grim.
The Northwest Strike: Acid Test for Labor
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The following speech was given by Malik Miah, a United Airlines Airline representative and editor of Way Points of Local 9 of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), at a San Francisco Airport rally on Labor Day, September 5, organized for striking mechanics, custodians and cleaners at Northwest Airlines.
Snapshots of the Bolivarian Revolution
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This summer I traveled to Venezuela with my family and these are some impressions. Thanks to my friend Fred Rosen for correcting some errors of fact and offering some useful information. My colleague Susan Paulson was also kind enough to read and comment, as was Deborah James of Global Exchange. I alone am responsible for the views presented here.
Surviving When the State Disappeared: Community vs. Katrina
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Suzi Weissman interviews Mike Davis. Suzi Weissman interviewed author Mike Davis for her "Beneath the Surface" program on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. The discussion was transcribed by Alice Taylor and edited for publication.
Zimbabwe: Mbeki to Mugabe's Rescue
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Consider these wise words from a leading African National Congress politician: "As we speak, the neoliberal orthodoxy sits as a tyrant on the throne of political-economic policymaking. The dominant social and economic forces are doing their utmost to hegemonize the discourse — both materially and in respect of how developmental processes are to be institutionalized and theorized. Among other things, they use such transnational governmental organizations as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization to shape the discourse within which policies are defined, the terms and concepts that circumscribe what can be thought and done."
Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
What Will It Take To Win?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Our current strategy engages people in an arena # history and events in Palestine/Israel # far from their direct experience. We are the experts on a topic they know little about. We ask people to learn from us about something far away, and to take some local action (like voting for divestment) to express their agreement with us about it. There is a limit to how many people will be interested in doing this. A revolutionary strategy, in contrast, engages people in the arena which they know a lot about, and into which they have tremendous insights from direct personal experience.
What Ford did to the Ramapough Mountain Indians
Ford, the feds, the mob: Making a wasteland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Ford repeatedly dumped in poor communities and failed to clean up its mess. Documents reveal that Ford executives knew as early as 34 years ago that its waste had contaminated a stream that feeds the Wanaque Reservoir. They show that the company tried to evade responsibility by presenting tainted land as a “gift” to the state. Organized crime played a key role in a vast assault on the environment. An analysis of public records and interviews with truckers who hauled Ford’s waste shows mob-controlled contractors dumped anywhere they could get away with it. They bribed, threatened, even murdered to maintain control of Ford’s trash.
Homefront Confidential, 6th Edition
How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In the days immediately following September 11, the U.S. government embarked on a disturbing path of secrecy. The atmosphere of terror induced public officials to abandon this country's culture of openness and opt for secrecy as a way of ensuring safety and security.
"We Went into the Mall and Began 'Looting'"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Peter Berkowitz is a long-time Monthly Review subscriber. He was in New Orleans bringing his son Ernesto to begin his freshman year at Loyola when they were caught in the hurricane. Peter and Ernesto spent five days on the street by the Convention Center.
Already in Hell: Labor After Communism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Factory workers in the former Soviet Union have a saying: “Things can’t get any worse, we are already in hell.” David Mandel’s book Labour After Communism documents the realities of working-class life in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: factories with no central heating, where workers to maintain body heat build fires in metal drums or large metal toolboxes, the smoke of these fires rising up through holes in the roof.
Assaulting pro-Palestinian Activism: Smear Tactics at U-M
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In March, 2005 the student assembly at the University of Michigan held a campus- wide meeting to vote on a resolution calling for the university to form an advisory committee to review university investments in companies supporting the Israeli occupation. This was not a divestment resolution, but a small-scale resolution calling for an investigative committee to investigate university investments.
Economic Crisis & Fundamentalism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Susan Weissman interviews John Daly.
Fighting the Wal-Mart Plague
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Liza Featherstone offers a devastating portrait of rampant sex discrimination at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Women working for the company at all levels — from cashier positions to the highest levels of corporate marketing — have been paid less than their male coworkers and offered far fewer raises and promotions.
From the Front Lines of Native Women's Struggles
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
As a longtime Black lesbian feminist progressive who came up through the women’s, anti-racism, labor and environmental justice movements in the United States and Canada, I like to think of myself as fairly well read, and up on my analysis of the historical and current material conditions of women of color and our movements for liberation.
A Hidden Story of the 1905 Russian Revolution: The Unemployed Soviet
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The movement of the unemployed in St. Petersburg is a little-known episode of the First Russian Revolution of 1905-7. The movement came as a complete surprise to everyone at the time, since it is did not fit any pre-conceived schema (although, strictly speaking, it had a precedent in the February Revolution of 1848 in France, when the revolutionary government established the "Ateliers nationaux" public-works program).
An Israeli Anti-Zionist Memoir: On the Border
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Michael Warschawski has written a richly deserved prize winning book On the Border. Warschawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem and a well known anti-Zionist activist, first came to Israel from France before the1967 war, to study at a religious-Zionist Talmudic academy. He is a comrade and the husband of noted Israeli civil rights lawyer Lea Tsemel.
Kyrgyzstan After Akayev
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Kyrgyzstan’s March 2005 “Tulip Revolution,” if something less than really a revolution, resulted in its president, Askar Akayev, fleeing the country. Once hailed as the most democratic leader in the region, Akayev was overthrown by spontaneous demonstrations of a population angered by corruption, nepotism, economic despair and demoralization.
Labor Studies Under Siege
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
More than a decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, leftists are now more likely to be targeted by the right wing as "terrorists" than as "communists"—yet redbaiting is alive and well in the field of Labor Studies. In recent years, university labor programs have been attacked in the press for their teaching and research, and been targeted by university administrators for drastic budget reductions or elimination.
Lessons from the 1905 Revolution
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
1905 was a decisive year in Socialist History in that the working class movement developed two crucial weapons in its armory: Soviets (workers’ councils), which were new, and the general strike, which was not. Since that time both political forms have been extensively used and theorized.
The Message and Meaning of Groundings 2005: Walter Rodney Lives!
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Seeking to grasp at the core of Walter Rodney's legacies for Caribbean peoples today, speakers at the recent Groundings in Guyana used the words "decency," "boldness," and "humanity." It was in such spirit that the Groundings were organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Rodney's assassination at the hands of the ruling paramount party, PNC, in Guyana in 1980.
Muslims in Britain: After the London Bombs
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Whitechapel Market is in the heart of George Galloway’s Bethnal Green (London) constituency, packed every Saturday wiith traders selling low priced fruit, unreliable electrical goods and cheap cigarettes.
The NAACP's Future
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The NAACP is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country. Founded in 1909, it played a leading role in opposing lynching laws and legal segregation until the demise of Jim Crow three decades ago .
Racism & Conflict at Southern Illinois
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I teach on a campus that prides itself on its racial diversity; Southern Illinois University is consistently ranked in the top ten among predominantly white campuses in graduation rates for African Americans. Yet the university has trouble confronting racial issues, and has no published policy on racial harassment.
Remembering a Revolutionary Artist: Vlady Presente!
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Vlady Kibalchich, born in Petrograd, Russia in June 1920, died on July 21, 2005 at home (in his studio) in Cuernavaca, Mexico after a difficult battle with cancer which began as a melanoma, but spread to his brain. He was 85.
Rosa Luxemburg & the Mass Strike
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Russian revolution of 1905 sparked strikes and protests all over Central Europe. In Germany the workers took an active interest in the Russian situation and demanded the presence of the SPD’s (Social Democratic Party) inspiring speaker, Rosa Luxemburg. For Luxemburg, the upsurge in strikes symbolized the revolutionary spirit of the working class. She became increasingly disillusioned and frustrated, however, with the SPD’s lack of support and the Trade Unions’ attempts to prevent strikes.
Solidarity with Iraqi Labor
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The first delegation of Iraqi labor leaders to visit the United States—and one of the few Iraqi groups of any sort not sponsored by the U.S. government—addressed more than 70 meetings across the country this June. The group included representatives from the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) and General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE).
Sports & Resistance
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The two most famous fists in American history belong to Tommie Smith and John Carlos. In 1968, Smith and Carlos finished gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash competition in the Olympic Games in Mexico City. Just months before, the two African-American men, both members of the Olympic Committee to Protect Human Rights (OPHR), had been considering a boycott of the games with their fellow OPHR members.
U.S. Law: Religious or Secular?
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
“The Founding Fathers,” my fundamentalist Christian friend once declared to me in the midst of a rather heated argument, “were Christians and created a Christian country.” “No, you’ve got it all wrong,” I sputtered and hastened to explain, “Jefferson was a Deist.”
Wasáse
Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
An integration of anarchist thinking with indigenous theory.
An Anti-Imperialist War Resister
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
ATC Interviews Carl Webb. Military resister Carl Webb, 39, is Absent Without Leave from the Texas National Guard, after his service was involuntarily extended in July, 2004 through the military Stop-Loss program. He tells his story on his website www.carlwebb.net and blogspot carlwebb.blogspot.com and has been speaking out at antiwar meetings. His explicit anti-imperialist views have made him a somewhat controversial figure within the peace movement.
The Battle for Democracy in Mexico
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Mexican people won a battle for democracy this past spring when massive demonstrations — the largest in Mexico’s tumultuous history — prevented President Vicente Fox from making Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador ineligible to run for president in 2006. The defeat of Fox on this issue was a victory for the Mayor, but above all for the Mexican people, who defended their right to vote for a candidate of their choice in the coming national elections.
"Born into Brothels" Controversy
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
"Born into Brothels" won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary. Directed by British photojournalist Zana Briski and U.S. film editor Ross Kauffman, the film follows Briski’s project of teaching photography to a group of children who live in Sonagachi — Calcutta, India’s red-light district — as well as Briski’s efforts to get these children of sex workers admitted into boarding schools.
Gifts of the IWW
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In June of this year, the Industrial Workers of the World celebrates 100 years of existence—a glorious and terrible 100 years. The IWW experienced the state-sponsored murder of its bravest members, most famously when "Wobbly Bard" Joe Hill was executed in 1915, having been framed for murder. It lived through years of slander and repression; limped along, still proud and singing, through decades when its membership dropped ever closer toward zero; and remains, not only as a piece of history, but as a force in the present and an inspiration for the future.
Guatemala: The Violence of "Free Trade"
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
On January 11, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger spoke to a group of reporters in Guatemala City about ongoing protests against a World Bank mining project in the northern part of the country. He said that his government had to establish law and order. “We have to protect investors,” said Berger.
Haiti in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In 2004, shortly after the coup in Haiti in which President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from office, in the year of the bicentenary of the Haitian revolution, a group of concerned Caribbean Faculty at the University of Toronto organized an emergency public meeting that was exceptionally widely attended.
Haiti: Racially Profiled!
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I thank the organizers for this event that places Haiti squarely in our consciousness where it belongs. I am grateful that Honor Ford-Smith, Jacqui Alexander and Alissa Trotz were so insistent that I attend despite my best efforts to excuse myself. A large number of campus units and off-campus organizations came together, and one knows that this is the proper way to approach our subject tonight. Men anpil, chay pa lou (many hands make the load light).
Making Trouble Today
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Activists who read the first A Troublemaker’s Handbook, published by Labor Notes in 1991, recognized themselves in the stories of courageous workers who fought to improve their workplaces and their lives. They were gratified that they were not alone, that there was a whole network of troublemakers out there, and even a handbook that took the lessons they’d learned and made them accessible to thousands of other workers.
The PATRIOT Act: Darkness With No Sunset
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A report by Amnesty International released May 13, 2005 concluded that the treatment of detainees being held around the world, including Guantanamo, in the United States' "war on terror," as glaring and systematic violations of human rights, describing the conditions at the Guantanamo Detention Center as "the gulag of our times, entrenching the notion that people can be detained without any recourse to the law." ("Guantanamo and Beyond: The Continuing Pursuit of Unchecked Executive Power," Amnesty International, 5/13/05)
Pension Terminations
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Pensions have been an example of a major social wage that most Americans took for granted, both in private and public sector employment. That’s no longer the case. Ask the workers at United Air Lines.
Reading Red: Art & Social Revolution
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Throughout much of the 20th century, distinguished painters and muralists were habitually adjoined to revolutionary movements, sometimes producing monumental works expressive of socialist dreams, as well as of the aims and struggles of working people and anti-fascist fighters. One thinks immediately of Spain’s Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973), Mexico’s Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), and the Russian avant-garde of the early Soviet Union.
Scamming Social Security
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Susan Weissman interviews Michael Hudson. Susan Weissman, an editor of Against the Current, interviewed author Michael Hudson this past April on her program “Beneath the Surface” on radio station KPFK, Pacifica in Los Angeles. Many thanks to Walter Tanner for transcribing. The following is an abridged and edited text of the interview.
The Second Fall of Aristide
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many observers in the progressive community have argued that the forced departure into exile of Haiti’s former President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, had little to do with his own policy failures or the country’s domestic class structure. Instead they blame the international community and especially American imperialism. While there is some truth to this argument, it is ultimately flawed; it ignores Haitian agency and exaggerates the omnipotence of U.S. hegemony.
Studying State & Capitalist Development
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Given the dominant neoliberal ideology of our times, it is assumed in most quarters that state intervention in the economies of the post-World War II era was an utter fiasco. This argument is taken as even more self-evident in the case of the countries of the capitalist periphery or “Third World.”
Understanding Imperialism: Old and New Dominion
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
It is a commonplace today that we have entered a “new age of imperialism.” The emergence of complex world money markets, increasingly integrated global production systems, aggressively neoliberal policies imposed by the likes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the belligerent militarism of the American state — all these are recognized as new modalities of capitalist empire.
Vigilante Man, 2005 Style
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The vigilantes are back. In the 1850s they lynched Irishmen in San Francisco; in the 1870s they terrorized the Chinese throughout the West; in the 1910s they murdered striking Wobblies in California, Washington and Montana; in the 1920s they organized “Bash a Jap” campaigns; and in the 1930s they greeted the Joads and other Dust Bowl refugees to California with teargas and buckshot.
Water War in Bolivia
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
¡Cochabamba! is a window on the potential for liberation, and on the strategic challenges, of our times. Oscar Olivera, one of the key leaders of the struggle, and Tom Lewis, a member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review (U.S.), have done a tremendous service in writing this book. Although some basics of the Cochabamba story and considerations on strategy are recounted here, you can only get the Full Monty by reading the book.
People of Color Talk is Cheap
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A concept like ‘People of Color’, which obscures privilege and hierarchy within the racial system itself, can often make work harder for antiracists.
Torture by Taser
When police abuse their newest #nonlethal# toy, people die.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Patent Absurdity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted.
Naomi Klein's "Courage"
Ain't But One Way Out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In saying that we need to make Iraq safe for democracy, Klein is buying into the US agenda for Iraq.
Jared Diamond, Greenwasher
Shilling for Chevron
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Since Jared Diamond and the economists all believe in the inviolability of the capitalist system, there is a certain cognitive dissonance at work in their writings. They harp on the symptoms, but stop short at identifying the root cause. It is what psychologists call denial.
The Defeat of Post-USSR Labor
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The nascent Soviet labor movement played an important, perhaps crucial, role in shaking the foundations of the Soviet system, which proved remarkably fragile beneath its impressive totalitarian superstructure. But this movement failed to develop the organizational and ideological independence that would have allowed it to influence the subsequent course of events.
Einstein's 1905 Revolution: New Physics, New Century
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Albert Einstein hardly needs an introduction. A popular culture icon, his name, his disheveled appearance in late life, his theory of relativity are synonymous with genius. It may be hard to imagine a physicist as a popular culture icon, Time's Person of the Century (for heaven's sake); yet no other figure of the 20th Century comes to my mind, with the possible exception of Picasso, whose legacy is so indisputable as to qualify for the position of something so improbable as Person of the Century.
Fifth World Social Forum
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The fifth World Social Forum convened this year from January 26th through 31st in Porto Alegre, Brazil in the wake of the Bush inauguration and intensifying violence in Iraq, but also some victories for progressive movements in the global south and particularly Latin America.
A Military Resister and Conscientious Objector
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
ATC Interviews Camilo Mejia. Sgt. Camilo Mejia, the first active-duty U.S. military resister to be imprisoned for refusing re-deployment to Iraq, spoke at a Detroit antiwar rally Friday, March 18, the day before attending the founding convention of Iraq Veterans Against the War in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Palestine: Victims of Violence
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Nurit Peled delivered this speech to the European Parliament on International Women’s Day. Nurit Peled is an Israeli peace activist (her father Gen. Mati Peled was instrumental in founding the Israeli peace movement in the 1970s). She and her husband work with Bereaved Families (Palestinian and Israeli).
Personal Reflections: Saving Social Security
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
My dad died when I was 15. I was going into my junior year of high school, my younger brother was still in grammar school. From then on my mother received a Social Security check for each of us until we graduated from high school, and — since I went to college — until I was 21. Unlike so many students today, I finished college debt free.
The Rebellion in Bolivia
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
From the inspiring rebellion of the indigenous and popular classes of the Bolivian altiplano (high plateau),(1) the eruption of the 690,000-strong shantytown of El Alto, and the popular neighborhoods in the hillsides of the capital La Paz in the “Gas War” of October 2003, emerged the “October Agenda,” a list of popular demands to remake the country in the name of the poor and the indigenous majority.
Rebellions and Black Wealth
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
What is a working-class family’s most valuable asset? What does every family seek to own?
Sexing Susan Sontag
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The death of Susan Sontag, one of the most acclaimed intellectuals of her time, on December 28, 2004 immediately inspired controversies about her sexuality. Many writers rightfully questioned major newspapers’ studied silence in their obituaries on her relationships with women.
Shorter Hours Now!
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The bumper stickers say, "Unions: the folks who brought you the weekend." For almost a century, the success of workers' drive to shorten working hours and increase leisure time was considered a sign of progress and humanity. After all, "we work to live," not "live to work."
U.S. Labor in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
There is today a rare open debate going on within the U.S. Labor Movement over its future. Rarer still is the fact that much of it appears on competing internet blogs. The current debate, provoked by some within Labor’s national leadership, has been almost exclusively focused on “restructuring” and resource reallocation. But the leader-led debate has failed to discuss the more fundamental question of the “culture” of unionism in America today.
Using the Holocaust
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The crowd of world leaders visiting the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem attests to the strength of Israel’s position in the West. Israel is often criticized in the home countries of these leaders, but many Israelis and Jews will, as usual, attribute such criticism to anti-Semitism.
Witch Hunt vs. Academic Freedom
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I appear before you today because of a campaign of intimidation to which I have been subjected for over three years. While this campaign was started by certain members of the Columbia faculty, and by outside forces using some of my students as conduits, it soon expanded to include members of the Columbia administration, the rightwing tabloid press, the Israeli press, and more locally the Columbia Spectator. Much of this preceded the David Project film “Columbia Unbecoming,” and the ensuing controversy.
Wobblies on the Southern Home Front
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Most readers of Against the Current know the Industrial Workers of the World by their imaginative and daring radical tactics and campaigns in the Northeast and the West — the Free Speech campaigns; the Lawrence, Massachusetts Bread and Roses textile strike, made colorful by its propaganda, and especially the pageants and children’s evacuation that brought the strike publicity; their organizing of itinerant workers and hoboes; and the Wobblies’ clarion calls for direct action and sabotage on the job, as well as loudmouthed boasts of violent action in response to the bosses’ violence.
WSF Youth Camp
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
First, a picture of the World Social Forum’s Youth Camp in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Imagine an unending sea of tents and tarps, hammocks hanging from the trees-all of it baking under the sun. Dirt paths divide the camp and are lined by a colorful array of vendors hawking soap, food (“Refri, agua!” was the constant chant), marijuana plants, and jewelry.
The beauty of wind farms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Windmills are beautiful. They harness the power of the wind to supply us with heat and light. They provide local jobs. They help clean our air and reduce climate change.
Right to Life - Ghouls and the Schiavo Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Exploiting the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
Right and Wrong Responses to Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Israeli government hypocritically seizes upon every suicide bombing to justify the far greater Israeli state terror against Palestinians. To side with Israel in this hypocrisy is as morally bankrupt as it would have been to side with slave owners or the genocidal U.S. cavalry or the apartheid South African government because of objections to terrorism.
Media Manipulation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
Media manipulation often involves government or corporate propaganda and spin. Sometimes organizations and governments can feed fake news or politically or ideologically slanted stories to broadcasters which depict them as quality news items and journalism.
After 9/11: Whose Security?
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Since 9/11 the United States has been obsessed with "security" in a very particular sense—protection from intentional threats to our safety and well being, as in "Office of Homeland Security," "our national security," "the conflict between civil liberties and security considerations," "security was tightened," or, more mundanely, "security guards."
The Archipelago of Horror
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Laupahoehoe in Hawaiian means “foot of lava.” Thousands of years ago, lava cascaded down a steep canyon on the side of mighty Mauna Kea and created a flat shelf between the towering cliffs of the Hamakua Coast on the eastern shore of the island of Hawaii. Laupahoehoe Point became a ceremonial center of great importance to native Hawaiians as well as the only canoe landing along fifty miles of rugged coast.
Bush, the Democrats & the Greens After 2004
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
One peculiar event around the 2004 elections received almost no analysis or discussion: The overwhelming majority of the supporters of John Kerry disagreed with their candidate on most major issues. This simple fact tells how deep the corruption of the American political system has become.
Civil Liberties on Trial
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Lynne F. Stewart, 65, a lawyer noted for representing political defendants, was convicted on February 10th of five charges: two counts of conspiracy, a count of providing and concealing material support to terrorist activity and two counts of making false statements. Convicted of felony charges, Stewart was immediately disbarred. She is out on bail until her July sentencing date; her lawyers will file an appeal in early March.
Free Higher Education
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Interview with Adolph Reed, Jr. Dr. Adolph Reed, political scientist, author and activist, is the national spokesperson for the Free Higher Education Campaign, which calls for free tuition and fees for all students who meet admissions requirements at all two and four-year public colleges.
Issues, Outcome and Prospects: The Ukranian Events
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Although the Ukrainian presidential elections were front-page news for the last two months of 2004, and no event in the history of Ukraine has ever attracted so much media coverage and analysis, what happened, why, and its significance are questions impossible to answer with certainty.
The Jungle at 100
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
When it was first published as a book in 1906, The Jungle’s graphic revelations about the American meatpacking industry, combined with its compelling story of an immigrant worker’s brutal degradation, made it an immediate sensation.
The Left & Disability
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
I joined “the crips” 13 years ago, upon being forced to quit work due to toxic exposure at my workplace. “The crips” are not a group you really fight to get into, but they can have excruciating initiation rites, worse than to get into “Skull and Bones.” And you don’t have to come from a rich family; in fact, membership almost always insures that you become poor, and very quickly!
The Long Shadow of Mass Incarceration: A Generation Imprisoned
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This January, the U.S. Supreme Court started what may prove to be a fundamental overhaul of criminal sentencing in federal jurisdictions. In two interrelated cases, Booker and Fanfan, the court struck down key elements of the current federal sentencing system, put in place over twenty years ago when Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act.
Middle East Cauldron
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The past three decades of Middle East history present a process of what I sometimes call “permanent counterrevolution,” unfolding under the ever-present reality of imperial domination, rivalry and of course the politics of oil.
The Occupation and the Anti-War Movement After the Election
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Anyone watching the message on Iraq in George W. Bush's February 3 State of the Union address must be convinced that members of both Houses of Congress, starting with Dick Cheney himself, are definitely making the physical effort needed to sustain their cardiac health. The frenzied rhythm of their standing ovations indeed equaled the most intensive aerobics.
Peace, Love, Respect and the Blues
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Popa Chubby is a well-accomplished blues-rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriter in New York City, and on his CD “Peace, Love & Respect” (Blind Pig BPCD 5089), he’s angry. Angry at the war in Iraq, and its waste of young lives. Angry at Bush and his assault on all of us except the very rich. Angry at the frustration and rage he sees in the ordinary people all around him. Angry at the social pathology that’s his daily lot in New York City, and anymore, seemingly everywhere else (including Indianapolis).
Those Bush Two Blues
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The imperial investiture of George W. Bush was celebrated with corporate-financed balls through the night. Half a world away in Iraq, the empire burned, and bodies from the Indian Ocean tsunami continued to be retrieved from the surf and the muck of shattered villages from Aceh to Sri Lanka to India to Somalia. The cost of the coronation, a few tens of millions of dollars (but who's counting?), could have paid for a warning system to save the lives of many of the 250-300,000 victims.
Urgent Appeal from the Philippines: End Violence in the Movement
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Dear Friends, recently, our executive director Walden Bello was named by the key organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines as a "counterrevolutionary" in a list that included both living and dead activists. After consultation with a number of people, we have reasons to believe that this represents a real threat to Walden's security.
Why We've Been Targeted
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Jose Maria Sison must take us for fools. He and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leadership compile a list of living and assassinated “counterrevolutionaries,” disseminate it among CPP members, then claim this is simply a harmless exercise in information dissemination!
The Wobblies Heritage
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The cover of this Against the Current issue features something new that is also a century old: a Wobbly icon. This one is an image, on a banner (one of twelve made by labor muralist Mike Alewitz), foregrounding the old “Sabo-Tabby” of sabotage, backgounding the striking coal miners’ tactic of putting nails in the path of cars and trucks bringing scabs to work.
Women in the Venezuelan Revolution
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In the referendum of 15 August, 2004 Venezuelans reaffirmed Hugo Chávez as president by a vote of 59% to 41%. We know that the 59% was overwhelmingly the voice of the poorest, not only reaffirming Chávez in power but insisting that the program of change continue and increase.
On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law in an extreme and uncompromising manner to any activity, violent or not, that is deemed to be anti-social.
Should People Opposed to Bigotry and Anti-Semitism Support Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
That the Zionist project is bad for Jews as well as for non-Jews is an idea which, for many decades, has been suppressed. It is time good people -- of all faiths -- rediscovered it.
Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
he Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It#s Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
Misconceptions About King’s Methods for Change
A Matter of Life and Death
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Nonviolent social change requires long, hard and sustained work, research, development of solutions, and, importantly, on-going commitment. It demands far more than bringing folks together to march and wave banners. Unfortunately, many activists throughout the world seem to be of the opinion that if you are concerned about an issue you should organize huge "feel good" rallies, which is hoped will almost magically result in changes.
Framing: Primer for a Progressive Revolution -- Part I Philosophy and Rational for Framing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The introduction of framing into the progressive community could well prove to be the beginning of a revolution. But such a revolution can evolve and sustain only with a concerted, impassioned effort by progressive opinion leaders -- executed in such a way that will compel the average voter to IDENTIFY with progressive values.
After Shock & Gawk
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
November 3 began with a shock — the early morning newscast reporting the front page of The London Daily Mirror: “How Can 59,054,087 People be So Dumb?” Culminating what had seemed the longest and unceasingly miserable campaign in U.S. history — and in its wake, the most inconceivable of outcomes: The brazen robber was presented the reward!!
Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
Beyond Chutzpah
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
Bingo The big charity bonanza
New Internationalist October 2005 - #383
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look at issues surrounding big international non-governmental organizations.
Books for Burning
Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Born in Bradford
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
The Buzz Hargrove election controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
The Case Against Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Book review.
The Challenge to Violence
New Internationalist August 2005 - #381
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
Stories which explain the power of nonviolent actions and how they have made a difference in the world.
China and Socialism
Market Reforms and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Argues that market reforms in China are leading toward a capitalist and foreign-dominated development path, with enormous social and political costs, both domestically and internationally.
China in the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The Chinese ruling elite is riding the whirlwind precisely because its own necessary reforms are quite visibly setting in motion social processes that could completely overwhelm it, namely a working-class and peasant insurrection which would necessarily assume a truly socialist content.
Chomsky on Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
This collection of essays and interviews paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-long involvement with anarchist and libertarian socialist currents, his commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization, and his hopes for a future world without rulers.
Combatting Caste
New Internationalist July 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look at the caste system in South Asia and Africa. Discussion of the Dalit system in India.
Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The cost of software piracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The enormous dollar amounts the software industry throws around in its PR campaigns about software 'piracy' are purely imaginary.
Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
While Noam Chomsky has provided extensive documentation of Israeli crimes, his approach has also served to block serious efforts to halt those crimes and to build an effective movement on behalf of the Palestinian cause.
A Dangerous Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Noam Chomsky explores the relationship between the USA and South America. He reveals that due to numerous anti-social policies, America is becoming increasingly isolated - even from Canada.
The Democrats' New Scapegoat
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In 2000, the Democratic Party establishment and much of the left blamed Ralph Nader for the election of George Bush. The “spoiler” label conveniently ignored the fact that Al Gore ran a weak campaign with no compelling message; that more registered Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader; and that the Democratic Party refused to challenge the removal of African Americans from the voter rolls in Florida.
Dilemmas of Domination
The Unmaking of the American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
Disability in the Majority World I've got a right!
New Internationalist November 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
Discussion of people with dissability and their fight for equal rights.
Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
Doctors with Borders
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
The story of four foreign trained doctors who are struggling to become licensed to practise medicine in Ontario.
Don't be a Time Bandit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
Female Well-Being
Toward a global theory of social change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
To understand the weight of fictitious capital in the current context, it is necessary to look beyond the merely economic to the class struggle. Despite the colossal efforts of ideology to deny or trivialize social antagonism, everything today is shaped by class struggle, both the one-sided class struggle waged for 30 years by the capitalist class, and even more so the potential threat of a two-sided struggle to re-emerge into the open.
Flatly Outrageous
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
Forced Passages
Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The dramatic rise and consolidation of America's prison system has devastated lives and communities, but it has also transformed prisons into sites of political discourse and resistance, as they have become home to a growing number of writers, activists, poets, educators, and others who offer radical critiques of American society both within and beyond the prison walls.
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
Girlhood
Redefining the Limits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A collection of essays on girls. It examines girl culture, and the multi-faceted nature of girls' lived experiences. It also looks at "girl" power and the highly commercially lucrative and sexualized culture. The authors examine racism, girlhood gangs, sexuality, chatrooms, the politics of girlhood style and identity formation.The essays cover the many changing and complex aspects of girls in the 21st century.
Government in the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as #the proper and natural extension . . . of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society.#
Grad Student Organizing "19th-Century Style"
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Fisk explores a number of key themes in the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.
Health Disparities By Race And Class: Why Both Matter
Health Affairs, 24, no. 2 (2005): 343-352
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
This essay examines three competing causal interpretations of racial disparities in health. The first approach views race as a biologically meaningful category and racial disparities in health as reflecting inherited susceptibility to disease. The second approach treats race as a proxy for class and views socioeconomic stratification as the real culprit behind racial disparities. The third approach treats race as neither a biological category nor a proxy for class, but as a distinct construct, akin to caste. The essay points to historical, political, and ideological obstacles that have hindered the analysis of race and class as codeterminants of disparities in health.
Helicoptering to the cottage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Using the company helicopter to fly to and from the cottage.
The Illusion of Gaza Withdrawal
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
We gather here in difficult times, when it seems that the Palestinian cause has been almost eliminated from the international agenda. The Western world is hailing the new “peace vision” of Sharon’s disengagement plan.
The Impact of Inequality
How to Make Sick Societies Better
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Imperial Presidency
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky explores the conception of presidential authority and sovereignty, depicting the dangers of the Bush administration's understanding of these concepts.
In Defence of Sex and Science: Review of Kinsey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A review of the film #Kinsey#.
In Defense of Divestment
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
As an Israeli citizen and former tank gunner in the Israeli army, I feel the need to explain why I, along with many other Jews, support divestment from Israel. We are asking the city of Somerville, as well as other cities and civic institutions, to divest from companies involved in selling arms, bulldozers and military technologies that are used by the Israeli army to commit war crimes against Palestinians.
Intelligent Design?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the Bush Administration's understanding of science, touching upon issues such as Evolution, Creationism, and environmental policy.
Introducing the Year 1905: Centennial of Struggle
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The year 1905 stands out as the onset of an era of explosive anticapitalist struggle—all the more so 100 years later, when we feel stranded in a neoliberal ice age. Looking back at the events of that year helps give some perspective on how rapidly consciousness and levels of struggle can change.
Iraq: Guerrilla War in Sadr City
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
In attacking first Najaf, then Tal Afar and Samarra, and finally tackling the center of Sunni resistance in Fallujah, the United States was seeking to reverse this process. But these attacks were not designed to restore order; they were, instead, intended to prevent the consolidation of a very orderly anti-American status quo in a constantly expanding set of "liberated" areas. Ironically, the American attacks in the Fall of 2004 underscore the larger contradictions in American policy in Iraq: that the chaos American leaders keep saying there are preventing will, in fact, occur only if U.S. military forces succeed in destroying these nascent city-states.
The Islamophobia Myth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
An Issue Of Justice
Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Finkelstein lays out the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict with clarity and passion, arguing that any other similar conflict would be perfectly understood, yet this one exists beneath a blanket of ideological fog. Finkelstein cuts through the fog with indisputable historical facts, optimistic that the struggle is winnable, and that it is simply an issue of justice.
It's Imperialism, Stupid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomksy claims that when Bush proclaimed the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction as the premise for invading Iraq, imperialism was, in fact, the genuine motivation.
Just Around the Corner
The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Aronowitz details how U.S. capitalism has achieved higher profits at the expense of the quality and quantity of jobs, and contradicts the ideological justifications that seek to justify deteriorating jobs, showing how they are neither a mark of efficiency nor a merely temporary problem.
Justice after genocide
New Internationalist December 2005 - #385
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look at some countries around the world which have been affected by genocide and some of the characters involved.
Karl Marx and Religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
For Marx, to positively assert that God does not exist is childish. “Man makes religion, religion does not make man. ... The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.”
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume 5: War & Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The subject of this volume is Marx and Engels' views on the relation between war and revolution. Its thesis is that, over the course of decades, their views on this question changed -- evolved is a better word -- although, in this case as in others, they wrote no definitive statement of their views. Instead, we have a considerable corpus of ad hoc responses to the events of the hour, many of them politically explosive, from which we have to reconstruct, not a line, but an approach. To complicate things further, many of these crises, while they were the news of the day at the time, have since faded from memory.
The Language of Empire
Abu Ghraib and the American Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A study of how and why the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was white-washed by the American media.
Last Resorts
The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Examines the real impact of tourism on the people and landscape of the Caribbean. It explores the structure of ownership of the industry and shows that the benefits it brings to the region do not live up to its claims.
Letters from Young Activists
Today's Rebels Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Loss of Faith
How the Air India Bombers Got Away with Murder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
An account of the Air India Bombing trial and investigations.
The Manipulation of Fear
Resort to Fear
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the effects of using fear as a control mechanism to manipulate the population.
Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
Marx et Makhno à la rencontre de McDonald's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
A Paris, les travailleurs précaires qui sont sortis vaniqueurs de plusieurs grèves en ont perud d#autres avec les honneurs à cause des méthodes à la fois légales et illégales des syndicats et des ultra-syndicalistes.
Mr. Bush's truthfulness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The truthfulness-challenged President.
The Myth of Marx’s Economic Determinism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Karl Marx is often represented as an "economic determinist" who credited economic structures with a basic determining role in just about every aspect of human life, and simple models such as "base"/"superstructure" are often invoked to support this. Whilst it may be true that Marx understood individuals to have the scope for meaningful thought and action determined by their social context, as Peter G. Stillman shows, it does not follow that there is a direct causal relationship between "economic" circumstances and spheres such as religion, politics or culture.
The Myth of ‘Simple Commodity Production’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many misunderstandings have arisen from and about the structure of Capital. One of these is that Capital has an historical structure beginning with "Simple Commodity Production." As Chris Arthur shows in this article, Marx knows of no such mode of production. Marx begins with the simplest relation of capital and exhibits the relations of capital by means of a LOGICAL, not a historical structure.
Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
News, Truth and Crime
The Westray Disaster and its Aftermath
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
McMullan examines the media coverage devoted to the ten year (1992-2002) aftermath of the May 9, 1992 explosion where 26 miners died at the Westray mine.
Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press.
The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Integrates the concrete observations of a seasoned observer and participant in southern African liberation struggles with analysis of and reflection on the large question of the place of southern Africa within the global capitalist order and its capacities to contribute toward remaking that global order.
The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
9/11: Debunking The Myths
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Popular Mechanics special report on September 11 conspiracy theories.
Nuclear Power: Nuclear's second wind
New Internationalist September 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look at the return of the use of nuclear power and why. Discussion of the history of the effects of nuclear power in the past.
On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The death of Yaser Arafat, as well as the American assault and ensuing holocaust in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, occurred shortly after our previous issue (Against the Current 113) went to press. The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
Only protect: A photographic celebration of our endangered earth
New Internationalist May 2005 - #378
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A visual look at the world's Ecosystems and a discussion of the scale and urgency of the environmental crisis.
The Other Side of Israel
My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Explores the unequal treatment of Palestinians living in Israel as "citizens", but as second-class citizens in a theocratic state that discriminates against Arabs in many ways.
Out of Africa: A Migrant's Story
New Internationalist June 2005 - #379
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
An issue on the story of a nurse's return back to Kenya and the reason why she has worked so far away from home. Also, a discussion on a widespread crisis in international healthcare and the human costs of our global free-market economy
Outlaws of America
The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Based on interviews with former Weather Underground members, as well as with civil rights activists, Black Panthers, Young Lords, and others.
The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
Resistance in Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarted by the small matter of the stock market bust that wiped out $8 trillion of market value, and caused a 60% drop in the NASDAQ over the first two years of Bush's first term.
Progressive Frames for Taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
As progressives, we do not believe that taxes are necessarily an affliction. Instead, we think of taxes as investments that give us dividends.
Racist Outrage at UMass-Amherst
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Over the past decade, students around the country have fought a conservative backlash on college campuses that has sought to reverse many gains won in the 1970s and 1980s. Along with attacks on labor studies, women's studies, and progressive student organizations, this has also included efforts to roll back affirmative action policies and programs for students of color.
Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Conversations with Jewish Critics of Isreal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
This is a collection of interviews, edited, introduced, and annotated by Farber, a member of Jews Against The Occupation. The contributors are among the leading American Jewish critics of Zionism and of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. The book articualtes the reason behind the dissent and a vocbulary and framework to express it.
Reading the “unreadable” Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Many who have not read Marx have heard that he is “unreadable,” but in this article Humphery McQueen celebrates the colour and humour of Marx’s writing, the use of metaphor, paradox, pun, irony, classical allusion and all the devices of the writer’s art. True, there are passages! the endless manipulation of prices and quantities of coats and cloth in Capital which often add little to the point already made, the obsessive, almost paranoiac bombast of works like Herr Vogt, but some of his prose ranks with the best of its kind, and should be enjoyed. It seems that Marx used these literary devices to achieve a depth of analysis which the normal “scientific” mode of exposition could never achieve.
Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Rethinking Canada's Left History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Ian Mckay starts the book with an analysis of what we mean by the "left". He defines the left broadly to include anyone who understands the injustice of capitalism, the possibilty of democratic alternatives and the need for social transformation. He offers an historical approach based on the work of Antonio Gramsci- an approach he terms "reconnaissance. This would allow leftists to speak to one another across the many dialects of leftism that constitute our traditions. It would allow the left to encompass a greater diversity of people: religious and cultural figures, First Nations, visible minorities, feminists, environmentalists and Quebec nationalists amongst others. McKay writes with those who have struggled for a better world and invites us to go forward to make this a reality - the possibility of a post-liberal, post-capitalist democratic society.
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
An organizing handbook for contingent faculty.It examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher education today and puts forward an agenda around which they can mobilize to transform their jobs # and their institutions.
Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
Rights and Freedoms State Fear The Global attack on rights
New Internationalist March 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look into rights and freedoms, the connection to occupation, and their state in different parts of the world.
The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The backlash and opposition in Iran is at its essence strongly humanist, secularist and modern. You can see it clearly in the rational, popular, and spontaneous acts and the
establishment of hundreds of organisations outside government structures and restrictions that are non-religious and purely for the defence of the human being via reliance on human will.
Ruling Canada
Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Salmon Wars
The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
San Francisco Transit Fight
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Margaret Schirmer Remembered
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Progressive Pilipinos lost a steadfast friend in Margaret (Peggy) Schirmer when she died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 8 at the age of 89.
Setting the Record Straight
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
There is a hope a bi-national soluation will be brought about through political discussion and agitation within both left and liberal circles, especially within the United States, a much less timid Israeli peace movement, and a Left within Israel and among US pro-peace Jewish activists, that courageously embraces the possibility of bi-nationalism and, of course, a Palestinian resistance that works to overcome the nationalism within its own ranks and forges a democratic alternative to the Arafat fraud.
Shell Shock
The Secrets and Spin of an Oil Giant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Simple Truths, Hard Problems
Some thoughts on terror, justice, and self-defence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the truth behind commonly rejected moral truisms. This rejection, according to Chomsky, has serious human consequences.
Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Becoming a professional speaker.
The Social Security Non-Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky reveals the conception of Social Security trying to be sold by Bush administration. He claims such reformers encourage people to think solely of their own interests rather than caring for the community.
Stop the War
The Story of Britain's Biggest Mass Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A Story About Making a Sex Movie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
Street children
New Internationalist April 2005 - #377
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look at the lives of street children around the world. Discussion of the challenges they face day-to-day and what some are forced to do to survive.
Telling the Truth
Socialist Register 2006
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
Ten Thousand Roses
The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution
Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The exchange between Harnecker and Chávez brings to light the process of thought and action behind the public pronouncements and policies of state.
The United Nations at 60 Upside dowN
New Internationalist January/February 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look into the United Nations system and its role in history.
Vlady: ¡Presente!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
He belonged to a unique generation who saw clearly, fought tenaciously, but were defeated. Vlady was generous of spirit and intellect, an artist and a revolutionary to his core; he refused compromise yet socialized in wide circles of poets, politicians, writers, artists and dignitaries.
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
A documentary about Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
A documentary film about the largest company on earth, featuring the stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to survive in a Wal-Mart world.
Wanted a Leader for America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Chomsky depicts how the issues concerning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including the pre-determined risk of 9/11, went ignored under the Bush Administration which focused instead upon global domination ambitions.
We Must Act Now to Prevent Another Hiroshima -- or Worse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Noam Chomsky explains why society should be concerned about the threat of self-destruction, citing, for example, the failure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Workers Power and the Russian Revolution
A review of Maurice Brinton's For Workers Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005

2004

America Beyond Capitalism
Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2006
Alperovitz goes beyond the confines of orthodox thinking, imagines a new way of living together, and offers a set of practical ideas that promise a truly democratic society.
Hope in the Dark
Untold histories, wild possibilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades. She argues for hope - hope even in the dark. She offers a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement in the present.
A Threat from Within
A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
Abusive Conditions as China Goes Capitalist
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The second meeting of the 10th National People’s Congress, held in March 2004, made some amendments to the Constitution. The clause “citizens’ legitimate private property will not be violated” has been added to further defend private property rights and inheritance rights.
AIPAC: Israel's U.S. Spy Den
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The socialist Left must remain clear in its avoidance of a conspiratorial view of history. The entire U.S. political spectrum in the aftermath of the 2000 election, and especially since 9/11, has been awash with conspiracy theories. With deep roots in our political culture, ahistorical conspiratorial views of the workings of the world, devoid of any class understanding or a structural and institutional analysis of what we live in, come bubbling to the surface, especially during times of "national crisis."
Neil Chacker, 1942-2004
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
During the Vietnam war, one Colonel Reberry at Fort Lewis, Washington, posted a threatening notice forbidding the distribution of material that would promote "disloyalty and discontent." A response shortly appeared on the same bulletin board, written by GI Neil Chacker, an American Servicemen's Union organizer.
The Chinese Working Women's Network
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
There is no doubt that China is growing rapidly in importance in the global economy. China has now surpassed the United States as the largest destination in the world for foreign investment. While many U.S. businesses (and other multinationals) look eagerly to both the large Chinese market and the very low wages of Chinese workers, the U.S. labor movement has been focused on stopping the flow of U.S. production and jobs to China.
Four Years of Disaster
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The second Intifada, now entering its fifth year, has seen the world distracted by events in Iraq, enabling Israel to continue violating Palestinians’ human rights with complete impunity.
Honoring Walt Sheasby
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Walt's passing is a triple loss. Personally he was a very dear friend. Second, as we are hearing, in many different ways he was a true stalwart activist, of immense energy and dedication.
Israel's Struggle Within
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
ATC interviews Uri Davis.
Marx on the Planet
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
We have arrived at a turning point in human history. Scientists feel that we have until perhaps 2050 before the multiple and massive environmental problems we face will become irreversible. After that, the planet will not support the existing global capitalist civilization.
The Meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A feature of revolutions is that they keep coming around in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Who would have dared predict the eruption that was Seattle in November 1999, when the powers behind neoliberal globalization seemed completely incontestable?
Naming the Darfur Crisis
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
How can we name the Darfur crisis? The U.S. Congress, and now Secretary of State Colin Powell, claim that genocide has occurred in Darfur. The European Union says it is not genocide. And so does the African Union.
No "Respect" for Class
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In his article on Britain’s ‘Respect Coalition’ in ATC 111 (July-August 2004), Liam MacUaid used the indisputably anti-working class record of the Blair government to justify the highly disputable claim that Respect is a supportable alternative. We want to reply.
Northern Ireland's Troubled Compromise
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
August 31 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Provisional Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) cease-fire, and a turning point in the recent history of Northern Ireland.
A Rejoinder on Respect
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Respect has provided a place in the political ecosystem for those with an inclination to substitute anecdote and slander for an analysis of what’s happening in British politics today. Bywater and Ismail have chosen to make this their habitat.
The Road to Civil War
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
Walt Sheasby: An Activist Life
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
During the late 1960s Walt Sheasby not only organized for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in California, but also helped the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, worked against the Vietnam War, and advocated for and became a volunteer organizer of the Peace and Freedom Party.
Stop Terror & War!
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The wave of terrorist attacks across Russia, culminating in the bloody tragedy at Beslan, has reminded us all that there is a war taking place in this country. Russia’s rulers depict this as the “intervention of international terrorism” and compare it with the events of 11 September 2001.
UAW Pioneer and Fighter for Social Justice: Victor G. Reuther
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Victor Reuther's death June 3, at age 92, was a personal loss-breaking one of the last connections to my parent's socialist movement of the 1930s. Victor was also the connection to the courageous and honorable men and women who made great sacrifices over 60 years ago to win union recognition and the contract gains that my United Auto Workers brothers and sisters now take for granted.
U.S. Unions & the War
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In the buildup to the Iraqi war three members of the United Auto Workers Executive Board — Bob King, Elizabeth Bunn and Richard Shoemaker — spoke out against the pending invasion. Yet since the war began the UAW has not taken a position on the war, or even used the pages of its magazine Solidarity to open a dialogue about how it affects UAW members.
Palestinian farmers face settler terror
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
Deconstructing Derrida
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
There is little doubt that Derrida was an erudite and learned philosopher, but his erudition was bent towards a destructive aim. In him the unreason of the age found its cunning articulator.
Black and White on the Inside
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In April 1993, Lucasville, Ohio, was the site of the longest prison siege in U.S. history during which lives were lost — longer even than the far more infamous 1971 Attica rebellion.
The Caribbean Left's Legacy
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana. The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana is most commonly associated with one of its early members, Walter Rodney. A renowned Pan Africanist and historian, he was assassinated in 1980, at the height of the party's involvement in building a civil rebellion to the Forbes Burnham regime. The WPA continued to organize and build its ranks through a democratic socialist multi racial agenda, but has continuously been marginalized by the two party system, wining only one or two seats in each election.
Democracy Is the Key
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Ann Menasche interviews Peter Camejo: Against the Current: What is the importance of Nader-Camejo campaign in 2004?
Elections & the Democrats
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Revolutionary socialist political strategy is based on the fundamental idea of working class self-emancipation. This means that working people and the oppressed can generate the power they need to change the world only through collective self-mobilization and class self-organization.
Free the Cuban Five!
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Political times have emblematic cases. The ongoing Mumia case, Lynne Stewart’s current prosecution, and the two cases involving the U.S. and Cuban governments illuminate the reality of today’s politics in America, just as the Sacco/ Vanzetti case in the 1920s with respect to immigrants and anarchists or the McCarthite anti-communist Rosenberg case in the 1950s defined their eras.
German Social Democracy in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Crisis in German Social Democratic Party (SPD) is now in a historic crisis, one that threatens its very existence as a part of the international progressive movement. Under the leadership of its chairman, Gerhard Schröder, who also heads the national coalition government with the Greens, the party has undertaken a series of neoliberal reforms that represent a sharp blow to its core constituency: Germany’s workers and the poor.
Green Party Convention: A Party Divided
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In an election year when so many antiwar activists, progressives and even socialists are embracing the “anybody but Bush” (“ABB”) rationale for giving backhanded support to pro-war, pro-corporate John Kerry, the Green Party of the United States emerged from its June convention deeply divided.
Nicaragua Twenty-five Years Later
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Twenty-five years ago, on July 17th — under the impact of an insurrectional general strike — President Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled Nicaragua, leaving the government in the hands of his Vice President Francisco Urcuyo. Urcuyo’s task was to negotiate a “provisional government” and, with Washington’s agreement, implement a cease-fire that would freeze the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) army and National Guard positions.
The Pension Crisis
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
First, wages. Then health care. Now pension benefits.
Remembering Dave Dellinger
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Dave Dellinger’s death on May 25th of this year, at the age of 88, marked the end of a remarkable life. Most readers know him from the event that, more than any other, made him a public figure — the infamous trial of the Chicago Eight, following the riots that marked the Democratic Party’s 1968 convention.
Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Despite stepped-up union recruitment, farm workers and poultry processors still haven't taken over the AFL-CIO. But the old guard's fear of being swamped by low-wage workers—expressed by this AFT delegate seven years ago—has materialized in other ways (even while organizing among "strawberry pickers and chicken pluckers" generally flopped).
The U.S. Military Under Stress
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
John Kerry's campaign tome should dispel any illusion that he has any significant differences with George Bush on the aggressive use of the U.S. military to defend the empire.
Understanding Genocide
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In 1944, a gifted young Jewish-American Marxist playwright, scenarist and fiction writer, Albert Maltz (1908-1985), published the novel that would become the most esteemed work of his professional life. The Cross and the Arrow, praised in the New York Times for “the scope of its vision of humanity” (September 22, 1944), adopted the form a fast-paced political mystery to reveal the events underlying an act of sabotage in Nazi Germany.
Untying the Knots
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
While right-wingers are coordinated in their assault on queers, people of color, women, low-income people and immigrants, many of us under attack are divided, in part because we have learned and internalized the prejudice, mistrust and hatred that the right wing preaches.
Why Cuba Is Different?
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
First, we have to address the United States’ stance toward Cuba for what it is since 1960: four and a half decades of state terrorism against a country and its people. Anyone who supports the right of self-determination is obliged to oppose and fight all forms of U.S. government intervention against Cuba, as if there were no issue of political repression inside Cuba.
How 'diversity' breeds division
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Diversity training is supposed to help 'promote good relations' between different ethnic groups and capitalise on workforce diversity. However, there is warranted scepticism about whether such training alleviates tensions or exacerbates them. Much of the content of this training is overreliant on pop sociology and pseudo-therapeutic techniques. Participants are expected to talk about stereotypes they harbour deep in their subconscious, and disclose feelings of harassment and victimisation. Trainers claim to eliminate stereotypes in the workplace, yet in talking about 'different cultural perspectives' they end up generating new and more insidious stereotypes in their stead.
Judges Run Wild
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The puffed-up arrogance of many family court judges is born of their unfettered control over our lives.
The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The opposite of gentrification should not be decay and abandonment but the democratization of housing. Community land trusts may be a way of working towards this goal.
The Olga Document
For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.
The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
It is clear that mountain biking is harmful to some wildlife and people. No one, even mountain bikers, tries to deny that. Bikes create V-shaped ruts in trails, throw dirt to the outside on turns, crush small plants and animals on and under the trail, facilitate increased levels of human access into wildlife habitat, and drive other trail users (many of whom are seeking the tranquility and primitiveness of natural surroundings) out of the parks.
British Labour Today
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The glory days of the British Labour Party are long behind it. Labour won the 1945 General Election and used the next six years in office to nationalize the Bank of England, the railway network, electricity, the steel industry and road transport.
Chinese Workers' Resistance
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle. Tim Pringle lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
Empire of Lies and Torture
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
The End of Guzzlemainia
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
"The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil. If we manage somehow to overcome the shock by shifting the burden to coal and natural gas, the two other primary fossil fuels, life may go on more or less as it has been until we start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century. And by the time we have burned up all that fuel, we may well have rendered the planet unfit for human life. Even if human life does go on, civilization as we know it will not survive, unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels."
The Health Care Crisis and Kerry-Bush
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A permanent crisis has plagued American health care since 1981. It began with Ronald Reagan, whose tax cuts led to cuts in Medicaid as well as more stringent eligibility rules. The crisis has continued, even through the boom years presided over by Bill Clinton, to the present.
Korean Labor: Protest by Suicide
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In January 2003, Dalho Bae, a 47-year-old worker at Doosan Heavy Industry Co., committed suicide by burning himself. On October 17 Juik Kim, the chief of the metal labor union branch at Hanjin Heavy Industry Co., a ship-constructor, committed suicide after a 129 day-siege on the jeep-crane.
The Lobby Up Close & Personal
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
"AIPAC has one goal only," said Lee Rosenberg, "Strengthening the U.S. Israel relationship." Acting on behalf of the Board of Directors of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Lee welcomed 1600 participants to a conference entitled "AIPAC Presents: The Israeli Summit, Tools for Action".
The Mythology of Corporate Social Responsibility
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
For Dow Chemical, corporate social responsibility means encouraging its employees to volunteer in their communities as long as that doesn't take up company time. It means, according to the Dow website, that "At Dow, protecting people and the environment is part of everything we do and every decision we make."
The Nightmare Comes True
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
I was standing on a hill overlooking the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. Below me was a narrow road, packed with Palestinians in the blazing sun, 30 degrees centigrade in the shade (but there was no shade) trudging towards the checkpoint.
The Poetry of J. Quinn Brisben
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
J. Quinn Brisben is known as a retired schoolteacher, civil rights worker, disability rights advocate and former Socialist Party presidential candidate. In publishing a literary historical account in verse, he reveals to us his role of poet.
Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
I found the headline of the May 17 Business Week article on the 50th anniversary of the famous Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court ruling, that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional, most revealing. "A Bittersweet Birthday," it said, declaring "Decades of progress on integration have been followed by disturbing slippage."
The Right of Return & Transformative Justice
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
By most accounts, the issue of the Palestinian refugees and their right to return to the part of Mandatory Palestine that now constitutes the State of Israel has been the most obstinate stumbling block preventing the resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
A Slice of Death in Rafah
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
from an International Solidarity Movement report. Tel Es-Sultan, Gaza Strip--Death has become something usual in Rafah. The invasion would not be successful if the occupation army didn't kill dozens of Palestinians. At least 20 Palestinians were killed up to now, and more than 60 injured in the past 12 hours. Last week 16 were killed during the invasion of Block O.
South Africa's Deadly Decade of HIV Denial
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The African National Congress has returned to power with an overwhelming majority in South Africa's third post apartheid democratic election. With millions of South Africans dying early because of AIDS, however, the question posed in the header of this article remains.
Trophy Photographs
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Americans have a fascination with photographs! I remember the very first trophy photograph that I saw. It was a hunter who killed grizzly bear, and he stood there standing over his dead trophy with a proud simile on his face. This was when I was a child and didn't truly understand the human psychology behind such photographs.
Dobbin replies to Green Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Murray Dobbin replies to the Green party.
Inequalities Are Unhealthy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The growing inequalities we are witnessing in the world today are having a very negative impact on the health and quality of life of its populations.
Another World Is Possible
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The period since George Bush Sr. declared a "new world order" has been marked by growing global inequality and war. The failures of neoliberalism mean that more than fifty countries have seen declining per capita income in recent years, while millions every year die from easily preventable diseases and lack of access to safe drinking water. The costs of the last fifteen years have been immense, whether for those cut off from electricity in Durban, sacked from factories in Mexico City, or bombed in Baghdad.
Cascadia Rising to Save the Forest
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Protests in nine cities across California, Oregon and Washington took place February 23rd, coordinated by the Cascadia Rising Project, in response to the Bush Administration's removal of protections on federal lands for over 100 rare and uncommon species associated with the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
The Case for an Alternative
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A statement by Solidarity: The strategy of “the lesser evil” hasn't worked, and less than ever will it work today. The loyalty of labor, racial minorities, women, LGBT people and other progressives — expressed in massive campaign contributions and large numbers of votes — comes at a very low cost for the “New Democrats,” who know perfectly well that no matter how far to the right they move, the advocates of “the lesser evil” remain their captives.
The Contract Struggle at an Auto Parts Plant
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A new t-shirt has appeared at the American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) plant where I work, and it is selling like hotcakes. The hi-lo driver shuttling parts to my job was wearing it.
DARE's Struggles in Rhode Island
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Let's start in a scene from last summer that will be familiar, not exactly but approximately, to many older readers: the labor awards banquet. The setting is a "casino"— in the 1880s sense of a banquet hall, used for wedding receptions and assorted fraternal functions for six generations — set in a venerable public park in a working-class neighborhood, long ago designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
Fighting Subpoenas and Gag Orders in Iowa
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
More than two months have passed since federal officials withdrew the grand jury subpoenas against four peace activists and Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The withdrawal of the subpoenas and the gag order against Drake came amidst a firestorm of protest, not only from progressive and civil liberties lawyers and peace and justice activists from around the state and the country, but also from mainstream news media and elected politicians from both parties.
Gay Marriage Yes!
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Any doubts about the meaning of the struggle for the right of gay and lesbian marriage should have disappeared forever when Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco opened the marriage bureau at city hall to same-sex couples.
The Left and the Elections
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Two electoral paths will be taken by those left of center this year, and all the spilled ink in the world won't affect the choices.
Letter to a Progressive Democrat
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Dear Progressive Democrat: I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I'm proud of it. You voted for Nader and you regret it (or, you voted for Gore, even though you liked Nader better).
Mexico in the Grip of Corruption
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Mexico's left of center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has been shaken by a scandal that could well reshape the nation's political life.
Outsourcing & the Unions
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Why are outsourcing and offshoring hot button issues? The Bush administration defends it; the Democratic challenger John Kerry attacks it.
Responding to Washington's Haiti Coup
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Caribbean People, representatives of Caribbean organizations and people of Caribbean descent meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday March 20th, 2004, unanimously agreed to call on CARICOM Governments to take the following steps as a matter of urgency. In addition we committed ourselves to immediately begin to mobilize public opinion and action in the Caribbean region ourselves, to oppose and reverse the deadly threat to democracy in the Caribbean resulting from the violent overthrow of the Aristide Government by criminal forces supported by the United States of America and France.
What the Grocery Defeat Means
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Exhausted and broke after four-and-a-half months on the picket line, Southern California grocery workers voted overwhelmingly on February 28-29 to accept a two-tier wage and benefits system with a cap on employers' contributions to the health care benefits plan.
Women & War in Sierra Leone
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
While I was doing research in Guinea in the summer of 1999, a village woman informed me of a legend told throughout West Africa. “It is not good to send your children to America,” she said, “for in America, they bury Africans in shallow graves.”
The World Social Forum, 2004
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The fourth annual World Social Forum (WSF), held January 16-21 in the Indian city of Mumbai (what used to be called Bombay), drew 100,000 activists from over 130 countries. For three previous years it had been in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, to which it returns in 2005.
Inventing Human Rights: A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A history of human rights, from the initial conceptualization that 'all men are created equal' to current ramifications.
The Destabilization of Haiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
To be Intimidated is to be an Accomplice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Nazi judeocide of should not be used as a cover to commit crimes against the Palestinian people.
Words have failed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
Anger, Sadness, Patience, Determination
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
During the fall of 2002 I had heard the personal stories of two Palestinians. One told me about her grandfather's ancient olive trees that had been confiscated and then chopped down by the Israeli government.
Black Liberation and the American Dream
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Race has always been the most visible source of division in the United States. Slavery, segregation, and the current ethnic profiling of the “Arab-looking” are just a few of examples of racism in American history.
California Home Care: Terminated!
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Question: What's the best health care plan in the U.S. Answer: Don't get sick!
A Century's Feminist Journey
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
International feminism -- and feminist internationalism -- have existed since at least the early 20th century, but forms of women's organizing and mobilizing have varied over the past 100 years. Since the 1980s, a new transnational feminism -- encompassing Third World countries as well as the core countries -- has emerged which requires explanation.
Colombia Against All Odds
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Despite historic ties to the inmost nexus of cocaine trafficking and aramilitarism, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez is Washington's leading exponent of the “war on drugs and terror” in the Western hemisphere.
The Coming Plague of Slums
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Mass death may be coming to a neighborhood near you, and the Department of Homeland Security will be helpless to prevent it. The terrorist in this case will be a mutant offspring of influenza A subtype H5N1: the explosively spreading avian virus that the World Health Organization (WHO) worries will be the progenitor of a deadly global plague.
Ending Poverty As We Know It
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The phenomenon of local living wage campaigns sweeping the country is one of the few causes for celebration in American politics. Led by unions, community organizations and religious groups, Americans are demanding that their local tax dollars fund jobs that pay a living wage.
A Feminist Reader for Today
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Each time I teach History of Feminist Thought at my university, in order to highlight the limitations of a gender-only feminism and to exemplify the strengths of socialist feminism, I show my students "Salt of the Earth" (1954), a deeply moving and inspiring film based on a successful "predominantly Mexican-American" miners' strike in which the miners' picketing was blocked by the Taft-Hartley injunction.
Jewish Statement in Opposition to the Geneva Accord
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A false peace is no peace at all. A peace not based on human rights and justice will collapse and rekindle violence.
Jews, Arabs & the Geneva Accord
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Talking publicly about the virtues and hazards of the Geneva accords these days is not an easy task, as the topic is both highly emotional -- rightly so, as a matter of utmost importance -- and highly divisive.
Martin Luther King's Speech on Vietnam
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
On January 20, President Bush made a photo-op visit to Atlanta, Georgia, to participate in the celebration of the life of the greatest civil rights figure in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Organizing Korean Contingent Labor
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Interview with Ae-Lim Yun. Ae-Lim Yun is an activist in Solidarity for the Abolition of Contingent Work, in Seoul, South Korea.
Portraits of the Unionista
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Like all women workers, Filipina workers' experiences in the labor force are shaped by gender. Tracked into the lowly-paid service economy doing “feminine” labor, they often have dead-end jobs with a secondary wage-earner status. In mixed-gender unions and labor movements, their status is also secondary.
The Reality of the "Geneva Accord"
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Geneva Accord was signed Monday, December 1, 2003, amid great media and political fanfare. The fifty-page document lays out a plan for a presumed “peace agreement” between Israel and the Palestinian people. We, the undersigned, consider this initiative as inconsistent with the prerequisites of a just and durable peace.
A Short History of Big Brother
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Interview with Christian Parenti.
Women in a Neoliberal Order
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Feminists and historians of the Middle East were a bit surprised last year when Laura Bush made a radio address defending women's rights -- in Iraq. An unlikely champion of women's causes at home (The Economist of London, not a radical magazine, rates her “low” on feminism) from reproductive freedom, affirmative action or equality in employment to social services women need, Ms. Bush found in women's rights a convenient pretext for boosting her husband's imperial crusade in another country.
Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A series of essays on the Abu Ghraib prison and the political climate surrounding the Bush Administration's intervention into Iraq.
An Action a Day
Keeps Global Capitalism Away
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Amer Jubran: From Exile to Exile
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
In January 2004, Palestinian activist Amer Jubran will leave the United States, where he has lived for most of the past 15 years. He will return to Jordan, where he grew up in a family already exiled once from their homeland.
Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A critique of Marxism, with emphasis on its alleged obsession with economics.
Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
Anti-Vaccination Fever
The Shot Hurt Around the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgotten.
Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
Challenged Books List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
China Mao or never
New Internationalist September 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at the communist government China and the people's dream of free speech.
The Conquest of Bread
150 Years of Abribusiness in California
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
California has been the world's most advanced agricultural zone that not only out-produces every state in America, but also most countries. Its success has come at significant costs for a family-farm region like the Midwest manipulated and exploited to serve modern business interests.
Control Room
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Shows the coverage of the 2003 Iraqi war from the perspective of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet.
Co-operatives Bite back! The return of the co-op
New Internationalist June 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at the issues regarding and the basic principles of a co-op. Discussion of the history of the international co-operative movement and information on how to set up a co-op.
The Corporation
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
The Disconnect in US Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Noam Chomsky describes how the American people are excluded from political participation, claiming that action must also come before and after elections and not only once every four years.
The 'Dollar' Crisis, and Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A capitalist crisis like the current one resembles a poker game where the table is swept clean and all cards and chips must be redistributed for the game to continue at all. This could happen as an 'orderly bankruptcy proceeding' but it will most likely happen (as it has always happened in the past) chaotically, through economic blowout, class confrontation, and war.
Don't Think of an Elephant
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can reframe the debate.
Dorothy Day
Champion of the Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
The End of Suburbia
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Documentary about the Peak Oil theory and its implications for the America way of life.
Equality
New Internationalist January/February 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at theories on the thought of equality and its progress in society.
Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called “Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America,” I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.
The Follow-Up Telephone Call
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
The Free Trade Game
New Internationalist December 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at free trade and and the effects of NAFTA. Discussion of the opposition to free trade and alternatives.
From Central America to Iraq
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Noam Chomsky bitterly criticizes the regular exclusion of America from the principle of universality and the impunity with which the nation acts.
The Future of Food
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
Explores the radical changes in our diet and our food in the last half century.
Getting Ink for Your New Product
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Get media coverage of your product.
A History of Modern Palestine
One Land, Two Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A history of the people of Palestine.
How America Determines Friends and Foes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Bush II's approach to "ridding the world of evil" includes treating every nation harboring terrorists as terrorist states. Chomsky ponders what this standard would mean if applied to America.
How Strikers Educated Miami University
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The cleaning workers, kitchen workers, and maintenance workers at Miami University of Ohio -- the people who make this place work because they work -- voted on Wednesday, October 8 to end their strike and return to their jobs.
How to Build a Media List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
IMF World Bank More World Less Bank
New Internationalist March 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and what they have done.
Imperial Crusades
Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
How to get coverage in community newspapers.
In Search of Fatima
A Palestinian Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A frank and intimate memoir by diaspora Palestinian Ghada Karmi, detailing her experiences of displacement, nostalgia and loss.
In the name of GOD The abuses of religion
New Internationalist August 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Discusses the relationship between religion. The role of religion within political issues.
Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the Background to #Facing Reality#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Inventing Tax Rage
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
Iran on the Verge of Revolution?
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Interest in the political situation in Iran has grown noticeably in recent months. In large part, this is due to the far more aggressive policies of the current U.S. administration, which has used the attacks of September 11 as the excuse to intervene directly in the region and bring about “regime change” in accordance with its own longstanding interests.
It's the Law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The laws of media relations.
Judeophobia: The scourge of antisemitism
New Internationalist October 2004 - #372
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at the history of antisemitism and the fight against it.
Kicking Out Corporations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Rural areas revoke corporate "personhood" in order to reclaim self-rule.
Learning from Autonomous Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Letters to the Editor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Letters page is one of the most popular sections of any newspaper, and is therefore an ideal way to keep your name and your core message in front of the public.
The Liberal Virus
Permanent War and the Americanization of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous form.
Life after Communism West goes East
New Internationalist April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at the effects of communist rule in the former Soviet Union and the post-communism transition.
Marriage and the Capitalist State
For the Right of Gay Marriage...and Divorce!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Gays and lesbians ought to have the right to marry # but they shouldn#t have to.
Marx, Hegel, Ricardo; The "Inverted World" in the Heart of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Media Relations: Rule of Engagement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Rules for dealing with the media.
Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
The Miami Model in Your Face
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The major police riot in Miami was an operation undoubtedly as thoroughly planned as it was obscene. This was a deliberate, bare-knuckled threat: Assemble in 2004 against war, “free trade,” the Republican Convention or roundup of immigrants under the police-state monstrosity known as Homeland Security, and this is what you'll get.
Monogamous Voles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Vole reversal.
Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
The Nakba - an event that did not occur (although it had to occur)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
New laws affecting public relations.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals
Thinking About the Fundamentals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Delves into the question of how to build a strategy for nonviolent struggle. Covering a variety of topics--such as ways to identify a movement's objectives, preparing a strategic estimate for a nonviolent struggle, and operational planning considerations--this publication contains insights on the similarities between military and nonviolent strategy. It represents a major new contribution to this field of study. Additional topics covered in the book include psychological operations and propaganda, contaminants that may affect the efficiency of a nonviolent movement, and providing consultations and training for members of movements and organizations. \
On the History of Human Nature
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
First, humans have the capacity for love, solidarity, compassion AND the capacity for great aggression and cruelty. Which capacity dominates depends on certain geographic and social conditions.
Paying for It
A Guide by Sex Workers for their Clients
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A book of advice for sex work customers, written by sex workers and former sex workers, about how to treat sex workers so they like you more and give you better service.
Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being
Controversies and Developments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the ever-growing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent.
The Political and Social Context of Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Pox Americana
Exposing the American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Brings together the work of leading Marxist analysts of imperialism to examine the burning question of our time # the nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle East.
Privatizing Water, The New World War
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Capitalism and corporate science have colluded to bring us the latest, most insidious crisis. According to the United Nations research, 1.3 billion people in the world today lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sewage and sanitation. The human suffering and environmental damage that those figures represent is unspeakable.
The Problem of the Media
U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Gets to the roots of the crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement.
Rebel Sell
Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the capitalist system thrives not on conformity -- as so many 'culture jammers' believe -- but rather on individualism and a quest for distinction.
Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
The reliable tyrant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
Religion, The Golden Rule, and Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Why is it that all of the world's great religions, though disagreeing greatly about theology, nonetheless concur on the Golden Rule? The explanation must be that there is something common to all human beings that is captured by the Golden Rule and reflected in all of these religions.
Reshaping History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
Ruling Class Democracy
Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Samois
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
A history of Samois, the first public organization devoted to lesbian sadomasochism and a key player in the early phases of the feminist "sex wars".
The Seven Deadly Spins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Micky Z offers a look at 7 deadly spins: Spin #1: The Sleeping Giant: The U.S. minds its own business, but the sleeping giant is eventually provoked. Spin #2: Good Wars: Once forced into war, the U.S. only does so in the name of Democracy and justice. Spin #3: U.S. vs. Them: Terrorists, evildoers and more-the U.S. has faced off against the worst humanity has to offer. Spin #4: Support the Troops: No matter what we think, we all unite behind our troops once the fighting starts. Spin #5: The Devil Made U.S. Do It: During war, even the U.S. has to play a little rough. Spin #6: Surgical Strikes: Those billion-dollar weapons can differentiate between the guilty and the innocent. Spin #7: Only Losers Commit War Crimes: Enemies of the U.S. must be brought to justice.
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Restall explodes myths that were long taken for historical truth and points to a larger and more complex interaction between the indigenous people and the Europeans. He shows how Indian culture adapted and displayed post conquest vitality.
7 Ways to Get More Mileage from a Case Study
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Case studies are a valuable addition to your public relations' arsenal. They not only explain the success of your product or service in action, they also tend to have high editorial acceptance and readership rates.
A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
Social Determinants of Health
Canadian Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
The Soft Cage
Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Parenti explores the history of American surveillance from colonial times to the present. What this historical evidence clearly reveals is a continuum of the culture of surveillance. The weakest, most disenfranchised and most alienated groups are subjected first, and then the surveillance regime slowly spreads toward the mainstream.
3 Keys to Keeping Your Marketing and PR Writing on Strategy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
How do you ensure that your marketing and PR piece isn't just pretty prose?
Tips for Making the Call
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
Tobacco Hooked on tobacco
New Internationalist July 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at the effects of tobacco around the world, the health risks, and how to kick the habit.
Toward an Open Tomb
The Crisis of Israeli Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Warschawski focuses especially on the effects of the occupation on the occupiers#that is, on Israeli society#rather than its victims.
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Explains how modern public relations (PR) transforms the favoured policies of the rich and the powerful into uncontroversial 'common sense'.
The Truth About the Drug Companies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The combined profits for the ten drug companies in the Fortune 500 ($35.9 billion) were more than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together ($33.7 billion) [in 2002]. Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way.
2004 Elections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Chomsky explores potential implications of the 2004 election results in America, concluding they are, in fact, of little significance. For insight, he points instead to those public opinions which were not included in the process.
The UAW Contract's Downhill Spiral
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
On September 19, 2003, the New York Times said the United Auto Workers (UAW) had concluded negotiations, “granting its most significant concessions in two decades.” Of the many concessions -- including those implicitly “in progress” -- in the Big 3 auto contracts, we'll focus primarily on health care.
An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
The Unconquerable World
Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Traces the history of non-violent social change.
Understanding the Bush Doctrine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
After exploring elements of Bush's strategy, Chomsky summarizes that anyone is seemingly subject too attack, because every country has the ability and intent is in the eye of the beholder. The key, it appears, is the ability to lie about intentions.
Unions Confront A Restructured Industry
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
As the strike/lockout of 70,000 grocery and food workers throughout Southern and Central California stretches into its third month, union workers in and out of the food industry understand how pivotal it is.
University of Minnesota: Dignity vs. Cutbacks
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
On October 21, 1800 clerical workers of AFSCME Local 3800 made statewide news by going on strike against the University of Minnesota. At the heart of the AFSCME clerical workers' struggle was a strong determination to stand up for their dignity and respect.
US-Haiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
By examining the role of the USA in the tragedy of Haiti, Chomsky highlights the democracy deficit and failure of the American state. He calls for those concerned to take on the task at home of paying reparations and restoring the substance of democracy.
US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
Using History to Write Powerful Leads
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
A Wall as a Weapon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Chomsky discusses the debate surrounding the Israeli motion to build a wall of security. He acknowledges that the process in the Hague will unlikely bring about any change, even if the wall is determined to be illegal.
Wars for Africa's wealth
New Internationalist May 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
Discussion of the wealth in Africa, and the wars and violence which it has fuelled.
Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
What a Fair Trial for Saddam Would Entail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Chomsky identifies the actors and issues that would have to be included in the Tribunal process if Saddam Hussein were to be given a fair trial in international court. These include key members of the Bush I administration who were active during the years of Hussein's most atrocious crimes.
What is gentrification?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
What's Behind the Economic Upturn?
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The Department of Commerce announced on October 30 that the U.S. economy had grown at a 7.2% annual rate in the third quarter of 2003. Since these statistics are constantly being revised, one wonders what they really mean.
What's the Matter with Kansas?
How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from the class animus of traditional leftism to one in which "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, are used to redirect anger towards "liberal elites."
When to Contact the Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
Advice on when to contact the media.
Whose Detroit? A City's Upheaval
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
On July 15, 1970, James Johnson Jr., a Black autoworker at Chrysler Eldon Avenue Plant in Detroit, shot and killed two foremen and a fellow worker. Forty-five minutes into the shift he had been reassigned to the ovens, where the heat that day was more than 120 degrees.
Why Are Families Under Attack?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The media are full of very sophisticated anti-family messages, which can come from both the right and the left. Liberals denigrate the value of families in which children are raised by their real mother and father, and they sometimes suggest that such families are often patriarchies with abusive fathers. Conservatives often call for "family values" in which women are subordinate to men and inequality prevails. Neither liberal nor conservative views reflect true family values of equality and commitment to each other.
Why Publicity Sometimes Fails
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
You've done everything you can think of to publicize your new product launch, event, or small business. But nothing seems to work. Barbara Florio Graham explains why.
Windows on the Workplace
Technology, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Takes us behind the news stories of the highly efficient, high-tech workplace and shows us the ways in which technologies have been adapted by management to reshape the way work is done.
Women's rights: What have men got to do with it?
New Internationalist November 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at the relations between men and women dealing with equality.

2003

Trust Me
A Handbook of Tory Contortions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003 Published: 2011
Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
Journalism: A Very Short Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003 Published: 2005
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public.
Palestine & Palestinians Guidebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003 Published: 2005
More than an ordinary tourist guidebook, this book provides an in-depth discovery of the entire range of Palestinian culture: historical, archaelogical, religious, and architectural, as well as the daily realities of the Israeli occupation.
Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003 Published: 2004
The Case For Revolutionary Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
In my view, the movement for another world is committed to four main values – justice, efficiency, democracy, and sustainability.
Jails for Jesus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons?
What Should I Do?
Selfishness, Happiness And Benefiting Others
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Motivation is not a problem for anyone who accepts the extraordinary truth contained in Yeshe Aro's ncient prescription for happiness: "On this depends my liberation: to assist others -- nothing else."
Against School
How public education cripples our kids, and why
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
On the Clock
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
What happens to people when they become speeded up and hyper-sensitive to the passing of time? Think, for example, of how the pace of life has increased over the past 100 years. We don#t believe anything should take any time at all. Five minutes is too long. We travel now by automobiles or airplanes, covering in hours what once took days. #News# comes instantaneously from around the world # live (and carefully crafted) pictures from both Washington and Baghdad. Our culture has conditioned us to think of speed as #improvement,# as #advancement,# as #progress,# but nothing comes without cost.
Israeli army#s attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
Iraq: Women#s Liberation and the Struggle Against Imperialist Subjugation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The women of Iraq illustrate the status of most of the world#s women, caught between the domination of imperialism and the oppression of stifling ancient #customs# like the veil, holdovers from a more backward era.
Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate?
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An overview of contemporary organizing strategies and philosophies with case studies.
La crise Iraquienne en context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Un état solitaire, lourdement armé avec des armes de destruction massives, ouvertement méprisant des lois internationales et des Nations Unies et avec une réputation menaçante d'invader d'autres pays et à plonger le monde dans une crise.
Comment le monde doit il réagir à cette menace? Que peut ont faire à propos des États Unies et leurs ambitions ouvertement impérialistiques?
La crisis de Irak en contexto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Un estado sin control, pesadamente provisto con armas de destrucción masiva, abiertamente despectivo de la ley internacional y de las Naciones Unidas, y con un record de extensión en aterrorizar e invadir otros países, ha hundido el mundo en crisis.
Como debería el mundo responder a esta amenaza? Que podemos nosotros hacer respecto a los Estados Unidos y sus obvias ambiciones imperialistas?
Die Irak-Krise im Kontext
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The Iraq Crisis in Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
Iraq Crisis in Context - Greek text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Kryzys w Iraku - podsumowanie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
After the New Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Aids Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
All Things Censored
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A collection of prison essays and radio talks by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row since 1982.
An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
The Anti-Coup
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance.
Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Better Together
Restoring the American Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Beyond Sovereignty
Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
Big Pharma Making a killing
New Internationalist November 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look at big pharmaceutical companies and issues surrounding their pursuit for profit at the expense of peoples' health.
The Big Picture
Understanding Media Through Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Examines the nature of contemporary journalism, the role of the media system in the process of globalization, and the workings of new communication technologies, including the Internet.
Blackout in Gotham City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Privatisation and deregulation are at the roots of both last Thursday's power meltdown and the 2001 California crisis, and both events have been lessons in the dangers of taking an exclusively private route into far from perfect markets.
Bush y los años del miedo
Conversaciones con Jorge Halperín
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
"Estados Unidos es un pais que tiene mucho miedo y los politicos inescrupulosos como los de la epoca de Reagan, que hoy vuelven a estar en el poder, saben muy bien como manipular los miedos. Es la unica manera de ejercer el control." Hay que bucear lejos en la historia, tal vez el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando, muerto en Sarajevo en 1914, que disparo la Primera Guerra Mundial, para encontrar un atentado cuyo impacto fuera capaz de desencadenar una profunda transformacion del mapa del mundo.
Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The Case Against U.S. Adventurism in Iraq
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky depicts the Bush Administration's ambition to rule the world by force and the dangers of this intention.
Censorship in Islamic Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A study of censorship in Islamic societies, concentrating on key events throughout history. The text includes analysis of: censorship in Algeria the "fatwa" against Salman Rushdie Taliban repression in Afghanistan and the 1980 transmission on British TV of "Death of a Princess".
Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Climate Change Solutions The Big Switch
New Internationalist June 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look at global warming, what it is doing to the world, and what actions are being taken by people to slow it down.
A Coalition of the Killing
War, media, propaganda and language#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
War, media, propaganda and language.
Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications
The Politics of Regional Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
The issues behind privatization policies and telecommunications policies are looked at through a glass of drifting continentalism
Contours of Descent
U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Corporate crime wave
New Internationalist July 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look into corporate crime, people who have been involved, and what happens to the money. Also discusses what can be done to stop corporate crime.
Dance of the Dialectic
Steps in Marx's Method
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
For Ollman, Marx's method was his message: "By allowing Marx to focus on the interconnections that constitute the key patterns in capitalism, the dialectic brings the capitalist system itself, as a pattern of patterns, into 'sight' and makes it something real that requires its own explanation".
Deep Concerns
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Despite apparent defeat by the ongoing war in Iraq, Chomsky outlines the tasks that remain for those concerned about justice and human rights.
Didn't See The Same Movie
Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Dominance and its Dilemmas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky responds to the Bush Administration's announcement of the new National Security Strategy that asserts power through force. He discusses the accompanying implications of the strategy and warns against using violence as a means of control.
The Dominion and The Intellectuals
Noam Chomsky interviewed by an anonymous interviewer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky says "one of the reasons why I am considered "public enemy number one" among a large sector of intellectuals in the U.S. is that I mention that the U.S. is one of the major terrorist states in the world and this assertion, though plainly true, is unacceptable for many intellectuals."
The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
For those of you pursuing and perfecting the fine art of getting publicity, here's a list of books you can't live without.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movements: A Radical Democratic Vision
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An insightful biography on one of the leading organizers of the American civil rights movement.
Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
Facing Reality 45 Years Later
Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
Finding Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Framing the West
Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Examines a wide range of photographic forms and the purposes to which they were put.
The Great Unravelling
From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A Hollowed-Out Keynesian Warfare State
American Democracy Today and Historically
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The Democratic Party today is a party of corporate lawyers. Forty years ago, it was still rooted in local urban political machines and in the unions. A similar gap has arisen between the business elite that controls the Republican Party and the small-town lower-middle class constituency that supports the Republican "cultural agenda" of a backlash against "permissiveness", as on the abortion issue, or the separation of church and state. The entire official political system is mobilized with a "hard" Hobbesian edge against the "social": the program is to close factories, close schools, close hospitals, build prisons.
The Holocaust Chronicle
A History in Words and Pictures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Homosexuality and Civilisation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
How America Gets Away With Murder
Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grassroots Organizer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
The author's experiences as an activist in rural Minnesota.
How to Make Your B-roll Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
How to Make Your PR Photos Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
There is a real art and science to the news photo.
Human Rights Week 2002
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky details the meaning behind Human Rights Week, despite the lack of enthusiasm in North America. He highlights, in particular, the achievements of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP).
Humanism and its Aspiration
Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.
Imprisoned Intellectuals
America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Anthology of writings by imprisoned intellectuals.
In Times of Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky highlights that while the war in Iraq was being shaped, the voices of the people - neither in Iraq nor Europe - were being heard or considered. This is a clear violation of the principle that people play the main role in democratic societies.
Island Airport Insanity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Airports don't belong in the middle of downtown.
The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Justice Behind the Walls
Human Rights in Canadian Prisons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An account of the state of justice in Canadian prisons, weaving together the threads of correctional history, penal philosophy, landmark court decisions, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and legislative changes.
Latin America The Liberation of Latin America
New Internationalist May 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look at the issues which have surrounded Latin America and what is changing.
The Life and Death of Socialist Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
As a mass movement, Socialist Zionism is finished. One might say that it accomplished its actual goal -- the building of the Jewish state. Unless one identifies "socialism" with statism, socialism was never a goal of Ben-Gurion and his co-thinkers.
Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Salzman explores ways in which organizers can be creative and innovative in using the media to publicize their cause.
Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
Memoirs of a Media Maverick
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Rules for dealing with the media.
Middle East Illusions
including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Written during the last 30 years, these pieces display many characteristics of Chomsky's thought: a deep mistrust of U.S. and Israeli intentions and a desire to change the course of history. Chomsky is erudite, and some of the points are now standard in discussion about the Middle East, such as the contradiction of Israel being both a Jewish state and a democracy.
Moral Truisms, Empirical Evidence, and Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Noam Chomsky systematically discusses terrorism and "just war" in relationship to moral standards such as "what goes for others goes for us". He demonstrates that, according to US behavior in the past and this principle, other actors may be entitled to use terrorist strategy against the USA.
Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
Nowhere Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Chomsky's classic analysis of the liberal scholarship that justified American foreign policy and aggression during the 1960s.
Oil Pipelines Pipeline cowboys
New Internationalist October 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look at the world's dependence on oil and how Costa Rica has taken strides to break their dependence on the industry. Discussion on the oil industry's effects on different parts of the world.
On Lesbian/Gay Liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The link between the oppression of LGBT people and women#s oppression is key to our understanding and the struggles for liberation are consequently closely linked.
Once Again, On Fictitious Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Luxemburg rightly took seriously, as a guide to Capital, Marx's vision of capitalism as a transitory phase between feudalism and socialism, and analyzed capitalism's expanded reproduction of society as meaningful in laying the material basis for a higher form of society.
Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
The People in Gravest Danger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky discusses what makes the Kurds in Iraq the likeliest population to suffer most due to the war in Iraq.
Perspectives on Canadian Drug Policy Volume 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
A symposium of articles on issues of drug addiction and treatment in Canada. Articles include "Substance Abuse and Crime," "Canada's Drug Laws: Prohibition Is Not the Answer," and "Drug Policy in Canada: War if Neccessary But Not Neccessarily War."
The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? This is the question considered in these 18 essays (by nine Jews and nine Gentiles), including Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, and Uri Avnery.
Power and Terror
Post 9-11 talks and interviews
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an underground network of Muslim extremists or the most powerful state in the world, Chomsky, in stark and uncompromising terms, challenges the United States to apply to itself the moral standards it demands of others.
Power: Building it Without Taking it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky illustrates how the US-UK coalition reconfigured the term "pre-emptive" into "preventive" in an attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq despite opposition from the international society.
Privatization The great privati$ation grab
New Internationalist April 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
The effects of privatization on public services. Discusses who is responsible and why they are doing this.
Que se vayan todos!
Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Que se vayan todos! Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A collection of essays studying noncapitalist collectivism.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Reasons to Fear U.S.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky reveals that since 9/11 the US has failed to address the roots of terrorism and has instead waged war rather than striving to achieve peace.
Recent Class Struggles in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Reinventing power: People take control
New Internationalist September 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look at democracy and power in countries including Mexico, South Africa and Thailand. Briefly mentions key concepts, including feminism and Foucault.
Reporting from Ramallah
An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Amira Hass, a Jewish Israeli journalist lives in the Palestinian town of Ramallah. These dispatches cover five years of her reporting
The Roaring Nineties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. posed to invade.
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A critique of "science-based" approaches to food - simply asking "how big is the risk?" leaves out the question of who is imposing that risk and who is taking it.
Selective Memory and a Dishonest Doctrine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky highlights the fact that the crimes for which Saddam Hussein should have been held accountable in international court took place in the period of US-UK support. He criticizes the adopted doctrine which claims ignorance and handles the past as something irrelevant.
Sharon and my Mother-in-Law
Ramallah Diaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A diary of everyday life under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, depicting the Kafkaesque absurdities and injustices Palestinians are forced to live with.
Silent Revolution (2nd Edition)
The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
This new edition was completed in a moment when the Argentinian economy is in ruins, Brazil is on the brink of collapse, riots are taking place in Uruguay, Peru, and Paraguay, a U.S. supported coup has just been averted in Venezuela.
6 Tips for Writing a Successful VNR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
A video news release(VNR) is essentially a press release on video. The key difference is how it is planned and written.
So Shall We Reap
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
Sounds of dissent The politics of music
New Internationalist August 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
The role of music in politics. Discusses how music has changed the world, and the pioneers in the world of political music.
The State of the News Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
Sugar The sugar trap
New Internationalist December 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look into sugar as a consumer product and its corporate globalization. Discusses trade and business of sugar, its history with slavery as well as its effects on the body.
There Are Realistic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Developing realistic alternatives to war and other violence.
There's no such thing as a slow news day
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
The news media are always looking for news.
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Truth Against Truth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
User Error
Resisting Computer Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Video News Releases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
Walking: We Ask Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
Wars of Terror
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Chomsky explores the nature of terrorism, focusing on four main questions posed by the 9/11 tragedy.
We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
What is Public Relations?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
PR should be the guardian of an organization#s brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization#s being, and PR is often its protector.
When Food Kills
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Writing a Successful Case Study
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
Readers love a good story. That's why these chronicles of success will often stand out on the editor's desk while press releases, media kits and other media communications fight a tough battle just to get noticed.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Mickey Z. Cool Observer
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2003
Mickey Z. is a writer, editor, blogger and novelist living in New York City.

2002

From Dictatorship to Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2010
A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
Another World is Possible
Globalization and anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2006
A polemical call-to-arms for all progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
Blue Gold
The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2003
International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
A Carnival of Revolution
Central Europe 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2003
This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen.
Chomsky on Democracy and Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2003
Education stands at the intersection of Noam Chomsky's two lives as scholar and social critic: As a linguist he is keenly interested in how children acquire language, and as a political activist he views the education system as an important lever of social change.This book gathers for the first time his impressive range of writings on these subjects, spanning issues of language, power, policy and method.
Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2003
To live a long, healthy and serene life we need the crucial help of a network of caring people # we need social support. In order to gain and keep social support we need social skills. Choosing Civility re-discovers and expounds the essential skills that allow us to live well among others.
Growing Poverty Is Shrinking Mexico's Rain Forest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The struggle for land has started to pit the Zapatista rebel movement against ecologists who want to save the remains of the forest. The Zapatistas declared war on Mexico's government nearly nine years ago over the poverty of peasants in Chiapas. Today the movement criticizes efforts to conserve the bioreserve as a "war of extermination against our indigenous communities."
The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The perversity of Bush's agenda.
America#s last taboo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
Quest for Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
¿Desinvertir?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
Going Public: An Inside Story of Disrupting Politics as Usual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
An introduction to the Industrial Areas Foundation and their method of organizing.
Gay Pride is Now Respectable, and the Worse for It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The gay community has retreated from radical idealism to cautious conformism.
Israeli Violations of Human Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Speech by Professor Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
What is Anti-Semitism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Inflating the meaning of 'antisemitism' to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound.
The Age of Ingenuity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that claims to be a defender of civil rights, has engaged in a vast spying operation directed against American citizens opposed to Israel’s policies in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and to the apartheid policies of the government of South Africa.
Diversity of Tactics and Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
To me, a strategy isn't democratic if it intrinsically alienates the majority of oppressed people and shuts the door to their participation. A strategy isn't democratic if it drives away the working class when they have every reason to participate and want to.
Personal testimony of an Irraeli refusnik
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Why would a regular guy get up one morning in the middle of life, work, the kids and decide he's not playing the game anymore?
The Smile of Policeman Agadi
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2002
An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
Activism!
direct action, hacktivism and the future of society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Many schools of thought assert that Western culture has never been more politically apathetic. Tim Jordan's Activism! refutes this claim.Jordan shows how acts of civil disobedience have come to dominate the political landscape.
Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
Against multiculturalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Multiculturalism is an authoritarian, anti-human outlook. True political progress requires not recognition but action, not respect but questioning, not the invocation of the Thought Police but the forging of common bonds and collective struggles.
All cultures are not equal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress; and both see no real alternative to Western power.
Another world is possible
New Internationalist January/February 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Takes a look at the current global system and possible ways to change it for the better.
The Arch Conspirator- Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A review of Len Bracken's The Arch Conspirator.
Back in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky explores American unwillingness to subject Israel to the principles of the Geneva Convention, citing this as a main cause for continued strife in the region.
The Battle of Seattle
The new challenge to capitalist globalization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Canada's Secret Constitution
NAFTA. WTO and the End of Sovereignty?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Adapted from Chapter 4 of Clarkson's book Uncle and Us: Globalization, Neoconservativism, and the Canadian State.
Censorship and the School Library Media Centre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Presents censored materials, censorship incidents, court cases, and federal legislation, including the children's Internet Protection Act.
Change the World Without Taking Power
The Meaning of Revolution Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Holloway claims that after a century of failed attempts by revolutionary and reformist movements to bring about radical social change, the concept of revolution itself is in crisis. However, he has no idea what to do about it.
Conspiracies Or Institutions: 9-11 and Beyond
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Why and how does much (but not all) conspiracy theorizing create a tendency for people to depart from rational analysis?
Constructive Action?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky questions to what extent American involvement and authority in the affairs of Israel's conflict with the Arabs can be considered constructive. He examines the effects of what he deems to be "colonial policing".
Corporate influence Inside business How corporations make the rules
New Internationalist July 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
A look into how corporate democracy works and facts regarding corporate influence. Also looks into a short history of corporations.
The Crimes of 'Intcom'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky differentiates between the term "international community" and its other more technical usage referring to the partnering of the USA and several allies. Chomsky labels the latter as "Intcom" and identifies several of its criminal actions.
A Crisis by Any Other Name
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The role of communications in a crisis.
A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky parallels the pursuit of American interests through intervention in foreign regions to the creation of swaps, and respectively, terrorists to mosquitoes.
Facing the Facts
A Guide to the GATS debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Rarely in its history has capital been so explicit in affirming that people exist for the well-being of the economy rather than the opposite. What is prescribed today in a language synthesizing Orwell and Goebbels is #reform#, #flexibility#, #risk#, #perfect markets=perfect democracy# and above all the pulverization of anything smacking of the #social#, from job security to decent retirement to public housing to welfare to progressive taxation to health care to unemployment insurance to the Social Security system to state-owned enterprises.
Fires of Hatred
Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
A history of genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced deportation of ethnic groups in the 20th century.
From ACT UP to the WTO
Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Globalization from Below
The power of solidarity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
When tens of thousands of protestors brought the World Trade Organization in Seattle to a halt in November 1999, it marked the "coming out party" for a new global movement. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidaritydraws on the history of past movements and their own experience as activists to propose strategies for building this powerful coalition into a successful movement for global democratization.
The Hidden Connections
A science for sustainable living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
A fierce attack on globalism - and a manifesto for change. Contemporary scientific discoveries indicate that all of life - from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states - is organized along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network.
Higher Education Free for All?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The transformation of our society from one in which few working class people went to college into one in which a larger proportion do so has been accompanied by the growth of "lower tier" colleges, junior colleges and professional schools designed to prepare their students for "careers" in the new global economy that do not pay as much as people with only a high school degree used to make in jobs with a history of solidarity.
How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
Islam Resistance and reform
New Internationalist May 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
A look into the world of Islamic faith. Discussion of current issues and a look at key moments of Islamic civilazation.
Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
An in-depth into the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Discusses modern myths which have further fuelled the conflict, possible paths to peace, and the role of the United States in the issue.
Keep It Down (and Rediscover Silence)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Keep Out: The case for open borders
New Internationalist October 2002 - #350
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
A look at refugees and the challenges they face. Discussion of how the refugee experience differs in different parts of the world.
The law-breaking MLA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Alberta MLA plans to break the law.
The Legacy of CLR James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Facing Reality is an often maddening book containing a marvellous critique of the pretentiousness of the numerous little vanguards, and at other times a telling naivety about opposition forces in society.
Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Case study of media relations strategy.
The Many-Headed Hydra
The hidden history of the revolutionary atlantic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
With the expansion of trade and colonization around the Atlantic in the seventeenth century, sailors, indentured servants, market women, prostitutes, and slaves came to inhabit European cities, American colonies and trade ships. Linebaugh and Rediker show how this motley crew had their own versions of democracy.
Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
Mirror Crack'd
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Noam Chomsky suggests that Western powers have regularly induced such atrocities in foreign lands as were perpetrated on 9/11 on American soil. He warns that through pre-emptive military action in Afghanistan, the international society may be in danger of less than attractive consequences in the future.
A Modest Proposal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky explores the idea of having Iran liberate Iraq from the grips of Sadaam Hussein. He suggests that had the genuine goals mirrored those which were proclaimed, this may have been a plausible alternative.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
On Fire
The battle of Genoa and the anticapitalist movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Eyewitness accounts and analysis from the militant sections of the anti-G8 demonstrations in Genoa in July 2001.
The Other Israel
Voices of Refusal and Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
Patents on life
New Internationalist September 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Discussion on the issue of genetic modification; why it is being done and why some are against it.
People, Get Ready
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
There is nothing more necessary for the success of popular struggle in the coming years than a worthy revolutionary alternative to aim for. This alternative must inspire confidence that we can create a truly democratic, humanly fulfilling, successfully functioning new society.
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New
International Terrorism in the Real World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
This edition of Chomsky's dissection of terrorism explores the role of the USA in the Middle East and reveals how the media are used to manipulate public opinion about what constitutes terrorism . The book contains chapters on the global crisis stemming from the events of September 11, as well as original sections on Iran and the bombing of Libya.
Platformism & Bolshevism
Pamphlet published by the International Bolshevik Tendency: A polemic against platformist anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Prison Nation
The Warehousing of America's Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Essays on the cruelty and inhumanity of the American prison system.
Production or Reproduction?
Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital In the Left Milieu, And Elsewhere
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Most readers of Capital come to it with a #tool kit# of prejudices acquired from their immediate political and social milieu, (and one of course influenced by the dominant society), a #tool kit# usually imbued with various #hard-headed# ideas about an #early# and a #late# Marx, about Marx as being a completion of the #political economy# of Smith and Ricardo (and not the critique of political economy, as the sub-title of his book suggests), that this #late Marx# was an #economist# in the way that Keynes or Milton Friedman are (in fact) economists, and so on.
Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
The Real Value of Diversity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The real failure of multiculturalism is its failure to understand what is valuable about cultural diversity. There is nothing good in itself about diversity. It is important because it allows us to compare and contrast different values, beliefs and lifestyles, make judgements upon them, and decide which are better and which worse. It is important, in other words, because it allows us to engage in political dialogue and debate that can help create more universal values and beliefs. But it is precisely such dialogue and debate, and the making of such judgements, that multiculturalism attempts to suppress in the name of 'tolerance' and 'respect'.
Reclaiming the Commons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
Schnews Annual
Stories that shook the world
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Israel reoccupies Palestine causing a second Intifada. Hundreds of thousands come out on the street in Genoa, Quebec, Gothenburg, Barcelona, Brussels against globalised institutions. Even larger numbers fight for their land and livelihood against neo-liberalism in South Africa, India, South America and the rest of the global south. Global and local - this book covers it all and more.
The September 11 X-Files
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
One problem with conspiracy theorizing is that it can distract from the true and (sometimes mundane) misdeeds and mistakes of government.
Should There Be A Jewish State?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The very concept of ethnically pure states is divisive and destined to stoke conflict. The so-called "two state solution" in the Middle East # establishing a Palestinian state to counter the Jewish state # is a conceptual and political trap that prevents Arab and Jewish working people from uniting around their common interests and values. The situation in the Middle East cannot be solved within this framework; it leads nowhere except to more destruction and hate and more elite control.
Slavery and the origins of racism
International Socialist Review Issue 26, November–December 2002
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Racism is not part of some unchanging human nature. It was literally invented.
Speed Up Rush to nowhere How turbo-capitalism eats time
New Internationalist March 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
A look into the act of speeding up time and rushing to accomplish tasks and its consequences.
Spying 101
The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities 1917 - 1997
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of this book.
Terror and Just Response
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Chomsky explores different interpretations of the question regarding the proper response to terrorist crimes and of the broader problem of determining their nature.
Top Ten List of Media Relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Top ten recommendations for becoming (and remaining) media friendly:
The Tradition of Scientific Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
John Holloway challenges the myth that Marx promoted a “scientific socialism” in the positivistic understanding of “science” and insists rather on the “negative” and critical aspects of science. For Holloway, the notion of fetishism is central to Marx’s critical approach.
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
The War In Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Noam Chomsky examines the military action of the US in Afghanistan, exploring America's breach of international law through the refusal to obtain Security Council authorization.
We Are the Poors
Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Follows the growth of the most unexpected community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.
West Papua "Will we ever be free"
New Internationalist April 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
Discusses the effects of the oil industry on West Papua and the people's struggle for freedom and a new form of governemnt after a long history of betrayal. Also looks at West Papuan culture from a tourist's perspective.
What Americans Have Learnt --and not Learnt-- Since 9/11
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
While the American people seemed to have been shocked into awareness as a result of 9/11, Chomsky still identififes a lack of focus on the relevant issues.
What Makes a Good Story?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
Aren#t these conspiracy theories too silly to address? That should be the case. But, sadly, they do attract people.
When & How to Hold a News Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
So before you decide to call a news conference, make sure that the circumstances meet ALL of the criteria.
Who are the Global Terrorists?
in Booth & Tim Dunne (eds.), Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
In light of President George Bush's declaration of "war against terrorism", Chomsky attempts to determine who the opponents are and what the appropriate response to their crimes would be.

2001

Noise Busters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves.
Protect the Freedom to Shock
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2007
The thrust of Professor Finkelstein's book is that powerful interests (Israel and Jewish organizations in America) have hijacked what has become known as the Holocaust. And while Israel has exploited the Holocaust as a weapon to deflect criticism, regardless how justified, American Jewish organizations have used the plight of survivors to extort staggering sums of money from the rest of the world. This was done not for the benefit of survivors, but for the financial advantage of these organizations.
Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2001 Published: 2006
Wanderlust
A history of walking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2006
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act.
Is Your Web Site Media Friendly?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001 Published: 2005
How to make your Web site media-friendly.
The Princess and the Press
How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001 Published: 2005
Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
Canada: A People's History
Volume Two
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2002
A New Generation Draws the Line
Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2002
1999 saw two major international crises which illuminate the strategies of the Western powers in the new century.In East Timor the warnings of further escalation in an unfolding humanitarian disaster could not have been more apparent. Chomsky points out, the West did not need to do very much to prevent this, but East Timor is of little strategic interest to the US and its allies, so they did nothing.By comparison, the intervention in Kosovo by NATO is very different, and Chomsky argues that strategic concerns were at stake; humanitarianism was not the moving force behind the military intervention in Yugoslavia.
Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
Sons and mothers vs. sacred cows
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A growing movement to refuse to serve in the Israeli military and especially in the occupied territories.
World should intervene to end the Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Transcript of a speech given in South Africa addressing the circumstances of the Palestinians and the Israeli apartheid.
When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
Is the Corporation Obsolete?
Corporate irresponsibility? Predatory behavior? Blame the charter--and rewrite it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The more pervasive the corporation becomes, the less we seem to notice. It's just the way things are, the new normal, and rapidly it is becoming the norm for the entire world.
Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
Women Enslaved by Islamic Reaction
Taliban: Bitter Fruit of U.S. Imperialism#s Anti-Soviet War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
There is nothing progressive or #anti-imperialist# about being shrouded in the veil. Nor is it, as some liberals would maintain, a quaint cultural attribute. You wouldn#t think you would have to be a communist to see that wrapping a woman in a veil and secluding her in the home is a hideous oppression crying out to be wiped from the face of the earth. The veil is a physical symbol of the submission of women to men and the imposed affirmation of their inferior status.
Anarchy!
An Anthology of Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth"
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A collection of articles from 'Mother Earth', as an introduction to different anarchist points of view.
Ashcroft? The Road to Theocracy?
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Many stories are told about John Ashcroft here in his home town of Springfield, Missouri. Some of them are no doubt true. My personal favorite concerns John after we went to the same high school, but before his actual political career began. He was then acting as attorney for Southwest Missouri State University, located here.
Asian American Activism Stirring
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
Canada: Activists Face the Future
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Electoral politics present challenging problems for labor movements all over the world. In the absence of strong working class parties, labor activists are often compelled to support parties that implement anti-worker legislation simply because they represent a lesser evil. While reforms are certainly necessary, the investment of activist energy and resources into the electoral process can often distract union and social justice organizations, preventing them from undertaking the important task of generating solidarity within more impoverished segments of the working class.
A Decade of Gulf War Illness
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The demon is back: Ten years after the U.S. air war began over Kuwait and Iraq on January 17, 1991, tens of thousands of sick Gulf War vets await treatment and/or compensation for chronic health problems brought on by their military service.
Depleted Uranium: Scandal Update
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In the first weeks of the new year, a new controversy has erupted among NATO allies over possible health effects of the Pentagon's use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons on their troops who served in Bosnia, Kosova and Serbia. The European Union and several individual states, Italy, Spain and Holland among them, have demanded an investigation into the use of DU weapons by American and NATO warplanes during air assaults on Serbia and Kosova in 1999 and Bosnia in 1995. The weapons are favored because their hardness and density make them highly effective against armored vehicles and tanks.
Energy: The Fleecing of California
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The root of the electrical power “crisis” in California lies in the 1996 deregulation of the industry by the state government, approved unanimously by both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature and signed by Republican then-governor Pete Wilson.
India's Communalist Violence Against Women
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In the colonial and post-colonial periods in India, both the state and the religious communities identified women as a site of concern. Yet at the close of the 20th century, the condition of women in India remains deplorable—a condition that should not be belittled on the ground that colonialism used it in order to discredit India's peoples and achievements.
Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
Nader, Greens and Socialists
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other wing. Nevertheless, the Democrats, their liberal satellite organizations, and the corporate media are playing the blame game for all it is worth.
Philippines Organizing and Repression
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Delia Aguilar interviews Vicvic Justiniani. I first met Victoria (Vicvic) Justiniani eight years ago when she had just emerged from the Philippine underground, where she was immersed in the revolutionary struggle for twenty years beginning at age 16. Vicvic attracted international media attention in 1986 when she represented the women's organization, MAKIBAKA, at the ceasefire talks called by the then newly elected president, Corazon Aquino. At the collapse of these talks, Vicvic resumed her clandestine work until her arrest and release in 1992.
The Struggle to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In January, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women -- approximately twenty percent of the female population -- were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal.
Thieving Sons of Bushes
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
“Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
Training for Freedom in Senegal
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Mark Brenner interviews Amsatou Sow Sidibe. Amsatou Sow Sidibe is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for the Study of Peace and Human Rights at University Cheikh Anta Diop at Dakar, Senegal. She is also a member of the National Elections Commission in Senegal and President of the West African Working Women's Network (RAFET).
U.S. Bombing: Murder as Usual
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Voices in the Wilderness decries today's bombardment of Iraq which hit sites just south of Baghdad. However, we find it instructive to recall the digest of bombings that occurred in the past week and to note that on December 22, 2000 the Gulf News from Dubai quoted figures of civilians killed and injured as a result of US/UK air raids since December 1998 as 311 killed and 927 wounded.
Yugoslavia's Post-Milosevic Paradox
Against The Current vol. 91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
At first, the media described the fall of Milosevic as "a popular uprising against a tyrant." Then, mass mobilization was played down, and the movement to oust Milosevic was reduced to a staged drama with, behind the scenes, the puppet-master forces of the "West."
Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Just because someone is able to purchase a machine that lets them ride off-road, that is no reason that the public should be required to provide them a place to use it.
Abandonando o interesse público
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Simplified) Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Traditional) Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The Activist's Handbook: A Primer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A guide to activism and campaigning strategies.
Aid/Bangladesh 30 years of aid in Bangladesh
New Internationalist March 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look into the history of Bangladesh and the existence of inequality and poverty in the country.
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
This book brings together all of Arundhati Roy's political writings so far.
Alien Invasion
How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
Anti-Globalisation: The Socialism of the Imbeciles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Who are the anti-globalists? They are all those who for the last few years, from the big social-democratic and Stalinist parties to various kinds of leftists, have taken up the new battle standard: anti-globalisation.
Billionaires, Crime, and Corruption
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
What does it really mean when somebody claims to own hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars? What is a billionaire like David Rockefeller really telling us? He's saying that land he may never have set foot on, but which thousands of other people spend their lives farming, belongs to him alone. He's saying that buildings and machinery which he probably has never seen and certainly has never worked at, but which whole communities of people spend their lives working at to produce goods like clothing and automobiles, belong to him alone.
Blaming The Victims
Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and#above all#honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
The burden of slavery
New Internationalist August 2001 - #337
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
Discusses a brief history of slavery in different parts of the world, and its existence in the presence. Outlines ways for people and the government can contribute to end slavery.
But It's Only a Tool!
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism --ed.), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,”(1) is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
Censorship
A World Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Censorship: A World Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive view of censorship, from Ancient Egypt to those modern societies that claim to have abolished the practice. For each country in the world, the history of censorship is described and placed in context, and the media censored are examined: art, cyberspace, literature, music, the press, popular culture, radio, television, and the theatre, not to mention the censorship of language, the most fundamental censorship of all. Also included are surveys of major controversies and chronicles of resistance.Censorship will be an essential reference work for students of the many subjects touched by censorship and for all those who are interested in the history of and contemporary fate of freedom of expression.
Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
The Charter of Demands of the Indian National Fishworkers' Forum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Class Notes
Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Reed argues against the solipsistic approaches of cultural or identity politics, and in favor of class-based political interpretation and action. Class Notes moves on to tackle race relations, ethnic studies, family values, welfare reform, the so-called underclass, and black public intellectuals.
A Coal Miner's Call for Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
I invite you to join with me in dedicating a portion of our lives to the task of bringing about political revolution. In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones: Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.
Confronting the School of Assassins
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
More than 10,000 people assembled at the gates of the Fort Benning military base in Georgia on November 19th as part of an ongoing campaign to shut down the notorious U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA). Protestors have gathered at the base annually since a small group of founding activists of School of the Americas Watch staged an action there in 1989—shortly after the brutal killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter by members of the Salvadoran military trained at the SOA. This year, the protest was linked to a joint action in led by 300 members of Las Abejas from Chiapas, Mexico.
Did Roosevelt know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor yet say nothing?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Examining another popular conspiracy theory.
Do or Die: The people versus development in the Narmada Valley
New Internationalist July 2001 - #336
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look at the case the Supreme Court of India against The People regarding the Narmada Dam.
Double Fold
Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
Eating Fire
Family Life, on the Queer Side
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affairs, sweethearts, crushes, exes, friends, bottoms and tops, threesomes, butches and fems, bears, cubs and johns. Based on hundreds of intimate conversations across Canada, Eating Fire explores the deepest currents of life: sex, love, loneliness, abuse, power and consent, giving birth, death, being a wo/man, pleasure, fear, joy - risks and rewards of creating family without boundaries.
E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the public interest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
Elections 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky reviews the details of the 2000 elections and reveals the tendency of dysfunction in democratic electoral models.
The end of oil Mired in crude
New Internationalist June 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look into the facts of the Oil business and its effects on the places it is being harvested.
Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
What so puzzling about anti-Eurocentric histories, especially the histories of capitalism is that, without exception, they are based on the most Eurocentric -- not to mention bourgeois -- assumptions.
Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Public opinion plays a key role in government spending decisions, and one of the most effective ways to influence public opinion is through the media. A single appearance on television, for example, gets your message across to tens of thousand of people.
Faces of global resistance
New Internationalist September 2001 - #338
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
Discussion of corporate globalization and how some are organizing themselves to resists.
Falsifying History and Ourselves: Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Contrary to the views promoted by FHAO, the true facts about Germany during the Holocaust show that 1) working class Germans fought the Nazis; 2) anti-Semitism did not come from ordinary people; and 3) anti-Semitism was a weapon used by Germany's industrial and aristocratic elite to attack not only the Jewish minority but the entire working class.
The fight for a different world
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
For some, Genoa will become synonymous with violence # and this is certainly the line that many mainstream newspapers adopted. Unfortunately, so have some nongovernmental organizations. But there are two separate questions here. The first has to do with the violence of the state directed against the movement; the other is a question of how the movement deals with a small minority of self-selected individuals who choose to engage in a set of tactics that are detrimental to the movement as a whole. The presence of the black bloc (or of agent provocateurs posing as black bloc members) should not be allowed to hide the real purveyors of violence in Genoa.
Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
The Game of War
The Life and Death of Guy Debord
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Get a Digital Life
An Internet Reality Check
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Global Media Megalomedia The voice of globalization
New Internationalist April 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
The effects of globa media in different parts of the world. Discusses how the media promotes globalization as well as how it is an integral part of the process. How news can get distorted by the structure of the media itself. The hidden history of Western media propaganda and how globalization has affected Singapore.
Global Showdown
How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
Going up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
On the prisons in America, their unprofitable nature, and their ineffectiveness. Hallinan also explores the workings of mostly-white towns that host prisons of predominately black inmates.
Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
Health Hazard
New Internationalist January/February 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look into the history of public health and the challenges it is facing.
History is a Weapon
Lockdown America in 22 Minutes
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2001
A talk by Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police And Prisons in the Age of Crisis, about the thirty year explosion in prisons in the United States, at the Stop The ACA(American Correctional Association) conference.
Honoring Our Gulf War Resisters
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Facing their greatest recruitment crisis since at least the passage of the 1985 Montgomery G.I. Bill, and perhaps since the creation of the so-called "all volunteer" Army in 1973, the U.S. Armed Forces have gotten hip to the persuasive power of popular culture.
How Embarassing when your messages unravel
The Emperor's New Speak
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
How the Media Can Be Positive For Your Business
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
If both you and the reporter benefit, the chances are you will do business with that reporter again, good business.
How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
How US Democracy Triumphed Again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky explores the discrepancies of the Bush-Gore tie in the 2000 elections such as income correlation and the lack of voter participation, revealing meaningful flaws in the democratic system.
Humanism Betrayed
Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
This book offers a defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominating the university.
IBM and the Holocaust
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Idaho, Mountain Lions and a Rattlesnake Friend
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
We moved to Pocatello, Idaho three years ago. And there are certainly some mighty friendly people hereabouts. But from the very moment we first arrived, we've been subjected to bizarre harassment—coming obviously from Federal, state, local "lawmen" and vigilante types, and just as obviously stemming from my traditionally Left Native rights/civil rights/labor affiliations and beliefs and history and contemporary activities.
Introduction: Project Censored 25th Anniversary
In Peter Phillips (ed.), Project Censored 2001
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky examines "Project Censored" and its contents, revealing a telling pattern: the stories all appeal to public rather corporate-state interests. Such an observation poses questions of media ownership and censorship in relationship to democracy.
The Kids Are All Right: They're Fighting the Corporations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
If the anti-sweatshop movement gains confidence in saying that its goal is revolution to shape the world with the anti-capitalist values of equality, democracy, and solidarity; and if it spreads an understanding that these values are shared by most men and women, football fans and soccer fans, suburban, rural, and urban working people all over the world, then the movement can be unstoppable.
Living Wage Movement: An Update
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Several months ago, a few hundred service workers in Santa Cruz, California won a raise. Workers who work for the city or for private sector firms who perform city services will now be eligible for $11 per hour plus health benefits or $12 per hour without benefits.
Making Connections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The pressure to view things narrowly and out of context is a form of social control. Without seeing connections, we can#t make sense of the world; and if we can#t make sense of the world, we can#t change it. "Making connections" among the many different issues and areas of our experience is a vital task of the revolutionary movement.
Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Metalclad vs. Mexico, Toxic Waste and NAFTA
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Last August 25 the NAFTA Tribunal for the case of Metalclad Corp vs. Mexico ruled in favor of Metalclad, ordering the Mexican government to pay US$16.7 million in compensation. It is the first ruling in an investor-to-state lawsuit under NAFTA.
A Mind of its Own
A Cultural Historyt of the Penis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Neocolonial Invitation to a Tribal War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky discusses American involvement and authority in the affairs of Israel, for example, regarding Israel's withdrawal and the establishment of a Palestinian state. He attributes the lack of progress in the region to such intervention.
Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By In America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
9-11
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
In 9-11 Noam Chomsky dissects the root causes of the September 11th catastrophe, the historical precedents for it, and the possible outcomes as the United States responds with its "new war on terrorism." Chomsky argues for an international rule of law; existing bodies such as the U.N. and World Court must be given credence and then relied upon. React with extreme violence, he writes, and expect to escalate the cycle of violence, leading to still further atrocities such as the one that is inciting the call for revenge.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
Ordinary People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
When we talk about revolution, we aren't talking about pie in the sky or something that's never existed. We're talking about reshaping the world with the very best values that we practice now, today, in our families, with our friends and co-workers, with our students and patients. We believe that the smallest acts of kindness and the most public, collective acts of revolution are on a continuum of struggle to make the world the way we believe it should be.
Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
The Poster in History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Power to the Students
How 2 Take an Exam...& Remake the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Offers a critique of capitalism and explains Marxist theory in a non-technical manner. This is delivered alongside a guide on how to do do well on exams and in school. The juxtaposition of these two topics explains the role exams play in capitalism.
A Quick Reaction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Noam Chomsky offers his immediate reactions to the atrocities of 9/11, focusing on the need to acquire insight into what may have led the perpetrators to commit such crimes.
Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff, and Commies
The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A popular rebellion in the Dominican Republic toppled the remnants of the U.S. backed Trujillo dictatorship thus setting the stage for the master thinkers of America's Cold War machine. In this study, Eric Thomas Chester carefully reconstructs the events that followed.
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
Reckless Abandon
Canada, the GATS and the future of Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Remembering the War and the Movement
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
February 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend's house where we were staying and went to collect the Globe and Mail from the front stoop.
Resist
A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
Resource Rebels
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Like canaries in a mine, native peoples throughout the globe are facing extinction due to the greed of mining and oil companies. Building a multi-racial, transnational movement to drastically limit resource extraction and creating an new environmental ethic is the best hope: these stories show how it's being done.
Respect Bathurst
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
In wake of the end of the Kosovo conflict, Chomsky attempts a dispassionate analysis of the crisis, differentiating between two approaches available to the international community in such situations.
School Vouchers Scam Goes Down
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A key achievement in the November elections was the defeat of school voucher schemes in California and Michigan. California's Proposition 38 would have offered every child in California a $4,000 voucher to use at a private school of their choice; a more modest proposal in Michigan would have provided vouchers worth $3,300 to public school students in school districts with the highest drop-out rates. The fact that both were defeated so resoundingly (with seventy percent voting against) may sound the death knell for other voucher schemes around the country, as well as other efforts designed to pave the way for privatization of our public schools.
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
The Silent Takeover
Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
South Africa's Political Change
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
On December 5, slightly less than half of South Africa's registered electorate went to the polls, and Thabo Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) emerged with just under sixty percent support -- down from the two-thirds received in the 1994 and 1999 national elections -- and control of all major cities aside from Cape Town.
States of Denial
Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis # it just feels that way.
This Rough Game
Fascism and Anti-Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Renton describes the rise of European Fascism, the condition of Weimar Germany, British fascism, Battle of Cable Street and Hitler's life.
Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
A summary of four case studies dissecting the relationship between the health of an individual and that individual's social living circumstances.
Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
New Internationalist December 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
Twin Terrors
New Internationalist November 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
An in-depth look at the events of the 9/11 disaster.
Vanguard of Retrogression
"Postmodern" Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
When one probes the terms of the debate, what is truly amazing is that the ostensibly anti-Eurocentric multiculturalists are, without knowing it, purveying a remarkably Eurocentric version of what the Western tradition really is. The ultimate theoretical sources of today's multiculturalism are two very white and very dead European males, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.
Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 2001
Our World is Not for Sale. Priority to Peoples' Food Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The View from the Press Room
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
How charities can sell their stories to the media.
Voting Patterns and Abstentions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Chomsky analyzes the phenomena of low voter participation and income correlation with election results as symptoms of an unhealthy democracy.
What Does a Reporter Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
Why I Am Listed in Sources
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
The majority of high-profile experts that I have interviewed are listed in Sources year in and year out # a clear indication that they feel that they#re getting a lot of bang for their buck.
World Trade Organization Shrink it or sink it
New Internationalist May 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
A look at the World Trade Organization and issues surrounding its operation.
Abandonner l'intérêt publique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.

2000

Wklad Rózy Luksemburg do marksizmu.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Media Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000 Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
Man, Beast and Zombie
What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
Drawing upon the ideas of evolutionary biology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, Malik questions many of our assumptions about human nature.
Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
Upside Down
A primer for the looking-glass world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions.
After the "Special Period"
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
U.S. activists interview Cuban student. In July, Solidarity supporters Tim Marshall, Rachel Quinn and Sara Abraham had the opportunity to take classes at the University of Havana as a part of the Language and Culture program sponsored by Global Exchange. We met many people willing to share their opinions on the political and economic situation of the country. Everyone talked about how difficult the "special period" (early 1990s) was but felt that Cuba was emerging from this critical time.
Apartheid "Peace" Explodes
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The explosion in Jerusalem, occupied Palestine and the state of Israel is horrific to contemplate—but not at all difficult to understand. Underneath what appeared to begin as rioting over "holy places," the real issue is this: Tens of thousands of Palestinians are risking their lives in the face of live ammunition in defense of their basic human dignity. And in that act, they have posed the greatest challenge to the "stability" of imperialist control of the Middle East that we have witnessed since the 1973 war.
Cuba, the United States and the Left
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The nationalist anti-imperialist revolution of the long beards has lasted forty-one years. It was never a socialist revolution. The Moncada combatants were not socialists, neither were those in the Sierra Maestra (with few exceptions), nor the Cuban people who one morning woke up to hear the news through the radio and from the mouth of Fidel Castro, that in response to the imperialist attacks, the island had become "socialist."
French Jews for Palestinian Rights
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The following text (abridged here) was published in the French daily Le Monde of October 18, 2000 accompanied by the signatures of fifty French people of Jewish origin, several of them well-known political or intellectual figures. Citizens of the countries in which we live and citizens of the planet, we do not habitually express ourselves as Jews.
Going to the Dogs (and Babies)
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Activists are attempting to end the practice of terminating racing greyhounds that run out of the money. The dog-racing industry will retort that that's going to make it harder to motivate the ones that are running. (You don't think they're fooled by that mechanical rabbit, do you?)
Indonesia: Reformasi Betrayed
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In complete betrayal of the student-led Reformasi (reform) movement, the ruling judge in the Suharto corruption trial dropped the case after hearing a report by a twenty-three member team of court appointed doctors that the former Indonesian dictator was physically and mentally unfit to stand trial.
Iraq Under Siege
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The German Nazis killed two million Jewish children. The Bush-Clinton sanctions on Iraq have killed over 500,000 Iraqi children with thousands more being added monthly. As a crime against humanity, the scale of death, misery and environmental destruction visited on Iraq this past decade now rivals what the United States did to Vietnam from 1962-1975.
Labor Scores at Verizon
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
Los Angeles: Assessing D2K Protests
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
More than 10,000 activists gathered in LA for the Democratic convention protests August 5-18. The main protest held Monday, August 12 drew around 10,000 activists. Three thousand had gathered for the Mumia march held the previous day.
Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
Patrick Buchanan's Ezola Virus
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Amidst all the turmoil of the Reform Party this summer, Pat Buchanan named Ezola Foster as his running mate for his third bid at the presidency. For a man who has openly questioned the holocaust, and battled to save white America, choosing a Black woman is a little puzzling.
Prague: Reflections on S26
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Even beofre the clouds of tear gas over Prague had dissipated, the mainstream media were eager to declare the September 26 demonstration against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank a failure. According to the New York Times, the international gathering of up to 20,000 protesters had tried "desperately ... and ultimately unsuccessfully, to shut down a global finance meeting."
Queer in a Lean World
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The queer movement has made impressive gains in the thirty-one years since the Gay Liberation Front emerged out of the Stonewall Riots in New York City. It is now possible for many lesbians and gay men to live relatively open lives in fairly supportive environments with access to real community resources.
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 2)
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Our electoral dilemma today derives from a political realignment a hundred years ago, when a faction of populists joined in fusion with William Jennings Bryan and the “Free Silver” Democratic Party. After 1896 the two major parties evolved into what they have remained, electoral machines organized from the top down, from elites to ward heelers and courthouse gangs, as vote-catching operations for factions of big business.
Taplok Press, A New Flame
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Reading Left books has become somewhat of a trend in Indonesia. Although the struggle for democracy is far from won, overthrowing the dictator Suharto in 1998 has brought a lot of positive changes for people. One of the most important changes is the ability to openly explore political ideas and the access to information.
Transgender Activism After Falls City
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The critical acclaim for Kimberly Peirce's film "Boys Don't Cry," and Hilary Swank's Academy Award-winning performance in it as Brandon Teena, have focused public attention on a real-life hate crime that both galvanized the nascent transgender activist movement in the mid-1990s and highlighted tensions between that movement and other parts of the queer community.
West Bengal Women Oppose Giant Dam
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Maitree is a West Bengal-based network of forty-two women's organizations, NGOs and individual women activists concerned with women's rights. Maitree supports the struggle of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and of the people of the Narmada valley for their right to survive in a manner of their own choosing. Consequently, we express our grave concern at the recent Supreme Court judgment [to permit construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam to proceed], which ignores the problems of rehabilitation and environmental degradation.
TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Abandonando el Interés Público
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Las sociedades industriales aprendieron, en el curso de décadas, que los intereses privados no pueden ser usados para salvaguardar el interés público cuando entran en conflicto con sus propios intereses. Fue una lección dura, aprendida con el costo de muchas vidas, pero el resultado fue que gradualmente, pieza por pieza, país a país, una infraestructura pública de regulaciones y agencias y procedimientos fue obtenida para proteger la salud pública y la seguridad. Esa infraestructura está siendo minimizada ahora, no sólo por fuera, sino por dentro de las propias instituciones gubernamentales.
Abandoning the Public Interest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
L'abbandono dell'interesse pubblico
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Het publieke belang negeren
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Courts Back Detroit Scab Papers
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In July a federal court of appeals dealt a crushing blow to the Detroit newspaper strikers, holding management was bargaining in good faith at the time they walked out in 1995. This means replaced workers—of whom there are still several hundred—have no rights to displace scabs and over a thousand more will get no backpay.
From PRI to Foxismo
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Mexico on July 2 experienced an alternation of parties in power at the national level. But the more fundamental shift away from the one-party state had begun already with the Salinas administration (1988-1994), when he tried to replace the ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) with his own political and patronage apparatus, "Solidarity."
Global Capital and Economic Nationalism (Part 2)
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A number of aspects of global capitalism changed rapidly at the end of the 1980s. The most obvious was the collapse of most of the Communist states and the initiation of their integration into the world capitalist system. While the impact of this has yet to be fully felt in the West, it is in effect a giant "enclosure" (privatization) movement on a scale and at a speed never before seen in the transition to capitalism anywhere.
The Great Strike at UNAM
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The Great Strike of the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM), which for more than nine months was occupied by students organized in the Strike General Committee (CGH), started on April 20, 1999 and lasted until February 6, 2000. On that date 2500 federal police, following orders given by President Zedillo, evicted hundreds of students from the campus and arrested them.
How Ultraleftism Divided UNAM Strike
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
MEXICO CITY -- Commandeered buses flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ferrying students to a demonstration commemorating the 1968 student massacre at the Plaza of the Three Cultures. Led by veterans of the 1968 movement, 60,000 students and their supporters slogged the fifteen kilometers from the university campus up Insurgentes and Reforma, the world's longest urban avenues, to a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in support of the electricity workers' struggle against privatization.
IPPN Standing Strong in the Storm
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
If I were asked to name the one virtue that best describes the political left in America, I would say “perseverance.” As we know all too well, the long history of the left in our country is a history of frustration, betrayal and defeat, yet also of hope, vigor and determination despite many setbacks and our repeated failure to win any real political power.
Lessons of an Ambiguous Struggle
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The conflict around Congress' granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) signals the opening of important new terrain of political struggle. With the background of the two major mass demonstrations against neoliberalism in Seattle and Washington D.C., perhaps the most significant and interesting political development is the leadership role of the AFL-CIO in mobilizing against the most important policy initiative of the waning Clinton administration.
The New Movement for Global Justice
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The new movement for Global Justice arose in the last few years out of the convergence of groups concerned with environmental, human rights and trade issues, and the labor movements. While this article will focus on the United States, we might pause to remember that we form part of a broad international movement against neoliberal globalization.
The Protectionist Trap
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In July, the United Nations and some fifty large corporations came to an agreement that the companies would all respect workers' rights and protect the environment in their investments around the world. Anyone who believes that this will actually happen is maybe in the market for a certain bridge as well.
Race and Class: The Wealth Gap
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Politicians and government officials point to the historic low unemployment level in the Black community as signs of a strong economy and a future where whites and African Americans will finally have an opportunity for an equal share of the American dream. While it is true that long-term unemployment for the African-American population is in the single digits for the first time, the wealth gap between white and Black families continues to widen. According to government statistics Black households' wealth average one-twelfth that of white households.
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Ralph Nader, announcing his presidential candidacy in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 2000, said, "The struggle between the forces of democracy and plutocracy has ebbed and flowed throughout our history ... The earlier nineteenth-century democratic struggles by abolitionists against slavery, by farmers against large oppressive railroads and banks, and later by new trade unionists against the brutal workplace conditions of the early industrial and mining era helped mightily to make America and its middle class what it is today. They demanded that economic power subside or be shared."
Viewpoint: Transnationals After Seattle
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the United States between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a “pre-revolutionary situation,” but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgment.
Why Detroit Needs Justice and CPR
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
If anyone doubts that the modern American City has become the center of all forms of oppression, consider the list of injustices that Detroit residents confront everyday in a city governed by African Americans. Although Brush Park residents were granted funds for renovation some five years ago, the city has taken the money from the senior citizens and transferred it to the big developers and city attorneys to help evict the seniors.
Battle in Nicaragua's Maquiladoras
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Nicaragua has only one major "free trade zone," Las Mercedes, and unlike the rest of Central America, half of the workers there have managed to build unions. Recently the zone management and the Labor Ministry are helping employers to implement a variety of union-busting actions:
Bush-Gore 2000: No Thanks!
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The Republican presidential candidate strongly advocates the Effective Death Penalty Act, the World Trade Organization and "free trade" with China; talks environmental protection while being heavily funded by Occidental Petroleum; supports deportations of non-citizens suspected of "terrorist links" based on secret evidence which the accused cannot hear or refute; and openly pandered to the right-wing lobby in Miami in the Elian Gonzalez affair.
Crisis and Coup in Ecuador
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
On January 21, 2000, for the first time since the Spanish conquest of Ecuador in A.D. 1533-34, indigenous people briefly -- very briefly -- ruled the country as part of a triumvirate. Frustrated by over a decade of economic problems, corruption and political stalemates over indigenous rights and land disputes, thousands of indigenous protesters and members of popular movements converged on Quito, the country's capital. On the 21st, hundreds of protesters occupied Congress and proclaimed a People's Parliament.
The Deep Crisis of Sandinismo
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The struggle we waged from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to overthrow the Somoza dictatorship and bring about a revolution (in 1979) was also a struggle for human rights. It has always been very difficult for me to draw the line between being a Sandinista activist and a human rights activist, because I've always considered the struggle for human rights to be a revolution in itself.
Fighting China or the WTO?
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The tension among groups which protested in Seattle would emerge in April when two marches would proceed within the same week, one [led by the AFL-CIO -ed.] targeting China's entry to the World Trade Organization, another [April 16-17] fighting against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, just as activists have fought against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the WTO.
Five Steps from D.C. to Jo'burg
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
1. Take Washington D.C. to Johannesburg. What the youth and other activists in the U.S.A. have done, must be repeated here in South Africa. Of course, it will not be parrot-like, it will have to take into account our specific situation and circumstances. We must target the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as agents of neoliberal economic policy in our country and our region. We must then find issues around which we can organize the people, for example, water, electricity, jobs, etc.
Korea: The Elections and Sexual Violence
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In the April 13 South Korean parliamentary elections, the closest the Democratic Labor Party came to victory was in the Hyundai company town of Ulsan. Their candidate was defeated by a small margin (43% to 41.8%) by the Grand National Party, the traditional party of the military dictatorship, anticommunism, and Kyongsang chauvinism (Ulsan is in South Kyongsang Province). The combination of money, regionalism and boss politics still exerts influence in the working class.
Korea's New Revolutionaries
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Against the background of a rising militant working-class movement, revolutionary socialists in South Korea are undergoing a process of regroupment. An important force in this development are comrades of the Power of the Working Class (PWC) organization, formed in August of last year.
A Painful Struggle for Renewal
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Twenty-one years after the Sandinista National Liberation Front's triumph of July 1979, and ten years since the FSLN government lost power in an electoral upset, Nicaragua's political and economic picture is generally bleak. Widespread corruption, natural disasters made more catastrophic by social and environmental mismanagement, and a debilitating political pact between the top levels of the Liberal government (PLC) and the FSLN have sucked much of the life from the once vibrant popular movements. At the base, these movements are struggling for a renewal and reorientation.
Protectionism or Solidarity? (Part I)
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As the 21st century opened, U.S. labor seemed more energized and more engaged in grappling with the forces that had so long kept it on the defensive. Perhaps it was the fact that over a million workers had joined unions in the last two years and new members outnumbered lost ones by over a quarter of a million. Maybe it was the high-visibility experience of Seattle and the promise of a new coalition of forces.
South Africa Windows on Washington
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The World Bank! Haai! Is the Devil! Haai haai! This was the chant -- accompanied by that South African activist war-dance, the toyi-toyi -- that my comrades Trevor Ngwane and Molly Dhlamini introduced to A-16/17 week gatherings in Washington, D.C., ranging from Direct Action Network spokescouncil meetings to activist sessions, as well as the street protests and on stage at the main rally.
Students and Labor Together
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
On behalf of my fellow campus organizers I would like to thank the AFL-CIO leadership and all of you for this opportunity to speak with you. I have a new slogan for you: "Whose University? Our University!!!" That's what we were chanting three weeks ago when I and hundreds other University of Wisconsin students and workers took over our administration building.
Vieques After A Year of Struggle
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Thirteen peace encampments prevented the U.S. Navy for thirteen months from using the Puerto Rican island of Vieques for target practice, until they were forcibly cleared by FBI agents and federal marshals on May 4th, 2000. In the meantime, two Atlantic Fleets had to suspend maneuvers and the U.S.S. George Washington and the U.S.S. Eisenhower, two gigantic aircraft carriers headed for Vieques, had to turn around and go elsewhere.
Where Is Indonesia Going?
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
For both admirers and critics of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, the picture is disturbing: At the presidential palace in Jakarta there are signs of a new “royal court” in the making. Officials converse in Javanese, not the national language Bahasa Indonesia; Wahid himself borrows from mysticism and ancient tracts to plot political strategy; and family and friends are acting as gatekeepers and facilitators, in some cases for businessmen hoping to curry favor. Some analysts describe it as a form of “benign Suhartoism,” a throwback to the disastrous last decade of President's 32-year rule.
World Bank: It's the Pits for the Poor
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In early May, a National Reparations Conference opened by Njongonkulu Ndungane, the radical Archbishop of Cape Town who succeeded Desmond Tutu, resolved to demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund compensate South Africa for apartheid loans long ago repaid. What is the line of argument?
Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-way Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Kontaminiert: Das giftige Erbe der Kürzungen in Ontario's Umweltpolitik
Ein Artikel über Katastrophe für die Umwelt in Kanada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
Behind Murder With Impunity
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
New York City and Los Angeles have become the model for life under capitalism in general, and in late-twentieth century urban America in particular. For the affluent are the booming stock and real estate markets; for the poor, a vista of injustice piled on injustice, atrocity on atrocity, serial police murder with impunity. After Amadou Diallo, Malcolm Ferguson; then Patrick Dorismond: If you are Black in New York you can be shot dead if you stand still, run away, or refuse an offer to sell drugs to undercover cops.
Behind the Death of Amadou Diallo
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Now that public outrage slowly diminishes regarding the Amadou Diallo case, this essay shares some of the immediate feeling and reaction that occurred at the time of the verdict. Furthermore, this essay tries to imagine salient possibilities for re-education in policing methods within communities of color.
Chicago's Public Housing: Willful Neglect
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Just a few days before Christmas, the Chicago Tribune ran an article under the whimsical title, "Another Can of Worms for CHA." (CT 12/23/99) This report described how, in its rush to force a group of recalcitrant residents to move from one poorly maintained building in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing complex to another before the holidays, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had cut off power to the building.
Leadership and Democracy
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
I am grateful to Fred Bustillo for the opportunity to expand on the necessarily brief comments on political leadership in my review of Daniel Singer's Whose Millennium? (Against the Current 82, September-October 1999). If we consider the working class and its allies, not abstractly and schematically but in concrete historical and political terms, we find that they do not constitute homogeneous social forces, nor are they likely to become homogeneous even on the eve of revolution. In other words, these social groups are and will likely remain uneven, whether in terms of political consciousness or organizational experience, and with divergent but reconcilable interests.
Madison: Sitting Down for Justice
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
These words aptly describe recent events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At 2:00 PM. on Wednesday, February 16, 2000, seven students walked into UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward's office in Bascom Hall. The students-Brendan O'Sullivan, Molly McGrath, Mark Brakken, Sarah Turner, Riza Falk and Adam Klaus, chairperson of the Associated Students of Madison-demanded that the university change its sweatshop practices.
Race and Class: What Counts in the Census?
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
I recently received two surveys in the mail. The first came from the U.S. Census Bureau, asking me a number of personal questions-some relevant, others intrusive. For the first time, however, the census offered me more options than the "normal" white, Black, Hispanic and other categories for race. I could now identify myself by checking as many ethnic groups as I liked. Progress? Maybe.
Rejecting the "Vanguard" Party
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In the September-October, 1999 issue of Against the Current (#82), Sam Farber's review of Daniel Singer's book Whose Millennium? deserves a few comments. Like Farber, Singer and numerous other revolutionaries, I also reject the Leninist concept of the "vanguard party." As you probably know, it was not Lenin who authored the concept that working people can attain only trade union consciousness as a result of their own practical activity, the material basis of the vanguard concept as defined in What Is To Be Done?
Stop the Destruction of Chechnya!
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As we enter the 21st century, Russian society is confronted with the shameful fact of the bloody colonial war in the north Caucasus. The whole might of the "democratic" Russian state has been thrown into subjugating a small people that volunteered to join neither the tsarist or Stalinist empires nor Yeltsin's "federation." Tens of thousands killed or physically or spiritually maimed; masses impoverished or turned into refugees with no rights; towns and villages reduced to ruins-this is the price paid to satisfy the political ambitions of a Russian ruling class bent on reinforcing and redoubling its dominance.
The Year One of Hoffa Junior
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
One of James Hoffa's first initiatives after assuming the office of Teamsters General President was-no giggling please-to announce that he was launching a "self-policing" anti-corruption effort called Project RISE (Respect, Integrity, Strength, Ethics). A few months later, to lend his effort sorely needed anti-corruption credentials, Junior Hoffa hired former U.S. prosecutor Ed Steir and ex-FBI official James Kossler to front for Project RISE as "advisors."
Youth Confront California's Prop 21
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
When it became clear early on the evening of March 7 that California's Juvenile Crime Initiative (Proposition 21) had passed by a wide majority, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco, converging outside the Mission district police station. Earlier that day, more than 500 protesters shut down San Francisco's Hilton hotel, protesting at the hotel's support of the Initiative.
The Steven Truscott Case: I am a Canadian . . . hero?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Drowning in Noise: Noise Costs of jet skis in America
A Report for the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
An analysis of the value of the lost enjoyment that jet ski noise introduces into beach environments.
Why We Can Change the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Many good people support the "diversity" concept, because they see it as a way of building unity and respect for each other across cultural divides. But diversity is about "celebrating and respecting our differences." Despite many people's best intentions, it's not really about finding what we have in common, but about focusing on differences as if these supposed differences are what define us as human beings. Diversity as a framework, as a way of thinking about each other, will always stand in the way of the goal that most of us share, of multi-racial, multi-ethnic unity. Diversity in fact is no different from the basic capitalist view that society consists of various groups competing for their own interests. Such a view does not present any threat to capitalism or to inequality but reinforces it.
Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Some 50,000 people, ninety percent African Americans, marched in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 17, the federal holiday honoring the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The march protest was organized by the NAACP demanding that South Carolina's government remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse. Until the state officials do so, the NAACP pledged to continue its economic boycott of the state.
The Clouds Clear: Labor, Seattle and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As the clouds of teargas lifted from the streets of Seattle two images emerged in public consciousness: The edifice of the WTO brought crashing to its knees, simultaneously revealing an odd Lilliputian army of labor, environmental, church and assorted activists that had appeared out of nowhere to assault what had been presumed to be an unassailable new world order.
The Costs of McCarthyism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Many Are the Crimes is far more than just an incisive diagnosis of the interlocking components of the historical era known as “McCarthyism.” Yeshiva University historian Ellen Schrecker has also produced a unique anti-witch-hunt study acknowledging that the vast majority of the legal targets of repression were, as the McCarthyites claimed, variously associated with the Communist movement.
Elections in the Southern Cone
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
During the last three months of 1999, presidential elections took place in the three southernmost countries of the Latin American continent.
From Yeltsin to Putin: Modern Democrat Gives Way to Modern Nationalist
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The power brokers in and around the Kremlin have orchestrated a transfer of power that could serve as a model for modern democratic rule—the kind of demonstration democracy (demonstrate the form, forget the content) practiced to a high art form in the United States.
Grassroots Power, Women and Transformation: An Interview with George Friday
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
George Friday is an organizer with the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)—a national network of organizations working to build alternatives to the two-party system. An African-American woman who grew up in the South, George is currently based in Rockwell, North Carolina, and focuses her work in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
Lessons of Life and Death from Henry Spira: By Any Compromise Necessary?
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A friend of Henry Spira once asked him why he left teaching in New York City, where he was successful and loved by the students, to go into the animal rights struggle. Spira said that humans were more able than animals to help themselves because humans have “freedom in this country” and minds to think for themselves. This statement came not from a naive liberal dilettante do-gooder, but from a man with years of radical activism to his credit, including work with the Longshoremen and the Socialist Workers Party.
Political Persecution in Puerto Rico: Uncovering Secret Files
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In the summer of 1987 Puerto Rico was shaken by revelations that the island's police was collecting information on so called “political subversives,” and that it was in possession of thousands of extensive carpetas (files) concerning individuals of all social groups and ages.
Privatization by Stealth: Canadian Health Care in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The recent growth of obstacles to getting health care here in the United States has led to a renewed interest in Canada's system of universal access, called Medicare. Premium inflation has accelerated after stabilizing in the mid-1990s.
A Travesty of Justice: Why Peltier Remains in Prison
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
“It's 1999. Why is Leonard Peltier still in prison?” These words were on the huge banner behind the speakers' table for last summer's gathering of forces at Haskell Indian Nations College & Institute at Lawrence, Kansas.
Women and Global Capitalism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Women are affected in unique ways by current forms of global economic integration. Their experiences, concerns and needs must be a central part of the groundwork for understanding and transforming this global economy.
The WTO's Nude World Order
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
It got intoxicating that Tuesday (Nov. 30, `99) in Seattle, without chemical assist. That capitalist machine that has looked so mighty and irresistible, for that day was stopped and defeated. Seattle marked the emergence of the next new left, a wildly diverse and creative bunch. And they will be operating on a changing terrain, where not just corporate misbehavior but capitalism appears the problem, and can be fought.
The Psychology of Mountain Biking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually.
Revolutionary Optimist
An interview with Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Seattle: The First US Riot Against "Globalization"?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The brief, ephemeral opening of the sense that "nothing will ever be the same" experienced by some in Seattle and in the wake of Seattle will close again quickly without a strategy for a real internationalism, an internationalism in which criticisms of slave labor in China or child labor in India are joined to, e.g. a practical critique of the mushroom-like proliferation of sweatshops and prison labor in the U.S.
Agnes Macphail
Champion of the Underdog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
All the World's A Rage?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In today's political vocabulary, "direct action" is interpreted to mean any form of action short of marking an #X' on a ballot. Throwing a brick through a Starbucks window is certainly a direct action and the thrower of the projectile is making a direct statement against the glass window of the coffee chain; it may even provide the thrower with a flush of adrenaline, but as a strategy it will fail.
The Anatomy of A Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The first time I traveled to Los Angeles with a comrade of mine in the labor movement, I had one of those sharp educational experiences that cannot be replicated in the classroom.
Another Way for Kosovo?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Chomsky considers the facts of the Kosovo crisis and aims to determine if other plausible courses of action were available.
The Art of Cause Marketing
How to use advertising to change personal behavior and public policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
How to craft a powerful public service campaign
Att överge allmänintresset
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Back To The Future
The Continuing Relevance of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Does anyone seriously believe that the Russian workers who invented soviets in 1905 or overthrew the Tsar in 1917 were free of bigotry, of anti-semitism, of sexism, of national chauvinism? Or the Hungarian workers of 1966? Or the French workers of 1968? (In France there had been considerable display of racism toward African immigrants, a racism that was significantly reduced for a while during the events of May 1968.) Were the Polish workers who created Solidarity in 1980 free of anti-semitism, sexism, the influence of the Catholic Church? What is missing in most of these empirical studies is the theory of Marx. They are based on the depths the working class has reached under capitalism, not the peaks. As a result, they are inherently conservative.
Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
The Best of The Nation
Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An anthology of articles from The Nation.
Betrayal of Trust
The Collapse of Global Public Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
Blinded by the Truth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Chomsky explores Israel's adoption of the American military doctrine in its conflict with the Palestinians.
Blood Relations
Animals, Humans, and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Explores the world of the Canadian animal rights movement.
Blowing Your Own Horn!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Launching your own public relations campaign.
Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The Case for Penal Abolition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A collection of essays on various aspects of the penal abolition movement and its arguments.
Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Points about electronic communication and online security.
Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
Clear Answers
The Economics and Politics of For-Profit Medicine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Coalitions across the Class Divide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The Colombia Plan
April 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
In response to military assistance and "emergency" financial aid for Columbia,
Chomsky explores the negative consequences of US intervention.
Colour Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Contaminación: El envenenante legado de los recortes ambientales de Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Contamination: L'Héritage Vénéneux des coupures écologiques de l'Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
La contribution de Rosa Luxembourg envers le Marxisme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Luxembourg était l'interprète principale du Marxisme dans l'esprit de Marx. Une indication de ceci, paradoxal à première vue, fut qu'elle était une des rares Marxiste principale qui ne traita pas les écritures de Marx comme assignation sainte.
Il contributo al marxismo di Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Vedo Rosa Luxemburg come la marxista che fece il massimo per progredire le teorie rivoluzionarie di Karl Marx nel periodo successivo alla morte di Marx ed Engels.
O Contributo de Rosa Luxemburg ao Marxismo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Num momento em que o movimento socialista estava evoluindo em direçoes cada vez mais distantes das posiçoes de Marx # o reformismo social democrata, por um lado, e o centralismo burocrático Leninista, por outro # Luxemburg foi a principal representante do marxismo no espírito de Marx.
The Corporate Consensus
A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
The Corrosion of Character
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
‘The creatures, too, must become free’: Marx and the Animal/Human Distinction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
It has been claimed that Marx lacked respect for animals, thinking of them as inferior beings. Lawrence Wilde argues that, on the contrary, Marx had a respectful attitude towards animals and non-human nature in general. Marx’s attitude to the non-human is intrinsic to his humanistic outlook, grounded in an understanding of the human essence, for which maltreatment of animals is contrary to a communistic vision. Wilde approaches the question of Marx’s attitude to animals and nature within the wider context of Marx’s ethics.
Degraded Capability
The Media and the Kosovo Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The media played a highly partisan and propagandistic role in Nato’s Kosovo war, uncritically reproducing official spin in a way incompatible with their proclaimed role as objective purveyors of information.
Democracy Is that it?
New Internationalist June 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Democracy has become commonplace and its original meaning -- "rule by the people" -- has got lost. Real democracy depends on active citizenship, something that's missing from contemporary culture. Articles cover democracy in Canada and the developing world, economics in relation to democracy and politics in Pakistan.
Dr Seuss Goes to War
The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Effective Media Relations
Nurturing your relationships with reporters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
The End of Politics
Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
From the events of privatization, economic globalization, spread of violence and gun culture, and the end of the cold war, Boggs explores the depoliticization process in the United States.
Environmental Noise
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
This booklet deals with environmental noise -- for example, noise from industrial sites, road and rail traffic, airports and fairgrounds.
Facing Fascism in Europe
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and the Nazis' rapid destruction of Germany's Social Democratic and Communist parties, shook the European left to its core. For many socialists and communists, the total defeat of two of the world's largest and best-organized workers' parties was grim evidence of the immediate need to set aside obstacles dividing them and to join together in the fight against fascism.
Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
Finding Hope After Seattle
Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Direct action, as many anarchists tend to define it, can be deeply exclusionary. While it undeniably empowers some — mainly white and middle-class — it disempowers others. Used as a central tactic of mass mobilizations, direct action can in fact implicitly assume a certain degree of privilege, with dire consequences.
Flying Without A Net
The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
Fragile Prosperity? Fragile Social Peace
Notes on the US
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
What needs to be open to critical analysis is not only how dismal present prospects are today, but also a healthy skepticism towards the determining weight of allegedly "objective" factors such as "globalization", "deindustrialization", the declining rate of unionization and others.
GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
Globocops The powerful unplugged Nuclear commander drops the bomb
New Internationalist December 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Discusses international law and who is responsible. Also looks into the peacekeepers, where they are most needed and a look into modern warfare.
Grassroots Power vs. Police Brutality
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Widespread police abuse is a long-time, normally mainly secret side of life in capitalist America, especially for minority communities. Now, in a number of cities, outrageous cases of police murders of civilians and grassroots outrage are forcing the issue into the open.
The Hidden Costs of the New Economy
A Study of the Northeast Mission Industrial Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
High Stakes Testing
Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The tests are very destructive educationally. They test students on such a broad range of materials that teachers have to rush through the curriculum; they cannot allow real discussion or in-depth study. Education is reduced to memorization of disconnected facts.
Imagine Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Involve Your Audience During TV Interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
People who are watching the news are usually doing something else as well, like washing clothes, eating dinner or helping the kids with homework. It#s up to you to get their attention.
Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
J.B. McLachlan
A Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A compendium of advice on how to tie up your sweetie, or get tied up yourself.
A közérdek mellozésre kerül
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The Legacy of Luna
The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Media Think
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
One person#s thoughts on the subject of utopias as we approach a new century and millennium.
The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
Necessary and Unneccessary Utopias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary imagination, one aimed at saner ways of living and organizaing society.
New Media... Endless Possibilities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Using new media to get your message out.
Not by Politics Alone
The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An informative study on the Christian Right, this book addresses how politics and culture converge. Diamond provides an analysis of how "family values" are infused with evangelical beliefs on a number of societal issues.
Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Outbreaks of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
For most of its history, democracy was seen as a degenerate mode of politics, much feared for its reliance on a populace seen as foolish and volatile. Yet since the adoption of representation in the eighteenth century, and the provision of an institutional place for democracy at the level of the state, we have laid to rest those dangerous images of noisy and volatile mobs, constant mass assemblies and endless inefficient talk. With the people being ruled by proxy, and periodically consenting to elite rule in elections, we have found a way to combine legitimacy with decency and viability.
Pack Of Thieves
How Hitler and Europe Plundered the Jews and Committed the Greatest Theft in History.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Pesticides Pick your poison The pesticide scandal
New Internationalist May 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Exposing the dangers of pesticide usage, in both third and first world communities. Why this "cycle of poison" will keep escalating as crops develop resistance. Discussion of viable alternatives, including organic food production and small farms.
Racial Capitalism and the "Digital Divide"
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The dialogue on race and nationality in the United States has always been conducted from the standpoint of the dominant racial group—whites. Not surprisingly, President Clinton's commission on race produced very little to overcome racism, something that would require facing up to the reality of centuries of white supremacy.
Rebuilding the Left web site
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2000
Web site of activists working to rebuild the Canadian left; formed out of the Rebuilding the Left conference in October 2000.
A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Restructuring and Resistance
Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
Revolutionärer Optimist
Ein Interview mit Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Right-Wing Populism in America
Too Close for Comfort
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
Rogue States
The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
In Rogue States, Noam Chomsky holds the world#s superpowers to their own standards of the rule of law#and finds them appallingly lacking.
Rosa Luxemburg's contribución al Marxismo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Yo veo a Rosa Luxemburg como la marxista qui#n hizo lo mas que pudo para mostrar la teor#a-revolucionaria de Karl Marxs en el periodo despu#s de la muerte de Marx y Engels.
Russia's Chechnya Syndrome
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The near-genocidal war that Russia's Putin-Yeltsin government is waging in Chechnya is cynical on many counts. Some might compare it to U.S. efforts to end the “Vietnam syndrome” by engaging in small wars certain of victory without U.S. casualties.
Seattle: "What Democracy Looks Like"
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Susan Weissman interviews Dana Frank, Leone Hankey and Lisa Fithian. The explosive significance of the mobilization against the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle has altered the terms of the "free trade" debate. We present here brief edited excerpts from a discussion broadcast on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, on the program "Beneath the Surface" hosted by Suzi Weissman, December 13, 1999.
Sexual Minorities Out South Sexual minorities in the Majority World
New Internationalist October 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Why and how sexual minirities are persecuted throughout the South. As well as religion, minorities are a threat to the nuclear family (the most manageable social unit) and a convenient scapegoat. Articles on Africa, India, Muslim countries and the spread of HIV.
Skills Mania
Snake Oil in Our Schools?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
Spin Works! A Media Guidebook for Communicating Values and Shaping Opinion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A guide to utilizing the media for social justice organizations and individual activists.
Still Got the News
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
As a student activist at the University of Michigan in the middle and late 1980s, I was part of a coalition of activists who planned and carried out a democratic takeover of our school's newspaper, The Michigan Daily.
Stolen Harvest
The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The author, an eco-feminist and environmentalist, documents the effects of Globalization and Manufactured Foods on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat.
Stories of Transformative Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
Sustainability Searching for solutions
New Internationalist November 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
A look at the issues and facts regarding sustainability around the world.
Le système électoral faux du Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Thoughts Of A Secular Sufi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Chomsky recalls the thoughts and words of the Pakistani antiwar-activist, Eqbal Ahmad, critic of "the twin curse of nationalism and religious fanaticism".
Torture - never forget
New Internationalist September 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
The importance of listening to victims of torture and bringing their stories to the world stage. Articles include an expose of the trade in torture weapons, a look at the torturers themselves, torture in Tibet and Harold Pinter on the U.S. penal system.
Travails of U.S. Labor
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class is an excellent introduction for the “workers and students” whom Paul Le Blanc commendably defines as its principal audience. The language is clear and accessible, the text enlivened by illustrations, and perhaps most distinctive and useful are the many pages of reference at the back of the book. These include a bibliographical essay which cites movies as well as books (135-157), a nineteen-page glossary, a timeline of the period from 1775 to 1990, a U.S. labor history chronology, and an unusually comprehensive index.
Ubu Saved From Drowning
Class Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The end of the Salazar and Franco regimes on the Iberian peninsula was, in fact, a key moment in the beginning of a period in which literally dozens of dictatorships disappeared, a period in which the soft cop took over from the tough cop, and democracy, world-wide, sold austerity.
Unsafe Practices
Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
The War is a Double Terror: Stop the New Stage of the Chechen War!
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The recent barbaric explosions [at apartment buildings in major Russian cities], which caused hundreds of deaths amongst Russian citizens, were used by the authorities to resume a campaign of searching for "entire enemies" and, exploiting our grief, to hide the real perpetrators.
A War on Black Children?
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Two montrous events have opened a window on a daily reality: In the name of safe streets and schools, an undeclared war has been opened on a generation of African-American children. In affluent suburban Oakland County, Michigan, a nearly all-white jury convicted a 13-year-old youth of second-degree murder, tried as an adult in a shooting that occurred when he was 11 years of age. In Decatur, Illinois, seven Black students were expelled from high school by a nearly all-white school board, against the opposition of the only Black member, for a brawl in the stands at a football game.
Watching the News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A history of the militant labour organization founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World.
When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
Whose National Security?
Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
Examines RCMP monitoring of trade unionists, Left-wing political groups, students, gays and lesbians, feminists, consumers' associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereignists.
Zimbabwe Independence and Beyond
Labour, Capital and Society - Volume 33, Number 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A Manifesto of Emancipation
Marx’s “Marginal Notes to the Programme of the German Workers’ Party” after One hundred and twenty-five years
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2000
The Critique of the Gotha Program contains a condensed discussion of the most essential elements of the capitalist mode of production, its revolutionary transformation into its opposite and a rough portrayal, in a few bold strokes, of what Marx had called in Capital the “union of free individuals” destined to succeed the existing social order.
Postmodernism Generator
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2000
A computer program written by Andrew. C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text. Each time you click on the page, it generates a brand-new postmodernist essay, completely meaningless, but superficially plausible, just like 'real' postmodernist essays.

1999

Anti-Choice, Anti-Child
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Around the world, there's a general correlation between the availability of abortion and social concern for the well-being of children.
A Request For More Effective Regulation of jet skis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Jet skis produce noise pollution, water pollution, adversely impact wildlife and aquatic plants, and pose serious safety risks.
Lockdown America
Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2008
Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown.
Peace, Power, Righteousness
An Indigenous Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2008
This new edition accounts the history and future of the indigenous people of North America is at once a bold and forceful critique of Indigenous leaders and politics, and a sensitive reflection on the traumas of colonization that shape our existence.
Basta!
Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2005
Examining the roles played by Catholic and Protestant clergy, revolutionary and peasant movements, the oil boom and the debt crisis, NAFTA and the free trade era, and finally the growing global justice movement, the authors provide a rich context for understanding the uprising and the subsequent history of the Zapatistas and rural Chiapas, up to the present day.
The New Military Humanism
Lessons from Kosovo
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2002
Was the war over Kosovo really a multi-national effort waged solely for humanitarian reasons? Or was it the establishment of a new world order headed by self-proclaimed "enlightened states" with enough military might to ignore international law and world opinion? In this new book, begun after the NATO bombs started dropping in Yugoslavia and finished as the defeated Serbian forces were leaving the Kosovo province, Chomsky gives us an overview of that changing world order with "might makes right" as its foundation.
Perceptions of Palestine
Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Christison shows how America's singular focus on Israel and general ignorance of the Palestinian point of view, has impeded a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Relax a Little!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Learning how to relax can mean the difference between a serene sense of accomplishment and a pounding headache.
Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
Crisis Communications Checklist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2000
Nothing impresses like real confidence, and only advance planning can bestow it.
Equal Access to Our Parks for Bulldozer Racing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Tthere have been some problems, such as some people riding recklessly, going off the designated trails, and even secretly constructing illegal trails. But those are a small minority of bulldozer riders. You shouldn't allow a small minority to give the majority of us bulldozer racers, who ride responsibly, a bad name. Why should we be punished, just because of them, and be forced to walk, just like everybody else?
Asia: Realities of "Recovery"
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Why are we still talking about the Asian crisis? In recent months we have heard government policy-makers, economists, business journalists, financial analysts, IMF technocrats, big business and even some unions announce that “the Asian financial crisis is over.”
Big Three Win A Modular Future: Contract Hype and Reality
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The 1999 contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto makers, plus General Motors' Delphi spin-off, offer one more demonstration of what the mainstream media like to call improved relations between the union and the company. Whatever the media mainliners think of this overused phrase, in practice it means greater consensus between top union leaders and company officials.
East Timor and Indonesia's Political Explosion
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
As we go to press at the end of October, the 700-member Peoples Consultative Assembly (MPR, the national parliament) meeting in Jakarta reached some historic decisions.
In a seventy-two-hour period (October 19-21), the assembly rejected an "accountability" speech by President Habibie (who immediately withdrew his name for president); formally endorsed the August 30 referendum in East Timor, thus relinquishing its national claim to the territory; elected Muslim leader and supporter of reform Abdurrahman Wahid (popularly known as "Gus Dur") as the country's new president; and elected popular leader of the poor and students Megawati Sukarnoputri as the new vice-president.
Education for Change: Henry Giroux and Transformative Critical Pedagogy
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
These are difficult times for teachers in U.S. public schools. The increasing size of schools, chronic underfunding of schools serving working-class students (especially students of color), work overload, school violence, professional isolation and the deskilling and devaluing of teachers' work have led to rising rates of teacher burnout in recent decades. The average career trajectory of a teacher in the United States is about five years.
How We Ended the Cold War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Peace activists' demand for an end to nuclear madness played a decisive role.
Iran: Youth Protests and the Regime's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Against The Current interviewed Ali Javadi, a member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI), on the July protests and ongoing repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. For information on WPI visit www.wpiran.org. The lives of all those arrested in recent protests and all political prisoners in Iran are in great danger.
Organizing to Stop Police Brutality in Riverside, California: Organizing for Accountability
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
interview with Chani Beeman. Chani Beeman is co-chair of the Riverside Coalition for Police Accountability, whose principles and mission statement can be found at their website (www.ucr. edu/ethnomus/rcpa/rcpa.html). A complete file of articles on the shooting of Tyisha Miller and subsequent coverup can be found on the website of the Riverside Press-Enterprise (www.inlandempire online.com/special-reports/tyishamiller). Dianne Feeley and David Finkel of the ATC editorial board interviewed Chani on September 28.
Puerto Rico: The Real Bombers
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Practically every article concerning the Puerto Rican political prisoners repeats one item of information: They were members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-independence group blamed for 130 bombings in the United States that killed six people and wounded dozens of others from 1974 to 1983.
Student-Labor Activism Advances
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
University campuses displayed an impressive mobilization around labor issues last year, from United Farm Worker (UFW) strawberry campaigns to living wage movements to the anti-sweatshop sit-ins.
USAS Makes Kathie Lee Cry Again
Against The Current vol. 83
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Kathie Lee Gifford cried for the first time in 1996, bawling with teary eyes and pledging that young girls would no longer produce her WalMart apparel line. She promised to clean up the factories, and even initiated the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP), a code of conduct meant to silence activists and cover up her sweatshop abuses.
Affirmative Distraction: Elimination of Affirmative Action at U-Massachusetts
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The west wind has blown east. The elimination of affirmative action in Texas, California, and Washington's public university systems seemed like a phenomenon isolated to highly competitive west-coast state universities—until February 1999, when the University of Massachusetts announced that it too would eliminate the use of race-based admissions policies and scholarship programs.
Assaulting Public Education in Canada: Privatization Plague Spreads
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
For the past six years right-wing provincial governments across Canada have embraced the neoliberal agenda of “educational reform.” Four provinces in particular, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have led the charge in dismantling public education in favor of market-driven alternatives.
Congress' Phony Health Care War
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
One hundred thousand people in the United States of America lose their health insurance every month. It seems unlikely, however, that this number included the president of Columbia/HCA, the industry leader in for-profit health care, who, as reported in the August 5 New England Journal of Medicine, "resigned in the face of federal fraud investigations ... with a $10 million severance package and $269 million in company stock."
Destruction and Resistance at SUNY
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The state university of New York turned fifty in 1998, but its mission-to provide New Yorkers with quality education at low cost-is endangered. Earlier this spring, SUNY faculty finally responded by revolting and issuing an unprecedented demand for the removal of the state-appointed university trustees.
False Promises of Higher Education: More Graduates, Fewer Jobs
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Through a continual dose of propaganda from the establishment and its allies, the American people have been persuaded that obtaining at least a college education is not only necessary, but also provides working people with excellent opportunities to avoid low-wage work and chronic unemployment.
A Freed Political Prisoner Looks Ahead
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Emily Citkowski interviews Dita Sari. In a surprise move by the Indonesian government, jailed labor leader Dita Indah Sari was released from Tengerang prison Monday, July 5th. Dita was jailed in May of 1997 for leading a strike of 20,000 workers. She was originally sentenced to six years, reduced on appeal to five.
Indonesia's Fraud-Riddled Election
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The elections are over in Indonesia. The international press, calling them "the first free and fair elections in over 44 years," noted the relative lack of violence during the campaign period leading up to the June 7 vote.
March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named “A+ Plan for Education” which had previously been passed in the House by a vote of 70-48.
No Classes for Torture! Protests Escalate Against “School of the Americas”
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Spurred by an enormous and unexpected victory in Congress, thousands of protesters will gather later this year at the gates of Fort Benning, GA to demand the closure of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), a military facility that provides training for Latin American and Caribbean soldiers and officers.
Peer Review and the New Teacher Unionism: Mutual Support or Policing?
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
This spring, the California state legislature passed a bill sponsored by the newly elected governor, Democrat Gray Davis, making California the first state to mandate peer review in every school district. Until then, the handful of established peer review programs scattered around the country had been the products of local teacher union and district bargaining.
Race and Class: Busing and Integration, 1975-99
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In the mid-1970s Boston was a major battle ground for equal education in the public schools. Boston's inner-city schools—as in most urban areas—were less-equipped and in worse condition than those in white neighborhoods.
The Realities of Chicago School Reform
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In Chicago, the current round of school reform efforts began in the late 1980s. They were ostensibly sparked by the November 1987 public pronouncement of William Bennett, then-Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, calling Chicago schools "the worst in the nation."
Against the Holy Alliance
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
MIGHT IS RIGHT! On June 3rd, the 72nd day of this horrid though undeclared war, it looked like a deal had been struck or, rather, imposed. The Russians having been bullied or bribed to align themselves on the NATO positions, Belgrade stood alone and Milosevic had to surrender.
Alexandra Kollontai and Red Love
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
What is “Red Love”—and more specifically, what is a socialist, or more complexly, a communist theory of love and sexuality?
Along NATO's Road to War/Ruin
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The war taking place in the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia involves three sides: Serbia, Kosova, and the NATO alliance. War being an extension of politics, it is what the protagonists are trying to achieve that determines whether their war is just or not.
Death of a Sacred Place
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Special places are disappearing faster than endangered species. Places that move the heart foster messy attachments. They're unwieldy. The global economy prefers its consumers to have portable affections for interchangeable environments.
Final Victory for Geronimo
Against The Current vol. 81
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First Published: 1999
SINCE JUNE OF 1997 Geronimo Pratt has been free from prison, but not free from its threat. No longer!
Labor Politics in Action, 1901-1911: The Union Labor Party of San Francisco
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
In 1900 San Francisco had an organized labor movement that reflected the unique development of this metropolis of the West. San Francisco did not experience the slow and steady growth of Chicago and other cities of the plains, but became a city overnight in 1850 when thousands of gold seekers poured in from the East and every part of Europe, and beyond.
The NATO War and Its Aims
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
A principled Left position must contain a strong, clear denunciation both of NATO's imperialist designs and of the brutal national oppression of the Kosovar Albanians by the Yugoslav regime. The ATC editors' position, "NATO's Road to War/Ruin," does this. However, it does not deal adequately with the arguments of the prowar, pro-NATO left, and it is this aspect I would like to comment on.
Notes on the Millenium
Against The Current vol. 81
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First Published: 1999
Jane Slaughter interviews Daniel Singer. Daniel Singer specializes in explaining pivotal social movements. His books on the French worker-student revolt of May 1968 and on Polish workers' rebellion against the party-state bureaucracy showed us the real-life workings of movements from below, and their potential to go farther. Best known to American socialists as the European correspondent of The Nation, Singer's elegantly written dispatches are notable for avoiding the false trails of various social democratic election victories.
Peddling miracles and amnesia
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First Published: 1999
The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
The Pittsburgh Reds, 1911-1914: Revolutionary Socialists in Allegheny County
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The Socialist Party of America reached the peak of its strength and influence in 1912. In that year, the party could claim 118,000 members, and 879,000 American voters (about 6% of the total) cast their votes for Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs. There were some 1,200 Socialist elected officials throughout the United States in 1912, and over 300 Socialist periodicals.
Race and Politics: Profiling and DWB
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
It's happened to most Blacks at least once in our lifetime. Driving towards home or heading from work on the freeway a cop decides to pull you over for no reason. You wait in your car (you never get out first), hoping it's nothing. As you wait, the tension increases throughout your body. You keep your hands visible and crack no smile. Is it just a ticket? Or worse? (You wonder why African Americans have high blood pressure.)
A Response on NATO and Kosovo
Against The Current vol. 81
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First Published: 1999
"Finally, in the military conflict that now dominates the ruins of former Yugoslavia, let's be clear: There is no side to support, neither Milosevic genocidal post-Stalinism nor NATO imperialism. Neither side is a lesser evil. Freedom for Kosovo! Abolish NATO!" ("A Letter from the Editors," ATC 80) Globally, I agree with those three dimensions of ATC's editorial statement. Here are some comments for further debate:
Silvia Baraldini Wins Return Home
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
On June 11 the U.S. government agreed to a longstanding Italian request to allow political prisoner Silvia Baraldini to serve the rest of her term in her native country. The move, announced by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Foglietta, appeared to be an attempt to appease Italian public opinion about the U.S. army plane that sliced a gondola cable when flying too low and too fast in the Italian Alps on February 3, 1998, killing twenty people. The pilot, Marine Captain Richard Asby, was recently acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal. In that case Italy returned the pilots involved in the Cermis tragedy and allowed them to be tried in their country of origin.
The Sixteenth Puerto Rican Political Prisoner: The Case of José Solís
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
On Friday, March 12, 1999, a new name was added to the list of fifteen Puerto Rican political prisoners currently held in American jails: José Solís Jordán. That day, a federal jury in Chicago found Solís, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and father of five, guilty of bombing a U.S. Army recruitment office in that city in 1992. No one was killed or hurt in the bombing.
Stop Sweatshops-Linking Workers' Struggles
Against The Current vol. 81
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First Published: 1999
Nike made a mistake when it aggressively entered the college market through lucrative licensing contracts and exclusive promotions deals. In hindsight, it amazes me that the company never considered the potential for scandal when it linked itself to institutions that purport to be moral leaders.
Trying to Arrest Madeleine Albright
Against The Current vol. 81
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First Published: 1999
I used to cringe every time I'd be in a demo and hear the chant, "You can't run. You can't hide. We charge you with genocide!" But in the case of the sanctions against Iraq it really has become genocide: hundreds of thousands of civilians have been deliberately killed through the intentional crippling of Iraqi water treatment system and the sanctions that prevent Iraq from selling enough oil to cover essential civilian needs. Clinton, Albright, and Cohen are-in a very literal sense-war criminals.
Whose Stupid War Was This?
Against The Current vol. 81
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First Published: 1999
The Rambouillet Accord was an ultimatum for a war against Serbia, and the terms of the ultimatum demonstrated that if the Serbian government accepted Rambouillet they would very likely face a crushing attack in the future from NATO forces on Yugoslav soil.
Time to Abandon Gay Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Thirty years after the Stonewall Riots, comprehensive human rights laws - not gay rights - are the way forward.
Religion is Part of the 'Lumpenism' in Society
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First Published: 1999
Liberation theology is the name for Christian priets who are prepared to say something against Latin American dictators. This is what they call liberation theology, but by definition no theology is liberating. Theology is the antithesis of liberation. It signifies keeping people ignorant, obstructing their independent thought and consigning them to an unknown creator and world. Liberation theology is nonsense.
CPE: Demystifying Economics--Interview with Elissa Braunstein
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First Published: 1999
ELISSA BRAUNSTEIN IS a graduate student in economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and has been a staff economist at Center for Popular Economics (CPE) for the past six years. CPE was founded in 1978 by five faculty and graduate students—Sam Bowles, Jim Crotty, Diane Flaherty, David Kotz, and Juliet Schor—to teach basic economics to activists. The collective has published several book, including A Field Guide to the U.S. Economy, Mink Coats Don't Trickle Down, and...
The Fight for Leonard Peltier
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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.
Glaberman and Faber's Working for Wages - Book Review
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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.
The Great Bull Market vs. Looming Crisis: On Brenner's Theory of Crisis
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First Published: 1999
The United States is experiencing the greatest bull market in the stock market.
NATO's Road to War and Ruin
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First Published: 1999
THE CARNAGE IN Kosovo and the United States/NATO air campaign—which, we will argue, is escalating toward either humiliating defeat or a full-scale ground war—pose one of the greatest challenges in a generation to the left's principles, political courage and moral backbone. During most of our lifetimes, it's been unprecedented to confront such a situation of apparent total conflict between competing imperatives: between the need for immediate action to stop the crimes against...
A Profile of East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta
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First Published: 1999
JOSE RAMOS-HORTA DENIES he is a bitter man, claiming that he feels only disdain for the invaders of his country. But too much has been inflicted on East Timor, too many of his friends and relatives killed, the diplomatic war he has waged has carried on too long for him not to feel an abiding resentment.
Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
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First Published: 1999
IF YOU READ only the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or watched CNN, your view of the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia with its 210 million people, would be of Muslims (ninety percent of the population) and Christians killing each other, as well as pogroms against ethnic Chinese, Dayaks attacking migrants and the people of the "Spice Islands" engaging in communal violence.
A Revolutionary Woman in Mind and Spirit: The Passions of Rosa Luxemburg
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First Published: 1999
IN THESE COMMENTS on the spirit and mind of this great revolutionary thinker and activist, I think it makes sense to begin with a focus on her gender. It isn't clear that Rosa Luxemburg herself would be inclined to agree. She had, after all, refused to occupy a “safer”and marginalized position as a women's spokesperson in the socialist movement.
Rigoberta Menchú: A Witness Discredited?
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First Published: 1999
This January, the charge that the Maya human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú had lied about her past hit the U.S. reading public like a ton of bricks. Anthropologist David Stoll published a book claiming to have unearthed not only Rigoberta's lies, but also the deceptions of the entire Latin American left from Zapata to Che and beyond.
Waiting to Inhale: Culture Wars or Unfinished Gratification?
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First Published: 1999
WITH THE END of the impeachment proceedings, it is surely time for the left to offer analyses of the crisis which press far beyond those on offer in the mainstream press, and which do considerably more than offer a hold-your-nose defense of the President's “privacy.” Here is one such attempt.
The Quebec National Question and the Case for Socialism
A debate between the International Bolshevik Tendency and the Trotskyist League
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First Published: 1999
Accumulation and Control of Labor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Bob Brenner has written a book that is clearly important and I respect him for tackling the issues and working on them so assiduously. His work is clear and I have found it very useful in clarifying my ideas but I find it hard to agree with it.
The Future of Israel and Palestine - Interview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
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First Published: 1999
THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
The Misogyny of Welfare "Reform" - Interview
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First Published: 1999
Randy Albelda teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is active in several welfare rights organizations. She is co-author of Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press, 1997) and author of "What Welfare Reform Has Wrought," Dollars and Sense, January/February 1998. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
NYC's Workfare Shell Game: An Interview with Heidi Dorow
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First Published: 1999
HEIDI DOROW IS director of the Urban Justice Center Organizing Project in New York City. In ATC 73 (March-April 1998) she spoke with Dianne Feeley and David Finkel about New York's “Work Experience Program” (WEP), and her organization's campaign to convince non-profit organizations to refuse to participate in this workfare program. We spoke to her again in February, 1999 to learn about developments in the past year.
Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?
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First Published: 1999
AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...
Race and Politics: Blacks in Corporate America
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First Published: 1999
A Concern of old-line civil rights leaders is how to remain relevant to the vast majority of African Americans. Since the victories won by the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this has been an issue facing the NAACP, Operation PUSH, the SCLC, Urban League and every other group formed in that period and since.
A Reply to Robert Brenner
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First Published: 1999
WHAT HAS ALWAYS distinguished serious economic analysis from mere ideological cheerleading is the effort to understand the general economic laws that govern capitalist societies, and how these laws have manifested themselves through capitalism's historical development.
Women Rising, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
"In the black of the winter of nineteen-nine,
When we froze and bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight,
And we rose and won with women's might."
Corporate Influence in the Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Some nations can influence and control their media greatly. In addition, powerful corporations are becoming major influences on mainstream media. In some places major multinational corporations own media stations and outlets. Moreover, even as numbers of media outlets increase, the ownership is becoming ever more concentrated as mega mergers take hold. At the same time, vertical integration gives the big players even more avenues to cross-sell and cross-market their products for even more amazing profits. An effect of this though is a reduction in diversity and depth of content that the public can get, while increasing the political and economic power of corporations and advertisers. An informed population is crucial element to a functioning democracy.
Media in the United States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999 Published: 2009
Media omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US is something acknowledged by many outside the USA, and is slowly realized more and more inside the US. However, due to those very same omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US mainstream media, it is difficult for the average American citizen to obtain an open, objective view of many of the issues that involve the United States (and since the United States is the largest economic and military power in the world, they are naturally involved in many issues!).
Academic Freedom In English Canada
A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
After Stalinism: An Exchange
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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 the interview
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First Published: 1999
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
Backing it Up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
If you say something in a media interview, make sure you can back it up.
Black Liberation, Working-Class Unity, and the Popular Front: A Reply to Mel Rothenberg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
MEL ROTHENBERG HAS written a generous review of my book The Color of Politics, (Against the Current 75, July/ August 1998), in which he praises and succinctly summarizes certain of my key arguments. For this I am, of course, grateful. On one issue, however, Rothenberg draws conclusions with which I wish to disassociate myself, conclusions that I believe do not flow from my writing or analysis. The issue concerns his assertion about the importance and salutary effect of popular front approaches...
Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
An in-depth analysis of the history of Bolshevism and the many programmatic, tactical and organisational lessons to be drawn from that history.
Broadcast Licenses for Religious Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Religious freedom does not imply the right of any group to use the public airwaves to promulgate their own religious views while excluding all conflicting points of view.
Capital's Global Turbulence - Study Review
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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.
The CIA and the "Peace Process" - Interview
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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."
Cities for People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
Civil Society in Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Civil Society ranks as flavor of the month among community volunteers,
academics and policy makers. It animates political activists of various
stripes. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and
for social justice and democracy, in Canada and around the world. Is civil
society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept
that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond
recognition and usefulness?
Compass Points
Navigating the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
Conscience and History
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Corporate Predators
The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The Cost of Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Roy takes on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that have displaced millions, and the development of India's nuclear weapons. Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath.
Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
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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.
Crisis in the Balkans
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First Published: 1999
Chomsky illustrates the situation in Kosovo and considers NATO involvement in the context of the international order and its rules.
The Current Bombings
Behind the rhetoric
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First Published: 1999
Noam Chomsky discusses his observations on the NATO bombing in Kosovo in relation to the "rules of world order".
The Cynicism and the Slaughter
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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.
Direct Action for Democracy
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First Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
A Discussion Concerning Nonviolence
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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.
Domestic Terrorism
Notes on the State System of Oppression
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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.
Don't neglect your presentation skills
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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.
Down To Earth People
Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
East Timor
Comments On the Occasion of the Forthcoming APEC Summit
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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 Questions & Answers
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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
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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.
El Salvador's New War: Lesbian/Gay Activism Confronts “Social Cleansing”
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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.
The End of Privacy
How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
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First Published: 1999
Whitaker argues that we live in a surveillance society; in order to get rewards and privileges, we have to give up our personal privacy to the government and corporations.
The Expulsion of the Germans
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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.
Film and the Anarchist Imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A survey of the depiction anarchism in film # from the stereotypes of bearded bomb throwers, to the early cinema of Griffith and Rene Clair, to the work of Godard, Wertmuller, and Loach.
Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
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First Published: 1999
About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
God's Spies
Stories in Defiance of Oppression
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First Published: 1999
Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
Hostile Takeover
Annual Report on Privatization
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First Published: 1999
Hurricane Mitch and Disaster Relief: The Politics of Catastrophe
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First Published: 1999
THE LEVEL OF destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch is hard to overstate. While there is no way to know exactly how many lives were affected by the category-five hurricane that devastated the region between October 26 and November 1, early reports indicated that across Central America 11,000 people are reported dead, 15,000 are missing and at least 2.4 million made homeless.
An interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood - co-editor of Monthly Review
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First Published: 1999
The strength of the Marxist project is that it does recognize difference, specificities, and grounds its project in a real social word, but that it has a unifying principle - class - based upon lived experience. Obviously class can't cover all emancipatory struggles, but it can provide some sort of unifying principle among emancipatory struggles that's completely lacking in the postmodernist perspective. It can bring together women and men, black and white, based on their common experience of work and exploitation and common interest in a classless society.
An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
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First Published: 1999
A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
Iran will be the Scene of a Mass Anti-Islamic Offensive
Interview with with Radio Hambastegi
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First Published: 1999
We have seen in the last 20-25 years the emergence and considerable development of political movements that have organised themselves under the banner of Islam. There are a series of extremely Right-wing, anti-human and violent movements in North Africa, the Middle East and today, in all countries in which the so-called official religion is Islam or which have significant Muslim minorities. Their conduct is primarily in the form of opposition to the freedom of women, women#s civil liberties, freedom of expression in the cultural and personal domains and the enforcement of brutal laws and traditions against people, and even killing, beheading, and genocide of people from young children to the elderly.
Islam and De-Islamisation
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First Published: 1999
Kosovo Peace Accord
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First Published: 1999
In response to the Peace Accord achieved between Serbia and NATO, Chomsky questions how peace could be declared or radical change expected considering the lack of institutional or structural adjustment in the region.
The Labor Party in the Big Picture
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First Published: 1999
THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
Living For Change - Review
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First Published: 1999
The main problem with Israel is that it is based on religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Major League Losers
The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying For It
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First Published: 1999
The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
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First Published: 1999
Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
Marcus Gee's Confusion
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First Published: 1999
The United States didn't 'fair to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
Marx and the Working Class
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First Published: 1999
Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Marx, from which this is extracted, painted a warts-and-all portrait which shatters all the romantic and orthodox-Marxist idealisations of the founder of modern communism, while leaving intact and perhaps clearer than ever, Marx’s essential humanist and critical insights into the trajectory of modernity.
Masters of Illusion
The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations
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First Published: 1999
A Mother's Story
The Fight To Free My Son David
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The myth of a free market in publishing and high-tech
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First Published: 1999
The high-tech industries, in the U.S. in particular, owe their very existence to massive levels of government subsidies and intervention.
A National Crime
The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
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First Published: 1999
The New Anti-Liberals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
News releases that work -- and those that don't
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First Published: 1999
Media relations know-how: effective media releases.
No Choice
Canadian Women Tell Their Stories Of Illegal Abortion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Out of Control
Canada in an Unstable Financial World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Out of the Ghetto - Review
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First Published: 1999
This book deals with working class, predominately Jewish, life in the East End of London in the years between the first and second world wars.
Patriots & Profiteers
On Economic Warfare, Embargo Busting, State-Sponsored Crime
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First Published: 1999
The effectiveness - or ineffectiveness - of economic sanctions as an instrument for altering the political behaviour of a state is an extremely nebulous index to measure. Regimes subjected to sanactions, such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the Apartheid government of South Africa, and Milosevic-era Yugoslavia,have often found ingenious ways to side-step the punishments meted to them for their outrages.
A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
Perspectives on Communities
A Community Economic Development Roundtable
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Essays describing various aspects of community economic development, including technology, human resources, financing and organizational structure.
The Power of public relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
Presentation / Critique of Eamonn Fingleton, In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Fingleton makes possible an understanding of how deeply our experience over the past three decades in the U.S. has been conditioned and distorted by de-industrialization and the supposed triumph of the "post-industrial" "New Paradigm" economy associated with the computer, the Internet, e-commerce and so forth. His book is one big broadside against the feelgood ideologies which have hyped these developments, and provides much ammunition which the radical left can put to its own uses.
Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Race and Politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
THE MID-TERM NOVEMBER elections brought two surprises according to the pundits: the demise of Newt Gingrich and the likely survival of the Clinton presidency. A major reason for this striking turn of events had much to do with the Black voter turnout. It is a sidebar that was briefly commented on before and right after the elections but since has been buried by the impeachment hearings.
Race and the Enlightenment
Part II: The Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Race from the 20th to the 21st Century: Multiculturalism or Emancipation?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
WHEN I WAS first invited here for a talk three years ago, I had no idea what Pullman looked like. For me, as well as for many students of American history, Pullman was associated with Pullman, Illinois, where the great railroad strike of 1894 against the Pullman Company began. In that strike of the American Railway Union, organized by the now legendary Eugene Debs, he and other union leaders were ultimately arrested and the strike in Chicago suppressed by 14,000 soldiers and police.
Real Food For A Change
Bringing Nature, Joy and Justice to the Table
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The three authors of this book argue that people need to avoid Industrial food-making. Instead, people in Canada must turn to organic farming to produce their own food. It is good for economy and good for one's health.
A Rejoinder: Strategy or Doctrine?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
MIKE GOLDFIELD HAS presented above a succinct left critique of the popular front line of the Communist Party, both of its principles and of its practice. He echoes the accusations of James P. Cannon that in promoting this line the Communists diverted the working-class movement into the arms of the Democratic Party, thus fundamentally betraying both the class struggle and the Afro-American struggle.
Remembering Pinochet's Coup: A Taste of Justice for Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
AS FORMER CHILEAN dictator Augusto Pinochet languished in British custody facing possible extradition to Spain, I have thought often of the democratically elected president he overthrew twenty-five years ago—Salvador Allende. At the time of the September 11, 1973 coup I was living in Chile and a translator for President Allende.
A Reporter's mindset
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
Special Places
The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
The Straight Goods
Canadians Informing Canadians
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features.
Street Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change and grapple with the politics of everyday life.
Street-Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
"Take This Test and Shove It!"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Open resistance to high stakes tests is an important development: it can be the first step in a movement uniting students, teachers, parents, and others against the corporate assault on public education and for a democratic society.
"Total Capital" Rigor and International Liquidity: A Reply to Robert Brenner
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
The Umbrella of U.S. Power
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by sustained popular struggle, Chomsky cuts through official political rhetoric to examine how the United States not only violates the UD, but at times uses it as a weapon to weild against designated enemies.
Unnatural Harvest
How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Us and Them
Building a just workplace community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The War at Home
An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
What are Journalists for?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Does the world you read about bear much resemblance to the one you actually live in?
Who, or what, really writes the news?
Are there any facts, or is there only spin?
Is news inherently conflict-driven?
Who Elected the Bankers?
Surveillance and Control in the World Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Why Americans Should Care about East Timor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Noam Chomsky describes the situation in East Timor and the way in which America was directly involved. In turn, he calls for sufficient popular reaction in order to end the disaster for which the American Administration is significantly responsible.
Working For Wages
The Roots of Insurgency
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
one of the crucial elements of our subject is contradiction. It is the element that is most difficult for traditional social science to comprehend and deal with. As a result, the conclusions and findings of academic research tend to be tentative and conservative.... The ordinary understanding of working-class activity is based on the idea that consciousness leads to, or causes, action. It would seem more valid to say that action leads to consciousness or, more precisely, that activity and consciousness interact in ways that are rarely predictable.
Working/Travailler
Images of Canadian Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The author, a film and TV producer for programs about Canada's labour movement, chronicles the Canadian labour movement using black-and-white photographs.
The World Trade Organization
A Citizen's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.

1998

An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
Resources for Radicals - Fourth Edition
An annotated bibliography for those active in movements for social change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2002
The Silencing of Political Dissent
how post-September 11 anti-terrorism measures threaten our civil liberties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2002
The author examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.
Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998 Published: 2000
Advice on effective public speaking.
The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998 Published: 1999
We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
Your virtual storefront: Your telephone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998 Published: 1999
Don't let a poorly thought out phone system interfere with your media relations.
MUZAK: Music to Whose Ears?
A brief overview of research commissioned by The Royal National Institute for Deaf People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
For many people background music, or #muzak" as it is commonly known, is both irritating and frustrating. For the UK#s 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people background muzak often causes pain, discomfort and unnecessary distress.
The Prison-Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars#the majority of them nonviolent offenders#mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers.
Ethnic Conflicts in Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
WITH LITTLE INTERNATIONAL notice, the winds of war are picking up on the eastern seaboard of Nicaragua. This time, however, it will not be a clear class-warfare case with a popular revolution struggling against an imperial behemoth. Rather, the Croat-Serb-Muslim model may be a better metaphor. Over the past decade we have watched the situation change from the hopeful vision of a multiethnic autonomous society to today's mixture of ethnic typecasting and cynical manipulations by the neoliberal...
Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
Politics of Terror and Scandal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
SCENARIO: AGAINST THE background of a depression in Japan, the economic collapse of Russia and stock market crashes on three continents, a United States president facing imminent expulsion from office for concealing illicit sex in the Oval Office orders retaliatory Cruise missile strikes on two already-ravaged Middle Eastern countries and declares "war on international terrorism."
Take that idea and try to sell it to Hollywood. Forget about it: Even in "Wag the Dog," after all, not only...
Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY “race” has been a major factor in all politics—beginning with the English occupation and the Westward drive of settlers to conquer and slaughter the native peoples. The justification: advancement of civilization. Racism is as American as apple pie, yet race itself is a political (economic) concept having little to do with biology or science.
Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
Saga of the Neptune Jade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1997, a container-ship sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay and tied up at the Yusen Terminal in the port of Oakland. This precipitated an international drama that ranges from Liverpool, England, Vancouver, Canada, and on across the Pacific to Japan. The battle involves British, American, Canadian and Japanese longshoremen, college students, labor supporters, and the bosses' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
Worker Resistance in Telecommunications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
LABOR RESISTANCE SEEMS to be spreading, capturing public support, and even winning some gains here and there. Such diverse groups as New York cabbies and construction workers, California nurses and transit workers, UPS and GM workers have gone to the streets against the affects of work intensification and industry reorganization.
Less and less are today's strikes characterized by tiny dispirited picket lines, and more and more by mass actions. Job security, work time, work loads and...
At General Motors, "What Means This Strike?"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN HIS FAMOUS address to the striking New Bedford textile workers in 1898, Socialist Labor Party leader Daniel De Leon posed the question, "What Means This Strike?" De Leon told the workers their strike would be for naught if they didn't see it connected to the broader struggle of their class.
He praised them for their courage and affirmed the socialist belief in the strike weapon, but warned that this strike, the second in recent time, would simply become one of a series of lost struggles...
The Danish General Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES have constituted the foremost outposts on the reformist road to socialism. One of them, Denmark, a small country of five million people, has become a flashpoint in the continuing clash between the welfare state and the globalization of capital.
Indonesia Update: An Economic Titanic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
"LIVING IN AN Economic Nightmare" is the headline of Time Asia's cover story on Indonesia (August 3). In one year's time Indonesia's per capita income dropped from $1300 per capita to less than $300. In human terms, this has meant unbelievable suffering for an average working person. According to Indonesian government figures, more than 50 million people have fallen below the poverty line since the country's financial crisis began in July 1997.
Living Wage Campaigns: Part I
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
ROBERT KUTTNER WROTE in a recent Washington Post op-ed that living wage campaigns are “the most interesting (and under-reported) grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement.”1
Never Be A Soldier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
[This classic, written in 1915, was one of numerous leaflets by Socialist Party leader Debs opposing World War I. His opponents sent co pies of this and other antiwar statements by Debs to the U.S. Attorney General. See Eugene Debs. Spokesman for Labor and Socialism, by Bernard Brommel (Charles H. Kerr, 1978), 117, and Tim Dayton's review of "We Called Each Other Comrade" in this issue of ATC.]
WORKING MEN ARE forced into war as working women are forced into prostitution.
New York Transit Between Old and New Directions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN ATC 74 ("Transit Workers Try a New Direction"), Marian Swerdlow described the fight taking place in Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) between the entrenched Willie James bureaucracy and the reformers in New Directions. Local 100 represents New York City's bus and subway workers. Written earlier this year, Swerdlow's article concluded as the stage was being set for the rerun election ordered when the International TWU was forced to admit that the narrow victory by the...
Northern Ireland's Marching Season Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IT IS DIFFICULT for those fortunate enough to live in more sophisticated communities to understand and appreciate the deep sense of fear, outrage and humiliation that marks these annual incursions into the little streets of this little town. . . .
So begins an editorial which appeared in the Belfast-based Irish News a number of years ago.
The Politics of South Africa: The Transition to Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
OVER THE PAST few years, South Africa has undergone the dramatic political transition from apartheid to non-racial democracy. As one might expect in a country where racial and economic inequality is so stark, dismantling the economic structures of apartheid has proven more difficult.
Puerto Rico's La Huelga del Pueblo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
AFTER FORTY DAYS on strike, several paros (one-day stoppages) in various government agencies and a two-day general strike, Puerto Rico's telephone workers have returned to work without attaining their objective: forcing the government to break its agreement to sell the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to a group of investors led by GTE.
Social Security--Why It's Under Attack
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
A CHILD BORN in a middle-class family in Europe or America today has a fair chance of living to 85. In one way his/her life will be divided into three periods: First, twenty to twenty-four years growing up and getting educated. Second, about forty years making a living. Third, after 65, come twenty years of retirement.
The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Review: Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
EVERY NOW AND then Time magazine comes out with front cover screaming something like: “Russian Nukes: Is Anyone in Control?” The idea of a fanatic blowing up New York City with a Russian nuclear weapon hidden in a suitcase fits neatly into the mental slot once reserved for nightmares of Soviet intercontinental missiles raining down on American citizens and the Red Army landing in Miami.
Just as the vision of hell played such an important role in medieval cosmology, the Russian...
Australia's Labor War on the Docks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE BATTLE BETWEEN the Australian "wharfies" and the Patrick Stevedore company, backed by the right-wing coalition government of Liberal Prime Minister John Howard, became a test of strength not only with the National Maritime Union (MUA) but with a wide section of the working class.
Cambodia: Labor and the Coup
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN THE FACE of a repressive and dangerous environment, workers are on the move in Cambodia. Though Americans heard little about it, the emergence of an independent labor movement was one of the most promising developments in Cambodia since the UN imposed democratic institutions “from above” on a society with no prior democratic experience.
Indonesia's Unfolding Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
AS WE GO TO PRESS, the pro-democratic forces continue to push their advantage against the weakened army-backed Habibie government. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund agreed to soften implementation of its economic austerity package to give Habibie and the military more time to hopefully bring political stability. In addition, the big Western banks, led by Chase Manhattan, have agreed to reschedule repayment of nearly $80 billion in private debt.
The Russian Revolution Revisited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION is dead. The last of its veterans and contemporaries are gone, and the working class of today has little or no connection to the revolutionary movements of the inter-war generation that were inspired by the Russian Revolution. Revolutionary leftists may still debate the "Russian Question," but the workers and students of the present have little idea what the quarrels are about.
Social Democracy and the Paradox of the Vanguard: Rudolf Hilferding's Odyssey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE NAZI SEIZURE of power in the winter of 1933 marked the total failure of the reformist project of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and brought about the party's virtual destruction. From exile in Prague and Paris, the defeated socialist leadership now had to grapple with the implications of this catastrophe for the party's strategy and form of organization. In the face of nazi barbarism, it was clear that the old legal methods would no longer suffice and that new ideas were needed to...
The Spirit of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
REVOLUTION, AS ALL readers of the liberal and intellectual press know, is irrelevant now, an outdated dream long abandoned by its former practitioners who have moved on to more mature projects. Take 1968: Isn't Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Danny the Red" of the French student uprising, now a prominent proponent of the unified European currency?
An Update on Indonesian Political Prisoners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
AS INDONESIAN POLITICAL prisoners are released, evidence continues to surface that the United States CIA knew about the "disappearances" and tortures. In response to the mass protests that forced Suharto to step down, Indonesian trade union leader Muchtar Pakpahan and former Member of Parliament Sri Bintang were released from prison May 25. The new president Habibie has promised to review the anti-subversion law under which many of the political prisoners-including the Peoples Democratic...
Jetskis Should Be Banned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
To launch a jet ski into the shallow waters that are so important to marine wildlife takes little money, little training, and little energy. Jet skis put our most vulnerable marine and avian wildlife directly into the hands of some of our most biologically ignorant and least responsible citizens.
What About a Right of Reply?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Concern about press intrusion is overshadowing the need for a 'right of reply' to redress inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
An Expression of the Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
What the story of Darwin's long-forgotten masterpiece, and the continuing debate about its subject matter, tells us is that the scientific idea of the human is not simply an objective truth, but is shaped by wider issues such as the prevailing ideas of progress, notions of racial difference, and the understanding of the relationship between Man and Nature.
Deeply Re-examining Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
HAVING JUST READ Michael Lowy's “The Centrality of Self-emancipation for a Critical Marxism”(in the Against the Current translation, which I received via the Internet), I agree strongly with many of Lowy's remarks about the next steps for those who consider themselves to be followers of Karl Marx, now that the downfall of the Stalinist bureaucracy and its devotees has provided us with a wonderful opportunity for the re-birth of communist ideas.
Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution: A Reply to Malik Miah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
IN ATC 75 Malik Miah presents an analysis of events surrounding the fall of Indonesian President Suharto (“Indonesia's Democratic Revolution”). As a descriptive report of what has been happening in that country his effort is valuable to activists. However, as an analytical assessment of what is at stake the article falls short.
On Criticizing Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
MICHAEL LOWY'S ARTICLE in ATC 71 was titled “For a Critical Marxism.”This is obviously a misprint. The original title could only have been “Where Marx Went Wrong.”
On Marxism and Method
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
THE ESSAY BY Michael Lowy, “For A Critical Marxism,”provides a useful beginning for discussion. His subtitle, “The Centrality of Self-Emancipation,”is an important departure from the more vanguardist views that used to prevail on the left, though it remains rather ambiguous and amorphous. But I would like to deal with what I see as two weaknesses.
Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
ONE COMMON ERROR socialists tend to make when discussing unfolding revolutions in other countries is to offer programmatic analysis that has little to do with the real situation on the ground. Comrade Steve Bloom makes that mistake in regards to “the relationship between the democratic and the socialist revolutions”in Indonesia.
A Response on "Critical Marxism"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
I'M VERY HAPPY that my article provoked debate among readers of Against the Current. Several of the remarks seem to me very relevant and I'll try to answer at least some of them.
The Age of Insecurity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Chronicles the rise and fall of the Britain's welfare state and attacks British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party for selling out to world capitalism and Europe.
The American Class System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The Arms Trade Revealed
A Guide for Investigators and Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
This is a guide for researchers and activists interested in learning more about the US arms export and trade programs; US policy making, campaign strategies and research techniques.
The arrogance of the long distance Zionist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Immigration as part of a concerted plan that will take over the country, expropriating, expelling and exploiting the native masses, is less immigration and more a long drawn out and aggressive invasion.
Ashbridge's Bay
An Anthology of Writings by Those Who Knew and Loved Ashbridge's Bay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The story of a great freshwater marsh destroyed by urbanization.
At the Cutting Edge
The Fight for Canada's Forests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Exposes the overexploitation of Canada's forests and suggests measures to create a sustainable industry.
Autonomy vs. the Mexican Party-State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The development of autonomous local governments in Mexico.
Ban Landmines
The Ottawa Process and the International Movement to Ban Landmines
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1998
Banned in the Media
A reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
From colonial times to the present, the media in America has been subject to censorship challenges and regulations. This comprehensive reference guide to media censorship provides in-depth coverage of each media format -- newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio, television, and the Internet -- all of which have been, and continue to be, battlegrounds for First Amendment issues. Each media format is examined in-depth, from its origins and history through its modern development, and features discussion of landmark incidents and cases. Foerstel, author of Banned in the U.S.A., the acclaimed reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries, offers a brief history of media censorship, examines in-depth the drama of seven landmark incidents, and includes 31 relevant court cases. Complementing the volume are personal interviews with prominent victims of media censorship, who give human voice to the struggle of the media to remain free, and an examination of censorship of the student press.
Before the White Race Was Invented
Review of The Invention of the White Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
With white racial oppression in place, the ruling class could promote poor and propertyless European-Americans into the "middle class," the same way the British promoted "mulattos" in the Caribbean, but they would have to do so strictly in token-name only, saving them countless billions of dollars, since the fantasy of social mobility was made conditional not on acquiring their own property, their own means of employment, or their own education, but on keeping African Americans poor and oppressed.
Brotherhood Economics
Women and Co-operatives in Nova Scotia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Documents the goal of equality for women in the workplace, education, economic development, social work and co-operatives and the activism of five women.
Causes and Consequences: Inside The Asian Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
What is happening now is more than the collapse of several Asian economies, it is the unraveling of a development model that these two major capitalist institutions, the World Bank and the IMF, had widely touted as demonstrating the virtues of export-led, free-market capitalism.
Censorship Goes To School
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
A Century Later
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The year 1898 was a turning point for the American Republic in terms of boundary and economic establishment. Chomsky moves through the next 100 years during which America increasingly became involved in affairs outside of its borders.
Civil Society and the Aid Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
Convict Labor in America
Book review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Convict labour, like antebellum slavery, was an American way of life, a cultural practice that tied northern capitalists, plantation owners, university-trained social reformers, federal officials and advocates of "good roads" together in a powerful alliance.
Corporation Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Derber writes that undemocratic corporations, not governments, are controlling society.
Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fail to graduate, are ruthlessly pursued by the corporate elite in order to control people and to justify increasing inequality in society.
Crime and Punishment in America
Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
In a public system, television producers acquire money to make programmes. In a commercial system they make programmes to acquire money. However simple, this little epigram articulates the divergence of basic principles, the different philosophical assumptions, on which broadcasting is built.
Defend the Ties That Bind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Revolution is a conservative act as well as a radical one. It is the only way to defend those precious relationships which are the bases of human life and society, and which form the core of human values.
The Destiny of A Revolution
Review of Victor Serge, Russia Twenty Years After
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Victor Serge's more impassioned account based on his eyewitness observations of everyday life and the detailed realities of Stalinist political repression.
Does Revolution Make Sense?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Fighting for revolution allows and demands that we abandon petty concerns and narrow issues and think big. Revolution forces us to try to understand the whole world and to imagine a new one. As we explore the inter-relatedness of the problems which we face, we can begin to understand all the many human interconnections which will provide the solution. A truly revolutionary movement will touch people's deepest desires and encompass their highest dreams.
Domestic Constituencies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Chomsky, assuming the principle that governments are bound to act according to the will of their "domestic constituencies", considers the degree to which this is done as a measure of the health of democracy. In turn, he calls for the public to discover what is being planned for them.
Don't play that game: Ending telephone tag
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The multitude of communications technologies have actually made it more difficult to get in touch.
Economics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The relations of production have not been revolutionized by computers and lean production any more than they were overturned by the assembly line, the automobile, or the telephone: the owners still own, we still work for a wage.
Electoral reform will give us a voice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it
as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
Enhance your image in novel ways
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Soft marketing supports and image enhancement strategies require as much consideration as any other portion of your marketing plan.
Environmental Noise
The Invisible Pollutant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The invisible pollutant of environmental noise can be tamed.
Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
The Family As It Really Is
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The result of the clash between denial and exaggeration is to divert attention from the constructive things we can do to build on the gains we've made in the expansion of personal options and minimize the losses associated with the decline in family stability, especially in the access of children to both parents.
Finding Statistics Online
How to Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Free The Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
An account of children's rights activist Craig Kielburger's work with and on behalf of exploited child labourers.
From Corporate Greed to Common Good
Canadian Churches and Community Economic Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Provides suggestions for individuals or groups who wish to sponsor and participate in community economic initiatives such as self-employment training and co-operatively-owned business.
Gender and the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Families, along with other socially constructed relationships such as race and gender, are central mechanisms for organizing cooperation and coercion. They are also sites of contradiction in the Marxist sense--places where inherent oppositions occur that are necessary to perpetuate a particular process or social system, and yet also undermine that process or social system.
Guidelines for successful interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Things to keep in mind when going into a media interview.
Health care monopoly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Rather than advocating the destruction of Canada's public health care system, critics should be speaking out against the government's strategy of running the system into the ground by mismanagement and underfunding.
Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Man
RACE, CLASS AND THE CRISIS OF BOURGEOIS IDEOLOGY IN AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE WRITER
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto--Part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
History and experience have convinced me that class analysis remains the best way of understanding social change.
History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Historical materialism will remain the overriding framework for any effort that is intended to assist revolutionary practice.
Hordes of Vigilantes & Popular Elements Defeat MAI, for Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Chomsky comments on the failure of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) intended to consider, for example, international environmental and labour standards.
How many spokespersons?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
I Will Bear Witness
A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The IMF's Imperial "Reform"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The International Monetary Fund #bailout# of Korea could not be more of a misnomer. The IMF program aims to bail out not Korea, but the U.S., European and Japanese banks that made bad loans to Korean capitalists.
Indoor Air Quality: No Scents is Good Sense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Establishing a scent-free workplace.
Industrial Cathedrals of the North
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
International Liquidity and Class Struggle: A First Approximation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
In my view, the current situation is merely the latest eruption of a crisis in accumulation that first surfaced ca. 1965 in the simultaneous recessions in the U.S., Germany and Japan, signaling that the postwar boom was running out of steam.
The Jericho `98 March: Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Pushing for justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States.
Jubilee 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Asserting that debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact, Chomsky examines various qualifications for the Jubilee 2000 that called for international debt cancellation.
Keeping the Rich Invisible: How Census Bureau Hides the Super-rich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Of late much media attention has been given to the CEOs who rake in tens of millions of dollars annually in salaries and perks. But little is said about the tens of billions that these same corporations distribute to their affluent shareholders each year.
LA Sweatshops: Common Threads In Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Seeing how power is exercised by those who have it in this society opens one's eyes to the profound need for power on our side. You recognize the need to build organizational strength and resources. You come to see the need to inflict damage in order to budge those who hold the power. You realize that their ruthlessness knows no bounds. You learn that soft, liberal notions of hoping you can sit down and work it out in a civilized manner are out of this world.
Language and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
A series of previously unpublished interviews, spanning the twenty year period from 1968 to 1988, that looks at the connection between Chomsky's linguistic studies and his political analysis.For those who know Chomsky as media analyst and critic of foreign policy, this wide-ranging book offers glimpses of his studies on language, anarchist theory and critiques of radical politics.
Learning how to live with editors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
The Lichen Factor
The Quest for Community Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Mailing list know-how
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Your mailing list is one of the cornerstones of a good communications strategy.
Manifestations And Declarations
Of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
Media Censorship in a Plural Context
A Report on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
Myths, Memory & Lies
Quebec's Intelligentsia and the Fascist Temptation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Natural Causes
Essays in Ecological Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
O'Connor provides an ecological Marxist analysis and suggests new political strategies.
Nature and the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
What is needed is a broadening of the original socialist vision rather than a rejection of that vision or its amalgamation with something else, like liberal or neo-liberal) environmentalism.
Pain on Their Faces
Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Marxists used to be attacked from the right as "reductionists." Today, that accusation has become a favorite of the (postmodernist) left. We've reached a point where any attempt at explanation, any tendency to think in terms of causality, is "reductionist."
Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The ongoing purpose of independent revolutionary organization must be to advance in every possible situation the self-organization and capacity for self-mobilization of the working class.
Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 4
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
As Rosa Luxemburg contended, until a socialist revolution is successful, the most important result of any struggle is the building of working-class self-confidence and organization. This transforms the struggle for reforms in a more radical direction, and expresses an understanding of self-emancipation of the working class as both means and end of a socialist revolution.
Politics of the Communist Manifesto -- Part 2
Brenner, Johanna; Resnick, Bill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
In the end, when we engage in reform movements, we have to measure success not simply in terms of the good we've done. Although we do need to win real things for real people, we also have to measure success, win or lose, by the quality of the working relationships we've built and whether the alliances made within the reform movement self-consciously bridge existing divisions within the working class.
Polluted Logic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The business of allowing polluters to buy their way out of complying with the law is an innovation with vast untapped potential.
Postmodern Disrobed
Review of Intellectual Impostures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
An admirable job of exposing the daffy absurdity of postmodernism intellectuals.
Privatizing the Public Realm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Public spaces are the arenas where the collective, common life which defines us as a society is acted out, and where we come into contact with those who are like and those who are different from ourselves. They are the places where we are all equal and where we are all "home." They are the places where our freedoms of speech and assembly are protected, where we can exercise the precious right of criticizing the government. In public spaces we are reminded of the most important civics lesson: We are all in this together. When private agendas of stratification and control are imposed on those places, the very heart of democratic principle is threatened.
Race and the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
We need to pay attention to the Marxist traditions that rose out of anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century.
Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age
New Internationalist November 1998
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1998
Why socialists and environmentalists need to work together to bring about lasting change. Discussion of how inequality and environmental destruction are directly linked. Articles on development in India, predictions for the future, working hours and global consumption.
Remembering C.L.R. James
A review of C.L.R. James, A Political Biography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Worcester's biography of James is both critical and yet sympathetic.
Revolution of Conscience
Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Moses explores key ideas about Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy in relation to the American civil rights movement, racial equality and nonviolence.
Revolutionary "Termites" in Faridabad
A Proletarian Current In India Confronts Third Worldist Statism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Kamunist Kranti/Collectivities: Presentation and Critical Dialogue
Rogue States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Chomsky investigates the meaning of the term "rogue state", its conception, and its role in international relations and policy-making.
Satan#s Silence
Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
About the wave of hysteria over alleged satanic abuse of children which hit the United States in the 1990s.
Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
Slumming It At the Rodeo
The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
Social Ecology after Bookchin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Addresses Bookchin's theory of social ecology and how its role in linking environmental concerns with the desire for a free and egalitarian society.
Sri Lanka: Fifty Years On
Censorship, Conflict and Media Reform
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Report examining the impact of the conflict on freedom of expression and in particular media freedom in Sri Lanka.
The Struggle for Ecological Democracy
Environmental Justice Movements in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Explores the ecosocialist perspective on the goals, strategies, and accomplishments of environmental justice. Faber also identifies the emerging principles of ecological democracy in the quest for a solution to America's social and ecological crisis.
Transnational Capital and the State in China: Partners in Exploitation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The destruction of job and income security, the sacking of tens of millions of workers, and the withdrawal of government subsidies and protection for local industry serves the interests of a ruling elite that is in partnership with transnational capital.
Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Essays on the history of working men and women from the late 18th to the late twentieth century discussing British working class traditions, political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, peasants and politics, revolution, sex and jazz.
The Undeclared War
Class Conflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Unequal Freedoms
The Global Market as an Ethical System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
The United States and the "Challenge of Relativity"
In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
In light of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Chomsky examines the relativity with which America uses human rights principles to exercise selectivity in policy-making.
Utopistics
Or, historical choices of the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The twentieth century has witnessed both the triumphs and failures of the dreams that have informed the modern world. In Utopistics, Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the global order that nourished those dreams is on the brink of disintegration.
Vestal Fire
An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
We Can Get There From Here
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
We pose the following question: Is the capitalist system really meeting our needs or is it undermining our needs by giving us artificial motivators which actually result in feelings of inadequacy and isolation?
What Is Missing From the World?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The lack of a revolutionary alternative to capitalism has had a very negative effect on people#s ability to organize a new movement for change. If there is no alternative to capitalism, then it seems we will forever have to give in to the companies# demands for jointness or pay cuts or two-tier systems and all the other claims made in the name of "competitiveness." With no alternative to capitalism, we cannot oppose its logic.
What Johnny Shouldn't Read
Textbook Censorship in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Writing for broadcast
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Avoid the common pitfalls.
Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and Social Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
The remarkable thing about the public schools isn't that some teachers become demoralized and "burned out," or that some students drop out or do poorly, but that so many teachers and students achieve so much in the face of a system designed to fail.

1997

Raymond Williams and the Moral Project of the New Left
A review of 'Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Views Beyond the Border Country is an ample demonstration that activist-scholarship, a concrete political standpoint and the insights of feminism and anti-racism ought to inform the politics of any future left in North America, both inside and outside the classroom.
Students, Labor Getting Together
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The idea that students demanding their rights at work and at school might have a place not just allied with the labor movement, but in the labor movement, is a powerful one that undergraduate activists should examine closely.
A Alegria da Revoluçao
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
La Joie de la Révolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
El placer de la revolución
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
The Subversion of Politics
European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2006
Today's infamous "Black Blocs" are the direct descendants of the European "Autonomen." But these important historical connections are rarely noted, and never understood. The Subversion of Politics sets the record straight, filling in the gaps between the momentous events of 1968 and 1999.
Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2002
Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy#one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky #propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state,# and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
The Activist Cookbook
A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1999
Spicey recipes for fighting economic injustice.
No Sweat
Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1999
Surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
Successful news releases: 7 must-know tips
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 1999
Make it short, make it make, make sure it's important.
Biopiracy
The plunder of nature and knowledge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1998
Internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources.
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1998
The authors criticize postmodernism in academia for its misuses of scientific and mathematical concepts in postmodern writing. Fashionable Nonsense examines two related topics: (1) The incompetent and pretentious usage of scientific concepts by a small group of influential philosophers and intellectuals; (2) the problems of cognitive relativism, the idea that "modern science is nothing more than a 'myth', a 'narration' or a 'social construction' among many others". The stated goal of the book is not to attack "philosophy, the humanities or the social sciences in general...[but] to warn those who work in them (especially students) against some manifest cases of charlatanism," and in particular to "deconstruct" the notion that some books and writers are difficult because they deal with profound and difficult ideas. "If the texts seem incomprehensible, it is for the excellent reason that they mean precisely nothing." The book includes long extracts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard who are considered by some to be leading academics of Continental philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis or social sciences. Sokal and Bricmont set out to show how those intellectuals have used concepts from the physical sciences and mathematics incorrectly. The extracts are intentionally rather long to avoid accusations of taking sentences out of context.
Published in French as Impostures Intellectuelles and in the United Kingdom as Intellectual Impostures.
Globalization And Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997 Published: 1998
There is a global capitalist division of labour, but it is not an absolute one. The image of capital simply uprooting and moving to more "backward" zones every time a government attempts to assert some control over its economy is simply false: While it is true that capital has relocated operations, companies do not in general abandon large investments of fixed capital overnight.
The God of Small Things
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1998
A novel.
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region.
For a Critical Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Löwy emphasizes the open quality of the Marxist world view, in contrast with the conventional caricature of a closed, dogmatic system that has become ossified and irrelevant. Such a caricature of Marx and Marxism, of course, is useful for all this ideologies and social scientists whose "secular religion" (as Löwy describes it) would have us believe that capitalism and its free market are the natural and inevitable end product of human history.
Learning for the Revolution
A review of 'Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Socialist sunday schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
A Lifetime for Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
Remembering Milt Zaslow
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Milt disdained inflated revolutionary bravado, but time and again his group were the first to put themselves in harm's way when activists in Southcentral or the Eastside of Los Angeles were under attack.
Cheddi Jagan's Politics and Legacy
An interview with Clive Y. Thomas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
An inteview with Clive Y. Thomas, an author, economist, and co-founder of the Working Peoples Alliance.
Detroiters Remember the 1967 Rebellion
Kim D. Hunter interviews Ed Vaughn
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
An interview with Ed Vaughn, an eyewitness observer of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, on the event, its causes and its impact on history.
John Sayles and Working-Class History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Even if we know that community and solidarity will be harder to win than Sayles' newer efforts seem to suggest, the fact that someone is bucking Hollywood forgers of dominant ideology and that audiences are responding may offer hope that even more of American working-class history-and the history of American working-class aspirations can yet be redeemed.
Remembering Michael Manley
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Manley, who had entered the decade of the Seventies with so much hope for changing Jamaica, departed bitterly at the end of it.
A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein: Assessing Union Leaderships
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
What is the relation of even the most liberal bureaucrats to capital (why do they inevitably downplay the fight for equality, why are they so much in favor of collaboration, corporatist approaches, in contrast to class mobilization)? It is important to carefully dissect the approaches (without sentimentality or holding back) of those groups that purported to be for class solidarity and opposed to capitalism and capitalists.
The University of Nike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Nike is just a piece of the bigger puzzle of private donors in public universities, but it is a perfect example of why private money is helping to erode the positive goals of public education.
Women's Space, Contested Terrain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Lately I am struck by how easy, still, for men to behave however they desire. That in spite--indeed, sometimes because--of the women's movement, men still control so much of our public space with an arrogance that astounds me.
The End of Gay?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Gay identity is destined for oblivion once homophobia is overturned.
Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A look at community organizing and its evolution with a focus on groups comprised of people of colour.
The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
The Deficit is No Accident
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The deficit and national debt were created intentionally by politicians of both parties, to destroy social programs which give working people some protection against unrestrained corporate power
Global Sweatshops' Media Spin Doctors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
On the whole, there's an imposed silence about the steadily increasing number of low-wage factories being set up in poor countries by wealthy multinational corporations: the "debate" is over.
The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Bus Riders Union began as an outgrowth of the Labor/Community Strategy Center's "Equity in Transportation Project," a policy analysis group which to study the transportation problems of the urban poor. What they discovered was an increasingly polarized allocation of public resources based on race.
News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
School Reform and the Attack on Public Education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
Woman-Centered, Activist Agendas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Raising and politicitizing our demands for human rights, including the sexual and reproductive rights of women internationally, will contribute significantly toward improving women's health and respecting women's rights as human rights.
Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
To most environmentalists, bicycles have always been the epitome of good. We are so used to comparing bikes to cars, that it never occurred to us that the bicycle would be ever used for anything bad. Indeed, replacing motor vehicles with bicycles deserves our adoration. But anything can be used for good or evil, and using bikes to expand human domination of wildlife habitat is clearly harmful.
The Art of Activism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The unique style of 'protest as performance' pioneered by the queer rights group OutRage!
Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Principles of secular humanism.
The Age of Outrage
Values-based Action and the positive power of public protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Based on direct experience and extensive research including law enforcement reports, public opinion surveys, and ongoing scanning and anaylysis of news and Internet sources, this book reveals the six key values-symbols that trigger public fear and create political and corporate change.
Anarchism and Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
This book outlines the history of our slow alienation from environment, and proposes some visionary and yet practical solutions to the global ecological crisis.
Anatomy of Censorship
Why the Censors have it Wrong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Bringing together diverse disciplines such as literary and legal history, modern psychology and contemporary feminism, Anatomy of Censorship sorts out the many confusing explanations and often misleading justifications for censorship to reveal the underlying conditions and motivations that lead to the suppression of various forms of communication.
Angels of the Workplace
Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Detailing the disparities between men and women in terms of wages and representation, this book is the definitive history of discrimination against women in Canada's clothing industry.
Anthroplogy and the Machine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The first Teach-In against the Vietnam war, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in March 1965, proved the ideal solution, an event that was at the same time an exercise in learning and a political protest. Its success was to spur a widespread series of similar events, bringing the anti-war message and the realities of U.S. "counter-insurgency" in Vietnam to other campuses. It was not entirely surprising that one of the most innovative and effective strategies for opposing U.S. crimes in Vietnam was initiated by anthropologists. In a discipline sensitive to the problems facing peasant populations due to colonialism and the spread of western market interests, it was particularly difficult to accept at face value the rhetoric of U.S. geopolitical posturing.
The Anti-Colonial Movement in Vietnam
Book Review: Ngo Van, Vietnam, 1920-1945
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Arab Women Writers' Problems and Prospects
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Arab critics, particularly those situated in the Arab world, are viewed with suspicion, especially when they are men writing about women. If they don't write about Arab women writers, they are chastised for ignoring them. If they do, they are accused of attempting to "contain" and "marginalize" them.
Asian American Incorporation or Insurgency?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Back to Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Maybe it's time for the left to see the universalization of capitalism not just as a defeat for us but also as an opportunity -- and that, of course, above all means a new opportunity for that unfashionable thing called class struggle.
Bad Attitude/s On Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
Bank Heist
How Our Financial Giants Are Costing You Money
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Beyond Gay Identity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Gay emancipation will destroy gay identity. This is a good thing, because gay identity sustains gay conformism.
Canada and the State of the Planet
The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Caribbean Politics and the 1930s Revolt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
During the 1930s all Britain's major island and continental colonies in the Caribbean exploded in rebellion.
Chronology of the Nicaraguan Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Civic Movement in South Africa: Popular Politics, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The tradition of democracy within the progressive movement in South Africa remains alive and well, judging not only by the recent, high-profile contestation of ANC provincial elections, but also by grassroots democratic impulses within the civic movement.
Civil Society
Adventures of the Concept Before and After 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
A discussion of "Civil Society" pertaining to the Czech Republic, especially the definitions offered by Charter 77 and later by its most famous member, Vaclav Havel.
The Color of Politics
Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Commodify your Dissent
The business of culture in the new gilded age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Todaz, culture stands at the heart of the American enterprise. For a decade, The Baffler has been the invigorating voice of dissent against such developments. This collections brings together the best of it's writing, exploring for example the encroachment of advertising and commercial enterprise into every last nook and cranny of American life.
The Conquest of Cool
Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Corporate volunteering
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Corporate volunteer programs.
Crisis Communications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
Critique of Violent Rationales
A Review Article of Critique of Nonviolent Politics: From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Nonviolent activists and scholars will disagree with many of the arguments in the book but there is much that they can gain by examining them closely.
Death Blossoms
Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Defying Washington's Embargo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
In the face of strong government opposition and little U.S. media attention, a grassroots effort scored a victory on September 13, 1996. On that day U.S. and Canadian members of Pastors for Peace delivered 400 medical computers to Cuba, without applying for the license required by the U.S. trade embargo.
Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
Doctrines and Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
A Different Sort of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
We do not want to suggest that the democracy of ancient Greece was perfect or that it can be easily be copied in the modern world. Greece was burdened by the dual crimes of slavery and the inferior status of women, as were all ancient societies in the Mediterranean basin and in Asia. What distinguished ancient Athens was that, in that society, human beings began to break out to produce new forms of self-government. That they could not solve all the evils of that time should not be surprising.
Downstrem and Upstream Ecologists
The People, Organizatons, and Ideas Behind the Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Mercier discusses the environmental movement and identifies specialized ecologists of different spectrums.
Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
The End of Parliamentary Socialism
From New Left to New Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism. This account of the British Labour Party's recent history argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mistaken in asserting that the only alternative to traditional social democracy and narrow parliamentarianism was an acceptance of neo-liberalism.
The Ethical Slut
A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
Every Secret Thing
My Family, My Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Export of Philippine Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Principles of social justice are clearly not served by applauding a system that prides itself in an increased GNP at the same time that it farms out its women to be servants of the world.
The Faber Book of Utopias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Facing West: the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
From John Endicott's war on the Niantics and Pequots, to the horrors of the My Lai massacre, Drinnon illustrates how Indian-hating in the Americas became a national pastime, and how that same hate was turned against the native populations of the Phillipines and Southeast Asia.
From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
Further Dialogue on Pornography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
Gays and the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The contemporary movement for lesbian/gay liberation was born out of the ferment of the New Left. Its leftist roots were openly acknowledged. Leading theorists identified with one socialist or communist current or another. They acknowledged their debt to Marxism as well as feminism and psychoanalysis. Times have obviously changed. While lesbian/gay movements have grown and won some significant victories in the past quarter-century, the socialist left has shrunk to a shadow of what it was. Unsurprisingly, lesbian/gay spokespeople and theorists are less likely to identify with the anti- capitalist left than they used to be.
Getting the Most from Interviews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Tips from a pro for getting the most from media interviews.
Guns, Germs and Steel
A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
How Our Lives Have Been Changed
An interview with Kate DeSmet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
You understand that there's a "common union" and "community," which of course is where "communion" comes from. That's better than what I had before. The best writers write with their own voice; and in this strike I've learned to speak with a voice I didn't know I had, the verbal rather than written voice.
How to Lobby Like a Pro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
The Ideas of Victor Serge
A Life as a Work of Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Victor Serge devoted his life and his brilliant pen to the revolution which for him knew no frontiers. An anarchist turned Bolshevik, he was unorthodox by nature, often a heretic but never a renegade. This important collection presents a still insufficiently known revolutionary figure through testimonials and essays on his literary praxis.
Improve Your Publicity Awareness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Tips on networking for success.
The Invention of the White Race
Volume Two: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Argues that the propertyless classes in continental Anglo-American and United States society have been recruited into the "intermediate buffer control stratum" (the so-called "middle class") through anomalous white-skin privileges.
Islam, Children's Rights, and the Hijab-gate of Rah-e-Kargar
In Defence of the Prohibition of the Islamic Veil for Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
It has been proved time and time again that pushing back religiosity and religious reaction is not possible except through unequivocal defence of human values against religion. It has been proved time and time again that preventing religious barbarism does not come about through bribing it and trying to give it a human face, but through the fight against reactionary religious beliefs and practices.
Just Another Car Factory?
Lean Production and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Kropotkin Was No Crackpot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Let's Be Practical
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Building a movement to destroy capitalism and create a society which truly reflects the aspirations of most people, though it may sound scary, is actually more practical than trying to reform a union.
Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
The Making of New World Slavery
From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Traces the development of slavery in the new world, with its origins in trade and business enterprise.
Manifesto of a Tenured Radical
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Divided into three parts: "The Politics of English," "The Academy and the Culture Debates," and "Lessons from the Job Wars."
Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
Doctrines and Reality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Noam Chomsky illustrates the importance of considering doctrine against the background of reality. He reveals that the political and economic principles that have prevailed are often remote from those that are proclaimed.
Measuring Well-Being
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Media Exposure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
Mike Harris's Ontario
Open for Business, Closed to People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
More Years for the Locust
The Origins of the SWP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Murray Bookchin Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
This collection offers an overview of Bookchin's political philosophy, known as libertarian municipalism, which draws on the best of both Marxism and anarchism for the emancipatory tools to build a democratic libertarian alternative. Consistent throughout his work is a search for ways in which to replace today's capitalist society with a more rational and humane alternative.
Mzwanele Mayekiso's Township Politics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Given the inadequate media coverage of the new South Africa, it is easy to forget about the ordinary citizens who were always the strength of the anti-apartheid struggle.
No olvides escribir
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
N'oubliez pas d'écrire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
On the CP-USA and the Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Trade union officialdom, especially its top layers, not only defends the rights of the employer against those demands of the members that can't be met at a given time; it also, and at the same time, defends the gains won by previous struggles. The inability to see this duality accounts for the instability of radicals in the trade unions.
On the Labor Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The job of socialists today, as in the past, is to help organize a rank-and-file movement within the unions that is critical of the methods of bureaucratic business unionism and promotes militancy, solidarity and union democracy. While today the main job of such a reform movement "from below" would be to educate and organize a "militant minority," rank-and-file groupings can promote an alternative vision of "class struggle unionism" and prepare for large scale struggles in the future.
On Walter Reuther: Legends and Lessons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
When we attempt to evaluate the best strategies for revitalization of the labor movement, it is good to know, in an older vernacular, which approaches and leaders were part of the problem and which were part of the solution.
150 Years After the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Operating in the Dark
Accountability in our Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Oxford History of the Prison
The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Thematic chapters explore a variety of aspects and institutions.
The Passion for Free Markets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Chomsky discusses the reasons for being skeptical of the WTO and its use as the forum for the export of American values.
Peasant, Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Pentagon's Secrecy Syndrome
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
After years of duplicity, denial, and cover-up the Pentagon has had to admit that U.S. troops suffered exposure to chemicals and gases following the Iraqi war. Yet even in the face of TV coverage, Congressional hearing and countless personal stories by veterans, the stonewalling continues.
Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Postmodernism and the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
Profiles in Dissent
The Shaping of Radical Thought in the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Quebec Agrees to Negotiate, Kidnap Crees First But "Negotiate"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Canadians as a whole seem to be unaware of the depth of the double standards advocated by the separatist leaders. We Crees are only too grimly aware of them, however, since we will be the first and most deeply affected community if the separatists ever get a chance to put their current secessionist policies into practice.
Race and the Enlightenment
Part I: From Anti-Semitism to White Supremacy, 1492-1676
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
Recovering the Sandinista Murals
Review of The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992 by David Kunzle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Obliterating the artifacts of the revolution is an important task for those who want to rewrite history. David Kunzle's book, The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992, is thus more than a catalog -- it's a weapon in the struggle to keep the promise of revolution alive.
Reflections of a Siamese Twin
Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The tension in Canada between the model of an inclusive more egalitarian community vs. bureaucratic closed structures of government. According to Saul, Canada is a complex original which does not fit the model of uniligual nation-states like Britain, France, and the United States, which, he says, is profoundly upsetting to the simplistic colonial minds of the Canadian establishment.
Renewing Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Ellen Meiksins Wood's Democracy Against Capitalism offers a sophisticated interpretation and defense of the core concepts of Marxism. The vision of socialism as the most radical democracy was always a minority understanding, but it was Marx's vision and it has appeared again and again throughout history. Ellen Wood has made a most valuable contribution to the struggle to realize that vision.
Resisting the Bomb
A History of World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Describes the gradual development of the worldwide movement for nuclear disarmament and research records from peace groups and government agencies.
Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Risking Utopia
On the Edge of a New Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
Socialist Reformism and "Evolutionary" Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
While Pittenger does not provide us with an explanation for the evolutionist degradation of socialism--which is of course not an exclusively American phenomena--his book is a most insightful rediscovery of a forgotten chapter of U.S. socialism.
Stanley Crouch, Neocon or Ellisonian?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Crouch clearly feels isolated within progressive circles, but it is the Left that most desperately needs to retain the message about building a cohesive democratic society. With that instinct for improvisation and bricolage which Crouch and his gurus most admire about Americans, we must read Crouch closely and adapt whatever points in his work we find correct and useful.
The Star's biased reporting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
The Star's Orwellian journalism.
The Struggle For Canadian Sport
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Kidd, a former track star, documents the development and transformation of Canadian sport in this century.
Successful Event Marketing Strategies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Tips for marketing your events.
Towards an Understanding of Sidney Hook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Precisely because he remained a communist and revolutionary Marxist, Hook was unable to submit to the authoritarian and monolithic form of discipline that had been demanded from him by the Communist Party.
A Tribute to Mario Savio and the FSM
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Mario Savio was a brilliant leader because he was careful to lay out the principles and choices before you. To follow Mario was to make your own choice, to know what you were doing and take responsibility for yourself.
Truth About Global Warming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
Violence and the Newspaper Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
Wall Street
How it works and for whom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A definitive overview of the financial markets and their economic and political role.
The Way the Wind Blew
A History of the Weather Underground
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
We're Being Cheated!
Corporate and Welfare Fraud: The Hidden Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
We've allowed our corporate dominated media and politicians to sell us a bill of goods that welfare farud is the big problem. Meanwhile, corporations continue on their robber baron path, virtually untouched by enforcement of our social rights.
What Kind of Society Do We Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
In a society based on solidarity and trust, the economics of producing and distributing things would be like sharing within a family, rather than buying and selling for profit in a marketplace.
What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Noam Chomsky shares his approach to analyzing media and reveals the meaning and consequence of the strategic design of communication.
Will Teach for Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
17 essays on academic labour in crisis.
Workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
I think self-activity is the response of working people to the nature of their lives and work. Sometimes it#s good, sometimes it#s bad, sometimes it#s quiet. Part of the reality is that we#re going through a considerable technological revolution, which means that experiences, even jobs, that people depended on and know about, begin to disappear. To expect workers to say, #Yesterday, they automated my factory; today, I know exactly what to do about it,# is Utopian. It takes a while. It takes a generation. Workers will learn.
Working Together Online
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A World That Works
Building Blocks for a Just and Sustainable Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The premise of the book is that an economics constrained by respect for the natural world and human dignity is possible. The ideas presented are grouped around several themes: what works to create real wealth, to democratize science and technology, to link sustainability with justice and to build sustainable livelyhoods and communities. The book presents alternate ideas and experiences on how to achieve this.
'Worse than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
After the abolition of slavery the white rulers of Mississippi developed a new system for keeping the ex-slaves in line: laws were passed to maintain white supremacy, including the system of convict leasing, a system whereby people could "hire" prisoners for physical labour outside the walls of prison.
The Writings of David Roediger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Roediger criticizes Marxists for too often reducing racial discrimination to conflicts over resources, such as jobs or housing, that are manipulated by a society's upper classes in order to divert attention from the real sources of inequality. Such a focus, he argues, ignores the manner in which race and racial consciousness is integrally tied to class formation and working-class consciousness.
Yours in the Struggle
Reminiscences of Tim Buck
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.
A Different Sort of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
A Different Sort of Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Eine andere Art von Demokratie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
Wie können wir uns eine neue freie und kooperative Gesellschaft ausmalen, wenn wir doch in einer Welt gefangen sind, die von Gier und Engstirnigkeit geprägt ist?
On workplace organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.

1996

The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1996 Published: 2009
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
Tips for Getting the most from E-mail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996 Published: 2000
The E-mail I receive from journalists seeking assistance with their research and from organizations listed with Sources is often puzzling. Many messages are unaddressed, unsigned and written in haste. Some queries require detective work before I can send a proper response.
Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 1999
Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes life in Gaza under Israeli siege.
Out Our Way
Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 1998
Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the author distills stories of people aged fifteen to eighty-one, including First Nations/Two-Spirited, people living with HIV/AIDS, individuals, couples, communes, and a range of chosen families. Riordon includes his own experience and his partner's in rural eastern Ontario.
Unfair Shares
Corporations and Taxation in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996 Published: 1998
A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 1997
A guide to grassroots organizing with a focus on bridging the gap between middle class organizers and affected members of lower class communities.
Strikes in South Korea 1996-1997
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996 Published: 1997
In December 1996 and January 1997, South Korea experienced the largest organized strike in its history, when workers in the automotive and shipbuilding industries refused to work in protest against a law which was to make firing employees easier for employers and curtail labor organizing rights.
The New Dark Ages
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
For hundreds of millions of people in parts of the Middle-East, Africa and South-East Asia, the ascendancy of Islamic fundamentalism has ushered in an era of religious obscurantism and intolerance. The liberal, compassionate wing of Islam - although it still has large numbers of adherents - is being forced onto the defensive and increasingly eclipsed.
No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
Disabled Activists Seek Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
"I'd rather go to jail than to die in a nursing home".
Art, Politics, and the Imagination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The work of our best artists throws into sharp relief what is painfully missing from most activists' work: a fusion of living experience with political insight.
Active Partners
Education and Local Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Discusses the crucial role of schools as mediators between national and international trends and community initiatives towards sustainable development.
Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
Alternate Sources
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edge is a pan-sexual book structured to answer the questions a novice might have as he or she begins to explore safer SM play, and those of experienced players as they try new ways to play. It provides an understanding of how SM play can be a positive, safe, and healthy expression of sexual fantasies.
Alternative Press Index
An index to alternative and radical periodicals
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
An index to alternative and radical publications, published quarterly in print and also available on CD-ROM.
Answering Camille Paglia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
What is important about Paglia is that she expresses more forcefully than most academics, if not more eloquently, this year's most popular half-truths. By marshaling the prejudices of many elements of the working class she channels them into a direct line that leads to support for the bourgeoisie.
Anti-Chomsky Fictions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
At Twilight in the Country
Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Beyond Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Addresses the need for a new socialist theory of transition after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its apparent triumph of capitalism. Beyond Capital examines the European-based conceptual framework of socialist theory in an effort to restate Marx's philosophy into a new social metabolic system.
Black Leadership
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A discussion on leadership with a focus on how to lead mass movements concerned with democracy.
The Black Panthers Reconsidered
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
To understand the Black Panther Party, we must place it in the context of the exhaustion of the Civil Rights movement by the mid-to-late sixties.
Bridging the Class Divide and other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
"Burn the Haystack!"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
This war is part of (the Israeli government's) plans to achieve total control over the Palestinian people -- plans which will inevitably lead to both peoples, Palestinians and Israelis alike, paying a terrible price in blood.
The Case Against the Global Economy
And for a turn towards the local
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
Chomsky for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
This market economy can't solve the real problems of African Americans. Worse, the scapegoating of society's most vulnerable members (immigrants, people of color, women and gays) is on the rise.
Class Struggle in the Unemployment Capital of Europe: Lower Andalucia, 1995-96
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Close the IMF, Abolish Debt and End Development
A Class Analysis of the International Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The struggle for repudiation of the debt must be organized internationally and demand not only the collective refusal of debt but cooperation in developing policies to cope with possible reprisals and to create space for the elaboration of creative alternatives to development. I am not talking about an international organization of governments, but rather of the international organization of popular struggle around the debt issue in order to limit state options and force actions in the interests of the working class.
C.L.R. James
A Political Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
C.L.R. James, A Political Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
This is a biography of C.L.R. James, an important figure in Marxist theory, revolutionary history, classical and popular culture, political activism and national independence movements.
The Comintern, CPUSA & Activities of Rank-and-File CPers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
CP members, including worker and African-American militants capable of leading heroic mass struggles, were unable to develop their own revolutionary socialist viewpoint independent of the leadership. While a certain policy or tactic might run counter to their experience and traditions, the local activists were assured that their leaders alone had the "the big picture."
The Culture of Fear
In Javier Giraldo, Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Chomsky looks the horrors of Columbia's "democra-tatorship" and its accessories, hailing Giraldo's work as an inspiration for bringing these terrors to an end.
Deschooling Our Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Deschooling Our Lives would be of interest to people wishing to learn about alternative methods of education beyond the confines of the conventional school system. The book is a collection of short piece by various homeschooling advocates such as Holt, Tolstoy and Illich. The articles are both theoretical and practical with some concrete descriptions and examples of alternative schooling projects.
Eastern Exposure
Misrepresenting the Peace Process
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Noam Chomsky examines and praises Norman Finkelstein's study of the difference between the image and reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
P. Sainath devoted 2½ years to visiting and recording the realities - delving into the fundamentals, the why of the realities - in India's 10 poorest districts.
Evidence from the Archives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The Trotskyists' reformist course, their legalism, their "conscious refusal to seek support in the growing workers' movement" significantly "weakened the effectiveness of the 'bolshevik-leninists' and disoriented potential adherents."
Flint and the Rewriting of History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The 1937 sitdown strikes were a thunderbolt shattering minimal labor-management relations. The victory of the Flint auto workers heralded the most profound social changes in the United States since the Civil War.
The Flint Sitdown for Beginners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The Sitdown Strike at GM's Flint, Michigan Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants (December 1936-February 1937) was a turning point in the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
From Marx to Gramsci
A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics Historical Overview and Selection
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Le Blanc's purpose in making this book is simple. He is out to reconstruct the tradition of revolutionary Marxism. Astonishingly if tellingly, From Marx to Gramsci is the first reader in English whose criteriology is rooted in Marxism's political purpose, in Marxism's strategic perspective and tactical orientation.
From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader -- Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Paul Le Blanc's From Marx to Gramsci: A Reader in Revolutionary Marxist Politics, while not wholly perfect, is a magnificent anti-capitalist gesture. It is an act of public revision, presupposing not just a Marxist past but a viable and vibrant Marxist future.
The Greening of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An examination of the influence of green politics on Marxism.
The Historical Failure of Anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Day examines anarchism's failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. "Anti-capitalism doesn't do the victims of capitalism any good if you don't actually destroy capitalism," Day writes. 'Anti-statism' doesn't do the victims of the state any good if you don't actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don't develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
A History of Reading
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
A European and Third World Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
How Labor Loses When it "Wins"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
It is time for unions to stop looking for someone else to save them. They need to find ways to save themselves. Mass picket lines, sit-ins, solidarity strikes, secondary boycotts and refusing to handle struck work are weapons that we need to put back in labor's arsenal. Unions must learn to broadly mobilize workers as a class, even if it means violating court orders and injunctions, to regain the initiative for workers' rights.
How Oakland Teachers Fought Back
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The record in recent years of public-sector union battles, especially strikes, has largely been one of defensive actions. This is not so much due to anti-union propaganda, which labels such job actions as an attack on the 'public interest,' but because of the overall austerity programs.
I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.
If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
The Illusions of Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all, he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood
Democracy & Capitalism: Friends or Foes?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Postmodernist pluralism, just like the old variety, obscures the realities of power in capitalist societies. It also disarms and disintegrates the opposition to capitalism. Postmodernism brings us back to the old and uncritical forms of capitalist ideology, which leave the system fundamentally unchallenged. Marxism -- historical materialism -- is the best foundation for an understanding of the society in which we live and therefore also the best guide in our search for a better one.
Israel, Lebanon, and the "Peace Process"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Chomsky illustrates the position of Lebanon amidst the conflicts and interventions belonging to the Israel-Arab contention.
Ken Saro-Wiwa's Antiwar Masterpiece
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Saro-Wiwa reflects the chaos and lawlessness of the war by introducing the chaos and lawlessness of the language. Of course it only appears to be chaotic. But it creates an idiomatic rhythm that both functions to provide comic relief and the power of a distinctive voice.
Landscapes of the Interior
Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
Liberty Against the Law
Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Life Before Medicare
Canadian Experiences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Making Gay Redundant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
Marxism and the Fate of the European Jews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Enzo Traverso's The Marxists and the Jewish Question; is valuable not only for what it says about Jews in one region or one period, though it is particularly strong on Eastern European Jews and their role in the workers movement in the early 20th century.
The Marxism of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
James is generally acknowledged to have been one of the most original Marxist thinkers to emerge from the Western hemisphere, yet essential aspects of his identity came from the other side of the Atlantic, from Europe and Africa. He offered penetrating analyses on the interrelationships of class, race and gender, and his discussions of colonialism and anti-colonialism could be brilliant. C.L.R. James also embraced the heritage of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the working-class and socialist movements of Europe and North America.
Marxist Art Historian: Meyer Schapiro, 1914-1996
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Schapiro will no doubt be remembered for his brilliance, for the extraordinary range of his mind, but his legacy as a scholar belongs to those willing to engage his most profound and most challenging work, in particular the Marxist studies he produced during the 1930s.
McLuhan's Children
The Greenpeace Message and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Looks at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media. Traces the evolution of Greenpeace's relations with the media.
McNamara's Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
McNamara's Cold War mentality is as firmly fixed as ever. The purpose of American policy in Southeast Asia was to stop Communism, invariably characterized as "Communist aggression." That end justified any means employed. It was just that McNamara and the rest of the best and brightest opted for ineffective means and failed to acknowledge it in time. Only in this tactical misjudgment does he believe that they were "wrong, terribly wrong."
The Meaning of Race
Race History and Culture in Western Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The Meaning of Race has two key themes. First it explores the intellectual and philosophical basis of racial thinking, examining the origins and development of the concept of race from the Enlightenment to the present day. Second, it also looks at the way in which recent social and political developments - such as the end of the Cold War, the erosion of the postwar liberal consensus, and the demise of the left - have shaped our ideas about race.
The book argues that much of contemporary antiracism is rooted in the same anti-humanist philosophies of human differences that gave rise to the idea of race in the first place. Only a philosophy based on a universalist and humanist outlook, I suggest, can hope to transcend the discourse of race.
Mexico: Insurrection and Disintegration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
While Mexico boils at the bottom, it is also cracking up at the top.
Modern "Gunboat" Diplomacy in the Caribbean
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
There is no such thing as humanitarian intervention on the part of the current U.S. state.
Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The New Challenge of Direct Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Direct democracy involves citizens in discussion and decisions about what the government is to do, rather than leaving this to officials or parliaments. It thus challenges the restrictions placed by representative democracies such as Britain and the United States on political consultation and popular participation. Why should responsible adults not take public decisions as well as making their own individual choices?
New York's Latino Workers Center
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
By organizing around both "labor" and "social" issues-and seeking to transcend this distinction-workers' centers can integrate a variety of unifying issues into their efforts to build an organization that can fight for their members' varied social, political and economic interests.
One Dies, Get Another
Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Organize! Organizing for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 2001
A guide to community organizing with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
Our Ecological Footprint
Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Our Stolen Future
Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A Painful Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Noam Chomsky investigates the factors of the Oslo II peace agreement struck between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
Politics and Memory in the Flit Sitdown Strikes
A comment on Historiography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The General Motors strike of 1936-37 was the most important union victory of the 20th century, but the very meaning of its success was ambiguous indeed.
The Popular Front: Rethinking CPUSA History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Very simply, the legacy of the Communist movement in the United States points to the need for revolutionaries today to develop rank-and-file worker organizations independent of and opposed to the labor officialdom; to organize independently of the Democratic party and promote independent political action.
Pornography and the Sex Censor
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Prisons in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
Promoting Unity and Solidarity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
I think that the current situation calls instead for a strategy that emphasizes working-class solidarity among a plurality of working-class organizations. This solidarity must bridge the divide between industrial and other workers, union and non-union workers, white and non-white workers, public and private sector workers, and so on.
Proportional Representation: The Urgency of Real Reform
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The introduction of an electoral system based on proportional representation would allow the left to be represented in government, because it allows for representation without requiring a majority vote.
Queer Vows, Pros and Cons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Equality ain't liberation, honey, but it's important nonetheless. We fight for the right to jobs, as horrible as so many of them are. We should fight for queer marriage, as problematic an institution as it is.
Reading Red Women Writers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
The Real War on Crime
The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A thorough examination of the American criminal justice system.
Rebels Against the Future
The Luddites and their War on the Industrial Revolution - Lessons for the Computer Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Rescue as Resistance
How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Review of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman
by Alonzo L Hamby
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Chomsky criticizes Hamby's biographical attempt claiming that Truman - regardless of how his achievements are regarded - deserves a better account.
A secular-democratic state
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
What is needed is a secular Arab-Jewish state based on socialism and democracy in all of Palestine.
7 Tips for Effective Speeches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
How to make your speeches more effective.
Smearing Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The deliberate use of outrageous lies to smear others is a favourite tactic of hate propagandists.
Smoke and Mirrors
The Canadian Tobacco War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Describes Canada's stance and battle against tobacco. Cunningham explains the health movement and tactics to regulate the tobacco industry.
Staley's Legacy of Struggle, Lessons of Defeat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Local 7837 should be proud to have chipped away at racism and sexism, setting an example for other locals to do the same. It takes an openness to risk criticism and allow the fight to be for everyone. Local 7837 should be proud of those who gave of their lives for thirty long, grueling months and left workers and labor history forever changed.
Statement to the Court
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter on our journey. Nor imprisonment or death can stop our ultimate victory.
Talking Back to the Right
A guide for community activists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
Towards A Red Feminism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Red Feminism contests all forms of institutionalized feminism: from cultural feminism (which is making a comeback in the name of a commonsense fear of the "new," the "alien" and the technological) to postmodern feminisms with their bourgeois reifications of the pleasures and desires of commodity capitalism. Red Feminism challenges the effectivity of the new localist, "transnational" feminisms and calls for a renewed internationalism--with a historical and strategic use of the nation-state--to fight global capitalism. It insists on the priority of production and class struggle in the emancipation of women and reaffirms the solidarity of humanity on the basis of shared needs. Red Feminism thus moves away from individualistic desires and the limits of identity politics toward the collective struggle of international socialism.
Towards 21st Century Democracy
Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
It is with the ordinary citizens of our cities, towns, and villages that I rest my greatest hopes and expectations. Their role in South Africa and elsewhere has been inspiring, and it is in the whole rather than in the sum of the actions of a few leaders that change is accomplished.
Tracking the News that Wasn#t
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
Twice the Work of Free Labor
The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Unity Begins Somewhere
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Though the industrial workers can be as paralyzed as any group of workers in the face of restructuring, though they can lose any particular strike, and though genuine class consciousness is never automatic; whenever there is a major working class upheaval industrial workers play a leading role.
Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996
The Right to Produce and Access Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Food is a basic human rights. This right can only be realized in a system where food sovereignty is guaranteed.
Walter Reuther, 'Social Unionist'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
The book is full of self-serving quotations from Reuther and others that are accepted at face value. There is a very superficial understanding of the auto industry, of life in the union and on the shop floor, and of the left. The huge number of quotations and citations tends to conceal a high degree of inaccuracy and misunderstanding.
Watch the Rope
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Yugoslavia Dismembered
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
All of the various international plans for Bosnia, from the ill-fated Vance-Owen arrangement to the current Dayton Accords, codify ethnic cleansing. In each scenario, Bosnia is to be partitioned along national lines. The logic of this is to continue the population transfer processes in order to carve out contiguous territories dominated by the right nationalities. How artificial are these new borders which carve up a mixed republic into ethnic cantons! Yet the enforcers of this round of ethnic cleansing are not the nationalist militias but the NATO peacekeepers.

1995

Beyond Black and White
Transforming African-American Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 2009
Marble argues for a new "transformationalist" approach in which there is an emergence of a new black cultural identity which also includes all the poor and exploited in united struggle against oppression.
Zehn Mythen über das Gesundheitssystem
Hintergründe über die gesetzliche Krankenversicherung in Kanada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995 Published: 2009
Eine Übersicht über das kanadische Gesundheitssystem im Vergleich mit dem der USA.
How to Resist Collection
Or Make the Most of Collection When it Occurs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995 Published: 2005
A practical guide for resistance to tax collection in the United States, as a statement of ethical opposition to the government's advocacy of immoral war.
A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
Image and Reality of The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 2001
Challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new and enlarged edition critically re-examines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current debacle of a "peace" process.
Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 1999
Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 1997
The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
Ten Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
The First Duty of a Revolutionary is to Survive
An interview with Pat Califia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Pat Califia observes that the first stage in trying to politicize SM people is to make it possible for people to find each other. Within our own community, we need to educate ourselves about each other: "gay men need to educate themselves about feminism; lesbians need to educate themselves about AIDS and sodomy laws; straight people need to address their homophobia, and everybody needs to address biphobia and transphobia." This kind of interaction doesn't have to mean the loss of separate social spaces, which are appropriate. But it is the truth that we hang together or we hang separately.
The Abolition of Work and Other Myths
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Adverse Health Effects of Noise
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
The effects of noise are widespread and impose long-term consequences on health.
Against Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
The All-American Skin Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Crouch firmly believes that Blacks, having catalyzed the historical struggle of Americans to realize democratic ideals, have at least as much responsibility to maintain them as other groups, and he is most successful in enunciating the importance of democratic principles. For example, Crouch effectively takes apart Afrocentrism, arguing that its advocates not only rely on poor scholarship and dubious historical interpretation in linking Blacks directly to ancient Egyptian civilization, but that even if their arguments were all true, their work scants the very real and powerful history of Black Americans.
Angels Don't Play This HAARP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Beyond Poverty and Affluence
Towards a Canadian Economy of Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
By studying societal realities such as poverty, pollution, environmental degradation and losses from quality and quantity of work, Goudzwaad and de Lange believe that a new economic practice is needed for Canadian economic recovery.
Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
Bringing Diversity Home
Lakey, George
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Diversity provides an opportunity for activist organizations to strengthen themselves. A lot depends on how it's done.
Chomsky on Post-Modernism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
What I find in the writings of the post-modernists is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish.
Communities Directory
A Guide to Cooperative Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This work lists 540 North American communities and 70 abroad, including contact information and a full self-description.
Community Noise
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
Crossing The Line
Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This book studies the issue of employee ownership as the divide between management and labour blurs.
Democracy Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
For a review, see http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198.
The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship
From Democracy Against Capitalism, Chapter 7
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
10 mythes des soins de santé
Comprendre le débat de l'Assistance Médicale Canadienne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant#.
Doing Public Journalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The author argues that journalists should be responsible citizens who with "the power of the press empower others besides the press.
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Explores the integral role ecological ideas played in German fascism, along with anti-rational, quasi-New Age ideas about nature, blood, and soil. A second essay looks at certain present-day ecological ideologies, notably deep ecology and primitivism, which are fundamentally regressive and authoritarian.
First World, Ha, Ha, Ha!
the Zapatista challenge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
In this collection, writers from Mexico and the United States provide the background and context for the Zapatista movement, and explore its impact, in Mexico and beyond.
Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Get a Life!
How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
Into the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Green Production
Toward an Environmental Rationality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Explores the environment and sustainability development with a Marxist approach and provides an alternative vision for ecotechnology.
Guilt of War Belongs to All
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky discusses the guilt of war and Japan's refusal to apologize for its role in the Second World War.
How Deregulation Destroyed Canada's Airlines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Skene links the deregulation of Canada's airline industry with layoffs, service disruptions, higher fares, privatization, and bankruptcies.
Introduction
In Juan Pablo Ordoñez, No Human Being Is Disposable
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky explores the relationship between America, Columbia and human rights. He touches upon the issues of arms, drugs and America's general establishment of a favourable investment climate in the region.
The Invisible Empire
Racism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Cannon asks how can a tolerant nation like Canada be racist? Several incidents are documented in regard to minorities, employment, the justice system, and immigrants from Third World countries.
Islamic Fundamentalism in Britain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Muslim fundamentalists are a growing threat to gay human rights in Britain.
Jewish History, Jewish Religion
The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
Live From Death Row
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
A collection of prison writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a police officer after a dubious trial.
The Market Tells Them So
The World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Mihevic asserts that World Bank policy can be viewed as a powerful fundamentalist quasi-religion whose effect is to perpetuate and even worsen inequities between developed and developing countries.
Maximum, Minimum, Medium
A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
Memories
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Regarding 1995 as the year of memories, Noam Chomsky critically accounts numerous historical conflicts before exploring the content of Robert McNamara's memoirs, In Retrospect.
The More Information The Less Knowledge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The dawn of the new society reveals itself in the murals as a very child-centered world. Children's presence in so many of the murals forces one to concur with Kunzle's comment, "The insistence, again and again, on children, in school or (more often) at play, illustrates the axiom, proclaimed by the public art of Allende's Chile, that in an egalitarian society children are the only privileged sector."
Ninety-Nine Days
The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
No More
The Battle Against Human Rights Violations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Matas, a Winnipeg immigration lawyer and participant in the Helsinski Watch movement and Amnesty international, examines the ideological causes of human rights violations.
No Place Like Home
A Discussion Paper about Living and Working in Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
North of Niagara
Impressions Along the Bruce Trail
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1995
The Online World Is Also On Fire
How the Sixties Marginalized Literature in American Culture (and Why Literature Mainly Deserved It)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
The Other Mexico
The North American Triangle Completed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Planet Drum's Bioregional Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle-class Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This work looks at the problem of overpoplulation and the environment.
Potrait of a Strikebreaker
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
It was hard to reconcile this affable young man with the picture he was presenting of himself as a narrow-minded careerist who had found strikebreaking was a fast track to advancement at Gannett. But however he justified his actions, it was easy to see that John's ambitions had made him a willing pawn in Gannett's battle of Detroit.
Prison Labor: Workin' For The Man
Article in Covert Action Quarterly #54, Fall 1995
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Article analysing the roots of prison labour in America.
Progress Without People
In Defense of Luddhism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces
An Owner's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Conservationist Hummel explains what needs to be done by whom and when to protect wilderness in Canada.
Rationality/Science
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
Remembering Dangerously
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
The Renaissance and Rationality
The Status of the Enlightenment Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Reshaping Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Rollback
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Chomsky investigates the meaning of the "the triumph of conservatism" against the background of democracy, human rights and civil society.
Saving the Countryside
Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
A guide to S&M play.
Seeing Ourselves
Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
An examination of how economic policy systematically favours the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
Sisters in the Resistance
The Women's War to Free France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Weitz documented accounts of 70 women involved in the Resistance.
Six Weeks of Solidarity
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1995
A look at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, 75 years later.
Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change
Selected Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Drache collects a selection of Innis' most important essays. This new collection commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Innis' birth in 1894. The subjects range from cultural issues to economic development in Canada.
10 Health Care Myths - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
The Training Trap
Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
War and Peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Avi Shlaim locates various sources of conflict in the Middle East, from the presence of oil, competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Wheel of Fortune
Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and Windsor -- two Ontario cities with roots in the pre-industrial past, places poised for the post-industrial information age.
Where Do Postmodernists Come From?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
Eagleton argues that left intellectuals have adopted postmodernism out of a sense of having been badly defeated, a belief that the left as a political tendency has little future. Culturalism, he argues, involves an extreme subjectivism combined with a deep pessimism, a sense that it isn't worth the effort to learn about the world, to analyze social systems, for instance, because they can't be changed anyway.
Who Knows
Safegurding Your Privacy in a Networked World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Whole Life Economics
Revaluing Daily Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Why the Industrial Working Class Still Matters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1995
It is evident today that the vast majority of the population (perhaps 80% of the workforce) live and reproduce themselves only through wage-labor that produces surplus value, regardless of the nature of the commodity (good or service) they produce. Whatever the changing weight of the industrial sector of this enormous, working majority, it is clear that the working class as a whole is proportionately far larger today than at the time of classical Marxist writers.
Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995

1994

The Long Twentieth Century
Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 2009
A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium.The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period.
Selling Illusions
The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 2002
Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division.
Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Bei der Unterstützung für die Unabhängigkeit handelt es sich bei ein großen Teilen der Linken um nicht mehr als kleinbürgerlichen Nationalismus. Im Gegensatz dazu hielten es Karl Marx und Rosa Luxemburg für wichtig zu analysieren und nur die progressiven Bewegungen zu unterstützen.
Matthew Coon Come Speech, September 19, 1994
Speaking Notes for Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come Centre for Strategic and Iinternational Studies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The status and rights of the James Bay Crees in the context of Quebec secession from Canada.
Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a #symbol of human decency# and paragon of democracy?
What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
Defiance with Freedom in Mind
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The case for civil disobedience.
Aboriginal Ontario
Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
Current Trends and Issues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Ideas for developing Aboriginal institutions to provide social programs including for indigenous people in cities.
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Auto-Determinación para Quién?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
L’autodétermination pour qui ?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Bhopal: The Inside Story
Carbide Workers Speak Out on the World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An account of the disaster in Bhopal, India.
Brotherhood To Nationhood
George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
George Manuel's work as leader of the National Indian Brotherhood and the later founding of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
The Canadian Patients Book of Rights
A Consumer's Guide to Canadian Health Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Censorship
A Threat to Reading, Learning, Thinking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Pointing out that censorship is undermining the goals of education and plaguing all areas of the curriculum, this collection of essays considers many areas in which students' right to read is being infringed. The collection offers thought-provoking perspectives on the methods used by protesters to remove books and materials from classrooms and libraries and outlines the rationales behind censors' motivations.
Certain Trumpets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Wetlands and Woodlands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Class Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
Demobilization, Demilitarization, and Democratization in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Democracy Enhancement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Chomsky explores the American goal of spreading democracy to other nations through intervention. His assertions are supported in the second part of the essay with a case study of Haiti.
Democracy Restored
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
In light of the third anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the elected government of Haiti in 1991, Chomsky exposes the grittier side of America's involvement in the restoration of democracy in Haiti.
Derailed
The Betrayal of the National Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Dual Attraction
Understanding Bisexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
800 residents of San Francisco participated in interviews about the nature of bisexual attraction, and how sexual preference can change.
Elijah
No Ordinary Hero
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Comeau describes Harper as a reluctant hero moving from band chief to the Manitoba Legislature, to the House of Commons.
The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Families on the Faultline
America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, The Economy, Race, and Ethnicity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Feasible Socialism
The National Health Service, past, present and future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
Enough
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
First Person Plural
A Community Development Approach to Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Smith provides an account of his experiences and addresses the ways of building an effective and democratic orgranization to bring about social transformation. Useful for those interested in adult education, community development and political action.
Free To Hate
The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Gay New York
Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
A Gentle Death
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Explores the moral and legal implications of euthanasia. Offers advice on working with doctors and other health-care professionals, dealing with unresolved personal conflicts, involving family members and friends in the decision-making process, and coping with legal realities.
Gotcha!
How the Media Distort the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Written by a mainstream journalist/commentator, this book reveals information withheld by media and describes biases and a lack of professionalism.
The Great Power-Line Coverup
How the Utilities and the Government are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazrd Posed by Electromagnetic Fields
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The Green Trees Beyond
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Harvest of Devastation
The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Explains how western farming practices being imposed in other countries harm peasant communities, indigenous cultures, and the ecology.
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Describes attacks on science, and on concepts of truth and rationality, in areas of the humanities.
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
12 volumes
Houses And Homes
Housing for Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Canadians need access to sound housing in decent neighborhoods, writes author Sewell. And in order to achieve this, all ideoligical freight is to be jettisoned and deliver nothing but the straight goods. One solution is to build diverse neighborhoods and abolish the many building and planning codes that suppress the creation of affordable housing.
I Won't Learn from You
And Other Inquiries Into the Control and Liberation of Learning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This collection of essays discusses what takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised.
In Conflict with the Law
Women and the Canadian Justice System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
In The Rapids
Navigating the Future of First Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
A collection of speeches by Mercredi with contributions by the Dalhousie law professor who assisted him in 1992 constitutional negotiations.
The Invention of the White Race
Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
Islamic Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
There is not the slightest real and legitimate relationship between the appalling calamities that have befallen the Jewish people in this century and the suppression and crimes committed by the extremist right wing government in Israel against the Palestinians. There is not the slightest real and justified relationship between the sufferings of the deprived people of Palestine and the terrorism of Islamic or non-Islamic organisations attributed to these people.
An Island Lies Bleeding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Chomsky criticizes the major powers for their role in Indonesia's assault against East Timor and cites John Pilger's work as the key to heightened awareness of the situation.
It's Not the Money, It's the Principle
Why User Charges for Some Services and Not Others?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
Labour Gains, Labour Pains
50 Years of PC 1003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This book is comprised of 4 parts: Historical Context, Origins and Evolution of the Fordist Accord, Case Studies, International Comparisons.
Land Trusts: Land Held in Common
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
With land trusts, we can ensure that the land is used the way we believe it should be used (or not used at all). With land trusts, we can ensure that human beings left behind in the race for corporate profits have a roof over their heads that no bureacrat or business interests can take away from them.
The Legacy of the New Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Let the People Decide: Neighbourhood Organizing in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
A history of neighbourhood-based community organizing in the United States.
Mahatma Gandhi
An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Making Monsters
False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An exposee of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy.
The Marxists and the Jewish Question
The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
The Masked Avenger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Super Barrio is a living comic strip character, a masked man who wrestles with evil slumlords and corrupt politicians.
Moral Panic
Biopolitics Rising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women.
Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
AIDS in the News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
"The mass media have played a key role in constructing public understandings of the epidemic. In the majority of instances, HIV-related disease has been presented as a condition affecting social and/or demographic minorities -- groups whose exceptional behaviour has put them at special risk. Yet at the same time, HIV and AIDS are said to threaten us all: be we heterosexual, lesbian or gay, be we young or somewhat older; be we of minority or majority ethnic status."
Myth of a Repressed Memory
False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An expose of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Good experimental evidence shows that false memories can easily be implanted.
The National Health Program Book
A Source Guide for Advocates
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Facts, statistics, and myth-debunking about the Canadian health insurance system and about competing proposals for reform of the U.S. health care system. Part I covers the Economic Context of the Health Care Crisis: Rising Costs, Declining Coverage and Incomes; Part II covers the Impact of the Crisis: Care Denied and Delayed; Part III covers the Social Cost of the American System: Poor Health care Leads to Poor Health. Part IV covers Rationing in the Midst of Plenty. Part V focuses on Exploring the Alternative: Canada's National Health Program. Part VI looks at Why Our System Costs More and Delivers Less: Administrative Waste in U.S. Health Care. Part VII deals with a National Health Program for the U.S.. Part VIII covers Paying for a National Health Program. Part IX looks at President Clinton's Plan: Making Insurance Companies the Feudal Lords of American Medicine. Part X is A Force for Change: Public Opinion on Health Care Reform. Part XI is A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal.
The New Protectionism
Protecting the Future Against Free Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This book analyses the powers behind the free trade argument to present an outline of what a viable and more just future could be.
Organizing Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
Pensando en la Auto-determinación
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Un buen lugar para empezar ser#a preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinaci#n" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vac#o cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y as# salvarse de tener que pensar de manera cr#tica.
Pensando sobre Autodeterminaçao
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
O significado oculto, a essência real, desse slogan, é a crença de que nao é possível ou desejável por dois ou mais grupos étnicos ou de linguagem viver juntos em um país. Nao consigo imaginar um momento mais pessimista e menos socialista do ponto de vista.
The People vs. Global Capital
The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
Project Censored Canada
Researching The Nation's News Agenda - 1994 Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Researching under-reported news stories.
Przemyslenia o samostanowieniu i niepodleglosci
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Public Housing Redesign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
Rae Days
The Rise and Follies of the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Réflections sur l'autodétermination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Pour Panitch et ses compagnons l'autodétermination n'a qu'un seul sens: celui de la sécession. Ils disent aux Quebécois: "Vous avez le droit de partir. Alors dépêchez-vous!" Il ne leur passe pas par la tête que les Quebécois peuvent choisir une option différente de celle de la sécession.
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
A history of California's prison movement from 1950 to 1980, highlighting the role prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology.
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
Self-Determination for Whom?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
Selling Free Enterprise
The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Aguilar-San Juan offers a complex understanding of race and racial identity, and a critique of the narrow identity politics -- defined as "ethnic consciousness". She writes, "Identity politics -- while they have created occasional possibilities for dark-skinned individuals to move up the socioeconomic ladder -- unfortunately have seduced many people into putting their identity issues at the center of the debate, while shunning the more substantive issues of racism and class oppression.... Reducing race to a matter of identity, rather than expanding our experience of racism into a critique of U.S. society, is detrimental to our movement. In the Asian American community, we often make the dangerous mistake of equating the process of acquainting ourselves with our ethnic, linguistic, religious, or historic roots with activism against racism. If in our desire to claim our identity, we overlook, for example, the ways that race is connected to imperialism . . . then we hover perilously close to the trap of defining race as a biological rather than a social construct."
Strong Medicine
How to Save Canada's Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The authors make comparisons of health care between the United States and Canada and argue that changes must be made to Canada's health care system so services can be accessible to the public.
Take Care
Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
"Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
A Terrible Revenge
The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
About the expulsion of Germans after World War II.
Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994
Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Roediger's genda is to show how race consciousness among whites needs to be fought so that the working class can be brought to an emancipatory agenda.
Traditional Peoples Today
Continuity and Change in the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Volume 5 of The Illustrated History of Humankind. Essays on the peoples and cultures of existing traditional societies.
Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
Web of Hate
Inside Canada's Far Right Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Kinsella asserts that some 40 groups are more dangerous than commonly perceived because of their violence and aggressive recruitment.
When in Doubt, Do Both
The Times of My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
Who Are the Zombie Masters and What Do They Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1994

1993

Demanding the Impossible
a history of anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 2007
An extensive and inclusive overview of anarchism thought.
Discurs Politic
Tres Converencies a Catalunya
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 1998
Different Loving
An exploration of the world of sexual dominance and submission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 1996
Explores and demystifies the worlds of BDSM, sexual power relationships, and fetishism.
Blood and Belonging
Journey into the New Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 1994
Touching a Nerve
No apology for fighting homophobia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Defending OutRage!'s decision to campaign against the homophobia of Lord Jakobovits.
The Activist's Almanac
The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Against the Market
Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Alex in Wonderland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
While Pittenger does not provide us with an explanation for the evolutionist degradation of socialism his book is a most insightful rediscovery of a forgotten chapter of U.S. socialism.
Bakunin
The Philosophy of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Baltic Revolution
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
A history of Estonian, Latvia and Lithuania, from their "creation" in the 19th century, to their successful runs for independence in 1990.
Beyond Beef
The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
By consuming thousands of acres of North American grain, "cattle production and beef consumption now rank among the gravest threats to the future well-being of the Earth".
Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.
Bordering On Aggression
Evidence of U.S. Military Preparations Against Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Canada Firsts Ralph Nader's Salute to Canada and Canadian Achievement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Canada Remapped
How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Explores what might happen in the event of a decision by Quebec to separate from Canada.
Canadian Dreams
The Making And Marketing Of Independent Films
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Canadian Socialism
Essays on the CCF and the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chronicles of Dissent
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Circles of Strength
Community Alternatives to Alienation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston-Area Public Workers' Ferment, 1981#82
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
Draining Canada Dry
The Continental Thirst for Canada's Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The authors examine Canada's water policies and their socio-economic impact on North America.
Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Firing The Heather
The Life and Times of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
This is the story of Nellie McClung, Canada's leading figure in the early women's rights movements. She fought for the right for women not just to be recognized as persons but as also to work outside the home and for equal pay.
The Gaia Atlas of Cities
New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Gedenkstatte Deutscher Widerstand
Exhbition Resistance to National Socialsim
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
A thorough and chronological account of the many forms of resistance to Nazism in Germany.
Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
Grace
The Life of Grace MacInnis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
The Last Codfish
Life and Death of the Newfoundland Way of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Lore
Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Magic or Medicine?
An Investigation of Healing & Healers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Mandate for Change
Or Business as Usual
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
In light of the newly elected President Clinton, Chomksy illustrates why the key word of his campaign, "change", really meant that nothing would indeed. He covers issues including some which he a categorzes as broken campaign promises and others which escape this label.
The Myth of Male Power
Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Farrell's blunt manner breaks through the sterotypical white middle-class conventions of victim-obsessed sentimentality that has paralyzed mainstream feminism. He forces us to see our everyday world from a fresh perspective. Farrell feels the political agenda of the feminist movement has been hijacked by a quarter century of "male bashing". He calls for an end to the blame game and a new stress on on personal responsibility, social maturity and self enlightenment. He is one of the voices urging a critique and reform of current feminism in order to strengthen it for the 21st century.
The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
Notes on NAFTA
The Masters of Man
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Chomsky depicts the negative consequences of protectionist measures such as NAFTA in the wider context of the rights of workers, consumers, and the future generations who cannot "vote" in the market on environmental issues.
Patterns of Censorship Around the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
People of Terra Nullius
Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Political Ideology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Politics of Individualism
Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An examination of the similarities and differences between liberalism, anarchism and feminism.
Profits of War
Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
Better Living with Less Traffic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
Rituals Of Failure
What Schools Really Teach
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
Safety Last
The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
Schooling for "Good Rebels"
Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Teitelbaum captures in detail the spirited devotion and revolutionary fervor of the Socialist Sunday School movement whose themes of solidarity, cooperation, and concern for others are badly needed today. Socialist Sunday Schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
Selfish Activism or Equal Rights for All?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
The separatist agendas of women, gays, black and disabled activists are divisive, and undermine the campaign for equality.
Sensuous Magic
A Guide for Adventurous Couples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
A peek behind the mask of dominant/submissive sexuality: an adventurous adult world of pleasure often obscured by ignorance and fear. Califia demystifies the scene for the novice, explaining the terms and techniques behind many misunderstood sexual practices.
The Seventh Fire
The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Sleeping On A Wire
Connversations with Palestinians in Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Social History of The Machine Gun
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Covers the history of the machine gun's development, the attitudes that effected its acceptance, and its relation to economic, political, and military history.
Some Lives
A GP's East End
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The author, a Marxist and a doctor, writes about the patients he treated in Canary Wharf - a community in East London plagued by poverty and crime.
The Spectre of Capitalism
The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Struggle for Social Justice in B.C.
Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The biography of Helena Guttteridge, who worked for women's rights and worker's rights from the period just before the start of the First World War until the late 1930's.
A Surplus of Memory
Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Surviving As Indians
The Challenge Of Self-Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Tainted Truth
The Manipulation of Fact in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
TCL'd pink: 20 years of solidarity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Training For What
Labour Perspectives on Skill Training
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Traitor And The Jew
Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Walking through the Valley
An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Wasting Away
The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
Who Will Tell The People
The Betrayal Of American Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An exploration of the undermining of U.S. democracy, starting with the basic issues of who gets heard, who gets ignored, and why.
Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.
Why Not User Fees?
The Real Issues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Words that Count Women In - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1993
Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
Working Harder Isn't Working
A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

1992

Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Dancing With A Ghost
Exploring Aboriginal Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 2006
The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1999
Toward Sustainable Communities
Resources for Citizens and their Governments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1998
The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
SM 101
A Realistic Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1996
The People's Chronology
A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1994
A New and Better Canada
Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1993
Quelling The People
The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1993
The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
Socialism Of The Future
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992 Published: 1993
Liberating Sexual Desire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Everyone is potentially bisexual; the struggle for lesbian and gay equality is about the right of all people to share the joy of same-sex relationships without guilt or anxiety, and without the fear of prejudice and discrimination.
Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A biography of Saul Alinsky and the evolution of his ideas on organizing.
Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
Hanging On: Native media are surviving
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Native media are struggling to survice.
The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
Libel Law is dangerous
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
Moscow Gangsters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Abortion procedures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
ACTivist now monthly
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Agency settles in Canada
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Aid Cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Not only is our government incapable of appreciating the Nordic and EC point of view, it evens refuses to be honest about aid program: lying about aid cuts, saying one thing about development and doing something else in the field.
Aircraft pollution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Akweks Funds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
All-terrain vehicles kill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Alternative America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
An Alternative Federal Budget
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Alternatives
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Animal Crackers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Anti-nuclear campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Are We Having Sex Now or What?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Questions you may never have thought to ask about sex.
Asking The Earth
The Spread of Unsustainable Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Periera and Seabrock, using examples from India, argue that Western colonialism destroyed sustainable development in the Third World.
Attacks on the press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Auto Free Cities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Bailando con la culpa: Los hombres hablando de la violencia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Beyond Interdependence
The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Big game hunters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Big increases for civil service managers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Birthtales
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Book on activism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Bush's leadership praised
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Campaign to Save CBC
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Can we save the cities?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Canada's Social Economy
Co-Operatives, Non-Profits, and Other Community Enterprises
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Canadian firms losing out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Captain Planet
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
The Case for Phasing Out Organohalogens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
CBC archives decaying
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Centre for Feminist Research
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Changing Charity 50 years of OXFAM
New Internationalist February 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
This issue uses the example of Oxfam to look at the role of development agencies in the Third World. Subjects discussed include the political agendas of charities, the importance of small-scale local aid and the choice of promotional imagery. Two articles focus on Oxfam in Canada.
The Changing Workplace
Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
Child Victims
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Children and Peacemaking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
"Citizens Coalition" loses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
City Magazine seeks articles
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Civil liberties body condemns sign law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The Climates of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Coal in Our Blood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Coal in our Blood
200 Years of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Common Ground
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Contrast closes
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Co-op housing under attack
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Costly postal strikes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments used by America's national leaders to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
CUPE sues to stop CBC cuts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Cycling newsletter
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Dangerous drugs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Defending the Left
An Individual's Guide to Fighting for Social Justice, Individual Rights, and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Development On Trial
Ten Days for World Development Education and Action Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Door opened to U.S. wheat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Drug testing case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The Drugs Myth
Why the Drug Wars Must Stop
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Coleman presents medical evidence that the most dangerous and life-threatening drugs are legal, while the banned drugs are comparatively harmless.
Dying for Care
Hospice Care or Euthanasia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Earthroots Coalition
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
The Economic Revolution
Towards a Sustainable Future By Freeing The Economy From Money-Making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Money making grows at the cost of destroying our social fabirc and resource base and proposes a new economic remedy.
Emma Goldman and the American Left: Nowhere at Home
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A biography of Emma Goldman.
The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
Environment Advisory Network of Waterloo
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Environmental Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Environmental rights legislation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Ethical Mutual Funds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Europe's Green Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The authors propose a continent of autonomous regions that are economically decentralized, feminist and underpinned by nonviolent social structures.
Ex-POW's sue Japan over atrocities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Exterminate All The Brutes
One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Lindqvist explores European imperialism and explains how and why racism, exploitation and extermination were policies of European colonial administrations.
Fisherman sues pulp mills
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Vol. 8: 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
Flying in the Face of Nature
A Year in the Minsmere Bird Reserve
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The author describes conservation efforts around the world, using the Minsmere bird reserve in Britain as a starting point.
For a Better World
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
For Earth's Sake
A Report from the Commission on Developing Countries and Global Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
Four Hours in My Lai
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
1492-1992
Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Relates the European invasion and conquest of the Americas and also tells of the struggles and resistance of the indigenous peoples.
Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
Free Trade Tapes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
From Policy to Practice
The Future of the Bangladesh National Drug Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
In 1982, Bangladesh became the first country to introduce a National Drug Policy based on such conceptions as primary health care and the need for essential drugs. Ten years later, it had one of the best records in terms of stable drug prices and less dependence on imported products.
GE boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
Girls Lean Back Everywhere
The Law Of Obscenity And The Assault On Genius
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
De Grazia, an attorney and defender of First Amendment rights, chronicles the conflict between artistic expression and censorship. Details the struggles of authors, booksellers and publishers.
Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Global Warning...Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Goodwin's
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
"Granny dumping"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Grants for film projects
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Green Guide to Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The authors advocate a new form of Tourism in Germany called Sanfter Tourismus which enourages the tourist to respect the environment and use alternative means of transportation which is environmentally sound.
Green Ham Radio
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Green Political Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Green Teacher goes Canadian
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Greenhouse Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Group wins right to leaflet at airports
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
GST subsidizes U.S. publishers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Gulf War The Gulf in flames The real cost of Desert Storm
New Internationalist October 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Examining the real reasons behind the Gulf War. Was it motivated by Western oil interests? Articles on arab women, oil and arms and the aftermath of Desert Storm in the arab world.
The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism & the Gulf War (book review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Gun Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Handling of Oka condemned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
A Healthy Business
World Health and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The Huguenots in America
A Refugee People in New World Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The story of Huguenot exiles and their failure to maintain religious and social distinctiveness in the diaspora.
Human Ecology
Issues in the North
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Human Rights in Canada
Into the 1990s and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Human Rights videotapes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
Hunting in Algonquin Park
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Hydro-Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Immigrant settlement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Imprinting Our Image
An International Anthology by Women with Disabilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
In Our Backyard
A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
In the Tiger's Mouth
An empowerment guide for social action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Information for ordinary people to become activists for social change.
Inequalities grow in U.S.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Islands of Hope
Ontario's Parks and Wilderness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
James Bay Hydro Coalition
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Journalists' treatment at Oka criticized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Keepers of the Earth
Native Stories and Environmental Activies for Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Klanwatch
Bringing the Ku Klux Klan to Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Kurdish refugees
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Lambert leaves CPA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Landscaping With the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of essays which describe 14 communities using alternative forms of development; to rebuild sustainable communities and environments.
Last Stand
A Riveting Expose of Environmental Pillage and a Lone Journalist's Struggle to Keep Faith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The author describes his confrontation with big business, examining the clash between nature and consumer society.
Latin American Connexions
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
Loon Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Grace MacInnis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Canadian politician and feminist: obituary in the Connexions Digest.
Macrocosm USA
Possibilities for a New Progressive Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
An environmental, political and social solutions handbook and directory.
Madness and Ruin
Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
Making Trouble
Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Manufacturing Consent
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
Margaret Benston
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
Maritime Radical
The Life & Times of Roscoe Fillmore
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Anne Mason-Apps
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
Master composters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Mastering the Machine
Poverty, Aid and Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The Maximum Wage
A Common-Sense Prescription for Revitalizing America---by Taxing the Very Rich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The author traces the history of attempts to limit incomes and proposes the adoption of a maximum wage to revitalize American economy.
Media and social change
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Men against violence
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Men's Work
How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Menopause Examined
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Mercury, Silt and Fear
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Michael Lynch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
Moment Project
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Most Radical Gesture
the Situationist International in a postmodern age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to inform a variety of the most urgent poltical events, cultural movements, and theoretical debates of our times.
Mother Earth's Centre
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Nation to Nation
Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Native pollution nightmare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Natural Life
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
The New Bureaucracy
Waste and Folly in the Private Sector
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Hardin shows that the private sector is a huge and wasteful bureaucracy; he looks at major corporations, the stock market, the advertising and marketing industry, consultants, money managers, think tanks, the media, etc.
New name for External
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
New tax loophole for the wealthy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Non-profits get exemption
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Nonviolence for Elfin Spirits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
Now they're going to ruin the economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The geniuses who brought us the constitutional debacle are turning their energies to the economy.
Nuclear Testing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Obscenity conviction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
"Ole Boy"
Memoirs of a Canadian Labour leader J.K. Bell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
On Our Own Terms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
One Woman Army
The Life of Claire Culhane
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A biogrpahy of Claire Culhane, a member of the Canadian Communist Party and a peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
'Open skies' proceeding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Opposing Racism and Prejudice
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Organic Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Organic food marketing co-op
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Organizing Dissent
Contemporary Social Movements In Theory and Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Out In The World
Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
Sex, lies and global survival
New Internationalist September 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Is overpopulation the cause of the global ecological crisis? Rather than the overpopulation of the South, it's the overconsumption the North's much smaller population that's having the greatest impact. Need to look closer to home for solutions to environmental damage.
Ozone depleting quickly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Paradise Won
The Struggle for South Moresby
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Tthe authors discuss whether the over-representation of women in part-time labour is exploitive or liberating. They present interviews and original research to describe the ways in which alternative work forms simultaneously challenge and reinforce traditional gender roles.
Patenting human life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Peace and Security Database
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 1992
Pedalling Upwind
Why Halting Highway Construction Belongs on the Bicyclist's Agenda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Roads are at the crux of almost every current environmental problem, and hence, halting the expansion of the highway system (and other parts of our auto-dependent culture) is one of the most effective spigots by which we can choke off environmental destruction.
Phone service
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The Politics Of Abortion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Pollen
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Polluter wins tax break
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Postal workers bugged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Postering bylaw
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Power To Us All
Constitution or Social Contract?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Woodcock calls for a true participatory democracy.
Privacy For Sale
How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Private Life an Open Secret
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Pro-Canada becomes Action Canada
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Protection for Journalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
Quebec police shop for tanks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Queer Press
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Radio Canada slashed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Raffi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Recovery not "Discovery"
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Reform Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The #new Canada# that Reform Party leader Preston Manning is proposing is a mean-minded society based on the survival of the fittest. It simply ignores the fact that the majority of Canadians do not play on a level playing field. It is a select few who have the power and the influence.
Renewable Energy conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Rethinking Columbus
Teaching About the 500th Anniversary of Columbus's Arrival in America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
The rich get richer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The River of Blood Flows On
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The Run of the River
Portraits of Eleven British Columbia Rivers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Rural social ecology
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Save the Rouge Valley
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Saving the Oceans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
Science spending eroding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
The Case for Wholistic Forest Use
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
In this booklet, Sharp discusses the potential of civilian-based defense for the Baltics, East Central Europe, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Selling Earth Day
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Shades of Right
Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920-1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Shadows in the Sun
Essays on the Spirit of Place
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
Social Development Information On-Line
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Socialism in Crisis?
Canadian Perspectives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Spanner
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Speak no evil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Still OK to use "Green"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The history of the Americas through Native eyes.
Stopping Sexual Harassment
A Handbook for Union and Workplace Activitists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
In this manual ways are discussed to stop sexual harassment in the workplace. It focuses primarily on women in and how they can combat it. Some of the issues discussed include the definition of sexual harassment, common myths about harassment, women of colour and harassment. It discusses what to do about an unhelpful union and urges women to take power in their own locals by organizing, using trade womens' networks and using the law. Other suggestions are writing anti harassment clauses into the collective agreement and having women in union leadership positions.
Struggle For The Land
Indigenous Resistance To Genocide Ecocide And Exproporiation In Contemporary North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Documents the struggle by North America's Indigenous Peoples for values and justice in land claims.
Taking Action
A Union Guide To Ending Violence Against Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1989-90 Annual Report
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Tax reform makes poor poorer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Telefilm Canada frozen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Thatcherism for kids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Throw it in the garbage myself
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
Toward A New Maritimes
A Selection From Ten Years of New Maritimes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of investigative reportage that looks at the historical, economic, cultural, and personal forces at work in the Maritimes.
Toward Unity Among Environmentalists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Towns for People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
Transfer payments cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
U.S. siphons Canadian taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
UI premiums up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The Un-Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
UNCED '92W
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Unions and Free Trade
Solidarity vs. Competition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
Urgent Action Centre
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Organization
U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
Vain Hopes, False Dreams
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
In a time in which hopes and dreams seemed to be fading from American society, Chomsky systematically explores the theory that the reason for JFK's assassination was his intention to withdraw from Vietnam.
Vital Signs
The Trends that are Shaping Our Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Worldwatch Institute charts coming trends using a straightforward format. Areas addressed include military expenditures and cigarette consumption.
Wam! Comix
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Warrior Society criticized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Waste Caucus
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Water Management conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Wilson opposes publishing safeguards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Winter Cities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Women and Crime
Volume 3 #2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Women in the Front Line
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
Women's Movement records
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The World of Zines
A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Written for both readers and publishers of small press. Includes information on how to publish your own zine.
Yes Means No?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
Zebra mussels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
Bad Subjects
Political Education for Everyday Life
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1992
A magazine which seeks to revitalize a progressive politics in retreat. "We challenge progressive dogma by encouraging our readers to think hard about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life."
Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1992
When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.

1991

The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 2003
Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991 Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991 Published: 1999
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
Take Back the Nation
Revised Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 1993
A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
Boreal Forests in Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
Canada's assault on the Boreal forest rivals Brazil's exploitation of the Amazon. In both countries governments and multinational corporations are scheming to clear-cut forests for short-term profit. They treat rivers as sewers, poison the fish and drive aboriginal peoples from their ancestral lands.
We Can Save Social Programs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
Class and Race: Life and Death Situations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Looking at the impact of race and class as health determinants.
Il danse avec la Culpabilité
Un regard sur les hommes qui regardent la violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Des théories simplistiques qui sont reliées à la violence à un facteur et seulement un facteur, la masculinité qui sert à décourager un examen sérieux sur la cause qui mène certains hommes et aussi certaines femmes a devenir violents.
Snake Oil in a Computer: The Pseudo-science of Transportation Modeling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Planners, politicians, and other decision-makers want to know what effect their projects will have on the environment. In many cases they don't really want to know, but want to convince their constituents that the results will be beneficial, or at least neutral. In both cases, computer modeling is being used to "answer" the questions.
Israel will withdraw only under pressure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
Defending the Oldman River
A conversation with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
About the defence of the Oldman River in Alberta.
Canada to allow new arms sales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Canada is expanding its exports of arms.
New World Order
A postwar analysis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
They#re Going to be Stuffing Our Kids
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Will technology in the classroom be a boon to educators in the future, or a disaster waiting to happen?
Abortion Stays Legal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada.
Midwives Acquitted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A historic decision by the Supreme Court of Canada clears midwives on charges in a case of a death during a home birth.
Water Exports: The New Gold Rush?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Water shortages have become an top issue in the U.S., and it appears the nation will look north of the border for help. In Canada, opposition is growing.
Canada#s Water: Resource War #2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Wars are usually fought over ideologies or natural resources. Canada should be concerned given its rich deposits of natural resources.
The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
Investing in a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Cerro Gordo community.
From the Editor: Green Living
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
Global Militarism and the Environment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Our planet is in crisis.
Hanging on by our Fingernails
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The West offers a false sense of security, and we are all at risk.
Africa in the 1990's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
After the Green Revolution
Sustainable Agriculture for Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Aftermath
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Chomsky discusses various consequences of the Gulf war, both the negative and those perceived as triumphs.
Agriculture issue
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Alberta rivers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Alternative Economic Indicators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Anderson outlines out a new conceptual framework for economics which gives attention to enviromentalism and social indicators as well as financial ones.
The Amazon: Thirst for justice
New Internationalist May 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
A look at the people who inhabit the Amazon rainforest, mainly focused on Brazil. Discussion of how the locals manage their environment and why many are migrating to urban centres.
..."And The Last Shall Be First"
Native Policy in an Era of Cutbacks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Anglophobie: Made in Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Johnson, an Ottawa-based columnist for the Montreal Gazzette, argues in this work that French Quebec's literary and intellectual traditions were characterized by anglophobia, a fear and mistrust of Engish-speaking people, which still lies at the root of the separatist movement.
Arctic Circle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The Arms Trade Bang bang you're dead The armed agenda
New Internationalist July 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
In the wake of the Gulf war, what questions should we be asking about the arms trade? Militarism is dominating modern culture -- need to remember the personal and social implications of the arms trade and develop a strategy for future disarmament.
Atwesasne Notes editor cleared
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Auditor raps waste dumping
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Ban on disposable diapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Begegnung mit dem Schuldbewusstsein
Eine Beobachtung von Männern, die sich mit Gewalt auseinandersetzen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Benefit to Canada no longer matters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Billion $$$ High
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Black Settles on Pensions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Canada Assistance Plan
No Time for Cuts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Canada's Social Programs Are In Trouble
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Canadian Feminism And The Law
The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and the Pursuit of Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The author gives a fascinating and informative look at the efforts of the Legal Education and Action Fund, a Feminist-Activist organization for the struggle to effect an egalitarian society through Charter litigation.
Canadian Women and AIDS
Beyond the Statistics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The Chatto Book of Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Children, Families and Public Policy in the 90s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
CIDA programme for ENGOs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Citizens Concerned about Free Trade
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Citizens Inquiry into Peace and Security
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Cold War Blues
The Operation Dismantle Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Community forestry conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Como Comunicarse De Manera Efectiva A Través De Un Boletín Informativo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Computer Security Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Consumers Union Congrress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Corporate Giving Directory 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Court rules Ottawa negligent, ignorant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Cuba's Invasion Fears
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
Danças com Culpa
Um olhar sobre os homens que olham para a violência
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
Danger: sticky yellow notes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Daughters of the Elderly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Death and Bereavement Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Debating the NDP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Activists seeking radical change need to understand that it is fruitless to base their strategies on the assumption that the NDP can be the vehicle for achieving their goals.
Debt and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Defending the Earth
A Dialog Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A renowned political theorist faces off against a direct-action activist to discuss: What is the connection between theory and activism? What is the role of sabotage in creating social change? How can human beings fit into a stable ecosystem?
Deterring Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Dialogue on Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A discourse between a Third World citizen and a Canadian.
Dignity and Growth
Citizen Participation in Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Makes the case that rural communities cannot function without citizen participation in social change.
Directory of Environmental Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Diverse Partners
Non-Government Organization in the Human Rights Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Divided Kingdom
Work, community and the mining wars in the central Illinois coal fields during the Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
E Magazine
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Eco-Log
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1991
Ecology Watch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
Ecosystem research threatened
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
Electric Rivers
The Story of the James Bay Project
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Energy Board OKs pipline subsidy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Enviromental Education Resources
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Environmental data lacking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Environmental Youth Alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Equal Shares in Caring
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Ethical Mutual Funds, Screening the Screens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Ethical Mutual Funds are important to the growth of social programs and services in Canada.
Execution Day in Zhengzhou
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
Families Under Stress
Community, Work, and Economic Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Fast Food Eating Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Fate of the Forests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Festival of environmental films
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
50 Ways to Fight Censorship
And Important Facts to Know about Censors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
Finding our Way
Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Food for Wealth or Health
Towards Equality in Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Forest Ecosystem conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Foundation Reporter 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Funding Health and Higher Education
Danger Looming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Georgia Strait conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Getting There
Steps to a Green Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Glastnost and the Global Village
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Global Synergy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Global Week of Ecology Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Going Home
Building Peace in El Salvador: The Story of Repatriation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
After a decade of disastrous civil war, hope for the rebuilding of El Salvador lies with its courageous refugee population. Tired of waiting to return home alive, the "campesinos" decided to return to homes to wage peace.
Goodwin's Award
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Great Lakes Spills Pose Toxic Risks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
As the largest source of fresh water in the world, and a primary trading route, pollution and the possiblity of toxic spills in the Great Lakes have the potentional to adversely affect millions.
Great Lakes United
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Great Lakes water quality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Great Reversal
The Privatization of China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
In these essays Hinton argues that Deng XiaoPing and his privatization reforms destroyed the achievements of the Maoist Revolution of 1949.
Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
The Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Green Energy
A Non-Nuclear Response to the Greenhouse Effect
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
The Green List
A Guide to Canadian Environmental Agencies & Agencies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
Groundwater Pollution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
GST discriminates against co-ops
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Guatemalan Massacre
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Gulf Commentary
A Special Issue on the Aftermath of the War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Gulf Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In light of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Chomsky identifies two different responses: economic sanctions and the threat of war. He questions the reason for these unprecedented actions as well as what was behind such tactical divisions over essentially shared interests. Noting that policy is dependent on goals, Chomsky illustrates that American action reveals the goal of establishing the rule of force as opposed to liberating Kuwait.
Gulf War Pullout
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In a "question and answer" format, Chomsky addresses what he rationally does and does not find to be plausible motivations for America's invasion of Kuwait.
Health Care Environment Network
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Healthsharing changes
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Healthy Change
Towards Equality in Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Inequalities in the length of life lived and the extent of disease as experienced by different social classes speaks to the more general inequalities of Western civilisation. GPs, hospitals and local authorities all need to be reorganized before our societies can hope to reach the WHO's greater goal of "health for all".
Heidegger And Nazism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Posits Martin Heidegger's as an influential Nazi philosopher, a manipulative thinker of great intelligence whose touchstones were anti-humanism and contempt for democracy.
High Society
Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
How to Get More Miles per Gallon in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Human Rights Advocate folds
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Human Rights in Asia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Human Rights Internet moves
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
IDRC Reports is back
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Income and Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Inquiry on Canada's future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
International Terrorism
Image and Reality - In Alexander George (ed.), Western State Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Chomsky identifies two approaches to evaluating terrorism: the literal and propagandistic. He further explores various cases, factors and forms of terrorism according to literal analysis, yet concludes by admitting that in order to understand the phenomenon in the context of reality, one must abandon the literal for the propagandistic approach.
Is Feminist Ethics Possible?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
It Doesn't Have To Be Like This
Green Politics Explained
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Its Here...Somewhere
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
James Bay megaproject
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Japan suspends some driftnetting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Job losses
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Justice for First Nations
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Kurds
The forgotten victims of Saddam Hussein
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Labour in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Labour Songs
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1991
1950-1985.
Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Legislative Research Bureau
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Lifting the Burden of Debt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Living in a Dark Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
Mackenzie-Papineau veterans organize
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Management of protected areas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Marxist Scholars Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Media Education Foundation
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1991
Analyzing worldwide trends in media ownership, commercial content, and the media element of commercial globalization's encroachment on and redefinition of public space.
Middle East Diplomacy
Continuities and Changes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In October 1991 a Conference on the Middle East was held in Madrid. Chomsky compares and contrasts two perspectives on this event. The first praises President Bush's diplomacy skills and accredits this great achievement to US efforts and is the one that dominates public discussion. The other is Chomsky's own which probes such questions as why these efforts came about when they did and were they to mark a new US position.
Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
This is a collection of columns by Vancouver Sun columnist Persky. Specifically, Persky tries to address moral and philosophical questions raised by media practices.
Mohawk Defence Fund
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Money Making Marketing
Finding the People Who Need What You're Selling and Making Sure They Buy It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Practical advice on marketing.
Multiculturalism Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
National Senior News
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Native issues committee
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Naturist Action Fund
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Networks refuse anti-TV ads
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
New Options for America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
News and Dissent
The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
No Easy Road
Women in Canada 1920's to 1960's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
No Longer Barred From Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An account of one individual's determined efforts to get inside prisons to see what is actually happening there. As her story makes clear, the penal system cannot tolerate such close scrutiny: she herself has been declared persona non grata and officially denied access to Canadian penitentiaries.
Occupied Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An autobiography of Robert Calihoo, a native Canadian activist who struggled to regain the reserve that his father had sold out to the Canadian government.
Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Four articles in Ideas & Action #16 (Fall 1991):
1. The Destruction of Iraq: Why?
2. The Rise and Decline of the American Empire
3. Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
4. For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy
105,000 jobs lost to free trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
One Nation Under The Gun
Inside The Mohawk Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
"Open Skies" Coming?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Organic Gardening
Everything the Beginner Needs to Know
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Organizing for the 90s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Out of Balance
The Risks of Irreversible Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
People Of The Pines
The Warriors And The Legacy Of Oka
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Persian Gulf crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Phoenix Rising closes
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Poisoned Skies
Who'll Stop Acid Rain?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The authors chronicle the decade-long struggle to get government action against acid rain - a devastating form of pollution.
Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (excerpt from Chapter 1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
This whole global, yet American, postmodern culture is the internal and superstructural expression of a whole new wave of American military and economic domination throughout the world: in this sense, as throughout class history, the underside of culture is blood, torture, death, and terror.
Prairie Bookworld
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Privatization
A global disease
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Pro-Canada group asks contributions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Protest against cruise missile tests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Quick and The Dead
Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
Race, Gender, and Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Race Relations Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Race to the screen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Radical Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Radioactive Heaven And Earth
The Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing in, on, and above the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
No credible justification exists for "national security" considerations to trump worldwide health when it comes to nuclear weapons.
Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Rafferty, along with the Oldman River Dam under construction in Alberta, only make sense as part of a water diversion to the United States. Because 90 per cent of Canadians, according to federal government study, are opposed to the export of Canadian water, this aspect of the project has not been made public and the Devine government is using the front of a purely localized development to "save" precious water for the dry prairies.
Recycling Symbols Discussion Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Refugees at Home and Abroad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Relentless Persistance
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
Resources of the Gulf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Review falsifies history
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
Rights group criticizes Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Role Co-operatives in Childcare
Role des cooperatives dans le secteur de la garde d'enfants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Rule change may hide executives' pay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Russian Literature
Ideals and Realities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The Samson Option
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Hersh, the investigative journalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre, documents how Israel acquired nuclear weapons with U.S. connivance.
Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Save the Georgia Strait
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Saving the Strait
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Searching
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Searching for Subjectivity in the World of the Sciences
Feminist Viewpoints
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Settlement workers conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Sex-role portrayals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Shari Belafonte's Eating Tips
Cut the Fat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Shopping Mall
A Visit to North America's Cathedrals of Consumerism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A Short Guide to Socially Responsible RRSPs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Skills for Simple Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Social Democracy Without Illusions
Renewal of the Canadian Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Socialist Studies Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Spirit of the Wolf
The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Spring peace action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Submarine Dead Ahead!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Sustainability as if we mean it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Sweet Promises
A Reader On Indian-White Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Synapse shutting down
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Taniec z Wina: Jak mezczyzni patrza na przemoc
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
TCLSAC faces financial crunch
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Inactive/Defunct Organization
tecNICA carries on
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Terrorizing the Neighborhood
American Foreign Policy in the post-Cold War Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
They forgot the bicycle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
This Is The Just Cause
Breaking the Silence: Testimony of the Panamanian People, Resulting from the USA Invasion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A very different picture of the Bush Administration's invasion of Panama. Personal testimonies and photographs document the horror and anguish suffered by the Panimanian people.
$300,000 for government video
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
To Change This House
Popular Education Under the Sandinistas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Toronto Advance Planner
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Towns take Post Office to court
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Toxic Chemicals in the Great Lakes and Associated Effects
Synopsis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Toxic Terrorism
Dumping Hazardous Wastes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
Unequal Risks
Accidents and Social Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The Unmaking of Canada
The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Upstream
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Varity pulls out with taxpayers' money
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Victims of the European revolutions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
Video The Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A book that has reoriented how historians look at the American working class.
War in the Gulf
An Environmental Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
War in the Gulf
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
We Can Change the World
The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
What We Say Goes
The Middle East in the New World Order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In response the President Bush's actions in Kuwait, America was deemed by a Catholic weekly in Rome to be "the surly master of the world". Chomsky explores the meaning of this accusation as well as America's vision for the New World Order.
Who Cares?
The Crisis in Canadian Nursing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Wild Hunters
Predators in Peril
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A passionate argument for the preservation of Canadian wildlife. Animals such as bears and wolves are in dire need of protection from the encroachments of civilisation.
Will Sustainable development save our lakes and rivers?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Winter cities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
Women and Social Change
Feminist Activism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Women's History Prize
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
The Women's Movement and Its Currents of Thought
A Typological Essay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Women's movement archives
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Working Girls: Prostitutes, Their Life and Social Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
An analysis of prostitution laws in Austrailia and a discussion of the need for decriminalisation.
You either believe in freedom or you don't
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.
Zebra mussels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 1981
The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.

1990

Our transportation future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The billions of dollars proposed to be spent on roads would be better invested in electrifying the main rail lines in Canada.
Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990 Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
CIA Off Campus
Building the Movement Against Agency Recruitment and Research
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990 Published: 1999
Mills describes campus organizing against the CIA's recruiting and research programs on campus. She also describes how to detect secret CIA activities and how to combat them. She gives voice to the multiple reasons why so many academics have opposed the presence of the CIA on university campuses: reasons that ranged from the recognition of secrecy#s antithetical relationship to academic freedom, to political objections to the CIA#s use of torture and assassination, to efforts on campuses to recruit professors and students, and the CIA#s longstanding role in undermining democratic movements around the world.
The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1994
"Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle.
The Arab Choice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Arabs are many peoples, cultures, religions, and realities. I cannot put an Arab tyrant, whoever he is, in the same category as a martyr for democracy like Mehdi Ben Barka.
The bureaucracy remains
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The government may change, but the bureaucracy remains, continuing the same short-sighted policies.
The free trade disaster: round two
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Standards are being pulled down to the lowest common denominator, allowing the transnational corporations to play countries and their workforces off against each other. Already, workers in Canada are being warned that if they don't pull their wages and other demands down, workers in Mexico will be only too glad to take their jobs.
Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
The Long Haul
An autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for over sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
No action on human rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Mulroney Tories are doing nothing at all about human rights.
Quebec's two solitudes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Quebec's hopes to chart a smooth course to sovereignty may founder on claims to Quebec's territory by its original inhabitants - claims that could involve as much as 80 per cent of its land mass.
The Victors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
An assumption was adopted in America that domestic issues were so close to being resolved that it was time to focus attention to sharing the nation's "basic spiritual principles" with the globe's underdeveloped regions. Chomsky critically evaluates regions where the benefits of American involvement should be obvious, revealing that such aid is usually motivated by self-interest and only incidentally reaps positive results for locals.
Winter of Discontent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
Communities of Resistance
Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A series of essays advocating grass roots organisations as the pathway to socialism, through which liberation is achieved.
No Strikes in Canada over health care
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are very different, leading to different approaches to disagreements, and significantly different outcomes.
Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
Working together for peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is a language that all can agree on.
Freedom Summer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An analysis of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the myths surrounding the campaign and 60s activism in general.
The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
Electing for Democracy
Proportional Representation and the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An argument for proportional representation in the United Kingdom.
What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
Abortion Without Apology
A Radical History for the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Akwesasne Notes editor charged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Alive in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1990
Alternative Publications
A Guide to Directories, Indexes, Bibliographies and other Sources
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A listing of bibliographies, indexes, review journals, directories and other sources about the alternative or small press world.
Alternatives to violence
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
The Anarchist Papers 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Antarctic airfield
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Anti-racist education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
This is an easy to understand economic report on the joint relation between U.S. policies in Africa and jobs, income and investment in the U. S. Southeast. Seidman examines how the daily realities of life are shaped by the American support of apartheid.
ARMX on the march
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Bank imposes 'voluntary' drug tests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Banking on the Grass Roots
Cooperatives in global development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Barefoot Channel
Community Television as a Tool for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
Barricada Canada
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Barton awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
B.C. abortion clinic vandalized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Behind the Silicon Curtain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Beyond Brundtland
Green Development in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Beyond Survival: Healing the incest wound
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Beyond the Blue Box
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Beyond the War on Drugs
Overcoming a Failed Public Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Blood on Their Banner
Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An expose of the political policies of France, Indonesia and the United States and how they pose the greatest threat to the stability of the region.
Body Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Book on transformation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Book Publishing Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Book seizures challenged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Brazil 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Breaking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Bridges of Power
Women's Multicultual Alliances
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Exploring the cultural sources of women's leadership this book views the processes and results that are possible when women come together to overcome not only gender based inequality but oppression based on race and class.
Budget hits veterans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Budget in Grief/Un budget de misere
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Building Bridges
The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Call for submissions
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Campaign for Fair Taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Campaign for Nuclear Phase-out
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Canada and International Peace and Security
A Bibliography 1985-89
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Canada challenges bylaw
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Canada Post raises prices to North
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Canada World Youth
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Canada's Radiation Scandal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Canadian airbase protested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Canadian Churches and Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Canadian environmental directory
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Canadian Environmental Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Canadian links with apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Canadian Overseas Assistance
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Peace Alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Canadian Women's Movement, Equality Rights and the Charter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Case for a Nuclear-Free Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
CAW get GST protection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
CBC ad policy criticized
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
CBC advertising may go
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
CBC budget cut again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
CBC losing national unity mandate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Challenge, Choice, Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Changes to marketing boards coming
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Charity Begins At Home
Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
China admits torture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Chomsky on mass media
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1990
Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Columbus seen as a conqueror.
Chronicle of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Church, Farm and Town
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
CIA set up Mandela
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Citizenship Training and Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
COINTELPRO Papers
Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Once-secret COINTELPRO documents (the acronym for Counter Intelligence Programs) tell of the FBI's tactics to discredit any organization that they percieved to be a threat to the status quo. Operations both offical and unoffical were launched against various groups and individuals including Martin Luther King, The Black Panthers, The American Indain Movement and many more.
Communicating Effectively Through Your Newsletter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
Communities and Environment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Community development curriculum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Community of the Ark
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Community Water Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Competition? or Co-operation?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Against capital#s slogan of competition, we can respond with that of cooperation -- in production, in overcoming capital#s destruction of the environment, in international relations, in learning, in building better human relations.
Computers for Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Confronting Pornography
A Feminist on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Co-operative Community
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Cooperative Learning & Social Change
Selected Writings of Celestin Freinet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Council of all beings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Cree Chalenge Settement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
CRIAW conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Crow flying high
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Cuia Popular de Fotografia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Development and Resistance in Amazonian Brazil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Day of Mourning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Deadly Releade CFCs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Decline of the Democratic Ideal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Noam Chomsky contemplates the disappearance of democratic ideals by examining the American reactions to the outcome of the 1990 elections in Nicaragua.
Descent into Discourse
The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Critique of postmodernist and poststructuralist approaches in history.
Dialogue on racism
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1990
Directory of Publishing 1990
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Don't buy these grapes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Double Standards
Consumer and worker protection in an unequal world (Deux poids, deux mesures: La Protection du travailleur et du consommateur)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
E-Sheet
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Earth Book for Kids
Activities to Help Heal the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Earth Education
A New Beginning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
Ecology and Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Education for the TurnAround Decade: The Environmentally Friendly School
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Entrevista con Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Entrevue avec Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
EnviroFair
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Environment 2000
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Environment Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Environmental Agenda for Ontario
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Environmental Values Education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Excess Packaging Campaign
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Exploited Earth
Britain's Aid and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Hayter's book examines British aid policy and practice and how it effects the world's forests.
Expose Yourself
Using the Power of Public Relations to Promote Your Business and Yourself
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A hands-on, practical book that gets down to the details of doing promotion.
Family Service
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Fate of the forests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Father, Son and CIA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A Fearful Freedom
Women's Flight from Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Federal budget cuts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
Films About Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Filtering People
Understanding and Confronting Our Prejudices
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A tool for workshops, courses and personal reflection to identify our prejudices and learn how to overcome them so that we can see each other as we are in all our diversity.
The First Canadians
A Profile of Canada's Native People Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The First International Ecological City Conference
Conference Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A dramatic account of the tumultuous decade-long struggle in the United Church of Canada to balance faith, sexuality and human rights. Drawing on the church's history, and more than one hundred personal encounters across the country, the book reveals an enormous range of passionate opinion, from fundamentalist to progressive. It documents not only deep tensions that threatened to dis-unite the United Church, but also its remarkable resilience as an enduring network of faith communities.
Fish and Loaves Gathering
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Fish Missing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Fish or Cut Bait
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Fishing jobs threatened
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
500 years after Columbus
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
The Fortress Economy
The Economic Role of the U. S. Prison System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The economic role of the US Prison System examined.
Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Free trade harrassment charged
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Freedom for Nitassinan Walk
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Freinet Pedagogy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Fresh Water Seas
Saving the Great Lakes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Friedman's Fables
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
From Prince to Rebel
Peter Kropotkin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Furniture industry hurting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Future Wealth
A New Economics for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
Gay Games and Culural Festival
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Gender of Breadwinners
Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns 1880-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, both primarily one-industry towns. Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; mosts of its workers were men, while in Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women.
General Electric boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Getting Publicity
A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Small Business and Non-Profit Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Step-by-step instructions illustrate what it takes to attract media attention to any enterprise.
Getting the Goods
Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
The Global Ecology Handbook:
What You Can Do About the Environmental Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Global Education Training
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
The Global Research Agenda
A South-North Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Global Warming
The Greenpeace Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Global Week of Ecology Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
GM wants U.S. holidays in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Good Planets Are Hard to Find!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
For children 8 and up. Gives information about the problems facing our fragile ecosystem, and offers a large range of activities geared to solving them.
Goodwn's awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Grass movement roots
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Great Lakes cleanup
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Great Lakes United
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Great Lakes Water Quality
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Green Cities
Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife.
Green Future
How to Make a World of Difference
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The GST Handbook
A Practical Guide for Small Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The GST in... The Big Tax Picture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
When you start talking about the GST, you end up talking about the whole idea of taxation. And when you start talking about who pays more and who pays less, you're really talking about the kind of country you want to live in.
Guide to Federal Programs and Services
10th Edition - 1990
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A Guide to the Photographic Indentification of Individual Whales
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
Tools for Environmental Recovery - videotape
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1990
Gute Argumente: Verkehr
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
Hal Draper
Obituary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
American Marxist 1914-1990.
Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
Insights from Hal Draper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Healing Images
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Health, Health Care, and Medicare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Helsinski Citizens Assembly
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Helsinski Citizens Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Here to Stay
A Resource Kit on Environmentally Stable Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Heritage Languages
The development and denial of Canada's linguistic resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Home!
A Bioregional Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
Honduran political murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
How To Make A Whole Lot More Than $1,000,000 Writing, Commissioning, Publishing and Selling "How To: Information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Lant makes the point that if you know something or have something to say, them you ought to be doing everything you possibly can to get that out to as many people as possible. This book is full of advice about how to do it.
Human Rights Directory
Latin America and the Caribbean (:Directorio de Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Human Rights Internet Reporter Winter 1990
Special Bibliographic Issue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Human Rights Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Human rights violations in Latin America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Icebreaker sunk
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
IDRC Films and videos 1991
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
IDRC Publications 1991
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
Independent power producers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Inside Quadro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The International Permaculture Solutions Journal
Volume 1, Number 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Internship program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Interview mit Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
Interview with Ulli Diemer - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Interview with Ulli Diemer - Japanese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Kampuchea, Decade of the Genocide
Report of a Finnish Inquiry Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Commissioned by the Finnish Inquiry Commission this a straight forward account of the history of Kampuchea from the saturation bombing by the United States during the Vietnam war in the 1970's to the continued border warfare with remnants of the Kmer Rouge. The authors address the issue of human rights violations during the regime of Pol Pot and the legitimacy of the Vietnamese role in overthrowing that regime. Other main concerns of the authors are the questions of refugees, external opposition movements, intervention by the superpowers and the attempt to rebuild the agricultural and industrial infrastructure devastated during the Pol Pot era.
Karimlan
A Simulation Game on Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1990
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
Keeping the Peace
Practicing Co-operation and Conflict Resolution with Preschoolers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Lanlord sues tenant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Leadership in housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Left Green Meeting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Lesbian and Gay Studies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Lesbian Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Lesbian and Gay Studies
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Lesbians in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Lesbians, gays and psychiatry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Letters to a Quebecois Friend
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Lewis Mumford
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Logic of Marx's Capital
Replies to Hegelian Criticisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
Marketing Your Books
A collection of profit-making ideas for authors and publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Masks of Proteus
Canadian Reflections on the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Military bases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Minority publishers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Mohawk defense fund
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
In 1986, The Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) were elected at City Hall defeating the Drapeau Administration. In this collection of articles, every aspect of reform under the MCM Administration is scrutinized: Employment, Housing and Planning, Ecology, Crime, Relations between ethnic groups, Public Transportation and Public Health.
Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
More VIA cuts predicted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Mothers of the Disappeared
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
This is the story of the mothers who risked their lives to demonstrate in the plazas by holding placards of the children they lost during the "guerra sucia" the dirty war fought in Argentina during the 1976-1983 repression by the Alfonsin junta. Through the Mother's own words we see the unfolding of Argentinian history, the growing polarization of society and how they coped with the effects not only on their family but the social structure of a country.
Move-A-Thon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Multicultural Films
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Myles Horton
Insights from organizer Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Obituary.
The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin's 'concept of the party' we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
The Myth of the Market
Promises and Illusions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Advocates expelling the market from all those spaces it has inappropriately invaded.
Name change
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Name change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Native press axed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Nelson Mandela
The Struggle Is My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
New Enclosures
Midnight Notes # 10 - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
New job for Reisman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
New program for settlement workers
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Inactive/Defunct Organization
New publisher
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
The 1990 Prague Appeal: Let Us Found a Helsinki Citizens Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The peaceful transition of Europe is unthinkable without the full observance of all human and civil rights.
1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
1992: A White Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
No base in Goose Bay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
No More Secrets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
No nukes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Nobody's Business
The Paradoxes of Privacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Nonviolence Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
The Case of India
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
Not a Sentimental Journey
What's Behind the VIA Rail Cuts, What YOU Can Do About It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Not for Profit, You Say!
An Operations Manual for Non-profit Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Aa reference book on the management and operation of non-profit organizations.
Not-Garbage coalition
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Nuclear facts and figures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Nuclear Free-The New Zealand Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Nuclear Power Booklet
The Case for a Nuclear-Free Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Official Secrets
The Story Behind the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
165,000 factory jobs lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Ontario Environment Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Open Learning and Distance Education in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Organic Agriculture Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Organic Grains
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Organization of the Government of Canada 1990
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Our future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Our global commitment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Pagan Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Panama invasion protest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Parliamentary Forum on Global Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Peace and Environment Rally
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Peace camps
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Peace in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Peace tax denied
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Peaceful Measures
Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Peacemaking in the 1990s
A Guide For Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Penguin destroys books
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
People Patterns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
PEPCON
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Permaculture workship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Petro-Canada to be sold
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Philippines under fire
New Internationalist March 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
An investigation into the political and cultural life of the Philippines, told in the form of a travelogue. The stories of ordinary people are interspersed with historical detail and analysis of the current climate.
The Philosophy of Social Ecology
Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
Phoenix Rising
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Pirate Radio Stations
Tuning In Underground Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Planned Parenthood Scholarships
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Playing Fair?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Political Economy of Manitoba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Pornography
The Other Side
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Post box rates hiked
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Post-Modernism Meets the IMF: The Case of Poland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The historical experience of Stalinism has delayed by decades, perhaps generations, the maturation of the historical project, first elaborated by Marx, of a positive supercession of the formal juridical universality of "civil", or bourgeois society, and the commodity status of labor power in that society upon which it rests. Nothing illustrates the weight of the albatross of Stalinism better than Polish society in the past decade.
Preserving our Planet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Privatization and Health Care
The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
Protecting the environment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Psycho-corporal therapy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Race, Class & the Apartheid State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The rise of mass political opposition has put in question all the major issues of social change-relationship of race and class, challenges to apartheid in the economy and the nature of the state.
Race, Class, Gender
Bonds and Barriers
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Takes a historical and theoretical approach to the themes of race, class and gender. Issues touched on include the role of the state in organizing gender and ethnic group formation; racism in the women's movement; patriarchy; colonial domination of Indian women; racism and sexism in trade unions.
Radical Political Economics
Event Listing 1990
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Rail accidents up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Reading for a Peaceful Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Recolonization or Liberation
The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMP) and the World Bank, structural adjustment is the goal of the economic and social programs which they impose upon indebted Third World governments. This booklet examines Structural Adjustment Programs from the perspective of those who are made to bear the burden of 'adjustment' in countries around the world. It shows how not only nations of the Third World, but also Canada and Eastern Europe, are being subjected to structural adjustment.
Recycling council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Recycling Council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Recycling week
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Redesigned Forest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An exploration of how forests are utilized, with particular interest paid to the old-growth coniferous forests of the Pacific north-west.
Redress for injustices to Chinese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Refund on tires suggested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
A Regulatory Agenda for Solid Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Reimaging America
The Arts of Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
More than 40 artist-contributors using video as their medium describe and analize how they create art as part or their struggle to alter mass culture and to reconnect with the communities which inspire their work.
Renewable energy conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Research funding draining awasy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Resignation from IMF
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Resources Reading List 1990
Annotated Bibliography of Resources By and About Native People - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Restructuring and Resistance
Perspectives from Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Seeks to answer two questions: Will the Atlantic region further marginalise to the point of an eventual elimination of the rural economy of small producers and the social system underlying this economy? And can any alternatives be found to the capitalist approach through the resistance and restructuring approach?
Revolution of '89
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Noam Chomsky explores the asymmetry between the resistance developments in Central America in relation to US power, and in Eastern Europe in relation to the Soviet.
Right on the Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
Right to poster upheld
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Rise Up Singing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
There was a time when singing was a part of everyday life. Rise Up Singing was compiled to help bring song back into our lives, and especially to bring singing more strongly into the movement for social change.
The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening & Landscaping Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Rural Mental Health
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Saddam's Iraq
Revolution or Reaction?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Safer Parks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Sanctioning Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A useful guide to the background of apartheid and understanding current developments, particularly the success of the mass democratic movement in weakening racist policy.
SAVE tour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Saving the Tropical Forest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Growing numbers of people around the world are developing techniques and practices to promote the wise use and preservation of our remaining forests. The authors believe that the time has come to improve the existing alternatives or it will fail.
Securing the Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
72,000 jobs said lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Severe Handscaps Alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Sexual Anarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Shopping for a Better World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Silent Revolution in Africa
Debt, Development and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Cheru ascribes the crisis in Africa to its origins as export-led development rather than the natural factors such as drought and famine. He praises the evolution of ordinary Africans opting out of the formal market and the IMF.
The Socialist Register 1990
The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
Sojourner's Truth & Other Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Solid Waste Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Solidarity fund
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Somoza's Last Stand
Testimonies from Nicaragua
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
These are testimonies from the people who have survived the contra war against the poor of Nicaragua.
Spiritual Warfare
The Politics of the Christion Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Sara Diamond ponders the threat the Christian Right poses to our society, the damage already done, and the extent of this evangelical religion's enduring political clout.
States of Change
A Central European Diary, Autumn 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A first hand and day to day account of Jones' travels through the GDR, Cxechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland in 1989.
Sunday shopping conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Supermarket Tour
A Handbook for Education and Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Surviving the Blues
Growing up in Thatchers Decade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Sustainability as if we mean it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Sustainable development conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Sustainable development conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Sweeter than Honey
Ethiopian Women and Revolution: Testimonies of Tigrayan Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Through the voices of Tigrayan women-farmers, famine survivors and military commanders this book allows the reader to see what is happening in Tigray. Women have been working with the People's Liberation Front to transform their society through a gradual process of revolution to democracy. Their stories and testaments show how integral their participation is to this struggle. It is truly a revolution that is "sweeter than honey".
The Technological Transformation of the Third World
Strategies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Dr. Bhagavan explores how Third World countries have tried to enforce an effective transfer of technology and technological know-how to their citizens. He argues a new strategy is required so that the technological level of the majority of the population is raised.
Telling It
Women and Language Across Cutures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Telling Our Stories Our Way
A guide to good Canadian materials for women learning to read
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Testimonies of Exile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Abena Busia's poetry examines the pain of exile and the power of family, memory and the spiritual and practical will to survive.
Third Annual Directory to Canadian Pagan Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Time for Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The lesbian and gay movement should be committed to a strategy of non-violent civil disobedience to force the repeal of Britain's discriminatory anti-homosexual laws.
Time to Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Transforming Apathy and Denial
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
Transnational Corporations and Labor
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Transport Policy and the Environment
Six Case Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Treaty still valid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Trees for survival
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Trial of Leonard Peletier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An examination of Peletier's role in the American Indian Movement, his struggle to protect the rights and land of his people and the history and role of the FBI. Messerschmidt traces the evolution of the FBI as an organization whose purpose is to disrupt and destabilize any organizations real or imagined that are a threat to American capitalism.
Turtle Talk
Voices for a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A collection of interviews with activists who offer insights into the crisis of the industrial world, and into what might be done to redirect society upon an organic, regenerative, sustainable course.
Type from the Desktop
Designing with Type and Your Computer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Unemployment rise deliberate, CLC says
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Union has right to be in mall
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Union urges fish boycott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Unions plan cross-border links
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Universal Programs:
What we lose
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Upgrade Your IBM Compatible and Save a Bundle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Urine tests protested
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
U.S. claims jurisdictions abroad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
U.S. peace activism
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
The Video Project 1991
Films and Videos for a Safe & Sustainable World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Vigil for disarmament
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Voices from Tiananmen Square
Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
VOW meeting (and party)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Watershed management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
We Make the Road By Walking
Conversations on education and social change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking book.
What Makes Canada Secure?
Background Document for the Citizens' Inquiry into Peace and Security in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
What Our High Schools Could Be...
A Teacher's Reflection from the 60's to the 90's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Wheatgrass Mechanism
Science and Imagination in the Western Canadian Landscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Who's Calling the Shots?
How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination with War Play and War Toys
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The WILD conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
WILD Maps
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Women and Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Women and New Technologies
An Organizing Manual - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Newsletter #44, March 1990.
Women and Poverty Revisted
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Women and Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Women and Well-Being/Les Femmes et le Mieux-Etre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Women, AIDS & Activism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Women's centres temporarily reprieved
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Women's Education Index
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Women's programs cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Women's Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Working Class History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Writers in Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
Yearning
Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Yugoslav Left Oppositionists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1990
Canada's Fighting Seniors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990

1989

Challenged Books and Magazines List 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 2009
This updated document provides a list of 100 books and magazines which have been challenged due to their content between the years of 1989 and 2009.
Federal budget
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
L'annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'environnement, l'utilisation agraire et la campagne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à la Santé
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction à l'Économie, la Pauvreté et le Travail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre de la Paix
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au chapitre des femmes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction au Développement International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Arts, Médias et Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux chapitre des Lesbiennes, Homosexuels et Bisexuels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction aux Droits Humains et aux Libertés Civiles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction la Communauté, l'Urbanisme et le Logis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
L'Annuel Connexions: Introduction sur l'Éducation et les Enfants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a Comunidad, Urbano, Vivienda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Educación, Niños
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a la Salud
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a las Artes, Medios, Cultura
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a los Derechos Humanos y Libertades Civiles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Ambiente, Uso de Tierra, Rural
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de la Paz
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de las Mujeres
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Capítulo de Personas Nativas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción al Desarrollo, Internacional
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
The Connexions Annual: An Introduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
El Anuario de Conexiones: Introducción a Economía, Pobreza, Trabajo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones
Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Introduction de l'Annuaire Connexions
Un livre d'origine sur les alternatives sociaux et environnementaux
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Introduction to the Connexions Annual - Japanese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989 Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
Directory of Alternative & Radical Publications
1989-90 - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989 Published: 1990
Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990
Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989 Published: 1990
A listing of 240 Canadian organizations (157 from Quebec) with descriptions, in English and French, of their objectives, services, activities and publications.
Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989 Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
Occupational Health Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1990
Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
The Need for Alternative Employment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
Connexions Annual Overview: Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
It must be remembered that soldiers themselves are often recruited from the ranks of the poor and the jobless, and that a movement for peace and social justice should be attempting to reach them too with its message. A movement for peace must in the end also include the soldiers if it is to prevail.
Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
The established wisdom has it that the media are neutral purveyors of news and entertainment, while the arts are about individual creativity and cultural values untainted by the vulgar concerns of politics and economics.
Connexions Annual Overview: Community, Urban, Housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Connexions Annual Overview: Development, International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
the principle of `Thinking Globally, Acting Locally' can and must also be extended to acting locally on behalf of and in solidarity with those in other parts of this globe.
Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
Connexions Annual Overview: Education, Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Education is being seen as an essential element of grassroots development both in Canada and abroad. The guiding idea is that education is not merely concerned with imparting knowledge, but with helping people develop the skills and the confidence to analyse and solve problems and thus to act, both individually and collectively.
Connexions Annual Overview: Environmental, Land Use, Rural
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
As we witness an apparently unending succession of environmental hazards and catastrophes, awareness is spreading that we are in the midst of a profound ecological crisis. There is still hope for reversing the trend toward environmental collapse, but only if we are able to work together worldwide to achieve profound changes.
Connexions Annual Overview: Health
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Connexions Annual Overview: Human Rights, Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
If we accept that anyone may be denied their rights, their freedom, then we undermine our own rights and freedoms even as we undermine social solidarity.
Connexions Annual Overview: Lesbians & Gays
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Gays and lesbians have shown that while on one level -- rights, employment, etc. -- sexual orientation doesn't matter, on another level, sexual politics are profoundly important. They do matter, and no movement for change can ignore them.
Connexions Annual Overview: Native Peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Natives have been intensifying their resistance, and more militant forms of protest are becoming increasingly common. Canadians concerned with social justice can also be working in solidarity with the Native peoples in their struggle for justice.
Connexions Annual Overview: Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
Akwesasne
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The history of the Mohawks of Akwesasne and the events and conditions that led up to the violence of 1989.
Idealism, Pride & Anger- The Beginnings of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Britain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
A glorious chaotic enthusiasm. At times, shocking. Always unapologetic and defiant. An exhilarating mixture of idealism, pride, anger, bravado and imagination.
A co teraz?
Kasa Oszczednosciowa nastepstwem Wolnego Handlu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Maintenant qu'est ce qu'on fait?
Établir un mouvement social suite aux conséquences du libre échange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Nous savons que l'accord du libre échange va éroder l'indépendance Canadienne qui est déjà limitée. Ce qui rendra encore plus difficile de résister la croisade néo conservatrice qui tien à éliminer tout ce qui se tient devant un profit sur le marché.
Activism Under Attack
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
What does it say about democracy in Canada when people can be singled out, arrested, jailed, and kept out of a public place at the arbitrary whim of political organizers or police?
AIDS:
Trading Fears for Facts: A Guide for Teens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Alberta Environment Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Alternative Dispute Resolution That Works!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
American Primitive in Red, Black and White: Race and Class in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The centrality of race in the formation of the American working class, its inseparability from the question of class, can be stated very succinctly: in 1848 and 1968, when working-class upsurges exploded in Europe under the slogans of "socialism" and "communism", American working-class containment in the Democratic Party was exploded by the race question. This is the key to the Americanization of Marxism.
Another view of the deficit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Arctic
Choice for Peace and Security
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Arrêtons de se faire des illusions
Le magazine Canadien Dimensions discute du Nouveau Parti Démocratique Canadien
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Si nous devons plus que jamais avancer, nous devons y faire face : Le NPD n'est pas un parti socialiste. Le NPD n'a jamais été un parti socialiste. Le NPD ne sera jamais un parti socialiste.
Artists/Photographers wanted
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
At the Water's Edge
Nature Study in Lakes, Streams, and Ponds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A first-rate nature book that guides the reader out into the world of ponds, stream, brooks, rills, and lakes.
Barrie deaths investigated
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Barton awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Blair, Elgin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Obituary of Connexions collective member Elgin Blair. (Died 1989).
Blueprint for a Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
BOA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Books on breast cancer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
Break-ins against activist groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Broadside goes under
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Budget spares banks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Building Bridges to Central America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Building Sustainable Communities:
Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Presents the underlying ideas and essential institutions for building sustainable communities. The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking. Also included are a lexicon of social capitalism and a bibliography of key works on self-reliant economic change.
Bukharin, Bunting and the #Native Republic Slogan#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Burning Desires
Sex in America: A report from the field
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Business Online
A Canadian Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Canada World Youth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Canadian Constitution
From Patriation to Meech Lake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Canadian Environment Network
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Canadian Human Rights Commissions Annual Report 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Canadian Human Rights Yearbook 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
Revue Femmes et Droit
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
A forum for feminist discussion of law reform and legal issues affecting women and for exchanging research and analysis.
Canadian journalist called FBI informant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Canadian Labour Movement
A Short History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Canadian magazines worried
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Canadian Women at Work
Their Situation, Their Union Status, and the Influence of the Public Sector
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Canadians and Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Cancer of economic growth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Cancer, weed-killers linked
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Cash Copy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Cast out of Eden
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Cayenne folds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Charter of Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Charter, The Challenge
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A Choice of Futures
Canada'a Commitment to Its Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Class exists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Clothed With the Sun
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Commericial shoot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Communalism and Socialism in Africa
The Misdirection of C.L.R . James
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The theoretical confusion of the left when confronted with class struggles in backward societies goes back to the polemics in Russia before the revolution of 1917: an issue resolved in practice but leaving a legacy of theoretical confusion. The struggles for colonial independence were denied the insights that Marxism should have offered, Instead, mysticism prevailed and populist theories replaced scientific analysis.
Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Community Advocate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Community Workshops for the Environment
An Organizer's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A guide to organizing ecology workshops.
The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual 1989: A Social Change Sourcebook
Information and Ideas About Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
The 1989 edition of the Canadian directory of grassroots groups working for social and environmental alternatives.
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Convention Proceedings
Confederation of Canadian Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Crees fine government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Critical Paths
Organizing on health Issues in the community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A Critique of Kim Moody's An Injury to All
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Moody's book is no academic study, but looks at the labor movement "from the bottom up"; the author has witnessed and to some extent participated in the many defeats and handful of victories of the past 15 years.
Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
Databases
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Deaf Canadians march
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Death and Bereavement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Dejemos de engañarnos a nosotros mismos sobre el NDP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Si alguna vez vamos a seguir adelante, tenemos que enfrentarlo: El NDP no es un partido socialista. El NDP nunca ha sido un partido socialista. Y el NDP nunca será un partido socialista.
Democracy for Jobs
Policies for Full Employment and Ecomomic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Directory of Libertarian Periodicals
5th Edition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Directory of Low Cost Vacations with a Difference (Revised edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Directory of Women and Global Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Doublespeak award for Wilson, Tory cabinet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Earth Day 1990
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
El Salvador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
El Salvador
People in Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Volume 2 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
End of the Line
Inside Canada's Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
An account of the grim reality of life in nursing homes. Sketches of nursing-home residents, their families, and nursing-home staff, reveal a generation suffering neglect and abuse, stripped of self-respect, confined to dangerous, dirty, depressing and de-personalized institutions.
The Endangered Kingdom
The Struggle to Save America's Wildlife
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Environment network faces problems
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Environment video resource centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Environmental Directory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Environmental Forum
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Environmental Infoline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Environmental labels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Equality Program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Essential Publications on Women's Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990/Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Europe Against the Current
A Guide to Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This catalogue contains nearly one thousand addresses of people, groups and organizations in twenty-five countries belonging to what has traditionally been defined as Europe.
Everything You Need to Know to Get Started in Direct Mail Fundraising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Excess Packaging
Strategies for Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Excess Packaging Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Executives salaries rising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Falling out of the skies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Family Violence Videos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Farmers resist foreclosures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
FBI claims world-wide powers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Federalists, Dismantle merge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Films, videos, AV materials sought
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The First Freedom
Freedom on Conscience and Religion in Canada (Second editon)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
For Our Common Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
For the Common Good
Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many things that don't happen to be true.
Free trade to mean higher pay for execs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Fresh Water
The Human Imperative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Funding for Native Education
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Gay activist's slaying commemorated
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Germany East
Dissent and Opposition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
An overview of oppositional movements in East Germany, ranging from the 1953 insurrection to the oppositional movements of the 1908s.
The Ghetto Fights
The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Glasnost: The Soviet Union Today
Contemporary Social Issues: A Bibliographic Series No. 13
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Good Medicine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Good Planets Are Hard to Find!
An Environmental Information Guide, Dictionary and Action Book for Kids (and Adults)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Goodwin's Awards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Goverment vandalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Government backs down on safety bill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Graphic Design Cookbook
Mix and Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Great Lakes health danger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Green Print for Canada:
A Federal Agenda for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Green Web Bulletins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Greenprint for Canada
A Federal Agenda for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
GST another blow to magazines
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Guide to Special Events Fundraising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Hammerhill Guide to Desktop Publishing in Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Handbooks for Cooperating Associations and Voluntary Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Health and Safety conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Healthy Places-Healthy People/Healthy People-Healthy Places
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Hidden from History
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Eessays analyzing the political, philosophical, and social history of homosexuality from the ancient world to the postwar era.
Home & Family Guide
Practical Action for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
How to be organized In spite of yourself
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
How You Can Help Make A Difference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Your actions can make a difference. There are a host of things you can do in and around your home to reduce pressures on the environment.
Human Rights
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Human Rights and the Protection of Refugees under International Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Human rights books
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Human Rights:
Can't Get No Satisfaction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Humanitas Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
"I was a stranger and you took me in"
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
IDRC Reports discontinued
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Images Festival
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Immigrant and Visible Minority Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
In Our Own Backyard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Indian bands join defence alliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Innu acquittals overturned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Intifada:
The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones: Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Este Anuario está dedicado a la idea que el cambio es ambos, posible y necesario. Su propósito principal es práctico: proveer la información sobre grupos en Canadá que están trabajando al ras del césped social para crear soluciones positivas a los problemas sociales, ambientales, económicos e internacionales.
Invasion Newspeak
U.S. and USSR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
In 1983, newscaster, Vladimir Danchev, declared opposition to Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Chomsky comments on the remarkability not just of this opposition, but the use of the term "invade" - a word, he points out, that had not been used in American mainstream media in reference to South Vietnam.
The Issue of...Peace
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Jobs said lost under free trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Journal of Forest History
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
The Joy of Service!
Bringing service excellence to the world thriugh your world
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Justice for Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
Layoffs at CRIAW
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Leadership for Change
Toward a Feminist Model
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Legacy
The Natural History of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Let's Play Together
Co-operative Games for All Ages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
The Letter Exchange
A Magazine for Letter Writers - Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Liberties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Aside from the subject of civil liberties itself, the book addresses the civil libertarian approach to such issues as censorship and freedom of speech, victimless crimes, and police powers. Specific articles target AIDS testing, legal aid, drug use, and psychological testing by employers.
Living Free
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Lobbying for Lives
Lessons from the Front
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1989
Logger's death
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Lost, leaking H-Bomb 'no danger'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Makeover Book
101 Design Solutions for Desktop Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Man fired for AIDS gets damages
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
George Manuel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Obituary in the Connexions Digest
The market vs. the family
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Marketing Your Books
A Collection of Profit-Making Ideas for Authors and Publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Maximum Gifts by Return Mail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Excellent book on direct mail fundraising.
Meat inspections slashed
Connexions Digest News Brief, 1989
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
1989 article on greatly reduced inspections of meat products.
Meeting Facilitation: the No Magic Method
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Men for women's choice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Modern North
People, Politics and the Rejection of Colonialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Modern Primitives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
An anthropological inquiry into a contemporary social enigma: the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decoration practices such as tattooing and piercing.
Moments in Movement
A 1990 Calendar For Social Change Movements
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Moscow sells photos of Canadian base
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Multicultural Health directory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Municipal Solid Waste Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Naming the Moment
Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
Native land claims make lawyers rich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Nature Study
A Journal of Environmental Education and Intrepretation - Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Network Notes:
Participatory Research in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Newsletter Design
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Newspaper boycotted for honesty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
NFB Video Series
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
NIMBI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
1989 Directory of Women's Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The 1989 Budget and Social Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The 1989 Canadian Guide to Profitable Ethical Investing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
No Bankers in Heaven
Remembering the CCF
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Northern Shadows
Canadians and Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Northerners
Profiles of People in the Northwest Territories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Nothing for workers at bankrupt firm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Occupational health centre dumped
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Oil dollars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
One Sky needs help
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Ontario allows 'monster' trucks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Ottawa tightens up information tap
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Our Differences
Interview about Worker-communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
There are two parts to the interview. The first deals with issues of working class and communism at a general level. The second focuses on more specific problems concerning the Iranian left and, particularly, the Communist Party of Iran (CPI).
Overseas placements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Ozone Crisis
The 15th Year Evolution of a Sudden Global Emergency
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Paper Crane
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Peace Magazine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
A Pension Primer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Peptalk
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Pesticides residues and waxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Planes disabled for servicing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Plant breeder's rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Political Economy of Pensions
Power, Politics and Social Change in Canada, Britain and the U.S.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Post Office workers have some rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Postal cuts threaten magazines
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Private guards block public street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Privatization Putsch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
Proceedings of the First International Congress on Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Progressive Periodicals Directory
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Public Consultation: A Citizens Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Que hacemos ahora? Construir un Movimiento Social en el Resultado del Libre Tratado
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Cuando creamos un movimiento para cambiar la sociedad, nos cambiamos a nosotros mismos, y al cambiarnos a nosotros mismos, hacemos que los cambios sociales sean posibles.
Quebec police monitor TV, radio
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Radical Bookseller
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
RCMP unit disbanded
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The real costs of transportation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Reclaiming Toronto's Don River
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Recollecting our Lives
Women's Experiences of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Recovery from sexual assault
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Recruiting, Training and Motivating Volunteers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Remaking Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Resources are Important
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Robin
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Rural Network Advocate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Safer Tommorrows Begin Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Save the Carmanah Valley
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Saving the CBC
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Second Opinion
What's Wrong With Canada's Health Care System and How to Fix It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Security service probes Innu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Selling to Government
A Guide to Government Procurement in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Sight Specific
Lesbians and Representation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Sipapu
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Socialist Ideology and the Struggle for South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Spanish Dock Workers Build Union Without Bureaucrats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Containerization has devastated port labor throughout the world. Spanish struggles over containerization have been unique becausea "socialist" government has spearheaded port reorganization and it has met stiff resistance from the revolutionary union of longshoremen, La Coordinadora.
Speed-up at Boeing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Stage Writers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The State of the World's Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Sultans of Sleaze
Public Relations and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Reveals the extent to which we have been deceived by public relations firms on behalf of their unscrupulous clients -- the corporations and governments that control our society.
Sustainable Community Development
An Introductory Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1988-89 Annual Report
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Concerns include government policy as well as corporation policies with relation to Canadian forest land management, Third World debt, military exports to countries violating human rights, relations with Southern Africa, the impact of hydro-electric and mining projects on the peoples and ecology of Brazil, and responsible investment.
Tax breaks only for free traders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Tax Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Tax housing speculators?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Tell your story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Temagami ruling dangerous precedent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Think Rail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
This vacation do something meaningful
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
This Was Our Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Tides of Change/Marees Montantes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Time to Listen
The human aspect in development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Together:
A Co-operative Community Newsletter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Toxic dumps in Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Toxic fuel scam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Trade Union Rights and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Turnaround Decade Toward Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1989
UI benefits to be cut
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The Ultimate Black Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Underground Grammarian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Underground Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Underlying Threat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Unions Attack Quebec Law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
United Farmworkers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Unity brings strength
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
The Universality of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The question of the status of universality, whether attacked by its opponents as "white male", or "Eurocentric", or a "master discourse", is today at the center of the current ideological debate, as one major manifestation of the broader world crisis
Up and Doing
Canadian Women and Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
U.S. hate groups attacked
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Valencia-Mondragon Study Tour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
VIA shutdown meets opposition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
A Voice of Our Own
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
Waiting for Democracy
A Citizen's Journal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Rick Salutin's of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
Waste Management Options Sweap
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
We all like to save on our taxes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
What about the Greens?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
When the Work's All Done This Fall
The Settling of the Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Excerpts from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings that touch on Canadian agriculture.
Wildlife conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Wir sind nackt und nennen uns Du
Von Lichtfreunden und Sonnenk#mpfern; eine Geschichte der Freikörperkultur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Fesselnde Kulturgeschichte der FKK-Bewegung von Kaisers Zeiten bis in die 1970er.
Wish you were born rich!!?? Now you can be!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Woman fights for pollution information
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Women and Environments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Women Talking About Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Women's activism publications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Women's Humour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
Women's Organizations: A National Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Womenshare Foundation Newsnote
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Woodstock
The Oral History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Workers' Own
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Write Stuff
All you ever wanted to know about letter writing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989
The basics to effective letter writing lies in a little research on the writer's part and their ability to point out weakness in their targets.
The Write Way
A Standard Handbook for Writers and Editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This booklet covers queries, article outlines, deadlines, ethics, copyright, libel, and other issues of concern to editors and writers. A standard writer's contract is included. Some good solid advice and salient anecdotes pepper the text.

1988

Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988 Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988 Published: 1989
Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
How You Can Help
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988 Published: 1989
A guide to responsible shopping that won't cost the earth.
How to Invest Your Money with a Clear Conscience
The Canadian Guide to Profitable Ethical Investing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988 Published: 1989
Ellman offers a guide for those who want to ensure that their investment decisions, be they major or modest, are supporting ethical institutions, companies, and governments.
101 Ways To Market Your Books For Publishers and Authors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988 Published: 1989
Advice for book publishers and authors about how to market their books.
Wages for Housework
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.
A Way Express
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Advokid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Africa
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
The Alternative Movement, Press, and Literature of West Germany
An Introduction with Lists of Alternative Serials, Publishers, Distributors, and Selection Tools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
American Extremes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Anglicans and Aboriginal Peoples
The EcoJustice Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Astrology
True or False?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Bibliographie de la Critique Quebecoise et Canadienne-Franchise dans les Revues Canadiannes (1974-1978)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Black Rose Books Spring/Summer 1987 Catalogue
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Blaming Others
Prejudice, Race and Worldwide AIDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Bodian's Publishing Desk Reference
A Comprehensive Dictionary of Practices and Techniques for Book and Journal Marketing and Bookselling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Book Marketing Opportunities: A Directory
A Directory of Book Wholesalers, Distributors, Chain Stores, Catalogs, Book Clubs, Mailing Lists, Marketing Services, Reviewers, etc.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Book of Fax
An Impartial Guide to Buying and Using Facsimile Machines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Bread and Roses Credit Union
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Business Guide To Promotion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Canada: A Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Canadian Books on Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Canadian Committee Against Customs Censorship
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
The Canadian Peace Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Canadian Press Stylebook:
A Guide For Writers and Editors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Canadian Public Affairs Handbook
Maximizing Markets, Protecting Bottom Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Canadian Sources of Environmental Information 1988/Sources canadiennes d'information sur l'environnement 1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Canadian Writers Network
Articles for Sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Caps And Spelling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Caring for Our Children
What's Best for Them? A Response to the National Child Care Strategy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A Case For Non-violent Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Central America
The Next Phase
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Chomsky explores the nature of the Reagan Administration's initiatives and intents for Nicaragua and Central America. He reveals underlying problems such as the tendency of the US Government to adopt violent tactics due to its political weakness and military strength.
Citizen's Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
CNEI Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Contested Truths
Keywords in American Politics since Independence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
CORPRL: Citizens Organizations To Repeal Prostitution-Related Laws
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Culture and Consumption:
New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Culture of Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
Curbing Garbage:
Recommendations For Recycling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Debt Study Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
DEC Book Distribution 1988-89 Catalogue
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
Directory of Book, Catalog and Magazine Printers, 4th Edition
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Directory Of Community Services In Metropolitan Toronto
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Directory of Free Vacation and Travel Information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A Directory of Literacy and Adult Basic Education Programs in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Directory of Research Funding Sources For Women
Repertoire Des Sources De Financement De La Recherche A La Portee Des Femmes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Directory To Canadian, Quebec, And Regional Studies In Canada
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Don't Tax Reading
A Statement on the Cultural and Economic Costs of a National Tax on Reading
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Dream Tower
The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Educational Film and Video Project Catalog Supplement:
New for 1988 - Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: A Literature Synthesis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
This report was produced as the result of a cooperative research project between the National Ecology Research Center, Ft. Collins, Colorado and the Air Force Engineering and Services Center, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, on the effects of aircraft noise and sonic booms on animals.
Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: Bibliographic Abstracts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Abstracts of bibliographic resources.
EGALE - Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Eight Years Later
A Comparison of the National Strategy on Child Care with the Report of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Employment Equity
How We Can Use it to Fight Workplace Racism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Enough is Enough
Aboriginal Women Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Epicene
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
The Extraordinary Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
The Facts About Food Irradiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Facts on Free Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Field Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Films For A Peaceful Planet
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Financial Fesability in Book Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
For Conscience Sake
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1988
Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
Fundraising For Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Gainers and the Churches
What Happend? What Have We Learned?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The German Greens
A Social and Political Profile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
How the German Greens evolved from a grass roots movement to a political party.
Growing Together
Women, Feminism and Popular Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A Guide to Current Analysis of the Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A Guide to Establishing a Human Rights Documentation Centre
Report of a UNESCO-UNU International Training Seminar on the Handling of Documentation & Information on Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Helping You Helps Me
A Guide For Self-Help Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Home Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Human Rights Internet Reporter Winter 1988
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
In the Sleep Room
The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
An International Fraud
How The Schools Cheat Your Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
International Labour Reports
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Investor Beware
Investigating Investments & Scams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Is Peace at Hand?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
In light of the signing of a Peace Agreement by the Central American Presidents in 1988, Chomsky discusses if this step could be the first towards peace in this region of U.S dependencies, investigating primarily the prospects of implementation.
The Italian Factory Occupations of 1920
When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries # cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns. But this was not a sit-down strike; the workers continued production with their own in-plant organization. And railway workers, in open defiance of the management of the state-owned railways, shunted freight cars between the factories to enable production to continue. At its height about 600,000 workers were involved.
The Journal of Community Development
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
Land Study Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Last Chance to Save Windy Bay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Lawyers and the Nuclear Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Life Beyond Pamphlets
Creating Effective Words and Images for Health Promotion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
As Long as the River Runs
Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Looking Good In Print
A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Making Common Cause
A Statement and Action Plan By US-Based Development, Environment and Populations NGOS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
The Marquis Project
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
See also CX2542, CX2618.
Men's Groups
Towards a National Listing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Men's Groups
Towards A National Listing.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Miemose Raconte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
More Than Medicare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Name Of The Chamber Was Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The National Directory of Magazines
Second Edition 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
National Network to End Hunger in Canada
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A New Endeavour:
Selected Political Essays, Letters, and Addresses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Newsletter on Newsletters
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
NGOs Study Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
1988 International Green Front Report
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
1988 Poverty Lines:
Estimates By The National Council Of Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
The No-Bull Guide To Getting Published and making it as a writer
Everything you need to know to break into and prosper in this exciting and lucrative field
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A guide to making it as a freelance writer.
No Way to Live
B.C. Women Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
No Way To Live
Poor Women Speak Out
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1988
The Nuclear Power Booklet
The Case for a Nuclear-Free Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Nurses for Social Responsibility
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Office Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
One Hundred Innovations for Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
One Sky Audio-Visual And Book Catalogue 1988/89
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
1001 Ways to Market Your Books
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Ottawa-Carleton Tenants Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Peace Education News
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Peace Proposals
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
A People in Arms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Pigeon Hill Peacemaking Centre
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Poisoners of the Seas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Pornography in a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Poverty Profile 1988
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Pressures, Problems and Prevention:
Chidren And The Health Care System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Proceedings of the Third North American Bioregional Congress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
PWAC Directory Of Members 1988
Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Quebec Society
Tradition, Modernity, and Nationhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Queer Anarchist Network
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Questioning Technology
A Critical Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A collection of essays laying out the case for thinking critically about technology.
Radical Rag
The pioneer labour press in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Rape
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1988
Revelations
Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Scenes from the Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Noam Chomsky calls upon his visits to Israel and Nicaragua to explore the nature of popular struggle in regions under occupation.
Searching
Research In Small Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Searching:
Research in Small Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
The Secret Museum
Pornography in Modern Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Secretary's Friend:
The Office Management Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Selected Stories of Norman Duncan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Semiotext (e) USA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Sewage Disposal Methods for the Thousand Islands Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Short History of the World Working-Class Movement from Lassalle to Neo-Liberalism
The Distorting Hegemony of the Unproductive Middle Classes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
This essay is a kind of "thought experiment", attempting to trace the career and impact of the "man of negation", ultimately theorized by Hegel as the "Prussian monarch" who "universally labors" in the realm of the state (and hence art, philosophy and religion) but whose "labor" does not transform nature, does not engage in what the Theses on Feuerbach call "sensuous transformative activity".
'68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
Social Movements/Social Change
The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
The Socialist Register 1988
Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Soil Erosion
It's Agricultural and Environmental Implications For Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Star-Phoenix Special Report on Literacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
State Control
Criminal Justice Politics in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The Struggle for Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Style Sheets for Technical Documents
A Guide to Advanced Designs for Xerox Ventura Publisher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
SWEAP News
Number 1, September 8, 1987 - Periodical profile published 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1987-1988 Annual Report
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
Covers issues of human rights, third world debt, military exports, South Africa, banks, corporations, international financial institutionals, environment, military industries, corporate governance, responsible investment, in Canada and abroad.
tecNICA
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Ten Days for World Development Hunger Package
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A Time To Stand Together... A Time For Social Solidarity:
A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
A Time to Stand Together...A Time for Social Solidarity
A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Toronto Environmental Alliance
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Travel And Vacation Information Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Un vote pour la démocratie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Les groupes démocratiques sont mieux équipés pour traiter les problèmes de procédés. Ceci est parce que la démocratie permet un groupe pour procéder avec ce qu'il veut faire devant les gens qui sont peu coopératif, odieux ou insensible.
Underground--The London Alternative Press, 1966-74
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels Study, Work Plan Of Activities
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Utne Reader Field Guide To The Alternative Press, Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Vanier Institute of the Family Publications
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Video With A Difference
National Film Board Of Canada Catalogue
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Factors Influencing Success
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Walking Together
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Wasting Our Future
The Effects of Poverty on Child Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
What in the World is Going On?
A Guide for Canadians Wishing to Work, Volunteer or Study in Other Countries (2nd Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
When Freedoms Collide
The Case for Civil Liberties.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Civil liberties are proclaimed as important in our society, but in reality they are under constant attack.
Whose Money Is It Anyway
The Showdown on Pensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Women and Peace Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Women Organizing for Change
Confronting the Crisis in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Workers, Capital, And The State In British Columbia:
Selected Papers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Working Group On Food Irradiation
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Working in Steel
The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Emphasizes the importance of changes in the work world for the larger patterns of working-class life.
World Without War Research and Education Network
Organization profile published 1988
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1988
Inactive/Defunct Organization
You Can't Kill the Spirit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Der außergewöhnliche Myles Horton
Interview geführt von Ellen Gould und Murray Dobin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Myles Horton ist der Gründer der Highlander Folk School, einem Ausbildungszentrum in Tennessee.
The Canadian Jewish Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
L'Extraordinaire Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Myles Horton est le fondateur de l'école Highlander Folk School, un centre pour la formation
en leadership au Tennessee. Highlander forme des organisateurs pour des
syndicats, des organismes de droits civiques et des groupes de citoyens locaux. Dans cet entretien, Ellen Gould et Murray Dobbin parlent avec Horton pour découvrir ce que son expérience lui a enseigné au sujet de l'organisation pour le changement social.

1987

Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987 Published: 2006
Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987 Published: 2002
Arblaster finds the core of the idea of democracy in the notion of popular power. He explores the meaning of this and the problems it involves.
The Age of Empire 1875 - 1914
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987 Published: 1996
Covers the rise of bourgeois society, the growth of free market capitalism and the expansion of European colonialism abroad.
The Regulation of Desire
Homo and Hetero Sexualities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987 Published: 1996
A survey of the history of sexuality in Canada.
Anti-Porn is the Theory, Repression is the Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987 Published: 1989
The campaign against pornography has been one of the most visible faces of feminism for more than a decade now. Few have wanted to know whether the 'clean up' they were promoting strengthened women's hand or the State's. Thus they have attracted supporters and allies among politicians from the New Right, which governs (among others) the US and the UK, from the old moralizing Left, and even from the trendy Left. Although this anti-porn lobby is not homogeneous, it is rare for any part of it to dissociate itself from the most powerful pro-censorship law-and-order identity.
The 1989 Canadian Guide to Profitable Ethical Investing
1989 Guide to......
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987 Published: 1989
The Uses of an Earthquake
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987 Published: 1988
The people of Tepito have proven themselves far more capable than the government both of responding to the dangers and of seizing the opportunities created by the earthquake. The earthquake crisis has brought into view a long existent but rarely recognized alternative: the ability and willingness of the people of Tepito, as well as those in many other barrios, to assert a different set of values: those of autonomy, self-activity, and the subordination of work to social needs. It is also embodied in their ability, as against governmental paralysis, to design and implement their own projects, thus elaborating those values in concrete practice.
Little Brother Watches Back
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of working in the margins is the effect on the mainstream. What innovation in radio, television, journalism, or, for that matter, any social institution or relationship has not first appeared on the margin, only to be adapted and adopted. Margin and mainstream in dialectic move society forward.
Setting Up a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
How to mobilize a community to declare itself a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone.
All For One
Arguments from the labour trial of the century on the real meaning of unionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A trial which challenged the right of unions to exist in Canada.
America, God and the Bomb
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Annual Report. Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility TCCR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Arms Canada
The Deadly Business of Military Exports
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Regeher explores the secretive world of Canadian arms manufacture and debunks many of the myths aboutf the benefits of arms sales.
Arms Maker, Union Buster: Litton Industries - A Corporate Profile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Art and Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Behind Closed Doors
How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Being Pregnant
Conversations with Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Biased Analogies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Body Invaders
Panic Sex in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Book Marketing Opportunities
A Database
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 1987
Bridging The Gap:
Resources For Linking Canada and the USSR
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Canada and the Global Food System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Canadian Machine-Readable Databases:
A Directory and Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Canadian Peace Educators' Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Canadian Quaker Study Packs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Canadian Serials Directory/Repertoire des publications seriees canadiennes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Canadian Women's Directory
Annuaire des Femmes du Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Canadian Women's History/L'Histoire Des Femmes Canadiennes: 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Canadian Women's Periodicals:
Title Word Index: Vol.1, No.2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Case Critical
The Dilemma of Social Work in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Challenging Unions
Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Changing Course
A study guide for Canadian social analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A study guide for individuals and groups who are trying to make sense of our society, and want to learn how to improve it.
Checklist of Indexes to Canadian Newspapers/Liste de Controle des Index de Journaux Canadiens
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Choices
A Family Global Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
The Chomsky Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The political and linguistic writings of America's leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language.
The Citizen's Guide To Lead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Coming to Power
Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A Common Subject Authority For Community Information Centres In Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Community Self-Reliance
A Canadian Vision of Economic Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Connexions Directory of Canadian Organizations for Social Justice 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Announcing the first issue of the Connexions Directory of grassroots organizations working for social change.
Connexions Directory of Canadian Organizations for Social Justice 1987
Volume 10, Number 2-3 - Winter 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Contemporary Social Issues
A Bibliographic Series No. 6: The Feminization of Poverty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Democracy is in the Streets
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
Design for Desktop Publishing
A Guide to Layout and Typography on the Personal Computer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Desktop Publishing Skills:
A Primer for Typesetting with Computers and Laser Printers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Desktop Publishing with Style
A complete guide to design techniques and new technology for the IBM PC and Compatibles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Deveric 1985 Resource Catalogue
Periodical profile published 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
What did the phrase 'dictatorship of the proletariat' mean to Marx and to his contemporaneous readers?
Double Standard
The Secret History of Canadian Immigration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A focused examination of the right-wing political bias and dishonesty that has charecterized Canada's post-war immigration and refugee policies. Policies were profoundly influenced by the Cold War. The RCMP served as the chief screening instrument, relying heavily on the American-Counter Intelligence Corps which was cooperating closely with the Gehlen group staffed by ex-Nazis. While belonging to a Communist party was grounds for exclusion being an ex-Nazi as early as 1950 was no longer regarded as such. The acceptance of 60,000 "boat" people was applauded by Canadians because they were fleeing Communist opression but the efforts of a few thousand Central Americans were stymied by two repressive refugee bills because they were fleeing the "oppression of our side". Whitacker grants that Canada is a safe haven of peace and freedom but only to those who are ideologically correct.
Earthbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
An Encyclopedia of the Earth and a world atlas.
Economics and the Family Farm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Embezzlers Dirty Tricks (And How to Spot Them)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Ethical Growth Fund
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1987
Exporting Danger
A History of the Canadian Nuclear Energy Export Program
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Femmes: Images, Modeles/Women: Images, Role-Models
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Foodland and Stewardship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
For Conscience Sake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Free Trade
Issue 33, March 1987
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Free Trade for British Columbia
Is It A Bargain at the Price?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
From The Roots Up: Economic Development As If Community Mattered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Fusion of Anabaptist, Indian and African as the American Radical Tradition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
The native American radical tradition, originating ultimately in the radical religious currents who "lost" at the very dawn of capitalism, and their meeting with the non-Western peoples--Indian and African--who shaped early American culture as much as white people, might have something very unique to contribute to the current and still completely unresolved crisis of the international revolutionary left.
Gandhi Today
A Report on Mahatma Gandhi's Successors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Activists in India who are attempting to follow Gandhi's path.
GATT-Fly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Good Girls, Bad Girls
Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
Great Lakes
An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Great Lakes Toxic Hotspots Map
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1987
The Green Alternative
Creating an Ecological Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Greening of the Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A Guide to the Charter for Equality-Seeking Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Handbook of the Canadian Environmental Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Harder They Fall
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Harnessing Desktop Publishing:
How to Let the New Technology Help You Do Your Job Better
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Hastings and Main
Stories from an Inner City Neighborhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The High Price of Health
A Patient's Guide to the Hazards of Medical Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
Horizontal and Vertical - The Dimensions of Occupational Segregation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
How You Can Travel Free as a Group Tour Organizer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Humblest of Peoples
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
The Imagination of the New Left
A Global Analysis of 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Brings to life the social movements and events of the 1960s that made it a period of world-historical importance: the Prague Spring; the student movements in Mexico, Japan, Sri Lanka, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Spain; the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and guerrilla movements in Latin America; the Democratic Convention in Chicago; the assassination of Martin Luther King; and the near-revolution in France of May 1968.
In The Feminine: Women And Words/Les Femmes Et Les Mots
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Integral
The Magazine For Changing Men - Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Just Cause/En Toute Justice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Lament For a Patriarchy Lost? Anti-Feminism, Anti-Abortion and R.E.A.L. Women in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Left Nationalism and Working Class Communism
A Review of the Iranian Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
No amount of theoretical and political radicalisation can in itself change the social character of present-day communism and bridge the gulf that separates it from the working class. What is needed, if the proletarian communism of the Communist Manifesto is to become a reality, is a real social shift. Communism must be taken back from all those who employed it throughout the twentieth century to reform capitalism, and returned to the working class to be used against capital, for real human emancipation. A worker-communist movement must be shaped; one in which communism is once again an expression of class protest and class activity.
The Lessons of Amish Agriculture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Amish agriculture offers valuable eco-lessons to those interested in organic, earth-friendly farming.
Libel
A Handbook for Canadian publishers, Editors and Writers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Libraries in an Information Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Logics of Disintegration
Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Essays summarizing and critiquing post-structuralism. According to Dews, #for all its posture of radicality, post-structuralist thought is itself bound to certain vulnerable assumptions.# According to Dews, the fatal philosophical fault of post-structuralism is its failure to preserve the proper dialectical distinction between the subject and the object.
A Look At The Reality Behind The Rhetoric of Normalization
Organization profile published 1987
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1987
Marketing Mirage
How To Make It A Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Masques of Morality
Females in Fiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Matewan
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1987
A film based on events in Matewan, West Virginia in 1920.
Media Alert
A Directory Of Media Contacts In Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Media Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Minority Organizations:
A National Directory (Third Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Misguided Missiles:
Canada, The Cruise and Star Wars
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Mission For Peace:
A Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Moving Ahead
A Guide to Selected Themes from the Nairobi Forwardlooking Strategies for the Advancement of Women - Periodical profile published 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
Multicultural Information Resources:
A Guide to Metropolitian Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Multiculturalism at Work
A Guide to Organizational Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
My Father's House:
A Memoir of Incest and Healing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
New Age Business: Community Corporations That Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
1987 Directory of the Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
1987 Poverty Lines
Estimates By The National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Nuclear War
The Search For Solutions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
An Operational Strategy for Development Education in the 80's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Our Common Future
A Reader's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Explains the concept of sustainable development, presses the necessity of a more equitable international economic system, and lays bare the links between trade, environment, and development.
Our Lives
Periodical profile published 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
An Outbreak of Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
Paying Dearly
The International Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
People, Resources and Power
Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Perfect Machine
TV in the nuclear age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Playing with our Health
Hazards in the Automated Office
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Political Handbook of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Post- Industrial Utopians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Pro-Family Movement:
Are They For or Against Families?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Progress Against Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Publishing In A Global Village
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Question of the Commons
The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Refugee As Neighbour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Resource/Reading List 1987
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
The Riot at Christie Pits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Rochdale
The Runaway Collage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Rural Women In Latin America
Experiences from Ecuador, Peru, and Chile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Senior Citizens' Survival Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A book about radical transformation, about how to make your senior years your most powerful, productive and fulfilling years.
Sex Work
Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
Small Business Reference Guide
Information for the small business owner
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Small Is Not Beautiful: Life at the Bay Guardian
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Soft Sell
Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.
Starting A Worker Co-operative: An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
State of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Still Sane
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
A Summary Of Actions
Access To Health and Social Services For Members of Diverse Cultural And Racial Groups in Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Summer Love
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A Survey On Development Education In Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Les Taches Liees Au Soin Des Enfants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Taking Control of Our Future
Clerical Workers and the New Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1986-1987 Annual Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Summarizes the activities of the taskforce as of August, 1987. Concerns included government policy as well as corporation policies with relation to Third World debt, military exports to countries violating human rights, relations with Southern Africa, loans to Chile, Lyell Island, nuclear waste disposal, acid rain and ethical investment funds.
Tax Facts, Nos. 1-9
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Taxation and the Arts
A Practical Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Too Few To Count
Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Toronto Immigrant Services Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
TV PR
How To Promote Yourself, Your Product, Your Service or Your Organization on Television
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Unemployment Survival Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Voluntary Organizations and their Businesses: Issues & Opportunities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Welfare in Canada
The Tangled Safety Net
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
'What can I Do?'
Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
What Future For Canada? A Resource Kit on the Free Trade Issue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
What in the World is Going On?
Opportunities for Canadians to Work, Volunteer or Study in Developing Countries
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
When Freedom Was Lost
The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
Why Do Women Do Nothing To End The War?
Canadian Feminist-Pacificsts and The Great War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
Women and Peace Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Women On the Global Assembly Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Work and Income in the Nineties Working Paper No. 8:
Phase One --Income Security Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Work and New Technologies
Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
Working with Assaulted Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Basics and Tools
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1987
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Robinson recounts the origins and sustaining force of the famous boycott led by Montgomery's African American women.

1986

Nightwood Theatre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Pragmatics of Community Organization - 4th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 2011
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
Pirates and Emperors
International Terrorism in the Real World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 2000
The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1999
Towards a Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1995
The Drowned and the Saved
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1989
In an effort to confront the question of whether Auschwitz could ever happen again Primo Levi has brought to a new generation the facts of the Holocaust and the reasons we should not be complacent that it can never happen again. In a series of essays he talks of why some survived and most did not and our unwillingness to know about the crimes being committed.
The Origins of the Union Shop
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1989
Though the typical union contract nowadays contains some sort of union shop provision, union membership was voluntary under almost all CIO contracts prior to 1942. The dues "check off" was virtually unknown in the late '30s and dues were collected on the shop floor by shop stewards and committeemen.
The Personnel Planning Guide
Successful planning of your most important asset
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1988
Making Their Voices Heard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
The March
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
An account of a peace march.
Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central America and other solidarity networks.
Our Little Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
It took an issue like Litton to get us working together, and in our little victory we can take a great deal of pride. We were lied to, threatened, denied information and harassed, all in an unsuccessful effort to discredit us as "ignorant" and "of the enemy." American-inspired militarism has mastered the means by which its opposition in this way becomes popularly misinterpreted. It is worthwhile to look at some aspects of the work of The Island Way which enabled the groups to be a credible opposition.
Power in Play
Reclaiming Play in the Serious Work of our Lives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
For too long, our culture has 'viewed play as appropriate only for children, and in some rare instances for adults (when they are artists, nursery school teachers, or living out their retirement years). When we dare to question the Protestant Work Ethic and affirm both what feels good, and what works for us, it seems to me that play must be reclaimed from childhood memory and made a reality in everyday adult life.
Eine Stimme für die Demokratie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
In vielen “Konsensgruppen“ findet man ein immer wiederkehrendes Muster: Einige wenige haben das Sagen, während der Rest schweigt. Diejenigen, die einen Job oder Kinder haben oder einfach keine “Meeting-Junkies“ sind, gehen frühzeitig. Die Gruppe fällt auseinander und die Übriggebliebenen zwingen ihr wunderbares Modell der nächsten Gruppe auf.
One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
One Vote for Democracy - Korean text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Un Voto a favore della Democrazia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
The Accessible Home
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
After Bennet
A New Politics For British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Alliance For Non-Violent Action (ANVA)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Angles
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Annishbusug Puppet Company
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Another Weigh Collective
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Artculture Resource Centre (ARC)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Articule
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Artists' Network of Amnesty International
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Artists Union -- Toronto Local
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Asia and Pacific
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Association of Canadian Women Composers
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Association of National Non-Profit Artists Centres (ANNPAC) /Regroupement D'Artistes Des Centres Alternatifs (RACA)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Avataq Cultural Institute
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Beyond The Image: A Guide to films about Women and Change
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1986
Black Heritage Club
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Black Music Association, Toronto Branch
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Black Theatre Canada
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Branching Out
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Canada Electric Brigade
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canada Post Corporation
It Can Deliver
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Canadian Artists' Representation Ontario
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Canadian Authors' Association
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Canadian-Latin American Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Multinationals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
The Canadian Popular Theatre Alliance
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Women's Movement Archives
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Women's Music and Cultural Festival / Le Festival Culturel Des Femmes Canadiennes
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canasian Artists Group
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Catalyst
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Centre Eye Photography Gallery
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
CineAction: A Magazine of Radical Film Criticism
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Coming Out (Gay Radio)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Committee on Censorship for the Arts
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Conservation Unravelling: Three Threats to Wildlife
Published in Probe Post, August 1986
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Contemporary Art Gallery
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
Cries of Victims------Voice Of God
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Curing Nuclear Madness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
Defence and Arms Control Scence and Society:
A Directory to Information Sources Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Dis-Abled Women's Network (DAWN)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Ed Video
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Empire and Ourselves
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Chomsky begins by asking why America's interest in a nation occurs when it does: why discuss Central America now and not 10 years ago? And why the concern with Central America over Haiti? He continues by exploring several instances in which the reasons of US involvement seem to be rooted in self-interest as opposed to strictly regional needs.
Environmental Ethics
Philosophical and Policy Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Environmental Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Ethnocultural Directory Of Quebec 1986
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
The Facts: Special Peace Issue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Farm Gate Defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates,mounting production costs and low prices.
The Female Body in Western Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
Feminist Perspectives Feministes
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
First Choice: Essential Reading On Peace and Disarmamment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
First Contract
Women and the Fight to Unionize
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
The First Freedom: Freedom of Conscience and Religion In Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Free Trade and the Public Sector
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Friends of the Canada Council
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
From the Roots Up
Economic Development as if Community Mattered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Fuse---The Cultural Newsmagazine
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Gallery 44
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Gay News and Views
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
GaybleVision
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1986
The German Canadians 1750-1937:
Immigration, Settlement, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Graphic Arts In The Public Service
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Great Canadian Theatre Company
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Great Lakes Primer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Grey Matters --- The Peace Arts Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
GUANACO
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1986
Headlines Theatre Company
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The HealthSharing Book, Resources For Canadian Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Herbicide Trials
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1986
A History of Underground Comics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Examples of the work of the underground cartoonists of the 1960s, with accompanying text that sets the historical context and analyzes the works and their times.
How-to-Make Big Profits Publishing City & Regional Books
A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Writers and Publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Humane Medicine
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
The Immigrant Years
From Europe to Canada 1945-1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
In The Name of Progress: The Underside Of Foreign Aid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Incite Magazine
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Index/Directory of Women's Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Indian Communication Arts
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Indian Giver
A Legacy of North American Native Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Institute For New Economics
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
International Permaculture Species Yearbook 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Just Voices
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Kai VisionWorks
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Kam Theatre Lab
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
Kingston Artists' Association Inc.
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Labour Art and Media Working Group
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Late Great Lakes
An Environmental History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Ashworth presents five common misunderstandings about the Great Lakes and advocates for improvements, remedial action and ecosystem strategies.
Latitude 53
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Leaping Lesbians
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Learning from our History
Community Development by Immigrant Women in Ontario 1958 - 1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Lesbians of Colour
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Living Economy
A New Economics in the Making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
An attempt to summarize the "new economics" for a wider audience. The new economics can be briefly described as that body of work, beginning with E.F. Schumacher, Herman Daly, and Hazel Henderson, which is critical of tradiational economic theory and seeks alternatives to the devastating impact of our current economic system on communities, individuals and the biosphere.
Lobbying for Your Cause
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Marx-Engels Glossary, The
Glossary to the Chronicle & Register, & Index to the Glossary. Vol. 2 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Media For Social Change
A Resource Book For Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
An aid for community groups to help them obtain greater access to mainstream media or even to create their own media.
Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Meese Commission Exposed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
The Membership Mystigue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Micro Futures: Who Pays?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Mixed Company
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Music For Nicaragua
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Native Cultural Society
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Native Indian/Inuit Phototgraphers' Association (NIIPA)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Native Press
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Neighborhood Action: Recipes For Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Nellie McClung Theatre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Neutral Ground
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The New Trojan Horse Cafe
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central American and other solidarity networks.
Newsletter: The Open Door
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
The Newsmagazine for Alberta Women
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Nicaragua
Then and Now
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
No Frills Thearicks
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Northwest Territories Native Arts and Crafts Society
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Ojibwe Cultural Foundation
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
On the Line Publishing Collective
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
One Vote for Democracy - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
One Vote for Democracy - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Orwell
The War Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Parallelogramme
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Peacemaking in Your Neighbourhood
Reflections on an Experiment in Community Mediation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Describes ten years of work of the Community Dispute Settlement Program, an innovative program in a suburban area near Philadelphia, founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The program set out to try to help solve community disputes using the guidelines of nonviolence, alternatives, and empowerment.
Pelican Players Neighborhood Theatre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
PEN Centre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
People's Action Coalition
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Performing Artists For Nuclear Disarmament (PAND)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A Poison Stronger Than Love
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Positive Images: Women By Women
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Power At What Cost?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Powerhouse
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Pragmatics Of Community Organization - First Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
Press Gang Catalogue
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Red and Green
The New Politics of the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
In order for green politics to work, we need to develop a total policy for the environment, a social policy which views capitalist industry as the destroyer of the world we live in.
Reel Women's Cable Collective
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Regina Guild of Folk Arts
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Resource Centre For The Arts
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Restraining the Economy
Social Credit Economic Policies for BC in the Eighties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Rosa Luxemburg
A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
A biography of the Marxist revolutionary.
Saskatchewan Native Artists Network
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatchewan Native Communications Wehtamatowin Corp.
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatoon Survival School
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatoon Union Of Unemployed Workers
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Second Look Community Arts Resource
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Sex-Role Learning and The Woman Teacher
A Feminist Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Shadowland Repertory Co.
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Showtime (A Handbook on Producung Cultural Events for Development Education)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Solidarity (US) Founding Statement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
South Africa: The Cordoned Heart
Essasy by Twenty South African Photographers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Noam Chomsky explores the relationship between the two great systems of propaganda - socialism and the society created by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. In response to a certain doctrine assuming a relationship between the two, Chomsky argues that if this is indeed true, it is the relationship of contradiction.
A Space
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Sparkes Gallery
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Speaking Our Peace
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1986
Spectrum/Womanspirit Art Gallery & Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Sticks And Stones
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Stop Entertaining Apartheid Coalition (SEAC)
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Survival Guide For The Unemployed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Take Care! Human Rights In The Eighties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Tales of Wesakechak
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1986
Theatre Energy
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Le Theatre Parminou
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
This is the first systematic discussion of the Marxian political economy of Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, and Samir Amin. Foster explains their theoretical contributions and situates these in the context of ongoing debates on economic theory.
A Third Way: Community Economic Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Through the Glass Clearly: Canadian Women's Education, Work and Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
The Toronto Arts Group For Human Rights
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Toronto Photographers' Workshop
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Triple Oppression Of Immigrant Working Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Un Voto por la Democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Union Art Service
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Unsafe Harbours
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
An Urban Guide To Pesticides
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Vancouver Charter of Rights Coalition
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Vancouver Co-operative Radio
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Vancouver Men's Chorus
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Video Femmes
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Video Inn
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Vocal Minority Music Society
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
V/Tape
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Wage-Earning Women
Industrial Work & Family Life in the U.S. 1900-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
This Way Day Break Comes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
Who Gets The Work: A Test Of Racial Discrimination In Employment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986
Whole Again Resource Guide
1986/1987 Edition. A Periodical and Resource Directory.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
"Practical compendium of tools and resoucres for people-saving, planet-saving alternatives. It is a directory of periodicals, sourcebooks, directories and bibliographies.
Whole Loaf Theatre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Winnipeg Gay Media Collective
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
With our own Hands
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Women and Planning
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Women and Economics Development Committee
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Women's Art Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Women's Employment Outreach
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
The Women's Self-Help Educational Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
WomenSkills
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Womynly Way Productions
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Worker Co-operatives: An Introduction
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Working Lives
Vancouver 1886-1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Writer's Union Of Canada
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
WSAC Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
YYZ
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
Sea of Slaughter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1984
Video Out Distribution Catalogue 1
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986 Published: 1983
Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
Um Voto Para a Democracia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1986

1985

Managing Wastes
A Guide to Citizens' Involvement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985 Published: 1992
Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
The Temporary Autonomous Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985 Published: 1991
Ecodefense
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985 Published: 1987
The Myth of Women's Masochism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985 Published: 1987
Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
Aging: a process of discovery
A review of Look Me in the Eye: Old Woman, Aging and Ageism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
Review of a collection of essays by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich, in which they speak with honesty and clarity about ageism, aging and the inevitability and imminence of death.
An Anti-Intervention Handbook
Canadians and the Crisis in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Anti-Intervention Handbook
Canadians and the Crisis in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Black or White? The origins of racism
New Internationalist March 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
A discussion of racism as a white problem, including articles on South Africa, New Zealand, mixed-race families and multi-culturalism. The issue looks back at the history of racism, and to the future with suggestions for anti-racist action.
Calculated Chaos
Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Discusses the role of institutions within society and how their interests have lead to conflict and war over the past century.
Can Free Schools Work?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round#s projects achieved long term success.
Canadian Human Rights Yearbook 1984-1985
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
A Citizen Legislature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Contra Todos los Pronósticos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
La creencia que la sociedad oficial es tan abrumadora que no se puede hacer nada al respecto está muy cerca de la idea que no puede hacer nada. La idea que las cosas se volverán a hacer si la gente se une para hacerlo ellos mismos contiene la semilla de la idea que la gente tiene el poder para hacer todo.
Critical Perspectives on the Constitution
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
This collection includes essays on collective rights, resistance to patriation by First Nations chiefs, and Quebec education reform.
Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
The Disarmament Dilemma
A Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
Everything under control, Life in a managed society
New Internationalist April 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
The Faith Healers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
James Randi, magician and debunker of charlatans of all stripes sets his sights on Christian faith healers. He and his associates invented names, life histories, illnesses and tracked down multimillionaire evangelists with their own fleet of wheelchairs to expose the fraud and illogic perpetrated by them. He wants us to fear not the Lord but irrationality. The one misgiving with the book is that Randi fails to see in his heart the underlying emotional void that dogs people who seek the comfort of faith healers.
From Hitler to MX: Media Softness on Nazi Zundel Part of Historic Softness on Nazism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
A Guide To Basic Print Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
In the Name of Progress
The Underside of Foreign Aid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
The Life of Death: An Exchange
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
Living socialism, The experience of the eighties
New Internationalist November 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Discussion focusing on the challenges of living a socialist life in modern times. Political commitments to meeting people's needs can be more rhetoric than reality. "How can socialism maintain its ideals in an international climate shaped by those hostile towards it?"
Look Me in the Eye
Old Woman, Aging, and Ageism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
About ageism, aging, and the inevitability and imminence of death.
Marx-Engels Chronicle, The
A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity. Vol. 1 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Marx-Engels Register, The
A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Memory of Fire: Genesis
Part One of a Triology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
A meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New, and an an attempt "to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yukatan to Columbus's first joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.
Na przekór wszystkim przeciwnoscia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
National Security Through Civilian-based Defense
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
This publication offers an introduction to civilian-based defense. It also identifies significant research areas and policy studies that are relevant to advancing the field.
Our Future at Stake A Teenager's Guide to Stopping the Nuclear Arms Race
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Over the hill and picking up speed
An interview by Doug Wilson
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
An interview with three older gay activists about aging and society.
Peace is Possible
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
People Power
Applying Nonviolence Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
Prairie Lives
The Changing Face of Farming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Radiation Alert
A Consumer's Guide to Radiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Sex, Power and Pleasure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
The Sexuality of Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Starting a Worker Co-operative
An Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
The State in Revolutionary Periods
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
Still Barred From Prison
Social Injustice in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Alternative Paths to Jobs, Development, Equality and Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
A Theology of Connexions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
Turning the Tide
U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Turning the Tide shows how US Central American policies implement broader US economic, military, and social aims even while describing their impact on the lives of people in Central America.
Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
We Can Do It!
A Kid's Peace Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
We're All Doing Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Women Against Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Worker Co-operatives
An Introduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985
Working for Peace
A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Worldwatch Paper 67
Conserving Water: The Untapped Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
Über die Einführung von Veränderungen: Wenn das Kollektiv entscheidet...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1985

1984

Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
Memory of Fire: Faces & Masks
Part Two of a Trilogy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1998
A view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
Third World Guide 93/94
The World As Seen By the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1994
Ballad of the Peace Pushers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984 Published: 1991
Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1990
Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
Working Together For Change: Women's Self-Help Education Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1987
Canadian Human Rights Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
Global Thoughts, Local Actions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
Responding to the Cry of the Poor
Nicaragua and The U.S.A.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
UK miners' strike (1984#1985)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
Working Collectively
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
The Capital Punishment Debate - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The Capital Punishment Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
Yetiskinlere okumayi ogretmek
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Fakat Ontario nun bir gercegi bir milyonu askin fonksiyonel cahil insani olmasidir - Bunlar geri kalmis okuma becerieri oldugundan ciddi problemler yasamaktadirlar, ornegin gazette okuyamayan insanlar.
Abortion: Stories from North and South
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1984
Singer's film allows us to see abortions as a global phenomenon which transcends race, religion and boundary. Women from various parts of the world share their experiences. From Ireland where contraception and abortion are illegal, to urban Peru where backstreet abortions are commonplace to Japan where women bound by ancient traditions of formality, deference and silence cannot share their experience of abortion. One of the striking points of the film is that abortion continues to be practiced despite moral and legal constraints. This film is a testimony to the courage and determination of women.
Also available in French: L'Avortement - Histoire secrète.
The ACTivist
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Published since 1984 by ACT for the Earth, The ACTivist educates and mobilizes people and communities to take action for peace, ecology and human rights.
Alternative Energy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1984
Amnesty International, Canada Section
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Backwards From Back-wards: The Unmet Needs of Recovering Psychiatric Patients in Edmonton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
B.C. Blackout
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Between the Lines
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1984
Breaking The Silence
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Breaking up Ontario's Hydro Monopoly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Bulldozer
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Canada's Future: A Global Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Canadian Abortion Rights Action League
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Centre for Investigation and Prevention of Torture
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Canadian Civil Liberties Bibliography (Indexed)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Canadian Peace Listing
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Canadian Rights and Liberties Federation
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Women's Mailing List
Resource Type: Database
First Published: 1984
The Case For Long-Term Supportive Housing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Centre D'Information et de Documentation sur le Mozambique et L'Afrique Australe (CIDMAA)
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
Child's Play
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Christians in the Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Describes the urgent need for Christians to respond to the socio-economic and political crises of our time.
Christmas in the Trenches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Lyrics to a song commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Principles of Economic Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Citizens Against State Surveillance
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Citizens for Public Justice/C.J.L Foundation
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Citizens Independent Review of Police Activities
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Civil Liberties Action Security Project
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Coalition For Gay Rights In Ontario
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Community Dreams
Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
Concerning the benefits of recycling municipal solid waste
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Socia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Connexions
Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Contre vents et marées
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Counterpoint: An Underground Newspaper with a Rural Route
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Crossroads Resource Group
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Daybreak
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
El Debate de la Pena Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Derechos y Libertades
Introduccion al Volumen 9, Número 2 del Sumario de Connexions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Development Education Survey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Downtown Crisis Housing Foundation
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Downtown Eastside Residents' Association
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Droits et Libertés
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Les libertés civiles et les droits de l'homme font partis clés dans presque chaque autre aspect de la justice et des changements sociaux.
The Eagle and the Jackal
America's Rape of the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Edmonton Inner City Housing Society
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Emergency Shelter in Ottawa-Carleton
An Experimental View
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Energy Monitor
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Energy Probe
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Enseñando a adultos a leer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Environment'83
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Environmental Sourcebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Ethics and Energy...Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Exploring Your Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
Exporting Apocalypse: Candu Reactors and Nuclear Prolifieration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
The Faltering Economy
The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
For Friends of Foodland
A Citizen's Guide to Foodland Preservation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
For Health or Profit? The Pharmaceutical Industry in the Third World and Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Friends of the Earth / Les Amis De La Terre
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
See also CX3147.
Global Health Reports
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Government Limited
THe Corporate Takeover of the Public Sector in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
The Great Hydro Boondoggle
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
GreenPeace
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Hard Earned Wages
Women Fighting for Better Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Helping You Helps Me
A Guide Book for Self-Help Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Homes First Society
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Hostels and Homelessness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Houselink Community Homes
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
See also CX2646.
Housing in Ottawa-Carleton: A Woman's Issue
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
In the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Information concerning the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Bill C-9
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Inmate's Rights
A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Institute for Development Education Through The Arts
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Institutions for Peace Vs. Instruments of War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Inter-Church Uranium Committee
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
An Intimate Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Volume 1 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
Justice for Children Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Kai Visionworks
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Kara Smierci
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Celowe, prawnie sankcjonowane odbieranie z.ycia ludzkiego, jest silnym emocjonalnym totemem, czynem, przez który symbolicznie uczestniczymy w zakazanym akcie zabijania. Nic dziwnego wie;c, z.e debata na temat kary s'mierci budzi tyle emocji, jest tak kategoryczna, uboga w analize; na temat tego, czy kara s'mierci w?as'ciwie ma jakis' sens.
The Labour, Arts and Media Working Group
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Law Union of Ontario
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
The Lesbian Mothers Defence Fund
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Livable Winter City Association
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Making Waves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Making Waves: The Grindstone Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Marguerite has come a long way
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Literacy student writes her own story.
Materanl Health News
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Mayor's Action Task Force On Discharged Psychiatric Patients
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Medicare: On the Critical List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Medicine & State Security
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Metropolitan Toronto Task Force On Housing For Low-Income Single People: Final Report
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Midwifery Task Force
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Militarization: Obstacle to Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Milton: A Co-operative Neighborhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Movements and Messages
Media and Radical Politics on Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A study of the attempt by social and political movements in Quebec to shape their own communication strategies in oppostion to the power of the state and the mainstream media.
National Working Group on Energy and the Environment
Organization profile published 1984 (Spring)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Native Women
The Doubly Denied
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Natural Energy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
The Need for a New Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
Network
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Association
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
No to Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1984
No Towers Federation
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Non-Nuclear Way: Creative Energy Alternatives for Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
The Norm Drake House
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Northern Perspectives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
The Nuclear Free Press
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Odyssey Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Offshore Monitor
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
150 years of dirty water
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Toronto#s water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded # but that doesn#t mean we should put up with it.
One Sky, Saskatchewan Cross-Cultural Centre
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
See also: CX2546, CX2619.
Ontario Coalition To Stop Electroshock
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Operation Friendship - Edmonton
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Organising Things
A Guide to Successful Political Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A comprehensive guide to practical political action, packed with information and handy checklists.
Our Generation against Nuclear War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Parliament vs. the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Peace Valley
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
La Peine Capitale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Malgr# les croyances # base #motionnelle, la peine de mort ne dissuade pas. D'un pays # autre, on a pu trouver que l'existence, l'abolition, ou la re-application de la peine capitale n'avait aucune influence visible sur la fr#quence de meurtres.
People Living For Justice
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The People's Classifieds
The Alternative Directory for Metro Toronto
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
A directory of progressive/alternative businesses, professionals, services, groups, and individuals in Toronto.
The Perspective of the World
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Phoenix Rising
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Popular Education in Central America
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1984
Power to Choose
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Examines energy issues from the point of view of the majority of Canadians excluded from participation in the formation of energy policy, but who nevertheless suffer the consequences.
Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Rättigheter och Friheter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Rechte und Freiheiten
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Keiner ist Frei, wenn wir nicht alle Frei sind. Jegliche Einschränkung der Rechte und Freiheiten ist gleichzeitig eine Stärkung der Macht des Staates darüber zu entscheiden, welche Rechte in Zukunft ausgeübt werden dürfen und welche nicht.
Refuge
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Rights and Liberties - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Rights and Liberties - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The Roots of Crisis in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A Rubber Worker's Guide to Occupational Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Saskatchewan Association on Human Rights
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Scream! A Voice of the Youth Movement
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Search For Shelter
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Second Nature
The Animal-Rights Controversy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Silenced
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Society for Political Action for Gay People
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Society Promoting Environmental Conservation
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Soil removal a possibility
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
Stampede City
Power and Politics in the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Stepping Out of Line
A Workbook on Lesbianism and Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Student Centre for Public Issues
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Table de Concentration Sur les Maisons de Chambres
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Taken for granted ---- Farm and Domestic workers
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1984
Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Teaching adults to read
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Becoming literate is an important way for people to gain more control and power over their lives.
The Threat
Inside The Soviet Military Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Tightwire
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Toronto Nuclear Awareness
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Toronto Occupational Health Resource Committee
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Raises the issue of freedom of religion being denied to Native prison inmates who are not of Christian origin.
Urban Core Support Network
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
The Urban Cycling Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Vancouver Coalition Against the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Watermelons Not War!
A Support Book for Parenting in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
We Want Zero Interest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
What is Consensus?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Women and Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Women and Environments
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Women and Media
Analysis, Alternatives and Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Women's Health Action Network
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
Worker Co-operatives
Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Worker Cooperatives in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
Working Together for Change
Volume 2: Modules
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Worthington provokes election controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1984
The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
Writings of the Vancouver 5
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Alternative Access Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
1984 edition lists 1100 organizations in 32 categoriers such as Alternative Media, appropriate technology, educational resources, grants/fundraising handicapped, health care, human rights, networking, peace, personal & spiritual growth, self-publishing
Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984

1983

The Canadian Health Coalition
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983 Published: 2007
Dedicated to protecting and expanding Canada's public health system for the benefit of all Canadians.
On The Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political Party in the U.S., 1900-1945
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983 Published: 2002
Thus the basic thesis presented here is that no major working-class political party developed in the U.S. in the 20th century because in the U.S., in contrast to all other major capitalist countries, capitalism made the transition to the intensive (#Taylorist# or #Fordist#) phase of accumulation without requiring the participation of a working-class political party in the state.
Marxism and the Critique of Scientific Ideology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983 Published: 1992
Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983 Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
Bitter Fruit
the untold story of the American coup in Guatemala
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983 Published: 1990
A history which reads like a thriller, detailing the dirty tricks, the manipulation of public opinion, and the corrupt foreign policy which characterized U.S. involvement in Guatemala. They show that this covert action became a blueprint for later incursions by the U.S. into Central America.
Building Sustainable Communities
Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983 Published: 1989
The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking.
War, Peace and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983 Published: 1985
Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
The Sex Industry and Its Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
An article discussing the various components of the sex industry and the various forms of sexual services that have evolved from prostitution.
Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
Aboriginal Support
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Accounts of Wrath
The Family Farm Under Siege
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labour, professional armies, social discipline, nationalist, ethnic and class fervour.
Ah-Hah!
A New Approach to Popular Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
... and they were doing cartwheels.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
Avataq Cultural Institute
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Background paper on the Micmac occupation and hunger strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Battered and Blamed
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Between the Lines
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Beyond the Image: A guide to films about women and change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Blacklist
An Anti-Authoritarian Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
Bread and Roses Credit Union
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Breaking Up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Bridgehead Trading Company
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Brief to the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self-Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Brink of Reality
New Canadian Documentary Film and Video
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
From angles both practical and philosophical, Peter Steven examines the business of making documentaries in Canada and reaching audiences with them.
Burin Action Committee
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canada, Politics and Direct Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL)
Association Canadienne Pour Le Droit L'avortment (ACDA)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Association in Support of Native Peoples
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Committee on Learning opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Disarmament Information Service
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Canadian Labour
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Central American Women Speak for Themselves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Centre for Feminist Culture
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
City Farmer
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Clearlake Collective
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Coady Institute
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Collectif Masculin Centre le Sexisme/Masculine Collective against Sexism
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Combatting Racism in the Workplace
A Course for Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Combatting Racism in the Workplace Readings Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The Coming of World War III
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Committee for Original Peoples Entitlement (COPE)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Communiqu'elles
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Community congress for economic change
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Community economic development in rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
A guide to developing a self-reliant process of asking the right questions in creating community-based employment in small, non-urban communities across Canada.
Community Forum on Shared Responsibility
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Community Profit
Community Based Economic Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Commuter Cycling Program
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Concerned Aboriginal Women occupy Department of Indian Affairs
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
A film depicting the occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs building in Vancouver by a group of Native women in 1981.
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Cooperation at Work
The Mondragon Experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
A guide to work co-operatives.
Co-operative College of Canada
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Council for Yukon Indians
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Cult, Ghetto, and State
The Persistence of Jewish Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
CUPW 1981: Mother's Rights, Union Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Dandelion Community
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
The day care kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The Deadly Connection: Nuclear War and U.S. Intervention
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Dene Nation
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Despair & Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Don't Agonize, Organize
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Down on the Farm
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Downside Adjustments
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Eden Press
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Education Wife Assault
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Environmental Sourcebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Ethical Reflections on the economic crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Eugene V. Debs Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The Evacuated Ones
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Exiled in Paradise
German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America From the 1930's to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
A Familial Perspective on micro-computer communications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Family Violence: Cycle of Fear
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Finding Lesbian Herstory
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1983
First Nations Artisans Association
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Friend and Lover
The Life of Louise Bryant
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
GATT-Fly
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Gay Liberation Against The Right Everywhere
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Getting There
Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
Grassy Narrows
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Health Thrashing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
A History of Printing Ink, Balls and Rollers
1440-1850
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Housework: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Housing in St. John's
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Hysteria
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
The Indian and Inuit supporter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inequality at Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part1: The "Physics Package"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Inside The Mushroom Cloud Part2: The Human Package
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Inside The Mushroom Cloud: Introduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Inter-Church Coalition on Africa
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inter-Church Uranium Committee
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
International conference on prison abolition
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Is Five Foundation
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Issue 10: The Economics of injustice:
Income Distribution and the GAI - Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Journalism and the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Journalism and The Bomb
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Journalism and The Bomb, Words and War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Kahnawake development research project
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Kamloops Amalgamated Resources
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Karl Marx: Economist or Revolutionary?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Cleaver illustrates how, in the history of Marxist work on the theory of crisis, many have forgotten the revolutionary content of Marx’s own work and thus left themselves open to the dangers of capitalist appropriation. He suggests an alternative approach to the study and elaboration of Marx’s analysis of crisis that makes its political and revolutionary content explicit and thus more immune to appropriation.
Kinesis
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
See also CX132, CX633, CX861, CX2562, CX2439.
Legal Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
The Lesbian and Feminist Mothers' Political Action Group (LAFMPAG)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Lesbian Issue/Etre Lesbienne
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
The Lesbian Mothers Defense Fund
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Listing of Women's groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
The Little Band
The Clashes Between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928-1932
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
M:Gentle Men for Gender Justice
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Manitoba anti-poverty organization (MAPO)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Marx & Engels
The Intellectual Relationship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Marxism, Feminism, the State
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
Marx's unchaining of the dialectic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Masenayegun
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Maternal Health News
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
The Media and Civil Defence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Media-MX Deal Denies Protestors' Rights Through News Blackout
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Media Watch
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Meeting Collectively
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
Men's Anti-Sexism Group
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Men's child care collective
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A Model for Nonviolent Communication
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
A description of communication skills to empower us to exchange resources and resolve differences nonviolently.
Modistas
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
My War Diary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
In this passionate and humane diary, Dov Yermiya, a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces, provides eyewitness accounts of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
The Myth of Symmetry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
The National Association of Friendship Centres
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
National Indian Brotherhood, Assembly of First Nations
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Native People
One Sky Information Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Native People's News
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Native Women: The Doubly Denied
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Native Women's Committee
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Natives in a class society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Same as CX2835.
Natives in a class society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Same as CX2826.
The Needle is Deep Into the Red Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
New Breed Journal
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
New Dawn Enterprises
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
The New Dawn Story
An Experiment In Economically-Based Community Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
New Maritimes
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
News Notes
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Newsmag
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Next Year Country
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Nistawoyou Association Friendship Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Non-Profit Temporary Work Centre, 4-U
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Northern Woman Journal
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Northwestern Ontario Women's Health Education Project
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Not for nothing
Women,Work & Unemployment in Newfoundland And Labrador.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Nuclear War Manual for Dogs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Odyssey
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Off Their Backs ...and on our own two feet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Ojibwe Cultural Foundation
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
On the Line Collective
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
One Sky Reports
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
This issoe of the One Sky newsletter focuses on the economy and the challenges of economic change.
Ontario Coalition For Abortion Clinics (OCAC)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Ontario Native Council on Justice
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
The Optimist
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Organizing Men's Resource Network
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Our children our future
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Our Times
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
OUR TIMES is an independent quarterly journal "committed to socail change through democratic pluralism."
People in action for community employment
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The People's Classifieds
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Plenty Canada
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Policy Statement on Social Development and the Economy
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
A Popular Education Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Powers of Desire
The Politics of Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists.
Prairitopian Peddler
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Preoccupation with Demonology, Bone-deep Current of Darkness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Proceedings from strategies for well being
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Psychology of the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Quaker committee for Native concernes newsletter (cnc)
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
The Radical Reviewer
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Raising Hell
A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The reformists had no principles to 'betray.' They remained what they had been all along, but they were now obliged first of all to safeguard the system in which their cherished practice could continue. The revolution had to be reduced to a mere reform, so as to satisfy their deepest convictions and, incidentally, secure their political existence.
Resource management and its impact on indigenous peoples-conference'84
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Resources for Feminist Research (RFR)
Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe (DRF) - Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Rethinking Socialism
A theory for a better practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The Right to Housing - A Human Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Rising up strong
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
St John's Native Friendship Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Saskatchewan Christian Feminist Network
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Saskatchewan Native Artists Network
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatoon Women's Health Collective
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A Shared Experience: Bridging Cultures, Resources For Cross-Cultural Training
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
A manual about immigrants and their adjustments to a new environment, addressed primarily to community workers who respond to the needs of immigrants.
Skookum Jim Friendship Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Social and Economic Directions for Canada
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The social impacts of computerisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Socialism and Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Socialist Visions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Societe Makivik Corporation
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Something's Fishy: Public Policy and Private Corporations in the Newfoundland Fishey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Somewhere Between
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
SORWUC -- Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
South Don Community Development Corporation
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Soviet Threat: Big Lie of the Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Spadina's Life Blood --- A Picture of its garment industry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Status of Women News
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Still ain't satisfied
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Strength in unity
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
A Submission to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Task Force on Sex-role stereotyping
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Tales of Tomorrow: Our Elders
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Technological Change and Working Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Technozealots, Indians and Information Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Telling it like it is
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Ten-Point Program for Economic Recovery
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
This isn't Wonderland:
Women in focus
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
Tightwire
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Toronto Supermarket Co-op
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Traces of Magma
An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
An annotated bibliography of left wing novels which deal with the lives of working people during the twentieth century.
Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Understanding the News Business
A media kit for community groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Union of Unemployed Workers
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Union Woman
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Union (UE)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
University of Toronto Women's Newsmagazine
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Unmanning the trenches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Vancouver Co-operative Radio
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Vancouver Men Against Rape
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Vancouver Women in Focus Society
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
VDT Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Victoria International Development Education Association
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Vie Ouvriere
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Vie Ouvriere
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Watershed
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Ways and Means
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
"We don't have films you can eat"
Talking to the D.E.C. Films Collective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
An interview with members of DEC Films, a distributor of progressive films in English-speaking Canada.
What is the Cruise Missile and ...Why does the U.S. want to test it in Canada?
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1983
Who Killed Carlo Tresca?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Who Pays? Who Profits? Food Production in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Winding Down
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
A Wives' Tale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Woman and Human Wholeness
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Womanspirit Art Research and Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women and Environments
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Women and Militarism resource kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Women and the Constitution: The Next Five Years
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Women and Conserver Society
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Women In Trades Association
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women In Trades Association - Winnipeg
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women In Trades Associations of B.C. (WIT)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women and Words
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women working with immigrant women (WWIW)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's Access Resource Manual
WARM
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Women's Action for Peace
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's Concerns Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
Women's Health Education
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's Health Education Project
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's Information and Referral Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's Press
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's Resource Catalogue
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Women's self-help network
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
Worker Buyouts
The Role of Trade Unions and Community Organizations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Workers Industry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
You are a threat to the security of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1983
Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.

1982

International Education Centre
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
The Mediator's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 1997
Another Way of Telling
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 1995
Everyone in the world is familiar with photographs. And yet what is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How can they be used?
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
Overcoming Male Oppression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982 Published: 1988
People join a social change movement in order to alleviate an external problem. Too often we are confronted with the same kind of behaviour we find in our everyday lives. We are all too often stifled by heavy handed authority: bosses at work, parents or spouse at home and teachers at school.
The Last Jews in Berlin
Powerful true story of the men and women who lived and survived in the dark heart of the Nazi Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 1983
What Difference Could a Revolution Make?
Food and Farming in The New Nicarauga
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 1983
Reports on the dramatic changes brought by the first three years of the Sandinista revolution.
The Bomb won't go away on its own
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
Accord
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Publication for victim offender ministries.
Adelante
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Against Post-Modernism
A Marxist Critique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Callinocos argues that the relativism preached by post-modernist leaves us with no objective criteria by which to reject those who would falsify the past.
Agence Latino-Americaine d'Information
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Agencies For International Education (AIDE)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Alberta Status of Women Action Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Alliance for Non-Violent Action
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Alternative Americas
An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Alternative Materials in Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Handbook with extensive bibliographies. What, where, how and why to buy Alternative and small press publications for libraries - also useful for individuals and bookstore.
America Latina Al Dia
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1982
Amnesty International
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Annual Legislature Presentation To The Government And People Of Manitoba
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Arusha Centre (Learner Centre)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Asianadian, An Asian Canadian Magazine
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
L'Association Quebecoise des Organismes de Cooperation International (AQOCI)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Atlantic Coast Of Nicaragua
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Atoms For War: The Saskatchewan Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Auto-Spy
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Battle of Beech Hall
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
B.C. Housing searching for alternatives
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1982
A Bibliography on Material Pertinent to the Informal Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Blackout
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Bleecker Street
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
Bolivian Solidarity Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Breaking the Bonds
The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Briarpatch.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
BriarPatch:Saskatchewan's independent monthly newsmagazines
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Bridgehead Trading - An Alternative Marketing Organization.
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
B.C. - Nicaragua Solidarity Project
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Bulldozer
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
By Ourselves
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Calgary Association of Self-Help
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Calgary Interchurch Committee on Human Rights in Latin America
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Calgary Runaway Program
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Cambyr Counselling Agencies Limited
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canada Argentina Bulletin.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Canadian Action for Nicaragua
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Arctic Resources Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Canadian Committee on Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Council on Children and Youth
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Council on Social Development
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Canadian Home Schooler.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Canadian Human Rights Reporter
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
The Canadian Network For El Salvador Solidarity - Le Reseau PanCanadien de Solidarite avec Le Salvador
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Paraplegic Association Newfoundland Division
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Carrefour International de Moncton
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Carribbean Basin Report
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Central America
Roots of the Crisis
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1982
Central America Information Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Central America Solidarity Committee of Winnipeg
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Central America Support Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Central America Update
April 1982 issue - Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Central America Working Group (Regina)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Centre for International Co-operation
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Children At Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Children With Handicaps
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Children.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Christian Movement For Peace (CMP) WorkCamps
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
City Limits
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
City of Toronto Non-Profit Housing Corporation (CityHome)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Coast Foundation Society
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Comite Chretien Pour Les Droits Humains En Amerique Latine
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Comite De Solidarite Quebec-Guatemala
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Comite Regional D'Appui Au Peuple De Salvador
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Comments on Unemployment Insurance in the 1980's A Report of the Task Force on Unemployment Prepared For
The Minister Of Employment And Immigration.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Committee For Justice and Liberty (CJL) - Alberta
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Committee For Racial Equality Bulletin (NO.2).
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The Committee of Solidarity With the People Of El Salvador, Toronto (COSPES)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Communiqu'elles.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Communitas Incorporated
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Community Education Development Association of Winnipeg, Inc. (CEDA)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Community Land Trust Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Information about how to set up and protect community land trusts.
Concerned Aboriginal Women occupy Department of Indian Affairs
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
A film depicting the occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs building in Vancouver by a group of Native women in 1981.
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Constance Hamilton Co-operative
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Constructive Citizen Participation
A Resource Book
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Constructive criticism can be a good thing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
It#s counterproductive to say that for the sake of #unity# we shouldn#t criticize others in the environmental movement. Principled debate and critcism when it is called for helps us clarify issues and move forward.
Continuous Excursions
Politics and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Co-operative College of Canada
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Les Cooperative d'habitation
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Co-operative Housing Foundation of Canada
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Council for Exceptional Children
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Crimes of the Secret Police
Bombers, Burglars, Bullies, Barn-Burners And Dynamite Thieves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
An account of crimes committed by the RCMP security service in the name of national security.
Crossroads Resource Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Cuso-Oxfam Labour Project
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The CUT Transient Plunge
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Day Care In New Brunswick.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Development and Peace
Organization profile published 1982 (May)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development and Peace
Organization profile published 1982 (May)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development and Peace
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development and Peace
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development and Peace
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development and Peace (Manitoba/N.W. Ontario)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development, Education And Action
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development et Paix
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Development et Paix
Organization profile published 1982 (May)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Developpement et Paix
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Deveric
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Directory of Co-operatives
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Directory of Housing Co-operatives and Resource Groups
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Dominican Republic Experience
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Down to Earth
Environment and Human Needs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Downtown Crisis Housing Foundation
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Droits Et Libertes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Earthcare
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Edmonton El Salvador Coalition
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Edmonton Learner Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Edmonton Support Committee For El Salvador
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Education of Immigrant Children.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Les Enfants au Travail
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The ethical work of Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
If ethics is taken to be, on the one hand, the negation of bourgeois ideology and morality and, on the other, as the intellectual and practical anticipation of the humanist values which are to govern relations among individuals in a world community freed from today#s dominant alienating institutions (economic, political, ideological, etc.), then the work of Karl Marx may consequently be understood as an ethical act.
Exterminism and Cold War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
15 articles on the issues of the arms race and the threat of nuclear war, the Cold War and the peace movemennts.
A Fair Deal For Manitoba
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1982
Feminism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
An attempt to lay down theoretical and methodological principles of feminist scholarship.
The Final Report of the ecumenical energy working group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
First United Church Social Housing Society
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Flaunting It!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
Focus On Social Justice
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Foggy fireworks don't flop
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
A special evening watching fireworks in the fog.
Fred Victor Mission:A Model for long term communities
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Friendship FIrst.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Frontier College Frontiere
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
GATT-Fly Project
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Goodwin's Journal.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
The Grave Of An Unknown Salvadoran Soldier
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
Grindstone Alternative Children's Camp
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Guidelines For Setting Up A Parish-Based Social Action Committee.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Hamilton El Salvador Solidarity Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Handbook of alternative community housing for psychiatric patients in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Hebdo Co-op
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Herizons - the Manitoba Women's Newspaper
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Home-Schooling: One Family's Experience.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Houselink Community Homes
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
See also CX3015.
Housing for People Coalition
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Housing Rights Coalition
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
How to Start a Co-operative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
An introduction to co-operatives and act as a guide to groups interested in organizing a co-operative.
Human Settlement Program
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
IDERA Clipping Service
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Incest Survivors Collective
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Inner City Committee For Rail Relocation
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Innstead Co-operatives
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Interagency Committee On Latin America
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Inter-Church Committee For Refugees
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inter-Church Committee On Human Rights In Latin America (ICCHRLA)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Intercultural Development Education Association Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
International Development, Education and Research Association
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
International Education Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
International Women's Day Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Issue 25: Central America: The Moment of Tension Between Dying and Birth.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Issue 25: Central America:The Moment Of Tension Between Dying And Birth
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Justice For Children Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Kids And Psychiatry.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Kinesis
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
See also CX132, CX633, CX861, CX2562, CX2758.
Kinesis
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Kitchener-Waterloo Latin America Support Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
L'Autre Amerique: Bulletin des Comites Quebecois de Solidarite avec L'Amerique Centrale.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The land is whose land? The Housing squeeze
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Lantana Non-profit Homes Corporation
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Latin America Information Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Latin America Solidarity Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Latin American Information Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Latin American Mission Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Latin American Working Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Law Union News.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The Left Side
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Legal Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Lesbian and Feminist Mothers' Political Group (LAFMPAG)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Lesbian & Gay Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Letter to Canadian Dimension
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
The left of the NDP consists of a scraggly band of public service union bureaucrats, almost as out of touch with their union membership as the right wing, and a declining number of socialist academics ensconsced in their ivory towers. The traditional NDP left, whose link up with the 'new left' in the Waffle almost defeated the party leadership no longer exists.
Liberation Books
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Loaves & Fishes
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
London Central America Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Managing Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Manitoba Council For International Co-operation (MCIC) Development Education Programmes
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Manitoba Interchurch Coaltion On Resource Development
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Manitoba Interchurch Committeee For World Development Education (Ten Days)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Manitoba Labour Education Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Manitoba Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Mapuche Support Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Marathon de Montreal
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Marquis Project
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
See also CX2542, Cx3366.
The Marquis Project
Organization profile published 1982 (May)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
The Maskwa Project
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Match
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Maternal Health Society
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Media Watch
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Medical Aid To El Salvador Campaign
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Medical Aid To Nicaragua
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Mental Patients' Association Housing Project
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Metro Toronto Daycare Workers Local - CUPE 2484
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Monroe House
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Montreal City Mission -- Mcdonald House
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
National Farmers Union
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Native Children And Their Schools: Sources Of Cultural Conflict.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
The Nestle Boycott
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Network
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Network: The Newspaper Of Saskatchewan Women
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Networking
The First Report and Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Directory and description/analysis of networking.
New Breed
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
New Dawn Enterprises Ltd.
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Newfoundland Government's rejection of the MicMac land claim
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
The Newfoundland and Labrador Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
News From Guatemala
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Newsmag.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade, Second war of liberation
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
No Fixed Address: The Housing crisis in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
No Lasting City
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Non Profit Co-operative Housing Federation of Nova Scotia
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Non-Nuclear Way: Creative Energy Alternatives For Canada.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Odyssey Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
One Sky Information Kit: Native People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
One Sky Saskatchewan Cross Cultural Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
See also: CX2546, CX2931.
One Sky Saskatchewan Cross-Cultural Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Ontario Association of Midwives
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Optimist.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Ou-Vont Les Chambreurs Expulses du Centre-ville
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Our Children Our Future.
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
Our Moments Of Awareness
After Thirty-Two Years Of Home Educating.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Out & About: Monthly News Bulletin Of Project Lambda, Inc.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Oxfam
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Oxfam Canada
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Peace Unearth: A Directory Of Canadian Peace Organizations With International Concerns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
The P.E.I. El Salvador Information Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
People On Welfare
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Peru Support Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Le Petit Guide du Chambreur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Plans/Meganews Special Supplement
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Plenty Canada
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Plow-Share, Christian Farmers Federation of Western Canada
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Policy Formation on Aspects of Canada's Nuclear Waste
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Pornography
A brief submitted to the Commission D'Etude sur le Cinema et l'Audiovisuel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Prairie Messenger Catholic Weekly
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Prince Albert Central America Support Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Priorities For Action
A Report of the National Advisory Committee on Aging
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Project d'une residence pour les femmes privees d'aretonomic ou en perte d'antonomic
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Protect Our Planet Survival Gathering
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Publications Related To Native Children's Concerns.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Quaker Committee For Native Concerns Newsletter (QCNC).
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Question Of War - How Will We Answer Our Children?
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
RAFIKI.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
Red Door Rental Aid Society
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Reflections On The New Brunswick Farmers' Tour Of Bolivia.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Refuge: Canada's National Newsletter On Refugees.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The Refugee Experience - Perspectives On Refugee Issues.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Regina Group for a Non-Nuclear Society
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Repertoire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Report of the Committee Studying Residential Services in Saskatchewan with Long Term Psychiatric Illnesses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
A Report On Noranda Mines Limited.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Resistencia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Resourcing the Co-operative Enterprise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Responsible Day Care.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Revue De Presse Amerique Centrale, Numero 7/Mensuel.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Right to Fight
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
The Right to Housing - A Human Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
The Right To Privacy Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Roots of Israel's violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Looking back on my own experience in Palestine I can see how today#s horror grew from small beginnings. Zionism, Jewish separateness and the belief in a Jewish homeland, have developed into state violence. My parents were pioneering Zionists, leaving Russia for Palestine in 1902 to join a total Zionist population of a few thousand. I grew up a Zionist, but Zionism didn#t have the ugly face we see today. However, there was always a fundamental crack between the Zionists and the Arabs. This same crack split Zionists from ordinary people in their countries of origin.
Roots Of Militarism.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Saint Columba House
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Saint John Development And Peace Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
St. John's El Salvador Support Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
St. John's Oxfam Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Saskatchewan Law Union
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatchewan Native Day Care Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatchewan Working Women
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Saskatoon Chemicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Saskatoon Nicaragua Support Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatoon Solidarity Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Seminar Resource Kit On Agricultural Chemical Alternatives.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
So Far From Home: Chileans In Exile
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
Social Action Commission of The Diocese of Charlottetown
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Social Housing Association of Cape Breton
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Social Justice Committee of Montreal
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Social Perspectives.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Societe du Patrimonie de Montreal
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Solidarite - Pschiatre Inc.
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Solidarity Committee on Latin America
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Something's Fishy
Public Policy and Private Corporations in the Newfoundland Fishing Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
South African Education Project Newsletter.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The South Saskatchewan Committee For World Development
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
See also CX2553.
South Saskatchewan Committee For World Development
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
See also CX2623.
SPRED: Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Emotionally Distraught
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Steering Committee for the International Centre for the Investigation and Prevention of Torture
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Taskforce on Churches and Corporate Responsibility
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Ten Days For World Devlopment
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Theatre As A Development Education Tool
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Ties That Bind
Canada and the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
To Dream In Colour - The New Nicaragua
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1982
Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
Toronto Street Theatre Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
Transition House-How to establish A Refuge for battered women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
UE Facts and Comment
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The Unacknowledged Housing Form
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Unisphere
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
See also CX2457.
Unisphere
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
See also CX2621.
University of Winnipeg Environment and Human Rights Action Group (UWEH)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
UPM: La Voix De L'Union Des Pecheurs Des Maritimes.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Uranium Traffic In Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Urban core support network annual conference 1982:
The disappearance of affordable housing for people on the margins
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Values and Education
A Study of the Spanish-Speaking Latin American Children in the Junior Schools of Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Vie Ouvriere
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Vie Ouvriere: L'Amerique Centrale Saigne.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Vision Of The World
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Voices.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
We're Changing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Feedback from our readers leads to changes in Connexions.
Whoops Apocalypse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Whoops Apocalypse sets the scene for The Last Story Ever Told.
Windsor Coalition For Development
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Winnipeg Co-ordinating Committee for Disarmament
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Winnipeg Housing Concerns Group Inc
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Winnipeg Past And Present - An Oral History And Community Survey Project (WPP)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Winnipeg Student Christian Movement
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Winnipeg Walkathon For El Salvador.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1982
Women And The Law: Your Rights In Alberta
Calgary Caucus, National Association of Women and the Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Women in Trades Association
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Women's Press
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Women's Services Directory
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
The Work Book (Witness to Injustice)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Working For Women
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The World Citizens Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Yellow Door/La Porte Jaune
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
You might think you're superior but I think I'm equal
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
Your Housing Options
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1982
Youth And The Law.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Youth Program
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982

1981

Gay People of UBC
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Ode to John Lennon - War No More and Hawk
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1981
Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
Reading Capital Politically
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
The Remaking of the American Working Class
The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981 Published: 1999
Today, one can only be practical by posing contemporary problems where they have, in fact, always been located: not in the "factory", the material condensation of the capitalist juridical entity par excellence the enterprise, but at the level of the total worker (Gesamtarbeiter) and his alienated phantom, the total capital.
The Mismeasure of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1996
A history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups#primarily races, classes, and sexes#arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is an accurate reflection of biology." The book critiques the principal theme of biological determinism, the idea that "worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity."
Salmon
The Decline of the British Columbia Fishery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1991
Women#s work devalued
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981 Published: 1991
An examination of the global failure to recognize the value of women's work.
The Creation of World Poverty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1983
The Hite Report on Male Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1982
Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
The Summer Before the Frost
Solidarity in Poland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1982
What has happened to the Iranian revolution?
Has it already run its course into its opposite, counter-revolution? Or can it be saved and deepened?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The Iranian Revolution has not yet run its course. The Iranian masses have not had their last word.
The Adequacy of Basic Income Assistance Benefits (Gain) in December 1980
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Akwesasne Notes Emergency Phone Tree
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
All That Our Hands Have Done
A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
Alternative Employment Agencies For Unorganized Workers (Single Displaced People) In Urban Core Areas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
American Dreams: Lost and Found
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
Atlantic Christian Training Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Atlantic Postal Worker
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Atlantic Provinces' Heritage and Environmental Groups.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Atlantic Region Labour Education Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Le Berdache
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
The Body Politic (a magazine for Gay Liberation)
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Brief to the Renewable Resources Committee, the Select Committee of the New Brunswick Legislature.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The British Columbia Family Relations Act: The Complete Laywoman's Guide (1980).
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Building United Judgement
A handbook for consensus decision making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Came Out Decades Ago (CODA)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Catholics for Women's Ordination
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Canadian Farmworkers Union - Local No.1.
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Canadian Health Coalition
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Canadian Labour Congress
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Canadian Peace Research Institute
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Urban Training Toronto Co-operative (CUT)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadians For Responsible Northern Development
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Cape Breton Landowners Against the (Budworm) Spray
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Capitalism for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
Cash
Committee To Advance The Status of Housework
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Catholic Coalition for Gay Civil Rights
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Centre of Affirmation and Dialogue - St. Philip's House
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Christian Movement for Peace - Canada
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Christians for Socialism - Toronto
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Churchhouse.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Citizen Advocacy
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Clean Up Your Garbage Act!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Clearlake Collective
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The College of Cape Breton
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Committee For A Canadian Women's Health Network
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Committee for the Advancement of the Rights of Domestic Workers
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A Common Assault
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1981
The Communicator.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Concerned Parents Group
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Constitutional Proposals: Not Enough Guarantees For Acadians of P.E.I.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The Cruise Missile Conversion Project
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Deux Poids, Deux Mesures, Les Francophones Hors Quebec Et Les Anglophones Au Quebec
Un Dossier Comparatif
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Development Education Centre (DEC)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Development Education Centre (DEC) Films
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
DEVERIC Information Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Dignity Canada Dignite
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Drawing from Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Dubious Sentinel - Canada and the World Military Order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Ecology Action Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Ecology For Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Amusing, solidly resesearched, and sophisticated, Ecology for Beginners tells a fast and furious tale of Man, Woman, and their struggle with the environment.
Energy Development on Farmland: Statement on target areas for well sites
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Experience '81: A Resource-Sharing Weekend for Lesbians and Gay Men (February 13, 14, 15, 1981)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
FACT on Lepreau
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Fallacy of Wildlike Conservation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Feminism and Sadomasochism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
Film Resources: Lutheran Church of America - Canada
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1981
The Fish-Eye Lens
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Focus on the Waterfront
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Friends of the Earth/Les Amis de la Terre (Canada)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Fundraising for Non-Profit Groups
How to Get Money from Corporations, Foundations, and Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Gay Alliance for Equality (G.A.E.)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
See also CX2192.
Gay Alliance for Equality (G.A.E.)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
See also CX2309.
Gay Community Appeal of Toronto
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Gayblevision (Gay TV)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1981
Grindstone Co-op
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Group For Northern Training
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Group for Survival
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Growing Up Free
Raising Your Child in the 80s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
HACHUG
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Health Forum: A Printed Media Program for Community Health Education and Promotion
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Health Professionals for Nuclear Responsibility
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Healthsharing, Inc
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Help Our Provincial Environment
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Relived
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
His Right to Say It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Chomsky takes the opportunity to clarify the details of the so-called Faurisson Affair in which he played a catalytic role by signing a controversial petition. He defends his involvement by reiterating and exploring the principle of self-expression irrespective of content.
Human Development Council
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
Immigrant Housewives In Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The Indian and Inuit Support Group of Newfoundland and Labrador
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Innshore/Offshore - The Struggle for Survival in the Atlantic Fishery
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Institute of Man & Resources
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Intercede: International Coalition To End Domestics Exploitation
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
International Education Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
International Labour Office (ILO) Publications
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Justice for Children's Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Labour's Side
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Latin American Mission Program
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Latin American Mission Program
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Legal Resource Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Lesbian and Feminist Mothers' Political Action Grouip (LAFMPAG)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Lesbian/Gay Organizations and Publications
Relating to the Issue of Discrimination in the Labour Market and the Work Place
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund (LMDF)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Des luttes et des rires de femmes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Maritime Energy Coalition
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Materials Available from One Sky Cross-Cultural Centre
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
The Media Book: Making the Media Work for Your Grassroots Group
A Step-by-Step Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
This "how-to" manual sets out to outline a model media campaign that can be modified and used by other reproductive rights groups with low budgets and staffs, around the U.S.
Membership Orientation Project: National Farmers Union (P.E.I.)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Men in Love
Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Metro Toronto Daycare Workers Local - CUPE 2484
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
MFU: Voice of the Maritime Fisherman's Union.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Minority Rights Group (MRG)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
More Incredible than Fiction.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
National Security in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
National Survival Institute
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Native Rights Coalition/Regina
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Need for Community Based Programs for Former Psychiatric Patients
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Nellie's
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Network
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The New Dawn Story.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
New Maritimes.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Newfoundland Association for Full Employment
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Newfoundland Fishery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Newsletter - Project North
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
No Bosses Here!
A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
No Lasting City.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Nova Scotia Community Planning Association
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Nova Scotia Worker.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The Nova Scotia Worker.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Nuclear Power in Perspective - The Economic Myths of Nuclear Power.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The Nukeson Saga
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Odyssey Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Oil & Gas Bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Oil & Gas: Are We Ready?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The Oil Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Briefs Dealing with Labour Relations in Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Organizing Committee - Lesbian Conference 1981
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Organizing The Unorganized is the key to building the Union.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Pappus: Dandelion Community Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
The Peace Network
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Peace Network
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Peace Research Institute - Dundas
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Perspectives on World Hunger.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Phoenix Rising.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Placentia West Development Association
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Le Plan d'Action 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The police vs. the law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police have to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
Problems Of Immigrant Women In the Canadian Labour Force.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Project Ploughshares
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Promises......Promises
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Proposed Mennonite Task Force to Investigate Tax Resistance
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Qu'est-ce Que Se Passe? What's Up?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Radical Priorities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
A broad range of subjects is covered with a view to alerting people about the problems humanity is facing, and possible solutions we can undertake. What is particularly significant about this collection is that C.P. Otero lucidly presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky#s social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky#s politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
The Radical Reviewer
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Remembering the Don
A Rare Record of Earlier Times Within the Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The Report of the Newfoundland Medical Association Committee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
A Report on Noranda Mines Limited.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Report on Sydney Street.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
A Report On The Media Coverage Of Our World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Resource Availabe from the Group for the Defence of Civil Rights in Argentina, No Candu
for Argentina Committee and Emergency Committee for Argentine Political Prisoners and Refugees.
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1981
The Return to Life/Le Retour a la Vie
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1981
Rights and Realities: Discrimination and the Gay Women and Men of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The Road to Gdansk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The Russell Tribunal
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
S.A.C.T.U. Solidarity Committee (Canada.)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The St. John's Ploughshares Group
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Science for Peace
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Slave Wages Paid To Working Psychiatric Patients.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Social Action Commission of the Archdiocese of St. John's
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Social Action Commission of the Diocese of Charlottetown
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Social Housing Association of Cape Breton
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Societe du Patrimoine de Montreal
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Society for Education, Action, Research and Counselling on Homosexuality
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Some Native Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
SORWUC - Service, Office And Retail Workers Union of Canada
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
South Riverdale Community Health Centre
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Southern New Brunswick Nuclear News.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
SPARROW of Atlantic Canada
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Spectacle
A Skeleton Key
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
The Spider & The Fly, Agribusiness and the Farmer, The Way it Really is
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Study Program with Fishermen
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Submission by the National Farmers Union to the Comprehensive Development Plan for Prince Edward Island.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Sunrise Canvas Tent & Awning Limited
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Task Force on Mental Health in Saskatchewan
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Taxes for Peace Not War
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
To Establish a Kingdom of Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Tomkins Institute for Human Values and Technology
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Toronto Committee of Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Toronto Mobilization for Survival
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Toronto's Finest
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
Transport 2000 Canada
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Website: www.transport-action.ca
Trefann Short Term Community
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Two Video Tapes For Use With Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1981
Underdevelopment and Education: Selected Annotated Resources For Saskatchewan And Canadian Educators.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Unemployment and Underemployment
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Union Society of Cape Breton
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
United Church Of Canada - Faith and Justice Project
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
United Nations Association in Canada
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Vancouver Gay Community Centre (VGCC)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Vancouver Island Coalition for Disarmament
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Vancouver Urban Core Community Workers' Association
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Vie Ouvriere.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Vietnamese Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Voice of Women/La Voix des Femmes
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Voluntary Resource Council
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Wages For Housework Campaign Bulletin.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
We're Here, Negotiate
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
What Socialists Stand For
An introduction to resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Wife Assault: The Silent Crime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
The Willmar 8
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1981
Eight female employees of the Citizens National Bank in Willmar Minnesota, USA went on strike on December 16, 1977 over charges of sex discrimination. The tellers and bookkeepers were protesting unequal pay and unequal opportunities for advancement.
Women And Unions - Special Issue Of Resources For Feminist Research/Documentation
Sur La Recherche Feministe. - Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Women in Trades Association
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Women In Trades Association - Winnipeg
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Women and Occupational Health Conference
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Women Workers In The Home
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Women Workers in the Home
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Women Working With Immigrant Women (WWIW)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Women's Building
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
Women's Health Education Project
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Women's Movement Archives
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Women's Petition for Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Work and Technical Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1981
World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
World's Without Work - Unemployment in Newfoundland and Latin America.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
You, You and You!
The People Out of Step with World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
First hand accounts of men, women and children living through World War II.
Do It Yourself
Hungary's Hidden Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981

1980

Fire in the Minds of Men
Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980 Published: 1999
Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980 Published: 1990
This popular essay provides a brief introduction to civilian-based defense, a policy in which civilians are prepared to use nonviolent resistance as a means of national defense.
Development Today
A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980 Published: 1986
A practical guide for non-profit organizations engaged in fundraising.
Development Education
How To Do It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980 Published: 1983
Dubious Specter
A Skeptical Look at the Soviet Nuclear Threat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980 Published: 1982
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Final Edition - 1980 - A review of the past decade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
Final Edition - A Review of the Past Decade.

This is the final edition of Synthesis. Published 1980.
Edward Said, Orientalism
Reviewed by Malcolm Kerr
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The book contains many excellent sections and scores many telling points, but it is spoiled by overzealous prosecutorial argument in which Professor Said, in his eagerness to spin too large a web, leaps at conclusions and tries to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a preconceived frame of analysis. In charging the entire tradition of European and American Oriental studies with the sins of reductionism and caricature, he commits precisely the same error.
Terror in Italy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
I have known Toni Negri since 1964, when we met at the University of Padua. I have many disagreements with his theories and his formulations. But I am certain that he is innocent of any complicity with the Moro assassination and/or the Red Brigades. And I am also certain that he deserves a trial that is fairer than the Italian government seems to be willing to give him.
From National Bolshevism to Ecologism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
National Bolshevism, which made its appearance in the German council movement in 1920, was initially created by two ex-militants of the American I.W.W., who played in Germany the same role as anarcho-syndicalism in Italian fascism, confirming once again that non-Marxist anti-capitalism is a sine qua non in the development of fascism.
About Looking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics from photographs and media, to zoos and forests, grouped around the theme of how people look at things.
Access to Housing, A Regional Perspective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Action Proposals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Les actualities televisees: le monde recree au service du pouvoir.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
After Stonewall, No.11, Fall 1980
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Albert Johnson Committee Against Police Brutatlity
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Alberta Vocational Centre
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Alpha '78: Recueil des textes, Seminaire sur l'alphetisation au Quebec.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
L'alphabetisation a repenser
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Analphabetism et alphabetism au Quebec
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Appauvrir les traivailleurs - Pour qoi? - Pourquoi?
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Architecture for People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
Asianadian Vol 2, #4
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Association Cooperative d'Economie Familiate (ACEF) de Montreal
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
At the Source
Volume 1, Number 1 - Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
See also CX2090.
At The Source
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
See also CX2975.
The Autobiography of Rederico Sanchez
And the Communist Underground in Spean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Les Autochones et nous: Vivre ensemble
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
L'Autre Parole
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Back in the USSR
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Impressions from a trip to the Soviet Union.
Basic Education Departments.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Basic Learning Needs in Labrador
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
B.C. Gay Resources Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Bildering Club & Trilateral Commission. What are They? What Have They Done
Where are They Headed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Bread and Roses Credit Union Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Brief on the Proposed Resolution for a Joint Address to Her Majesty the Queen
respecting the Constitution of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Bulletin de liaison
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Canada/Argentina Bulletin
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
Canada/Quebec - Where the Roadmap Ends
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Canadian Teachers Group (CTG) of Amnesty International-Canadian Section
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Woman: Her Work, Her Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Captive Labour Force on Non-English Speaking Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Centre Populaire de Documentation
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
The Churches, The West and the Fight Against Racism
Could Our Assumptions be Racist? Transforming our Fight into a Quest for Values
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
La cliniques des citoyens de St-Jacques
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Les Clochards et le systeme penal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Coalition for World Disarmament
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Coastal Labrador: Incorporation, Exploitation and Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Committee Against Racism
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Committee of Solidarity with the Bolivian People (Newsletter)
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Communique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Comptine Populaires du Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Concerned Parents Group
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Confederation of Canadian Unions' (CCU) Brief to the Hall Commission
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Les Cooperatives d'habitation
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Cope Lifestyles
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Cree Way
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Cross Cultural Social Work In Canada: An Annotated Bibliography
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Crosscurrents - Saskatoon's Community Exchange.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Cynicism From Above: Cynicism From Below
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The state bureaucracies of Eastern Europe are unable to accept any challenge to their right to decide and control.
The Deadly Connection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Declarations of a New Canadian Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Brief to the NDP Task Force on Older Women in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
A Dream That is Not for the Drowsy: A Working Theology for Presence and Future-Building
In the Metro Core Across our Country
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
East End Literacy
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Ecological Agriculture in Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Ecology as Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
Education and Social Change - A Photographic Study of Peru
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Educational Kit for the Study of Growing Old
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1980
L'endettemen: un probleme grave pour de nombreuses familles de notres region
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Energy Probe Material
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
L'ENVIRONMENT
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Espoir 80
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Fashion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Even though the fashion industry has made dress oppressive one should not discard it completely, or at least only an appropriate occasions. Do we really all want to walk around looking exactly alike in dull green pajamas and peak caps?
Fat Chants Producing Anti-Nuclear 45
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1980
Feux Verts
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Final Project Report: Greater Vancouver General Worker's Co-op
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Findings on Uranium Tailings and Nuclear Waste Disposal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Fire in the Streets
America in the 1960s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
A Fire to Suffocate: Canadian Industrial Produciton for the Nuclear Arms Race
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
First All Chiefs Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Friendship First
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Frontiere College
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Fusion... A Bridge to Nowehere?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Future in the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Gay Saskatchewan, November 1980
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
La Gazzette Des Femmes
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Getting Organized
Building A Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Comprehennsive guide to the process of unionization and certification.
See also: CX2072.
Getting Organized: Building a Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
See also CX2340.
The Global Village Voice
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Golly this is the stuff
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
La greve de la United Aircraft
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Growing Together: Programme Ideas for Children's Groups to Help Them Grow in a Multi-Racial Community
Programme Ideas for Children's Groups to Help Them Grow in a Multi-Racial Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
H.O.P.E. Brief to the P.E.I. Energy Corporation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Halfway Home Proposed for the Institutionalized
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Handbook of Alternative Community Housing for Psychiatric Patients in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
The Health Advocate
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Health Care and the Impact of Religious and Cultural Law and Customs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Health For People in the 1980's A Work in Progress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Historique et realisations du Reseau d'Aide de 1974-1980
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Immigration Committee - World Conference on Religion for Peace (WRCP)
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Immigration Law
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1980
In a Nutshell
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Infact Contact
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Infant Formula Controversy Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Initiation a la vie economique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Interchurch Energy Committee - News Notes - Final Edition
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Introduction to Issue 5
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
It's Your Move
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Jesuit Centre For Social Faith and Justice
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Justice Today: A Conference Outline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Kelowna CCNR News
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Kumtuks Alternate Program for Native Indian Students
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Labour's Side - Newsletter #7
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Labour's Side, #11
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
The Land of Milk and Honey
The National Report of the People's Food Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
The Land of Milk and Honey - The National Report of the People's Food Commission
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The last word (Diemer)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The movement has no need of self-appointed or any other kind of saviours, not even well-intentioned anarchist ones.
Law Union News.
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
leftwords
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Lesbian Information Line: Project Proposal Submission
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Lesbian/Lesbienne
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Letter - Canada#s pride
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
One of the nicest things about my brief visit to Canada was finding Red Menace.
Letter - Flogging away
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
A great many anarchists adopt a critical stance to Bakunin's legacy as well as towards the anarchist movement generally. Our rejection of Marxism is not monolithic.
Letter - Manchester calling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Red Menace: very stimulating reading.
Letter - The quoting urge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
A reader submits a collection of quotes from Bakunin.
Letter - Raised consciousness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Debunking jargon.
Letter - Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
You can't blow up a social relationship.
Letter - The good and the bad
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
What are the contemporary differences between serious anarchists and serious libertarian Marxists? It is the present historical situation that is relevant, since after all we cannot go back and change the past.
Letter - Useless pastime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Let's get down to the business of really discussing the issues: the role and nature of the State, trade unions, feminism, nationalism, sexuality, etc.
Libertarian Worker
Poland: An Anarchist Viewpoint - Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
This issue of Lbertarian Worker forcuses on the events of 1980 in Poland. One article also discusses feminist theory and anarchist feminism.
Les licenciements: .les eviter eles reglementer .les compenser
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Literacy Project
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Literacy Working Group
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1980
Long Way From Home
The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
Making A Killing
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1980
Making a Living - Ten Days for World Development 1980.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
The Manitoba Women's Newspaper
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Mapuches: People of the Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
Maternal Health Society (MHS)
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
The Medical Reform Group of Ontario
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Metamorphoses
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
MFU
Maritime Fishermen's Union - Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Midwifery Task Force
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Militarism and the World Military Order - A Study Guide for Churches
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Module on Combatting Discrimination: Face to Face: The Self and Others
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Monthly
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
The Movement for Canadian Literacy
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
The Muckraker's Manual
How To Do Your Own Investigative Reporting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
National Crusade for Literacy
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Neil Webster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Never Again!
The hows and whys of stopping Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
New Men/New Roles.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
News From Guatemala
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
News Notes
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Nexus
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Nightfrost in Prague
The End of Humane Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Not With Our Lives You Don't
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Notes sur l'histoire et les conditions de vie des travailleurs immigres au Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Nukenomics - The Political Economy of the Nuclear Industry.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Of Justice, Revolutions and Human Rights: Notes on a trip to Central America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Old City Hall Bail Project
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
On the Bias
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1980
One Sky
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
This issue of the One Sky newsletter focuses on uranium.
Ontario Legislature Investigate Nuclear Safety
Why Pickering Safety Systems Need to be Upgraded
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Optimist
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Ottawa Coalition for Full Employment
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Pacific Life
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Peace News
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
The People's Food Commission: Ontario.
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Phoenix Rising
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Poisons in Public
Case Studies of Environmental Pollution in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Politics of Illusion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
Les Politiques Dites "Sociales"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Pour des conditions de vie decentes: Action collective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Prairie Woman - A Newsletter of Sakatoon Women's Liberation
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Press Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Prostitution Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
Protest and Survive
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Quaker Committee for Native Concerns Newsletter.
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Quarterly Journal
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Racism in the Canadian Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Rage Against the Dying
Campaign against Chemical and Biological Warfare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Recent Nuclear Moratorium Announced in B.C.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
La Recouverture de Centre Meurling
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Red Menace #5
Summer 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Report of the Task Force on High Risk Pregnancy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Report on Services to Homeless Men: Working Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Resource Kit - Consultation on Racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Les retraites et pre-retraites parlent au ministre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Return
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
La revision du code civil attente aux droits de la femme dt du couple
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
Revue Internationale D'Action Communautaire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Rexdale Immigrant Women's Project
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Ronds, Ronds, Macarons, Luttes Urbaines Vol.1, No.4
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Roots of Militarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Select Readings in Support of Indian and Inuit Health Consultation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
So be it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Rejoinder from Sam Dolgoff.
Socialism Democracy and Self-Management
Political Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Essays by a long-time leader of the Trotskyist Fourth International on topics such as direct democracy and self-management.
Solar Energy Society of Canada (SESCI)
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Solidarite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Solidarity Committee with the Bolivian People
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
It is precisely in the case of horrendous ideas that the right of free expression must be most vigorously defended; it is easy enough to defend free expression for those who require no such defense.
Special Collectors Edition
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Statement of Christian Clergy and Religious Concerned for the Extension of the Protection of the Ontario Human
Rights Code to Homosexual Women and Men
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
STOL lands again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
Study on Housing Needs of Single Women in the Downtown Eastside
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Taken for Granted: Farm and Domestic Workers
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1980
Task Force on Older Women
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Taxes for Peace, Not War.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
TCLSAC Reports
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Teachers for Social Justice
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
The Textile and Clothing INdustries in Canada: A Profile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Thy Neighbor's Wife
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
The Tomato Papers.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Toronto Native Times
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Covers a wide range of Native issues.
Toward Tidal Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Union Women
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Unions (a film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1980
Urban Alliance on Race Relations
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Urban Indians, THe Strangers in Canadian Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Voice of Women, Canada, to the Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence
House of Commons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Wanted: A Roof for Canada's Poor
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Wartime Strikes
The struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Waterloo Public Interest Research Group
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Welfare Rights Group
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Windsor Occupational Health and Safety (WOSH) Council
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Rich Witham and Audrey Anderson
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
The Wobblies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Women and Unemployment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Women's Action on Occupational Health
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Working Group on Minority-Police Relations
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Working Paper on Technology and the Family Farm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The Business Page
How To Read It and Understand the Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
On the anniversary of the birth of Erich Fromm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
The many articles that poured forth in 1980 when Erich Fromm died on March 18 all praised him only as a "famous psychoanalyst." The press, by no accident at all, failed to mention that he was a Socialist Humanist. Moreover, in writing MARX'S CONCEPT OF MAN (which succeeded in introducing Marx's Humanist Essays to a wide American public), and in editing the first international symposium on SOCIALIST HUMANISM, he did so, not as an academician, but as an activist.
The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1980
Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.

1979

The Anarchists' Convention and other stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979 Published: 2005
A collection of short stories.
You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship
The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979 Published: 1981
An Australian socialist-libertarian response to terrorism in the aftermath of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing, and a meditation on the inferior logic of terrorist-based politics.
Beyond the Fragments
Feminism and the Making of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979 Published: 1980
A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
In and against the state
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979 Published: 1980
The state is not neutral. It does provide services and resources which most of us need – education, health care, social security. But it does not do so primarily for the good of the working class. It does it to maintain the capitalist system. Although the state may appear to exist to protect us from the worst excesses of capitalism, it is in fact protecting capital from our strength by ensuring that we relate to capital and to each other in ways which divide us from ourselves, and leave the basic inequalities unquestioned.
Memories of the Depression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VII Number 5
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
Includes letter to readers from CNSP collective.
May 1979 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VII Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
April 1979 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VII Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
March 1979 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VII Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
February 1979 issue.
Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VII Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
January 1979 issue.
After the Cataclysm
Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
Amnesty International Action Campaign focusses on Malyasian Prsioner Assigned to Toronto Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Amnesty International Canadian Medical Group
Organization profile published 1979 (May)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
An Account to Settle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
The Anti-Psychiatry Bibliography and Resource Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Asianadian Vol. 1, #4
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Bakunin vs Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The debates between Bakunin and Marx transcend petty personal squabbles and embody two diametrically opposed tendencies in the theory and tactics of socialism, the authoritarian and libertarian schools respectively.
Barred from Prison
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Barter Book
Consumers Guide to Living Well Without Using Money
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
The Birch Bark Alliance
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
The Birch-Bark Alliance
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Bold Refugee Strategy Succeeds
Law Union News, February/March 1979
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Branching Out
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
British Columbia Native Women's Society
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Broken Images
Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
A Call to Justice Today for Our Children Tomorrow: A Declaration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Canada Asia CURRENTS
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Canadian Action for Nicaragua
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Canadian Association in Support of the Native Peoples Bulletin
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
The Canadian Information Sharing Service
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Editorial explaining that the Canadian Information Sharing Service has changed the name of its publication to 'Connexions'.
Canadian Labour
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Canadian Labour Comment
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Canadian Union News Vol. 7, #1.
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Carrefour International Catalogue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Catholic Immigrant Services
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Ce Matin, A L'Ecole, On Parle Des Mineurs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
Children
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Citizens Association to Save the Environment (C.A.S.E.)
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Cleaners's Action Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Collective Bargaining Course Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Community Economic Workshops
An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
Connections, Vol.1, No.2
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Connexions Index
February to December 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
The Continuing Debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
We should subject both Marxism and anarchism to a critical analysis, and thereby start to provide the basis for a libertarian revolutionary movement that relates adequately to the needs and problems of today.
The Control of the Canadian Economy and the Human Problem of Unemployment:
A Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Council for Yukon Indians Information Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
La crise et les travailleurs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Critical distance (Bean)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
Cutbacks to Training Allowances & Outreach Programs: Their Impact on Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Declaration of Support for Quebec's Right to Self-Determination
Signatories: Professors at University of Toronto and York University
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Une déclaration politique du collectif des socialistes libertaires
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Destructive Urge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Marxism's greatest discovery is that it cannot prescribe any science of revolution, any fail-safe program. On the contrary what it provides is a new question, a new responsibility to make a choice..
Development Perspectives: Curriculum Resource Kits for Development Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Discrimination: How Human Rights Laws Protect You
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Dossier Gareries: pour un reseau universel et gratuit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Employment and the Single Displaced Person
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
L'endettement, nouvelle forme d'exploitation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Energy File
Vol.2, No.1 - Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Energy Planning in a Conserver Society:
Parts I&II to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Equal Partners for Change - Women and Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Ethical Considerations - Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Evaluation, Participation and Community Health Care: Critique and Lessons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Family Violence: Report on the Task on Family Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Feminist Party of Canada
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Final Report on Sub-committee on Race Relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Flying Together
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Flying Together
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Following the Red Path
The Native People's Caravan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Forgotten People/Peuple Oublie
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
The Fred Victor Mission Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Frederico and Ingrid Luchsinger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Gaies au Quebec
Vol.1, No.4 - Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Grapevine
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Grave contradictions of 1979 Iranian Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
In what proletarian revolution, exactly, was the taking of hostages # and not the rulers, but some fairly low embassy personnel # held to be a revolutionary tactic? Since when has war and revolution been made synonymous? Isn't it about time that Marxist revolutionaries labeled Khomeini's endless repetition of "we are men of war" "looking forward to martyrdom" for what it is by citing Marx, who wrote that Napoleon, the ultimate COUNTER-revolutionary, "substituted permanent war for permanent revolution"?
The Green Book
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
Greenpeace Chronicles
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Greenpeace Experimental Farm
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Guide to Convivial Tools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Directories, handbooks, bibliographies. Published as Library Journal Special Report No. 13, this guide was produced as a selection and reference tool by the librarian who founded Centro Intercultural de documentation (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The Hazards of Uranium Exploration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Hazards of Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Health Dangers of the Nuclear Fuel Chain and Low-Level Ionizing Radiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Healthsharing
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
The Hidden Welfare System Revisited
A report by the National Council of Welfare on the Growth in Tax Expenditures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
History and Realization of the Material Imagination
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Questions the currently existing lines between "culture" and "nature" and to posit a possible unitary theory encompassing both.
I was a psychic for the FBI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Para-review investigates parapathology
Immigration Act Repressive in The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
In Our Own Homes
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1979
In The Best Interests of the Child
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Inner City Agencies
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Intercede
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Interchurch International For World Development Education
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Introduction to this issue (#4) (Vol. 3, #1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
It's the only game in Town
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1979
It's a Small World for Noranda
Atlantic Issues Vol.3, No.2 - Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
J.P. Stevens - Boycott Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Job Finders
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Journaux radicaux
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Kainai Action Committee
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Labour Advocacy and Research Association (L.A.R.A.)
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Lakeland Environmental and Agricultural Protection Society
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Land Tenure Problems and the Saskatchewan Land Bank
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
League on Rights and Freedom Information Sheet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Legal Process for Battered Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
The Leninist Facade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
In direct oppostion to what Marx advocated, the Bolsheviks tried to institute socialism without democracy. The damage to the socialist movement resulting from this was immense.
Letter - Coleman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter - Flosznick
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
La Ligue des Droits et Libertes
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Literacy Council of P.E.I. - Charlottetown
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Ma Commande Me Fait Mourir
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Magic and Deadly Dust: Asbestos and Your Health
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Medicare in Crises - A Submission on Ontario's Health Care System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Nature Heals
The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Northern Native Rights Commission
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Norwood Community Services Association
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Nous, les travailleurs immigrants
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Odyssey, Vol.1, No.4
Contact Dave McCauley - Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
One Namibia One Nation
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1979
One Sky
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Theme issue of the One Sky newsletter on Nicaragua.
One Sky
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
A special issue of the One Sky newsletter on the Vietnamese 'boat people' refugees.
Ontario Association of Alternative and Independent Schools (OAAIS)
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Ontario Hydro: The Rising Cost of Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Ontario's Future - Ontario Hydro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
An Open Letter to the President of the Ford Motor Company of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Opening Doors
Vancouver's East End
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Organization of Social Services and its Implications for the Mental Health of Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Paddle River Agricultural Protection Society
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Paz, Pan y Libertad/Bread, Peace and Liberty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
People First - A Community Self-Help Planning Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Perception
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
The Perils of Probabilities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Periódicos Radicales
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Phone Book
Working at the Bell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
An account centered on Kueyks three years working for the phone company.
Point of order
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter on dialectical materialism and on lefty language.
A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
The Pontiac Anti-Nuclear Action Committee
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Pour un reseau universal de garderies gratuites et controlees par par les usagers
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Press Release: United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Prime Time Information Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Problems of Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labour Force
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Problems with Red Menace method
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
our attempts to develop a positive alternative to DiaMat Marxism and Marxist-Leninist sects suffers from a polemical method which reproduces the very problem you want to get away from.
The proliferation of neo-primitives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Neo-primitives prefer an imaginary past to the work of creating a different society.
Les Proprietaires Des Medias
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Public Gives Direction for Clark's Nuclear Inquiry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
La publicite sexise c'est quoi?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
A Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Quand Ferment Les Usines: un dossier d'animation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Le racisme au Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Rapport du Comite d'orientation au congres specail de la CSN sur la question nationale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
RCMP (Recent Coercive Methods of Pacification)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Strike, Vol.2, No.8
Read before attacking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter: too quick to attack.
REAP (Research Education and Action for Power)
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Recognition of the Dene Nation Through Dene Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Recommended Changes in Canada's Refugee Status Determination Procedure:
A Brief to the Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Red Menace #4
Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Release - Vol. 4, No. 1
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Report to the Civic Authorities of Metropolitan Toronto and its Citizens
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
RIKKA - Blacks in Canada Vol VI, #1
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Saskatchewan Coalition Against Nuclear Development
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatchewan Working Women
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Save Tomorrow, Oppose Pollution (S.T.O.P.) - Conservation Kit
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Save the Toronto Island Community
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Social and Sexual Revolution
Essays on Marx and Reich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
The Socialist Register 1979
A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The left#s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
Some Perceptions of the Ethics of Generating Electricity by Nuclear Fuel
National Conference on Nuclear Issues in the Canadian Energy Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Some Reflections on the Evolution of Canada's Political Economy
and its Implications on its Families and Communities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Start Chart
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Status of Women News
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Story of a Women's Centre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
STRIKE Support News
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
A Submission to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Submission to the SW Need Hearings of the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Summary--Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry Local Hearings in Northern Sask
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Taskforce on Churches and Corporate Responsibility
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Tenants' Bulletin
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Third World Development
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Un enunciado político de los Socialistas Libertarios
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Un Pays En Commun, La Solidarite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Une Critique de l'avant-projet de loi des services de garde a l'enfance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Unemployment and Youth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Union Woman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Unity of Canada and the Rights of Minorities
L'Unite du Canada et les droits des minorities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Uranium: Correspondence with the Premier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Urban Core Support Network - An Overview
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
Urgent Action Network
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
U.S. Discovers Soft Energy Salvation in Probe Post
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Valley Views
Newsletter of the Valley Research Foundation - Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Vie Ouvriere
Le Syndicalisme au Quebec (dossier 131) - Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Viellir Chez Soi
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Violence in the Home
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
We can learn to live free (Clark)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Give the human race a little credit. We can surely learn to live free, neither dominant nor submissive.
West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
What Bakunin said (Jewell)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Letter quoting Bakunin.
What Is Important?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
When do we eat?
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1979
Where is the Alaska Highway Pipeline Taking Us?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Which Path for Labour in the Fight for Jobs and an Independent Canadian Economy
...Collaboration or a Militant Class-Struggle Fightback?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
A Widow's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Witness to Justice: A Society to be Transformed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Women and Poverty: A Report by the National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Women and Socialism - Accounting for our Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Women and the Christian Faith - A Selected Bibliography and Resource Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Women's Concerns Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Workers Against the Gulag
The New Opposition in the Soviet Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Working in a supermarket
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
Working Towards Appropriate Development - Report of the Second Eastern Ontario Workshop on Rual Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
World Council on Religion for Peace/Canada
A Report and Statement to the Third Assembly of the World Council on Religion for Peace(WCRP) in Princeton, NJ 1979
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
World Without Trees
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Yes - Questions and Answers on Sovereignty-Association
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1979
The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979 Published: 1889

1978

Power & Opposition in Post-Revolutionary Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978 Published: 1979
Between 11 and 13 November 1977 the Italian formation Il Manifesto, organized a conference in Venice on the topic 'Power and Opposition in Post-Revolutionary Societies'. Present were prominent West European Marxist intellectuals and trade unionists, and key socialist oppositionists to the regimes in Eastern Europe and the USSR. This book records their speeches at what must be one of the broadest based conferences ever held on such a topic.
Spooks
The Haunting of America - The Private Use of Secret Agents
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978 Published: 1979
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 9
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
December 1978 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 8
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
November 1978 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 7
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
October 1978 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
September 1978 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 5
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
May 1978 issue.
Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Radio in action in Italy.
Working in an office -- for a while
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
April 1978 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
March 1978 issue.
Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
February 1978 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume VI Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
January 1978 issue.
Action Group on Immigration Rights (A.G.I.R.)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
L'Alliance, La Voix des Metis et Indians Sans-Statut du Quebec, Vol.4, No.8-9
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
The Alliance, Voice of Metis and Non-Status Indians of Quebec, Vol.4, No.8-9
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
An Alternate Investment Proposal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The American Police State
The Government Against The People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
Anarquismo vs. Marxismo
Algunas notas sobre un tema antiguo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Un movimiento que desdeña la teoría y adora las acciones sin crítica, el anarquismo sigue siendo un edificio tambaleante consistente de varios pedazos de análisis marxista, reforzando unos preceptos tácticos inflexibles.
Annual Report, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Anti-Nuke Songs
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1978
As If People Mattered - Resource Issues in Labrador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Asianadian
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
This issue of the Asianadian examines the situation of Asian women in western society. Includes an article titled "White Male Supremacy and the 'Oriental Doll'"
The Asianadian: An Asian Canadian Magazine
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Bain Avenue controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Rent freeze organizers state their case.
Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework#s insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
Bakounine contre Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
El movimiento anarquista que apadrinó ha sido plagado por la misma polaridad, por la tensión entre el liberalismo real en un lado y algunas veces la irresistible atracción del anti-intelectualismo, terrorismo y conspiración en el otro.
Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
La Balacigne, Vol.1, No.3, novembre 1977
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Battered Women: How to Use the Law
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
B.C. Today
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Bearing the Burden Sharing the Benefits
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Between Labor and Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Between The Lines Publishing House
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
The Body Politic
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Bookchin on Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Murray Bookchin#s arguments for a liberatory technology.
Bread and Roses Credit Union
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A Brief Look at Public Alternative Schools in Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Brief Presented to the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A Brief Presented to the Commission of Inquiry on Redundancies and Lay-Offs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Brief to Federal Cabinet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Brief to the National Unity Task Force
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Brief to the Select Committee on Renewable Resources, New Brunswick Legislature
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Briefs to the People's Commission on Unemployment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Broken Spirit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Bulletin de liaison, Vol.1, No.1
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Calgary Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Can the NDP be Socialist?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Simon Rosenblum argues that the left should work to transform the NDP, not ignore it.
Canada and Strategic Nuclear Weapons Systems
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Canada As a Conserver Society: An Agenda for Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Canada's New Immigraion Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
See also: CX905.
Canada's New Immigration Act: A Guide and Critical Commentary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility - Publications - 1978
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Canadian Crossroads International
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Canadian Crossroads International Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
The Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Information Sharing Service Index
May 1977 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Canadian Renewable Energy News
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
The Canadian Teachers' Federation
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Canadian Textile Trade and Hong Kong
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Ontario Region, Bulletin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Canadians For the Protection of Religious Liberty
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
CANTDU
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Cargill Inc.: Making Profit From Hunger
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Catalogue of Resources - Social and Political Action Section - 1978-80
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
C'est a Nous De Decider
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
See also CX864.
C'est a Nous de Decider
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
See also CX1099.
Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Christian Farmer
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Circuit Writer
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Citizen's Guide to City Government in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Le Citoyen -Journal du Rassemblement du Citoyens de Montreal-St Louis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
City Farmer
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
CJL Research Project on Canadian Social Policy
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Clearlake Collective
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Co-operative Co-ownership Corporations: Legislative Proposals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Coady - Tomkins Experience: The Relevance of the Antigonish Movement Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Coalition Fights the Fighter Planes and
Ploughshares Asks for 4 Million Peace Fund
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Cobequid Shore Opportunities Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Comment: The Rise and the Fall of the Isolated Communities Advisory Board
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Commentaires concernant la protection de la matermite a l'occasion de la
publication du projet d'ordonnance sur les conges de maternite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
La Commission de l'Emploi et de l'Immigration reclame jusqu'a 6 semaines
de prestations a 6000 chomeurs quebecois et COMUNIQUE
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Commitee for the Defence of Democratic Rights
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Committee Against Nuclear Pollution in the Phillipines
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Committee For Original Peoples' Entitlement (COPE)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Committee for the Defense of Democratic Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Communists on Wall Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Eurocommunism in practice.
Community Development Corporations: An Information Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Community Land Trust
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A Community Ministry Theological Statement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A Community Release Centre for Whitehorse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Comprendre l'Assurance chomage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Connections Vol. 1, No.1
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
The Conspiracy or How the Transnationals Do It
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
Converse
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Convicted but not Convinced
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Council for Yukon Indians
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Creating Knowledge: Breaking the Monoply
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Creeping contradictions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
News tidbits.
Crime
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Crime, Prison and Alternatives
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
Criminal Justiice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Cross-Cultural Learner Centre
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Decennial Revision of the Bank Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Democracy loses out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The people can say what they want, they can vote how they want, but the bureaucrats make the decisions.
Dene Learning For Self-Determination and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry: (1974-1977), Working Paper #2
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Dene Nation: Apartheid?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Dependency by Design
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1978
Le Desport, Vol.1 No.1
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Detecting Prejudice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Development and Canada's Last Frontiers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Development Education Centre-1978-79 Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Development Education School Programme
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Dick and Jane Get Unemployed
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1978
Dignity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Documents From the Bain Ave. Rent Freeze
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Dollar Per Woman Campaign
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
E=MC2 Disaster?/Citizens Bill of Rights and Consumer's Guide to Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Earthcare Newsletter One
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Economic Report: 36th U.E. Convention
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Ecumenical Consultation on Christian Education in Quebec Schools
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Edmonton COmmunity - First Draft
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Edmonton Cross-Cultural Learner Centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
L'Eglise dans un Quebec en mutation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Eithics of the Use of Recently Developed Mind/Behaviour Control Mechanisms By and On Convicted Criminals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Electronic Ethics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The End of Dialectical Materialism: An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists.
Energy and Employment Alternatives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Estimating Lung Cancers: Or Its Perfectly Safe, But Don't Breathe Too Deeply
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Everything You Wanted to Know About Nuclear Power
(but were afraid to find out)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don#t want ... and get it.
Explore Co-opertives and Credit Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Face a la Justice
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Facts
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Fair Deal For Public Employees
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Feux Verts en merge et debout
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
First All Tribal Council/Groups & Indian Organizations Meeting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Flaws in the Pattern:
Human Rights in Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Flying Together: The GATT-Fly Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Food for People
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
For Generations Yet Unborn
Ontario Resources North of 50
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Free Southern Africa Committees
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Friends of the Earth - Canada
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
The Frog and The Pond
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1978
From a Different Perspective: A Radio Programme of News, Views and Interviews.
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1978
Frontier College
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Future of Montreal and the MCM
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Gai(e)s du Quebec
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Global Village? Global Pillage: Irish Moss from P.E.I. in the World Market
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Go to the People...Some THoughts on Surveying Community Needs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Good Day Care
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
Great Spirit and Dene Nation - God's Covenant and Indian Treaties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Great War and Canadian Society
An Oral History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
The Grim Reaping: Patterns of Racism in the Prairie Region
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Hamilton Committee of/for the Unemployed
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Harrowsmith Reader
An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Articles on land, country careers, shelter, gardeni8ng, husbandry, food, and rural life.
Health and Medicine - Are They Synonymous?
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
How to Get What's Yours:
A Guide to Unemployment Insurance for Housewives and Other Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Human Future Revisited
The World Predicament and Possible Solutions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Human Rights and Economic Policy ( Draft II)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Human Rights Education: Resource Booklet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Human Rights in Canada: A Focus on Racism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
I Stand Before You as a Proud Man - I Feel No Guilt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
If You're Brown Turn Around
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1978
An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour 1800-1945
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
IMMI-CAN
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Immigrant Women's Resources Project
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
The Immigrant Worker
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
In Struggle! Canadian Marxist-Leninist Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Indian Women and the Law in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Industry and Labour
Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
An Injury to One Is An Injury to All: The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
An Injury to One is an Injury to All: THe History of Trade Unionism In South Africa
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1978
Inside OXFAM: OXFAM in the mid-seventies
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Institut de Recherche Applicquee sur la Travail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Institute for Christian Life in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Inter-Church Energy Committee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
International Human Rights
A Selected Bibiliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Human Rights resources directory. Each category inthis directory contains a brief introductory description and is followed by Bibliographic listing with no critical commentary. Topics include such areas as "Basic Issues", "Genocide Convention," "United N
International IDOC Bulletin: Lifestyles
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
International Year of the Child Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Introduction to 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The international socialist movement must of course be an anti-imperialist movement. But it has to actualise its anti-imperialism through the destruction of the capitalist system in the advanced countries. Were this accomplished, anti-imperialism would become meaningless and the social struggles in the underdeveloped part of the world would focus on internal class differences.
Introduction to this issue (#3)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Inuit Hunungar - The People's Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Inuit Tapirisat of Canada
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
The Iranian Revolution and the Role of the Proletariat (Theses)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Is Space Research Corporation (Quebec) Inc. Using Barbados to Trans-Ship Arms to Southern Africa?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Issue 17: The Injustice of it All
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Issue 18: Unemployment
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
It's More Than A Matter of Saving A Buck Isn't It?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
John Howard Society of Quebec, Quarterly Journal
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Journal l'environnement, Journal de la Societe pour vaincre la Pollution, Vol.4, No.6
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Judicial Inquiry Demanded (into Uranium Mining in B.C.)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
Kinesis
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
See also CX132, CX861, CX2562, CX2439, CX2758.
Kinesis
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
See also CX132, CX633, CX2562, CX2439, CX2758.
Labour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Labrador: Land Claims Run Aground
Atlantic Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Land Study Committee Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Law Union News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
LAWG Letter
Vol.V, No.6. Food Aid: Blessed Are the Givers - Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
LAWG Letter: Guatemala, Vol.5, No. 1.
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
The Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund: A Resource for Women Fighting Child Custody Cases
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Letter to the Editor of Canadian Dimension
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Letters (Issue #3)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Comments on Wages for Housework, libertarian socialism, workplace articles, etc.
List of Canadian Firms in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Luttons pour des comptoirs de luttes de classes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Mailing List of Individuals Interested in Diversion Process
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 1: The Founders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Main Currents of Marxism
Voluem 2: The Golden Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 3: The Breakdown
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
The Main Street Group for Cooperative Development
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Manitoba Indian Agricultural Program
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Manual For The Jobless Worker
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Until now the history of revolutionary Marxism has been the history of its defeats, which include the apparent successes that culminated in the emergence of state-capitalist systems. It is clear that early Marxism not only underestimated the resiliency of capitalism, but in doing so also overestimated the power of Marxian ideology to affect the consciousness of the proletariat. The process of historical change, even if speeded up by the dynamics of capitalism, is exceedingly slow, particularly when measured against the lifespan of an individual. But the history of failure is also one of illusions shed and experience gained, if not for the individual, at least for the class. There is no reason to assume that the proletariat cannot learn from experience.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Mental Patients and the Law
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1978
Metro Co-op Community
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Military Ethics in Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Mission and Ministry Workbook: Metropolitan Core
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Monchanin Journal: Political Self-Determination of Native Peoples
Special Issue - Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Mounting Repression: Its Meaning and Importance for Quebec and Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Mouvement Action Chomage
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Mouvement pour l'agriculture biologique au Quebec
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Multiphasic Bureaucratic Follow the Leader Exam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Des Mythes Sportifs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Namibia Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
National Movement for Full Employment
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Native Inmate in Ontario -- A Preliminary Survey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Native Organizations in Manitoba
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Natotawin
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Neeginan: A Report on the Feasability Study
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Nelson Small Legs Jr. Foundation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
New Roots Community Land Trust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
NeWest ReView
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Newfoundland Association for Full Employment
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Newsletter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Newsletter, Farmland Defence League of B.B., Vol.1, Issue !
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
News/Notes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
NEXUS, Vol. No.1
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
The 1978 Seminar on Education Finance: Financial Implications of Declining Enrolment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
1978 Annual Report of San Juan River Salmon Enhancement Program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
1978 Directory of International Communities, Cooperatives, Collectives and Communes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
No Fixed Address
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
No Rights - No Candu in Argentina
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
No Well - The Canborough (Ontario) Success Story
Or - How to Wage an Environmental Campaign
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
North End Diversion and Neighborhod Justice Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Northern British Columbia Women's Task Force Report on Single Industry Resource Communities
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Notes of the Atlantic Workshop on Single Displaced Persons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Notes on the Diagnostic Process Review of November 22,29 and Dec. 6, 1977.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Nova Scotia Labour Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Nova Scotia Labour Research and Support Centre - Newsletter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Now that we've burned our boats...
The Report of the People's Commission on Unemployment, Newdoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Now that we've burned our boats....
The Report of the People's Commission on Unemployment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Nuclear Dragons Attack
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Nuclear Newsletter, Vol.2, No.15.
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Nuclear Power And P.E.I.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Nuclear Reaction Nucleaire
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Nuclear Wastes - What, Me Worry?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Obscenity exposed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
Official Report on the International NGO Conference on Discrimination
Against Indigenous Populations - 1977 - In The Americas.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Old North End Community Housing Limited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
One Body: Human Rights, A Global Struggle
Issue 19-20 - Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
An ongoing debate
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Red Menace is meant to be a forum of dissenting views withing the broadly defined boundaries of libertarian socialism.
An Open Letter to Latin Americans
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Operation Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Operation Liberte Becomes a Permanent Coalition and Letter
from Provisional Organizing Committee for Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Operation Liberte Builds Support
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Opposing Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation # in this case, sexual liberation # can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
Out of School -- Into the Labour Force
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Participatory Research Project
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Past Contributors on Unemployment 1976 - 1978
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A list of organizations abstracted in past issues of Connexions from 1976 through 1978.
Patients' Rights
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1978
The People's Food Commission, Press Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The People's Food Commission
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Petition for the Total Economic Isolation of South Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Petition for the Withdrawl of U.S. Bases From the Philippines
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Planning for Agriculture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Ploughshares Monitor
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Plow-Share
Periodical profile published 1978 (June)
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Pluri-elles (Vol.1, No.2): Bulletin de liaison des groupes autonomes de femmes
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Policy Recommendations on the Abortion Issue
Response of Metropolitan Toronto YWCA to the Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Abortion Law (Bagley Report)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Politics and Pensioners Concerned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Goodwyn explores the agrarian revolt and the nature of democratic movements.
Position Paper of Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Position Paper on Rural Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Pour une Ville Nouvelle, Journal du monde a bicyclette
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Poverty in Canada - A Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Poverty in the 80's
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Poverty: A Study/Action Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Prairitopian
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
PRESENT AND FUTURE STATUS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS IN RURAL CANADA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Presentation by Noel V. Starblanket
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Presentation to a Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Presentation to Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Presentation to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities of Ontario
and the Ministry of Community and Social Services of Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Press Release: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Primer on a Society to be Transformed
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
A Primer on Social Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Prisoners' Rights Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Privacy Journal
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Pro-Life News/Canada
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
The Probe Post
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
The Problem Exists in the Classroom Because it Exists in the World
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Proceedings of the 1977 Conference of the Institute for Christian Life in Canada (August 21-26, 1977)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A Program Of Action for the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Programme du Centre de Pastorale en Milieu Ouvrier 1977-78
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Proposition d'Ecole Plate-forme revendicatrive pour une ecole de masse a batir maintenant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Quaker Committee for Native Concerns Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Quand le coeur et la tete sont en affaire
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Radiation, X Rays and Fallout
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Rape
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
Rapport Annuel 1977-78
avec le rapport sur la colloque Police et Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
RCMP - The Real Subversives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Reactions a l'ordonnance sur les conges maternite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Red Herring Cooperative Books
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Red Menace #3
Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Refundable Child Tax Credit:
What it is...how it works
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Regina Group for a Non-Nuclear Society
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Release To Those In Prison
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Renewable Energy Publications Ltd.
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Report - Canadian Enquiry into Human Rights in Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Report of Canadian Assembly on Disarmament
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Report of Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Report of Question Period of Annual Shareholder Meeting of Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Report of the Work Group on Civil and Political Rights: Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Report on Conference on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for Women Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Report on Skid Row
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Report on the Potential of Consumer Animation for Energy Conservation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Responses to "People in Action"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Le Retour a la Vie
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1978
The Rev. Keith Whitney: Interviewed by Nancy Edwards in Toronto
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
The Right to Food First
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area, Issue No. 35
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
RIKKA
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Magazine dealing with historical, cultural and human rights issues, especially within the Janpanese-Canadian community.
The Romance of American Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
Rooming House Tenant Project, Toronto Christian Resource Centre
Progress Report: January 1, 1977-January 30, 1978.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Rossing Uranium Limited: Fact Sheet on Rio Tinto-Zinc, Rio Algom, Nuclear Power and Namibian Uranium
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Russia in Revolution 1900-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
A portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval.
Saskatchewan Coalition Against Nuclear Development and the Greenwich Meridian Publications 1975-78
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, CLC Brief to the Federal Cabinet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Saskatchewan Labour Information Project
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Say "No" to Uranium Mining
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Seven News: Principles & Purposes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Statement of principles of Seven News, a community newspaper.
Should Uranium Stay in the Ground?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Single Parent News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Social Organization of Family Violence:
An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
La Social-Democracie et les militants chretiens; texte-outil no. 6
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Socialist Rights Defense Fund
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Some Thoughts on Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
Sources (Red Menace #3)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Resources for anti-authoritarians.
South Africa: A Time to Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Southern Africa News Clippings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
SPEC - Nuclear Debates
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
Spectrum - Ottawa's Alternative
Newspaper - Vol.I, No.9 - Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Starting From Nina: The Politics of Learning
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
Statement on Government Defense Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Stop the Sale of Canadian Uranium to the Philipines:
A Statement of Unity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Submission by Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Submission of the Farmland Defence League of B.C. Select Standing Committee on Agriculture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Submission to the Government of Canada on the Subject of A Food Strategy for Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
A Submission to the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada:
How Social and Economc Justice Can be Improved in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Sugar and Sugarworkers: A Popular Report of the International Sugarworkers Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Sugar World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Supermarket Tour: A handbook for education and action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Taking What's Ours - everywoman's guide to welfare and student aid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
TAPOL:
Canadian Campaign for the Release of Indonesian Political Prisoners - Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Tenant Handbook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Tenant Research Guide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Theological Reflections on the P.Q. Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Ticker Tape
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
A Time To Disarm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Time to Stop and Think
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Tinig (Voice of Filipinos)
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Toronto Clarion, Vol.2 , No.4.
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
The Toronto Committee for Solidarity with Democratic Chile
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Toronto Full Employment Coalition
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Toronto Native Times
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
TRANET
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
A Transforming Influence - Native Peoples and Northern Development, Social Justice and the Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Tripartism. Special Issue of Labour's Side
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Un Dossier Noir su la Police Politique, Operation Liberte
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Uncertified Human
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Unemployed Workers Union of Halifax-Dartmouth
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Union Security - UAW Statement to Ontario Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society (SUCCESS)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
United Church Requests Rate Increase for all Categories of Social Assistance
Documentation Packet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Unity
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Update on the Status of Women in British Columbia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Upstream
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Upstream: A Canadian Women's Publication
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Vancouver Society for Total Education
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Vanishing Frontiers - Native Peoples in Canada and Latin America
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Vencermos
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Vers Une Nouvelle Pratique: Sante Mentale Au Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Victimizing Domestic Workers
The Last Post, vol. 6, no. 6
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
VOICE (Victims of Industry Changing Environment)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Waiting For the Ice-Cream Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
WASWANIPI
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Who is Polar Gas? - A Basic Data Sheet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Why Are So Many People Out of Work?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Why Chile?
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Why the Leninists will lose
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
Women's Fund-Raising Coalition
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Words, words, words...
Diemer, Ulli
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
Work (Illustrated)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Working Together
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Workplace Democracy
A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiements in the US and Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Worlds Apart: Economic Relations and Human Rights - Canada - Chile
Economic Relations and Human rights - Canada - Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
Write to us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
The Red Menace welcomes writers# and artists# contributions.
You Can Do Something
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Youth Employment Lobby. Terms of Reference
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Zimbabwe: With Freedom in Their Eyes
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1978
L’anarchisme par rapport au marxisme
Quelques notes sur un vieux thème
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978

1977

Sources News Releases
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1977 Published: 2009
News releases from organizations and companies on a wide range of topics. Includes an extensive topic index, an archive of releases going back to the 1970s, and links to experts and organizations knowledgeable about the issues covered in the releases. Available via RSS feed as well as on the Sources.com website.
Sources Select Resources
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1977 Published: 2009
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
Sources.com
Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1977 Published: 2009
Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
Sources Archived News Releases 1977 - 2008
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977 Published: 2008
News releases from 2008 and before.
The Automated Bread Factory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
A Manual on Nonviolence and Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1984
The authors felt that an important way of building a peaceful world would be to develop a program for young children. It would help children and their caregivers develop non-violent attitudes and skills.
Bisexuality
A Study
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1979
Drawing the Line
The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1979
The Marxian Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1979
Chinese Shadows
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1978
Creative Growth Games
75 Fascinating games to expand your imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1978
Plow-Share
Periodical profile published 1978 (February)
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977 Published: 1978
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - December 1977
Volume V Number 10
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - November 1977
Volume V Number 9
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - October 1977
Volume V Number 8
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - September 1977
Volume V Number 7
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
A Tale of Two Offices
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - June 1977
Volume V Number 6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - May 1977
Volume V Number 5
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume V Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
April 1977 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume V Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
March 1977 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume V Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
February 1977 issue.
Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
Volume V Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
January 1977 issue.
Action on Legal Aid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Brochure that describes several organizations dedicated to the delivery of legal service to individuals and groups.
Agreement in Principle between: The Dene Nation and Her Majesty the Queen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Alberta Labour, Vol.2. No. 2
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Alternative Energy Association
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Alternative Research
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Alternatives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A poster, brochure, and information on jail, chaplaincies and the corrections system.
Amnesty International Letter-Writing Guide and Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Another Newsletter, Vol 2, No.1
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Armed on Our Own Ground
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
The Arts and Politics
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
ATEED Centre for Environmental Communities
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Atlantic Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Atlantic Region Labour Education Centre
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Bain Co-op hit by rent strike
Rents up 18%
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Minority of residents launch rent strike while majority pursues co-op ownership.
Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
Bain Co-op OK's evictions
Eviction notices sent
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Bain residents refusing to pay their full rent are to be served eviction notices.
BAKAUI
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Brochure that describes "bakaui", a way of life in which people work, in a community context, to develop an ecologically sound way of supporting human life.
Banking on South Africa
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
A Basic Call to Consciousness
The Hau de no sau nee Address to the Western World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A message given by the Hau de no sau nee (or traditional Six Nations council at Onondaga) also called the Iroquois Confederacy to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in September, 1977.
Bauxite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Berger Report in Brief
A Summary of Volume I of the Report of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Bias in Newfoundland Textbooks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Bishop's Statement on Uranium Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Black Grassroots Organizing, Black Resources and Information Centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Black United Front of Nova Scotia
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Bleeker Street
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Documentary of the efforts of the residents of Bleeker St. to save their homes.
The Body Politic
Gay Liberation Journal No. 29 - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Serious tabloid foucsing on political and social issues related to the gay struggle in Canada nad in other countries.
The Boiling Point
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Newsletter serving English-speaking street associations and supporting groups in Pointe St. Charles, Montral.
Briar Patch
Vol. 5, no 11 - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Newspaper featuring articles that affect low-income and working class people in Saskatchewan.
Brief for Presentation to the Standing Committee on Labour, Manpower, and Immigration on Bill C27:
Proposed Amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Brief on Energy Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Brief on the Proposed Borrowers and Depositors Protection Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Brief presented to the People and Parliament of Canadian Trade and Tariffs Committee
on the occassion of Multilateral Trade Negotiations under the Auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Brief to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Brief to the Board of Directors, The Wellesley Hospital.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Brief to the National Assembly Committee on Natural Resources at Hearings on Energy Policy.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Bulletin of the Quaker Jails and Justice Committee
Vol. 1 No. 5 - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Irregularly published newsletter outlining some of the current concerns and activities of the Quaker Committee.
Calary's Eastern Downtown Core:
Social Perspectives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Canada - 1977.
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1977
Canadian Aid: Blessing or Burden?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Information Sharing Service Index
February 1976 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Labour Comment
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The Canadian Left
A Critical Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP. Penner asserts that a serious inquiry into the history of the socialist movement is needed, both to examine the past mistakes and and to learn what is valuable to ensure the further growth of social democracy.
Canadian Peace Ballott
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Canadian Student
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Canadian Transport
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
CANDU:
An Analysis of the Canadian Nuclear Program
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The Canso Strait Fisherman's Strike, 1970-71
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
An account of the 1970-71 strike of Nova Scotia fishermen, after two large fisheries refused to recognize their newly formed union.
Cape Breton Landowners Against the Spray
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Cape Breton Steel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Capitalism is Icky!
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1977
Castlegreen Co-operative - An Alternative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A booklet that describes what is meant by a "co-operative" and gives reasons why they are an appropriate alternative to individual home ownership.
Catholic Family Farmer
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Caveat Venditor: Let the Seller Beware
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Christian Farmers Federation Publications
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Church, Farm, and Town
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Citizens' Association to Save the Environment
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Commodity Notes
No. 3 - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Examination of international trade activities in regard to copper, sugar, tin, and the repression of Peruvian fishermen.
Community Planning Association of Canada
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Community Radio Education Society
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Community Worker Newsletter - Vol.1, No.3, July 1977.
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The Concerned Parents Group of New Brunswick
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Consumer and Nuclear Energy: A Luxury We Can No Longer Afford
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An energy analysis with 28 recommendations presented to Pierre Trudeau and his cabinet.
Consumer Credit:
A Blessing or A Curse? - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Contrast
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Co-op Du Possible Sherbrooke,
An experience in Co-operative Self Reliance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
La Cooperativa Bain se enfrenta al Grupo de Remuneración por el Trabajo Doméstico
Una espeluznante historia sobre política.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Co-operative Planning Towarrd a Settlement of the Yukon Indian Claim: Document #1, Janury 21, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Co-ops are People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Criminal Law: 25 Common Mistakes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An examination of common mistakes and impressions people have about criminal law, lawyers, police powers and procedures.
The Crisis in Red Meats
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Libertarian socialism is defined first and foremost by the negation of political authoritarianism and theoretical determinism.
Critique of Canada's Family Allowances
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Crooked Path to Good Eating
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
C.U.P.E. Journal
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Cutbacks: Wiping out our Gains.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Daybreak Publications - Winter Catalogue
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
A publication created to provice meaningful work for mentally handicapped men and women.
A Declaration of Nishnawbe - Aski (The People and the Land)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Dene - Land and Unity for the Native People of the Mackenzie Valley A Statement of Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Development Education Action
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Development Education Project - Canadian Complicity in South Africa and Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Dignity Denied: Unemployment in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Disarm and Live
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Distortions at Fourth Hand
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Chomsky addresses the issue of "freedom of the press". He points out that while publications that shun eyewitness accounts of the situation in post-war Vietnam have a daily circulation of approx. 250 000, smaller publications which rely on these firsthand testimonies reach a limited audience. In this fashion, Chomsky warns of the dangers of accepting only what filters through to the American public, as it is "a seriously distorted version of the evidence available".
The Double E
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Downtown Health and Social Development Centre, Inc. And Emergency Shleter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Downtown: The People Speak Out!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
East River Branch
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Economics, Politics and The Age of Inflation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Edmonton Cross-Cultural Learner Centre Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
An outreach to associates and members of the ECCLC.
Education Project - co-sponsored by Education Resource Cooperative (Montreal), Canadian University Service Overseas
Educational Resource Cooperative
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Eligibility, Document#3, March 8, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Emerging Co-operatives in Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Summary of information collected after visiting over 600 co-operative groups in Ontario.
Energy - A Critical Look at its Use In Saskatchewen.
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Energy Options for New Brunswick
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Energy: Who Cares? Who Loses?
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Environment Probe
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Environmental Information Guide for B.C.
Where to get information to help you learn more about the environmental crisis and do something about it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Equal Opportunity at Work: A CUPE Affirmative Action Manal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Family Pastimes
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Catalogue of co-operatively played games to be purchased by mail-order.
Farmers, Feds and Fries - Potato Farming in the St. John Valley
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Farming on the Margin -- Nova Scotia Agriculture
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1977
Feminist Communcation Collective
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Feminist Resource Materials
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A constantly updated bibliography of materials related to women's issues in Canada.
Fertilizing The Economy - The Potash Issue.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Financial Constraint and Assisted Housing Budgets
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A critical review of both Federal and Provincial Capital Investment in Assisted Housing Programs.
The Fisherman
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The Five-Legged Sheep; Michelin Tire in Nova Scotia (Round One, No.7)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Food Co-ops
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A brochure that educates people interested in cutting the supermarket connection.
Food First
Ten Days for World Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Tabloid that exposes the "food myths" that are obstacles to people feeding themselves, particularly in the Third World.
Food Industry ---- Profits
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
For the Elimination of Poverty and Social Injustice: Report to the Anglican Church of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Foreign Reminders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Fourth Estate
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Freedom of Information vs Government Secrecy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
GATT-Fly Submission to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Global Village Voice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Greenpeace Experimental Farm
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Group: Ontario North Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Have You Got $10,00 to Burn?:
The Commidity Futures Link in the International Food Chain, Who Needs It, and Why Most of Us Don't.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Hazards of Being Male
Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
He who pays the piper...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Community groups have become dependent on government money resulting in an erosion of their community base and their independence.
A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council, 1972-75.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The History We Live With
Indian Land Claims in B.C.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Booklet discussing the history of treaties and land claims in B.C.
Hope Environmental Group
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
House on Laval Street
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
How Sweet It Is!
GATT-Flyer No.4
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A critical analysis of the financing of a sugar complex for the Government of the Ivory Coast by Canada's Export Development Corporation.
How Things Don't Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
How to Deal with a Racist Incident
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Pamphlet prepared to help people act rationally, safely, and sensibly in the face of racist and discriminatory incidents.
Human Rights in Canada:
A Focus on Racism.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
I Remember Too
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Three Chilean children's stories about the "old country".
I Was Born Here
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Images
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Immigration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
In Memoriam: Beloved Chairman Mao
A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao.
In Search of Social Justice -- A National Food Policy
One Way Ahead
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Working paper defining NAPO as a special interest group concentrating on legislation and policy surrounding issues of the Canadian poor.
INCAR Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Information and Action for Church IMPACT on Canadian Banks and South African Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Information et Formation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Inner-City Housing, Rehabliltation and Relocation Committee Working Paper.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Inner City Project
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
International Study Days for a Society Overcoming Dominations
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Interview with Lotta Continua 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Revolutionary actions are directed against the system as a whole - for its overthrow. This presupposes a general disruption of society which escapes political control. Thus far, such revolutionary actions have occurred only in connection with social catastrophe, such as were released by lost wars and the associated economic dislocations. This does not mean that such situations are an absolute precondition for revolution, but it indicates the extent of social disintegration that precedes revolutionary upheavals. Revolution must involve a majority of the active population. Not ideology but necessity brings the masses into revolutionary motion. The resulting activities produce their own revolutionary ideology, namely an understanding of what has to be done to emerge victoriously out of the struggle against the system's defenders.
An Invitation to a Celebration of Life:
Nonviolent Alternatives to Nuclear Aggression
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1977
Is It True What They Say About NIEO
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A series of one page articles explaining the New International Economic Order.
Is The Air Fit to Breathe?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Jobs and Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
Keeping the Heat in, An energy penny saved is an energy penny earned
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Kitimat Oil Coalition
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
The Land Bank Revisited
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Land: The Threatened Resources
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Land Use and Occupancy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Land Use or Land Abuse?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Latin America and Caribbean INSIDE REPORT
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Report to raise the conciousness of citizens to the political-economic-social situation in Canada and Latin America.
The Law Union News
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Monthly newspaper reports on the activities and interests of the Toronto Law Union.
Let Us Take Care!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Letters: (Issue #2)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
Lifestyles: The Politics of Alternative Lifestyles.
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Listing of Progressive Periodicals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Listing of progressive and alternative periodicals, many that are financially wanting and deserve support.
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Series
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1977
The Mackenzie Valley: Native Land Claims and Corporate Growth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An overview of the demands on the Dene Nation regarding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline proposal.
Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
Manifeste - la Situation economique des retraites au Quebec
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Manual for Amnesty International, Canadian Section Members & Groups.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Manual for Tenant Organizers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
Marxism and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Media Probe: The Canadian Journal of Communication
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The Menace of Nelson Small Legs Jrs.' Peacepipe
Aquash Murder Case Coverage - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Two articles discuss the failings of the Canadian press in covering major events in the Native community.
Mennonite Central Committee(MCC), Peace Section
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Les Militants et la Police
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Mobile Family Service Society.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Money isn't Everything
A Survival Manual for Non-Profit Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Addresses the problems affecting non-profit groups today, providing examples and practical solutions.
Montage: John Heartfield
Vom Club Dada zur Arbeiter-Illustrierten Zeitung - Dokumente - Analysen - Berichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Mouvement pour L'Agriculture Bioligique au Quebec (bulletin)
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Movement for Christian Feminism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Nangle Report - Canadian Businesses In South Africa.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
National Anti-Poverty Organization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
National Anti-Poverty Organization Housing Program
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
National Farmers Union Materials
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
A collection of materials in various formats addressing local and national issues.
National Pensioners and Senior Citizens' Federation Brief to the Governement of Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Native Courtworkers and Counselling Association of British Columbia
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Native Pastoral Ministry and Native Consultant Ministry
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Native Press Vol. 7, Issue 9
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Native Sons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The Need for Third Sector Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A paper that argues that large centralized government and business are incapable of responding to the critical needs of small communities.
Neo-Colonialism and The Canadian Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The New Brunswick Forest Industry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The New Woman Centre: Annual Report
Prepared for the Dept. of Health and Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
This report documents the work of the New Woman Centre for 1976.
Newfoundland Status of Women in Council Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
No Last Frontier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
No Pipeline Now Coalition
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Non-Nuclear Future for Ontario: A Sourcebook.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
North American Energy Colonies.
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Northern Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Northwest Environmental Student Taskforce (N-WEST)
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
A Nous De Decider
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Nova Scotia Micmac Aboriginal Rights Position Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Nuclear Dilemma
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Nuclear Power: Blessing or Blight?
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Nutrition and Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
N.W.T. Native Women's Group
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
One Earth - Two Worlds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Package of materials dealing with food-related themes.
Ontario Coalition to Preserve Food Land
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Ontario People's Energy Network (O.P.E.N.)
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Operation Dismantle
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Ottawa Cooperative Community Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Newsletter published to encourage mutual support and co-operation among co-operatives in the Ottawa region.
Outreach Employment Services, 1976-1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Parkdale Tenant
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Patients' Rights Handbook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Peace and Conflict Studies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The People and the Land are One
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Outline of the position taken by the Cree-Ojibway Chiefs against granting further cutting rights to Reed Pulp and Paper.
People for Educational Participation (PEP) Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Newsletter reports on projects aimed at improving or developing alternatives to the current educational system.
People or Pipelines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The People's Food Commission
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Perceptions 4 - People and Agricultural Land
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Perspectives
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Petition for the Immediate Release of all Prisoners of Conscience
1977: Prisoners of Conscience Year
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Pipeline: What Next
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
P.I.S.E.M. Materials
Questions Immigrants Raise; Immigrant Life in Toronto; Themes for English language training of Portuguese
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1977
Audio-visual materials designed for use in small groups with immigrants to give them information about dealing with alienating elements in their environment.
Place de l'Avenir.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Poland: 1970-71
Capitalism and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Politics and Religion in the Prairies, Vol. 7, No.2
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Book offers a clear analysis of events in Portugal 1974-1975.
Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
POSITION PAPER:Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Potash Story
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An analysis of the exploitation of potash resources in Saskatchewan.
Poverty Report and Recommendations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Prairitopian
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
A monthly newletter that deals with ecological issues in the thrust towards a stable society.
Prepared evidence for the case of the Committee for Justice and Liberty
before the National Energy Board's hearings on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Various materials to be presented to the NEB's hearings opposing further pipeline development.
Privacy!
How to get it .... How to enjoy it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Pro-Life News/Canada, Vol.2, No.2
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Program III - Study, Dialogue, Reflection, Action, on Social Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Project Boomerang
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Project Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Project North - The Inter-Church Project on Northern Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Project Ploughshares
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Project Ploughshares Education/Information Packet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A Proposal for a Public Seminar on Fundy Tidal Poswer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Proposal for the Development of a Community Socio-Legal Clinic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A report on the success of the addition of a Legal Clinic to an established community centre.
A Proposal for the Legislation to Establish a Self Development Corporation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Quaker Prison Committee
A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A look at two case histories vis the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
Que es el Socialismo Libertario?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Qu#est ce que le socialisme libertaire?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
L#idée que le socialisme est avant tout à propos de liberté et donc sur le dépassement de la domination, de la répression, et de l#aliénation qui bloquent la libre circulation de la créativité humaine, de la pensée et de l#action.
Racial and Cultural Conflict and the Law Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Rally Story
An Account of the Planning, Organization and Enactment of Women Rally for Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Recycling Council of B.C.
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Red Bologna
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Red Menace #2
Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
Reed International:
Profile of a Transnational Corporation.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Regina Committee for World Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Six one-page articles discuss Energy Production in the Third World.
Reminiscences of Tim Buck
Yours in the Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The Renewable Energy Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Report and Recommendations for Government Action and Statement of Concern:
Housing for Low Income Canadians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The report identifies maldistribution of income as the prime factor in the housing problem.
Report of the Panel of Public Enquiry Into Northern Hydro Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Report describing the evidence to the public enquiry concerning the Nelson-Churchill River Diversion of Northern Manitoba.
Report on the Winnipeg Workshop, May 4th-8th, 1977.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Researching Canadian Corporations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Resources Exchange Project Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Resources Exchange Project: 1973-1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Resources
On the Dene and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Rich Man, Poor Man: Who's the Thief?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Right to Live, Development Education Centre
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
The Role of Economic Competition in Canadian Society
A Statement to the Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs, House of Commons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Rural Cleanings
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
S.O.D. Montreal
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Saskatchewan Labour, Vol.1, No, 2
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Saskatchewan's Stake in the Politics of Separatism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
School of New Economics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Sea-Bed Wealth:
For Private Profit or Peoples' Development. - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Second Birth: St. Andrew's Place.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Seizing Our Bodies
The Politics of Women's Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Service Accessibility and the Multiracial Community
in Canadian Welfare
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Services for Immigrant Women: REport and Evaluation of four Workshops
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Settlement Model, Document#4, July 14, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Small Claims Court
Is it Really a People's Court?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Social Development Vol. 6, No. 2.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Socialism and the New Life
The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Socialism From Below in the United States
The Origins of the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A Society to be Transformed
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
A Society to Be Transformed, 1977 Pastoral Statement on Social Justice.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Some Facts About BRIC, Black Resources and Information Centre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Sources (Red Menace #2)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Southern Support Group Newsletter #8
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
SPEC
Canadian Scientific and Environmental Control Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A brochure that describes the objectives and activities of SPEC.
Speech by Aubrey Golden to the N.F.U. Convention
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Spider and the Fly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Spontaneity and Organisation
From #Anti-Bolshevik Communism#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Although Lenin counted on, he simultaneously feared, spontaneous movements. He justified the need for conscious interferences in spontaneously-arising revolutions by citing the backwardness of the masses and saw in spontaneity an important destructive but not constructive element. In Lenin#s view, the more forceful the spontaneous movement, the greater would be the need to supplement and direct it with organised, planned party-activity. The workers had to be guarded against themselves, so to speak, or they might defeat their own cause through ignorance, and, by dissipating their powers, open the way for counter-revolution.
Statement of Claire Culhane, Provincial Court, New Westminster, B.C.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A Statement of Goals Respecting the Yukon Indian Claim: Document#2, March 8, 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Statement To Shareholders of Noranda Mines Limited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
The Story of Profit
The Coalition for Energy Price Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A report of the actions of 17 groups in Quebec fighting unfair energy price increases.
Strategy for Labrador Straits: Aiming for Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Strategy of Development for the Canadian Housing Co-operative Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An analysis of trends and outcomes of four strategies employed in developing co-operative housing.
Stump Ranch Chronicles and other narratives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Submission to the Government of Canada
Proposing Economic Recovery through a Full Employment Program.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Submission to the Hon. Dr. Bette Stephenson, Minister of Labour, Concerning Proposed Occupational Safety and Health
Legislation for the Province of Ontario.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Summary of Presentation to the Mayor and City Council of Edmonton, Alberta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Support for Farmers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Tanzanian Coffee Project
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
TCLSAC MATERIALS
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Ten Days for World Development 1977/Leader Kit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A kit designed for those who plan activites for the Ten Days for World Development programme.
Les Tetes de Pioche
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Their Methodology and Ours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Self-introduction of the sole issue of the journal Strategy, which appeared, and disappeared, in the spring of 1977.
These Old Ones: Growing Old in China and in Canada.
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1977
This book explains how things don't work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
There a lots of guides explaining how things work. This one explains how they don#t -- and why they don#t.
Tightwire, Vol. III, Edition 1
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre Newsletter.
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Toward a New Constitution?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Toward Preventing Alcoholism and Alcohol Misuse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Transport 2000
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Le Tremplin
Vol. 3 #2 - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Newsletter produced by a group whose main work is finding employment and support for ex-inmates.
Trigger
Survival Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The Uncertified Human, Vol. 4, No. 12
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
The Uncertifiedd Human
Vol. 4, No. 8 - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Monthly pro-life publication designed to keep subscribers up to date on genetic engineering, euthenasia, mandatory sterilisation, abortion, capital punishment, pro life feminism and constructive solutions to world and human problems.
Underdevelopment in Canada
Notes Towards an Analytical Framework
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Unemployment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Unemployment Manifesto in Briar Patch, Vol, 6, No. 7, PP.23-27
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
United Electrical News
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Upstream
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Venna Connosco - Come With Us
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1977
The Video Theatre
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Vision Canada - Unmet Needs of Blind Canadians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Voice of the Annex
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Wages for Housework Committee Materials
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Walk for Life Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Wawatay News - Voices of the North
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
We Still Have A Heart
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
The Weston Group of Companies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A profile of the Canadian bakery and its extended holdings across North America and around the world.
What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
What is The Red Menace?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
About The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist publication.
What's Canada Doing in Brazil?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
When Did We See You Hungry?
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Where do We Go From Here?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Who Calls The Tune?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Who's in Control?
Issue 14
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
An examination of the phenomenon of corporate power.
Why the Leninists Will Win
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
Why You Should Question Your Bank
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Women and the Law in Nova Scotia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Women at Work in Nova Scotia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A pamphlet that examines the struggles and realities of working women in Nova Scotia.
Women's Research Centre
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
Women's Work
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
Words and Deeds
Canda, Portugal and Africa.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Work & Daily Life Intro
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
A forum through which people can communicate what they feel about their jobs and the others things that happen to them every day.
The Working Poor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
World Military and Social Expenditures 1977
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
World Minorities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
Youth & Unemployment
A Source Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Yukon Indian News
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
La coopérative de Bain rencontre ‘Salaires pour les travaux domestiques’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977
Czym jest wolnosciowy socjalizm?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1977

1976

The Hidden Welfare System
A report on the personal income tax system in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A critical analysis of the Income Tax Act and deductions that benefit the top 5% of filers.
Vanguard Magazine
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
An Independent Christian Magazine dealing with social issues.
To Have or To Be?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976 Published: 1989
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976 Published: 1977
Women and the Law in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976 Published: 1977
Canadian News Synthesis Project - December 1976
Volume IV Number 9
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - November 1976
Volume IV Number 8
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - October 1976
Volume IV Number 7
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - September 1976
Volume IV Number 6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - July 1976
Volume IV Number 5
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - June 1976
Volume IV Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - May 1976
Volume IV Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - April 1976
Volume IV Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - March 1976
Volume IV Number1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - February 1976
Volume III Number 12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - January 1976
Volume III Number 11
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Abridged Version of Judgement by Justice K Macay in the case involving Atlantic, Redpath and St. Lawrence Sugar Ref
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Abridged text of judgement to aid citizens to understand the issues involved.
Access Community - Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Proposal for funding for a community media resource unit.
A.G.A.I.N./Direct Services/Employment:
Introduction to Employment Strategies & Note on the Consultation A.G.A.I.N.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Critiques of government employment strategies in the urban core/skid row areas.
All in the Family
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet explaining some of the legal consequences which flow from marriage, common law relationships, owning property, and having children.
Amnesty International
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
An independent non-governmental organization that endevours to ensure the right for everyone to hold and express his or her beliefs.
An Analysis of the Decreasing Viability of Small and Medium sized Farms in Canada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Describes the economic, physical, and political conditions that cause a rapid decrease in small and medium farms in Canada.
Annual Report, Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1975-76
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An account of the issues and corporations which are of current concern to the TCCR.
Approaches To Foreign Rrepresentatives of Governments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Guidelines useful in securing and attending interviews with ambassadors.
Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet about inappropriate aid programs and our need to look at alternate forms of energy.
The Arbritary Enfranchisement of Indian Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brief arguing for the amendment of certain provisions of the Indian Act providing for the involuntary enfranchisement of Indian women.
Argentina '76
A dossier on political repression and the violation of human rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A report that outlines the torture of political prisoners, censorship, and religious persecution that occurs in Argentina.
Attitudes at the Canadian Grassroots
Signs and Portents in the Seventies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A report on people's attitudes across Canada.
Banking on Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Package states the case against further Canadian bank loans to the government of South Africa. Suggests actions for persons wanting to resist further bank loans.
B.C. Ecologue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A handbook for study and action on the ecological crisis.
Bear Hills Native Voice
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Bi-monthly publication covering politics, sports, recreation, agriculture and cultural events in the Bear Hills community.
A Brief on the Effects of Inflation on Welfare Recipients
Presented to P.E.I. Cabinet Ministers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An exploration the situation of those Islanders most harshly affected by the effects of inflation and legislation governing wage and price controls.
Brief to NDP Caucus
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Critique of the amendments to the Landlord and Tenants Act and recommendations for modifications to present legislation.
Bring it Home
One Sky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet about the needs of grass roots, people-oriented health programs and awareness.
A Call For a Moratorium
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brief submitter to the Berger Inquiry by PROJECT NORTH.
Calumet
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Quarterly newsletter published to promote the aims of the movement for social justice and peace.
Canada and the Rights of the Chilean People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Brief presented to the Canadian Government by the Coalition on Canadian Policy Toward Chile.
Canada -- Beware! Look What's Happened to Peru
GATT-Flyer No. 3
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Parallels are drwan between the Canadian and Peruvian Oil Industries.
Canada, Namibia and You
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet to aid letter writing campaign against S. Africa's occupation of Namibia.
Canadian Alternatives in 1975: a movement maturing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Overview and analysis of the growing Canadian "Alternatives Movement".
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsiblity Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A report of important events across Canada and internationally on concerns related to nuclear energy.
The Canadian Grain Trade - An Introductory Outline.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of the grain trade in Canada and parallels to the situation underlying the New International Economic Order.
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
The Canadian News Synthesis Project
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Presenting current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa:
An Ecunemical Concensus Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Paper presented to government officials detailing position on racial oppression in S. Africa.
CANDI: An Analysis of the Canadian Nuclear Program
Part I - Technical Handbook
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Handbook on the issues surrounding the nuclear program
Capital and community
The results of the immediate process of production and the economic work of Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Cargill and Friends
The Grain Companies' Rollercoaster and Why We Should Get Off
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brochure that charts the growth of major multinational grain trading companies.
A Case Study on the Interaction of Immigrant-Canadians in Their Work
and the Influence of this Interaction on the Resocialization of the Immigrant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A sociological analysis done from the perspective of participant observation; theological reflections.
The Catalyst
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A monthly newspaper produced by a federation of member-run food coops in B.C.
Chile Report
Enterprise and Repression Multinational Goes to Chile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Looks at Noranda Mines' copper mine investment in Chile.
Church Presentation to the Annual Meetings of Three Canadian Banks
Re: Loans to South Africa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A statement questioning the morality of loaning money to a racist South African government.
Citizen Action
An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Case Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Bibliography of case studies involving community/social planning and action.
Citizen Involvement in Housing and Community: An Action Research Design
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A proposal for funding a housing inventory network to deal with the housing crisis in Edmonton.
Citizens Counter-Conference on Energy and Northern Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report on the proceedings of the '76 "Citizens Counter-Conference".
La clase trabajadora y el cambio social
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Clear Hamilton of Pollution (CHOP)
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Newsletter that addresses itself to Canadian citizens interested in envornmental pollution control in Hamilton and northern Ontario.
CNSP Review 1974-75; Canada in an International Context
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
COCOA
Commodity notes available from GATT-fly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Background analysis and current report on this key international commodity.
Coffee
Gatt-Fly Commodity Profile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A look at coffee as a commodity and the reasons for its fluctuating cost.
Cointelpro
The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Columbus: His Enterprise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
The traditional view of Christopher Columbus was as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to "discover" the Americas. Hans Koning gives us a different history of Columbus# life and voyages.
Comments from our readers (Issue #1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Commodity Notes No.2
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Keeping readers up to date on international commodities.
Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
Community Congress for Economic Change: Credit Union
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet describing the motives and aspirations of the CCEC Credit Union.
Consumers' Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet designed to inform consumers about how the law affects people as buyers, borrowers, and householders.
Converse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The role of church people in the correctional system.
ConVerse Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A quarterly report of local and national news and events related to the penal system.
Co-op Housing
Challenge for Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet designed to answer initial questions on co-op housing laws and procedures in Canada.
Co-op Housing - An Alternative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brochure describing non-profit co-op housing in Toronto.
Co-operative Games
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Offering games based on co-operation rather than conflict.
The Co-operative Union of Canada
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
An educational and promotional organization for all cooperative projects.
Corporate Concentration and the Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Condensed version of the brief presented to the Bryce Commission on Corporate Concentration.
Danger: Radiation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Leaflet that asks and answers some basic questions about nuclear energy.
The Dark Side of "The Light": Brascan in Brazil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report evaluates the impact of BRASCAN Ltd. in Brazil as well as that of the economic system the company promotes.
Des Outils pour Pratique Communautaire
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
La presentation de quatre outils de travail servant a l'analyse critique du vecu quotidien.
Development Education Viewpoints
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Educational tools focused on Worldwide Underdevelopment in a Canadian context.
The Development of a Guaranteed Annual Income in Canada and the Involvement of Canadian Churches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A paper designed to educate church people about the concept of a guaranteed income as an effective "weapon against poverty".
Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
Directory of Alcoholism Services
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Comprehensive list of all agencies serving Metropolitan Toronto.
Directory of Services for Mentally and Physically Handicapped of the Lower Mainland (B.C.)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Alphabetical lists of Services and Agencies.
Dossier No. 2 on the Homeless Single Men of the Lower Downtown
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report on an organizing effort by two social workers with single homeless men in Montreal.
Dossier No.2 Sur les Sans-Foyer ou Hommes Seule du pas de la Ville
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Suite a l'interet formule pour le dossier Homme Seul Itinerant.
Dossiers Vie Ouvriere
Avril 1976, Vol XXVI#104 - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Chretiens et Marxistes dans l'action la combat pour la justice.
The Double Helix
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
A chronicle of the suffering of those in his city; the victims, the poor.
Down on the Farm
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Four days in the life of National Farmers' Union organizer, Don Kossick.
Downtown Action
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A monthly magazine that attempts to provide a critical analysis of issues and events affecting the quality of life in Metro Toronto.
Downtown East
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Community newspaper reporting the efforts of D.E.R.A. in confronting exploitive practices.
Drugs Won't Cure Common Colds and Flu
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet (French or English) that simply and graphically describes what are, and how one contracts common colds and influenza.
The Economics of Alcohol in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A paper written in response to the growing concern about the increasing abuse of alcohol in Canada shows the direct relation between consumption and advertising.
Ecumenical Consultation on the Problems of Quebec
Abstracted from Oecumenisme/Ecumenism No. 46
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Summary of a bilingual multi-denominational, and multi-cultural event sponsored by the Montreal Ecumenical Centre.
Eight Men Speak
And Other Plays from the Canadian Workers' Theatre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Eight plays presented by the Canadian Worker's Theatre in the 1930s.
Essays in Canadian Working Class History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Everybody Dreams
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Study of an immigrant family's life as homesteaders in P.E.I. and its opposition to encroaching corporate demands.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
A movement committed to non-violence, both as a way of life and a means of building a world community.
Final Report of the Canadian Non-Governmental Participation Group (CNGPG) for Habitat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Review of the history and formation of the CNGPG for Habitat and its performance during the conference. Printed in both English and French.
The Food Co-operator
Vol II, #1 - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Newsletter to provide news and information for people who do business with the Federation.
For Bread and Hope
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1976
15 min. slide-tape looking critically at migration and regional under-development in Canada.
FORUM - A Publication of Catholics for Social Change
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Calendar, information, communication and support.
From Trident to Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet outlining PLC's campaign of resistance against the Trident submarine missile system based in Bangor, Wash.
From Words to Action
1976 Labour Day Message of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops, Ottawa
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Four page pamphlet outlining the message.
GATT-FLY
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
A project to assist Canadian Churches in their mission for world justice by advocating alternative economic policies.
Global Community Centre News
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Issues in developing countries as well as events, news, and resources in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
Global Reach
The Power of the Multinational Corporations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
An examination of corporate power.
Gramsci's Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
Grassroots Press
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Local community newspaper covers local and national issues and events.
Greenpeace Chronicles
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
A twice-yearly newspaper originating out of Vancouver.
Guide to Ecology Information and Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Ecology address book. Written primarily for public librarians and library patrons.
Guide to the B.C. Women's Movement
3rd Edition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Guest speakers, addresses, transition houses, and more.
Habitat and Urban Core Issues: Report and Impressions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A brief report on the participation of the UCSN staff in the 1976 United Nations Habitat Forum.
Habitat Participation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Issues related to land use, indigenous peoples' rights, nuclear power, etc.
Hamilton Tenant
A guide to tenants' rights and the Landlord and Tenant Act
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A guide to the rights and obligations of tenants as set out in the current (1967) legislation.
Harlan County USA
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
How to Make Meetings Work
The New Interaction Method
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
I Was Born Here
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
An old Dene Indian reflects on his land, his people and his values.
Inflation and Democracy, Thirty Years of Stop and Go
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet discusses Wage and Price Controls and how it affects Canadians.
Instead of Prisons
A Handbook for Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
A Meditation on the abolition of prision system - chapters include "Demythologizing our views of prison," "Diminishing/Dismantling the Prison System," "Decarcerate," and "Excarcerate."
Interchurch Energy Committee
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
The Inter-Church Task Force on the Churchill River Diversion
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Task Force formed to assist the Northern Flood Committee.
International Communities as a Strategy for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Analysis of the significance of the role of "community" in the struggle toward a more human social order.
Interval House
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Two articles briefly describe the shelter for women and children.
Introduction to Social Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
Introduction to the Red Menace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An introduction to, and the mission statement of, the libertarian socialist publication, The Red Menace.
Is the James Bay Model Good Enough for the N.W.T.?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An analysis of the $225 million James Bay Agreement forced upon the Inuit and Cree of northern Quebec.
Is World Hunger our Responsibility?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Collection of articles discussing how we cause world hunger and what we must do.
Issue 11 Quebec
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A look at the economic, language, and cultural issues facing Quebec.
Justice Demands Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A statement presented to the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Canadian church leaders.
Kainai News, "Canada's Leading Indian Newspaper"
Defunct publication
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Provincial Indian newspaper dealing primarily with local issues and events.
Kinesis, Vancouver Status of Women
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published monthly to provide an open channel of communication among members.
Know Thy Enemy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A poem.
Die Kunst findet nicht im Saale statt
Politische Plakate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies.
LAM News (Legal Aid Manitoba)
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
An underground paper dealing toung-in-cheek with the legal (aid) system.
Land Use
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Critical examination of social concers in a way designed to strengthen discussion and action.
Letter to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A letter rasing critical questions about the commission.
Lifestyles
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet about over-consumption, vegetarianism, co-ops, and Third World model of co-operation.
List of Groups Involved in Social Action in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
CISS's first list of people networks engaged in Social Action in Canada.
A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
Looking at the Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
Macroanalysis Bibliography For Canadian Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A collection of Canadian materials to accompany a seminar programme to develop social change programs.
Make the World a Home
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet with the theme "Live simply that others may simply live".
Mapoon - Book Three
The Cape York Aluminum Companies (Alcan, Comalco, R.T.Z., Kaiser, C.R.A., Billiton, Pechiney, Tipperary) and the Native Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Chronicle of the policies and actions of the Aluminium Companies with respect to the Native peoples and their land claims.
Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women#s movement which was undoubtedly the most important one of the kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the Memory Hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
Mental Patients' Association
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
An alternative community organization dedicated to providing choices and power to ex-mental patients.
Mercury Poisoning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Mission Information Department - Scarborough Foreign Mission Society
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1976
Social Issues documentaries.
Missionary Involvement and Catholics in Canada.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report on survey results on missionary activities at home and abroad.
A Model of Theological Reflection
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
A More Just and Humane Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of the Council's objectives, goals, history, and programme developments.
MOSAIC: Center for Non-English Speaking Immigrants and Citizens
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Inactive/Defunct Organization
NAPO-INFO, National Anti-Poverty News
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A bilingual, bi-monthly newspaper dealing with issues that affect the poor across Canada.
The National Missionary Council Resource File
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An information package offered to assist in identifying agencies of similar interests.
The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, -- the right of nations to self-determination -- is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
Natural Life: A Journal of Natural Living
Vol. 1, No. 1 - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A magazine dedicated to providing information to Canadians interested in exploring alternatives in the areas of life-styles, energy, co-ops, organic foods and schools among others.
Network
Vol 1, No 2, March 1976 - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
An inter-community newsletter.
New Age Transition Center
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Providing workshops for people interested in developing a creative awareness gained through major life changes.
New Breed
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Monthly new magazine to inform and educate native people in Saskatchewan about current events, history and tradition, and the local and national Indian scene.
New Dawn Enterprises Limited
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Paper describes the efforts of New Dawn to mobilize government and voluntary resources to contribute solutions to economic and social problems in Cape Breton.
New Ideas
IDERA Newsletter - publication of the International Development Education Resource Association - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Sharing the objectives, resources, and contributions of groups concerned with Third World and Development issues.
1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A well-documented account of the nuclear industry in Canada illustrated with lively cartoons.
One Earth, One Sky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet about the links among all people, historically, daily.
One Gigantic Prison
The Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Three Canadian MPs report on human rights violations in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Organizing a Union
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1976
The procedures for obtaining certification from the Labour Relations Board.
Organizing in a Small Town
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
Ottawa Co-op Resource Group (Newsletter)
Sept 8, 1975 Vol II #1 - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A voluntary coalition interested in communal and co-operative forms.
Our two cents# worth...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Analysis of the Popular Education Conference
Out From the Shadows
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A bigliography of the history of women in Manitoba.
Out of Control
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
A film that exposes the Trudeau Anti-Inflation Bill as an attack on Canadian workers.
P.A.C.I.F.I.C. Advocate
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Monthly publication on issues related to the Friendship Centre Movement.
Parallel Institute Video-Tapes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Training tapes to teach poor and working class organizations the basic practical and political skills of organizing.
Parallel Institute Video-Tapes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Training tapes designed to teach organizations the practical and political skills of organizing.
Parkdale Community Legal Services Newsletter
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Newsletter published twice yearly to inform the reader about the work done by the PCLS.
The People Farm
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Insight into growth stimulation of handicapped adults.
People Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet about over-consumption, multinationals, and developing countries.
The People, The Land, Our Hope
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Pamphlet outlines the plan of the committee to hold land in trust on which to develop a cooperative community.
A People's History of Prince Edward Island
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
The Plain Dealer
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Published every two weeks. Articles and editorials focusing on social injustice in New Brunswick.
Plan for Detoxification Center
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Proposal given to the Quebec government to establish a detox center in downtown Montreal.
Politics of Transportation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Articles on the role of transportation in Saskatchewan society.
The Pontiac Anti-Nuclear Action Committee
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Popular Education Conference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The level of discussion was brought down to actual examples and practice quite in contrast to the sloganeering and shallow definition of terms that is typical of most formal intra-left gatherings.
Popular Education Conference - Overview
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
Population Issues
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet linking the overpopulation problem to over-consumption in rich countries.
Portugal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
Prairie Star
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A pro-labour perspective on contemporary events and issues.
Quicksilver and Slow Death
A study of mercury pollution in Northwestern Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A comprehensive paper describing the causes and effects of mercury pollution.
Raids and Reconstructions
Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
Rap About Prisoners
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Representing people both inside and outside the prison system.
Rape of the Block or every person's guide to neighbourhood defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Written to enable citizens of Edmonton to "begin to plan their own communities."
Red Menace #1
Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
The first issue of The Red Menace
Report on the Assemble Generale de U.C.S.N. au Monteal of May 4,5,6, 1976
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report of a workshop designed to aid individuals involved in urban core issues.
Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
May 12-13, 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
Resource and Development in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
This pamphlet traces the history and inequities of Newfoundland's development of resources.
Resource Kit on Northern Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Introduction to issues surrounding Native rights and northern development.
Resources - "Awareness towards Action"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Booklet to provide parish Youth Corp groups with essential information for dealing with issues of social justice.
The Revolution is Dead Long Live the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area
Newsletter #26 - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Newsletter to keep members informed of the latest developments on the abortion question in Toronto, Ontario and Canada at large.
Runaway Industries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Study of transnational corporation investments and its affect on international union solidarity.
St. Louis - Sud - Community Newspaper
Vol. 3, No. 9 - Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Community newspaper serving the residents of St. Louis, Montreal. Printed in English, French, Greek & Spanish.
The Saskatchewan Indian.
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A vehicle for Indian opinion in Saskatchewan.
Scarboro Missions
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Magazine discussing themes related to the work of Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada and abroad.
Sharing Daily Bread
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1976
16 minute slide tape documentary defining the causes of global food shortage.
She never was afraid
The biography of Annie Buller
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
The story of Annie Buller, a Canadian trade union activist and Communist.
Shin-aki: The Unicorn Hunter's Guide
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A quarterly newsletter of one Toronto network of Christian Communities.
Single Displaced Persons Project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Outline of the efforts of individuals from various church related institutions to change the system of services that is seen to perpetuate skid row.
Social Democracy & Industrial Militancy
The Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Income Policy 1945-74
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Panitch describes the British experience of income policies (the measures aimed at controlling wages) in the post war years and the resulting relationship between trade unions and the Labour government.
Some Communities in Toronto.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Listing of selected communities in Toronto, Canada, North America and Europe.
Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Technology, the Labor Process, and the Working Class
Monthly Review July-August 1976
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Ten Days for World Development, Study Issue, 1976
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
"Lifestyle" issue points out global realities call for a less consumer-oriented lifestyle.
Tenant Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Answers to key questions for tenants and those working with tenants in Alberta.
Theological Reflection Re: Skid Row
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Reflection on the conditions that foster the existence of Skid Rows in Canada.
This Land Is Not For Sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Examination of Native land claims and development in Canada's north.
Through Arawak Eyes
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1976
Music and poetry portrays the Indian experience in the Americas.
Tin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
An Analysis of the economics of tin from mining and production through marketing.
Tribal News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
News pamphlet written primarily to raise the social and political awareness of native people in B.C.
Underdevelopment in Canada Volume Two
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
20 articles discussing underdevelopment in Canada.
Unity
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Newspaper dedicated to promoting participation of all Christians in the Apostolate of the Church.
US Grain Firms in Canada
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
A discussion of the movement of Cargill & Continental Grain Inc. into Canada.
Vancouver Cooperative Radio
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
City-wide FM radio station run on a non-profit, no-commercial, committe-run basis.
The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements
With introductory comment by Bernard M. Daly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Final text of the declaration, with comments on the parts the Canadian delegation opposed.
Vancouver People's Law School
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Video tapes made by local lawyers who explain laws and legal procedures.
Vancouver Status of Women
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Brochure that describes the inner workings of the Vancouver Status of Women organization.
"Vie Ouvriere" (Worker's life)
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
An editorial collective in collaboration of Young Christian Workers "at the service of radical Christians of the working world".
Violations of Human Rights in Uruguay 1972-76
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Wage & Price Controls
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Canadian working people have now joined the ranks of workers in other western capitalist countries who have been subjected to a statutory incomes policy.
Wage and Price Controls -- What Have They Done To Others?
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
An international perspective on wage and price controls.
Wages for Housework Video Tape
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
A video record of the development of the wages for housework debate.
We Just Won't Take It
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
Film expressing the opposition of the U.A.W. to wage controls.
We stand on guard for whom?
A study of Corporate Control over Resources in the Northwest Territories and Brazil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A study of Corporate Control over Resources in the NorthWest Territories and Brazil.
Welfare Practices and Civil Liberties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Report, based on 2-year survey of welfare recipients and administrators, identifies a number of serious problems.
Wesika: A Journal Devoted to the Land Claims Movement
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Presents the Indian Land Claims issue from an Indian perspective.
West Coast Environmental Law Association (WCELA)
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
An "environmental law center" providing legal advice, public education, and the promotion of legal reforms dealing with environmental issues.
What Happened to Better Read Graphics?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Four members of the Better Read Graphics collective (identified only by their initials) explain the political differences which led the collective to decide to dissolve in the summer of 1976.
What is Socialist Feminism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Women on "Skid Row": A Proposal for a Shelter for Alcoholic and Homeless Women In Montreal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A proposal written to funding bodies requesting financial assistance in setting up a women's shelter in Montreal.
Women Working
Issue #6
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
Examination of many of the issues facing women in the working world.
Women's Communications Centre
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Information centre on women's issues.
Working in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Your Rights as a Tenant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976
A booklet providing information and simple explanations of the laws governing landlord and tenant relationships in Ontario.
Youth Corps
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
An organization in which young people grow through community service.
Interactions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1976 Published: 1975
Remarks made at a meeting of New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.

1975

Critique of Syndicalist Methods
Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975 Published: 1998
Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975 Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975 Published: 1978
Wie Alles Anfing
How it All Began - The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerilla
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975 Published: 1977
The original German edition of Wie Alles Anfing was seized by security police when it appeared in 1975. The resulting trial and publicity raised an international outrcy and the book has since been republished in German and translated into six languages.
A Worker in a Worker's State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975 Published: 1977
Publications List of the Canadian Association in Support of the Native Peoples
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975 Published: 1976
Comprehensive list of publications relating to native peoples.
Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975 Published: 1976
Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - December 1975
Volume III Number 10
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - November 1975
Volume III Number 9
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - October 1975
Volume III Number 8
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
New Hogtown Press
After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
Canadian News Synthesis Project Review 1974 - 1975
Review 1974-75
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Special review supplement for 1974 - 1975. The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America. Supplement covers major topics during 1974 - 1975.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - July 1975
Volume III Number 7
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - June 1975
Volume III Number 6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Arms and the Woman
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975 Published: 1980
The modern revolutionary movement must destroy this opposition of pleasure-activity, sensitivity-lucidity, conception-execution, habit-innovation.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - May 1975
Volume III Number 5
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - April 1975
Volume III Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - March 1975
Volume III Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - February 1975
Volume III Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - January 1975
Volume III Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Approaches to Skid Row: Rosewater? Rehabilitation? Radical Renewal?
Notes on the Conference of December 3, 4, 5, 1974
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
The Betrayal of Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Black Canadians
A Long Line of Fighters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Discusses the roles played by black Canadians in history.
Buchans - Company Town
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1975
A history of Buchans, Newfoundland, and the advantages and disadvantages of a company town.
The Canadian Alternate Celebrations Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A catalogue of ways to seek alternatives in our way of liviing and celebrating in the context of a comsumer society.
Chile Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
Co-workers in a World Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Problems facing agriculture in Manitoba, similar to problems facing Japanese farmers.
Cultivating Famine: The World Food Crisis
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1975
A look at the historical and structural causes of the wold food crises and their most commonly advocated solutions.
Dying Hard
The Ravages of Industrial Carnage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A shocking and indignant challenge to the conscience and humanity not just of Canada but of all nations, an outraged cry of protest and concern of workers victimized alike throughout the modern world.
The East York Workers' Association
A Response to the Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
An account of the activity of relief recipients in the township of East York, an eastern suburb of Toronto, in the 1930s.
The Economics of Injustice
Poverty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
Ecotopia
The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A novel describing an ecological utopia.
The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
It is a tragic fact, for which Leninists of all kinds (Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and the advocates of various theories of "state capitalism", i.e. International Socialists, Bordigists, "Marxist Humanists", etc.) must carry their full share of responsibility, that we know less today about the early weeks of Russian Revolution than we do, for instance, about the history of the Paris Commune.
Hands Across Polluted Waters
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1975
Chronicle of the visit or representatives from White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves to Minimata and Miigaata in Japan.
Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
The History of Canadian Business 1867-1914
Volume I - The Banks and Finance Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A comprehensive history of Canadian business and a detailed account of the development of commerce and industry in the formative period from Confederation to the first World War. In Volume 1 on the banks and finance capital, the story of the growth of the Canadian chartered banking system is told in detail. Included is an analysis of the many bank failures, and an explanation of the techniques used successfully by the largest chartered banks to dominate banking and finance in the new confederation. Several chapters deal with hitherto unrecorded facets of the development of the financial system of Canada, the major financial institutions and the types of operations they financed.
The History of Canadian Business 1867-1914
Volume II - Industrial Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
This comprehensive two-volume history of Canadian business is a detailed account of the development of commerce and industry in the formative period from Confederation to the first World War. Volume II deals mainly with the develpment of manufacturing and industry. The rapid growth of foreign branch plants which followed the National Policy is examined in detail, as are business assistance measures like patent laws, tariffs, government subsidies and municipal 'bonusing'. Naylor offers detailed accountes of the rise of big businesses through the formation of cartels and mergers assembled out of smaller independent operations.
Housing Rehabilitation Guides
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A series of four booklets dealing with housing in Edmonton.
Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
The Indian Act and What it Means
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Inland Terminals threaten Small Towns
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
The threat of American multinationals to Canadian farming system.
Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
As every strike, demonstration, occupation or other kinds of anticapitalist activity which ignores the official labor organisations and escapes their controls, takes on the character of independent working class action, which determines its own organisation and procedures, may be regarded as a council movement; so, on a larger scale, the spontaneous organisation of revolutionary upheavals, such as occurred in Russia in 1905 and 1917, in Germany in 1918, and later # against the state-capitalist authorities -in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, avail themselves of workers# councils as the only form of working class actions possible under conditions in which all established institutions and organisations have become defenders of the status quo.
Just Like You and Me
Images of the downtown eastside, Vancouver
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Photographic and poetic images of the people of the "skid row" area of Vancouver.
The Liberated Man
Beyond Masculinity: Freeing Men and Their Relationship with Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
The Meaning of Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Chomsky believes that no outside power will make the USA own up to the factual account of the war and the domestic resistance it faced. He claims that efforts will actually be made to obscure this history. Consequentially, Chomsky, as a sort of custodian of history, attempts to gather these facts and discuss the ideological conflict over "the lessons of Vietnam".
A Modest Proposal for How the Bad Old Days Will End
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A brief explanation of capitalism and optimistic manifesto for stateless communism.
Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Description of conference with replections on implications for Calgary.
The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Le Nouvel Ordre Economique International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Une vue d'ensemble du "nouvel ordre economique international."
Of dust and time and dreams and agonies
A short history of Canadian people
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
On Active Service in War and Peace
Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Paul Mattick Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
People and Systems
Multiple Authorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Packet of materials on how the people of Tanzania, Cuba, China, U.S, and Canada are coping with education, health care, religion, work, and the status of women.
Plunderbund and Proletariat
A History of the IWW in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism # working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
The Promotion of Tourism Prince Edward Island Style
A brief presented to Hon. Gilbert R. Clements, Minister of Tourism, Parks and Conservation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Critique of the impact of tourism and its promotion on the people of P.E.I.
Radical America - Volume 9, Number 6 - November-December 1975
Revolution in Portugal
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
A Seventh Man
A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
Solidarity For Ever! Can These Bones Live?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A newsletter that looks at the agricultural Labour meovment.
Southern Populism & Black Labor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Submission to the Ontario Government on the Employment and Housing Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A brief arguing that housing should become a regulated public utility.
Target - Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Information about the controversial issue of nuclear energy.
What A.G.A.I.N.?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
What is the New International Economic Order?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the New International Economic Order.
Who Pays? Who Profits? Food Production in Canada
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1975
Who is responsible for the high price of food in Canada?
The Working Class and Social Change
Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975
A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
Martin Glaberman: La Classe Ouvrière - Préambule
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1975

1974

El Trotskismo y el Partido de Vanguardia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974 Published: 2010
The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974 Published: 1995
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974 Published: 1975
The Working-Class Majority
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974 Published: 1975
Canadian News Synthesis Project - December 1974
Volume II Number 12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - November 1974
Volume II Number 11
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - October 1974
Volume II Number 10
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project - September 1974
Volume II Number 9
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Supplement: The CIA in Chile
Volume II Number 9 (supplement)
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Supplement to Canadian News Synthesis Project Volume II, Number 9 (September 1974). The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America. Special in-depth issue on the presence of the Central Intelligence Agency in Chile.
Marxist Views of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
We are not discussing the working class because we want to find out what the noble worker is all about. We are concerned with social change. The fundamental problem of how you define and how you view the working class is the problem of whether the working class is a viable instrument for social change.
Structuralism as Defense of the Bureaucratic Status Quo
A Dialectical Critique of Althusserian Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Althusserian theory is deeply conservative and puts obstacles in the way of seeing the truly revolutionary currents that exist in the modern world.
Against Sectarianism
The Challenge of the Labor Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
The Anatomy of Racism
Canadian Dimensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Militant Native protests, racist responses to third world immigration, relations between French and English are discussed in the context of racial scapegoating in a time of economic recession, and the prevalence of prejudice and discrimination in Canada.
Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Bureaucracy and Revolution in East Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Bureaucratic Collectivism
The Stalinist Social System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Capitalism and Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
About the permanent arms economy, the latest phase of capitalism.
Citizens Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
The Economics of Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Brown discusses different theories of the connection between capitalism and imperialism. His own position is derived from Rosa Luxemburg, holding that imperialism is a process of assimilation and transformation of economies into the sphere of competitive capital accumulation.
Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
False Promises: A Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
False Promises is a strange book. Despite a certain carelessness of presentation, I recommend it to all concerned with the working class for its extensive documentation of the working-class experience, at work, in the larger society, and in the unions. It is imbued with the conception that freedom is the fundamental quality of revolutionary change and it rejects the strangling doctrines and structures of the union movement and of the vanguard parties. Yet it cannot overcome a conception of working-class consciousness which reduces workers to victims and consciousness to verbalizations.
Film as a Subversive Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
The First Three Internationals
Their history and lessons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
Forget It Jack
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1974
Film documenting the reasons for a strike at the Norfolk General Hospital in Simcoe, Ontario,
Hierarchy of salaries and incomes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974 Published: 1979
The official ideology's justification of hierarchy does not coincide with either logic or reality.
History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918 - 1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Hogtown
Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
India-China: Underdevelopment and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
James Bay - Development for Whom?
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1974
Documentary of the struggles of the Native Peoples affected by the James Bay project.
The Lands We Lost
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The Malaise on the Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Let us take it for granted that meaningful activity needs to be collective, that social transformation needs emancipated individuals, and that the institutional framework of any new society will probably be based, in part at least, on those forms which the struggle itself has repeatedly thrown up at its moments of deepest insight and creativity. What we now need to think about - and to discuss widely throughout the libertarian left - is the political content of an activity that consciously seeks both to avoid recuperation and to be relevant to the conditions of today.
Male Chauvinism!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
Toward a Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
Marxism and the Mass Media
Toward a Basic Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Monthly Review - Volume 26 Number 3
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The degradation of work in the twentieth century
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Muscle & Blood
The Massive, Hidden Agony of Industrial Slaughter in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The NDP: The Dream of Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
No Right-of-Way
How democracy came to the oil patch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Notes on the American Working Class and Capital in the 1960s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Out of the Driver's Seat
Marxism in North America Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
A Political History of Agrarian Organizations in Ontario 1914-1940
with special reference to Grey and Bruce Counties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Poverty in Wealth
The Capitalist Labour Market and Income Distribution in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Privilege of Sex
A Century of Canadian Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Radical America - Volume 8, No. 5 - September-October 1974
Class Struggle in Britain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
The Rejection of Politics and other essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
"The rejection of politics" is a basic tenet of all anarchism. Woodcock however does not discuss anarchism as such but the path that his own political interests have taken: from international anarchist to Canadian patriot. Two recurrent themes in the book are his antipathy to Marxism and his ambivalent attitude toward Canadian nationalism. Woodcock believes that the "Left" is dead and that modern anarchists have to shed outdated concepts of the past.
The Repression at Belgrade University
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
During the 1960s, the philosophy and sociology departments of the Belgrade University in former Yugoslavia began discussing general social issues such as the meaning of technology, of freedom and democracy, of social progress, and of the role of culture in building a socialist society. In response, authorities tried to repress these discussions. Chomsky presents the background, developments, and situation of the conflict.
Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
School Drop-Outs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
A list of proposals for reducing the school drop-out rate.
The Seven Laws of Money
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
A book that tells you how to live with money; how to get it, care for it, forget about it.
The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
The Socialist Register 1974
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
Strange Empire
Louis Riel and the Metis People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Trotskyism and the vanguard party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
The Unknown Revolution 1917-1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
A Very Ordinary Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
What is to be Undone
A Modern Revolutionary Discussion of Classifcal Left Ideologies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
A critical discussion of classical Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism, and Maoism from the perspective of political effectiveness in present US contexts.
Women in the Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Years of Hard Labour
Trade Unions and the Workingman in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Bituminous Coal Strike of 1974
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
A 28-day national coal strike in the United States led by the United Mine Workers of America,
From Wildcat Strike to Total Self Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
On left-wing dogmatism - a senile disorder
plus, Vanguard, vanguard, who's got the vanguard?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Today#s Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx#s Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Far from #ownership# alone determining the class relationship, Marx, from his first break with bourgeois society in 1843, through his leadership in the Workingmen#s (First) International Association in 1864, to his death in 1883, never varied from #dead labor dominating living labor# as the determinant of capitalism.
Total Self-Management
Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem’s book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1974
Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.

1973

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3092
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1989
Hanging in Canada
A Concise History of a Controversial Topic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1982
Radical Digressions 1
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1973 Published: 1979
Feminism in the Radical and Early Socialist Movement
Chapter 8 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973 Published: 1975
There existed a strong minority tradition in radicalism which questioned the whole social and sexual position of women.
Lip and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1975
Middle-Class Women Begin to Organise
Chapter 9 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women#s Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973 Published: 1975
The Wandering of Humanity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1975
Humans are subjugated by Capital. The logic of production removes decision-making from human control. Capital is anthropomorphized. Technology has no borders or limits. Nature is ravaged as humanity wanders.
The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
The Newsletter
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
SDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
Last Words to the Nation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973, in the midst on an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d'etat against the democratically-elected government. Barricaded inside La Moneda, the presidential palace, President Allende gave his life defending Chilean democracy.
Grassroots Cells, Devil#s Architects Defend Communities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973 Published: 1989
Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
Alternatives to Poverty and Welfare in Alberta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A basic accounting of the extent of poverty and of those on Welfare in Canada and Alberta.
The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
Documents of revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present?
Art and Sexual Politics
Why Have There No Great Women Artists?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Examines cultural and ideological biases about female artists
Brazil -- The Price of a Development Miracle
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1973
A critical view of the Brazilian "economic miracle" since the military coup of 1964.
Canadian News Synthesis Project
Volume I Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project
Volume I Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project
Volume I Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Canadian News Synthesis Project
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Chile Versus the Corporations
A Call for Canadian Support
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Communist Threat to Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Complaints and Disorders
The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Correcting Common Misconceptions About Nonviolent Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A handout sheet addressing common misconceptions about nonviolent action and answering some frequently asked questions. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
Course Union Organisers' Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Democratic Theory
Essays in Retrieval
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A Nihilist/Anarchist repudiation of 1970's-era British society. Aside from the fecklessness of mainstream capitalist culture, the Communist Party's re-iteration of the standard state/opponent relationship maintains a "dialectic" of civic conformity.
Dr. Snider's Report
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Issues facing senior citizens in Alberta.
The Earth Belongs to the People
Ecology and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Fight for Freedom for Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Fiscal Crisis of the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Group Marriage
A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Halfbreed; A Proud and Bitter Canadian Legacy
A Proud and Bitter Canadian Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Hazards of Work: How to Fight Them
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Herstory
A Canadian Women's Calendar 1974 - Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Highrise and Superprofits
An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The History of Working People in the South
A Draft Study Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Imagination in Power
The Occupation of Factories in France in 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Die Internationalisierung der kapitalistischen Produktionsverhältnisse und der Nationalstaat
Internationale Marxistische Diskussion 42
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Learnxs
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1973
Liberation - Volume 18, Number 4 - December 1973
Do The People Need a Party?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
The Lordstown Struggle and the Real Crisis in Production
Solidarity Pamphlet 45
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
An attempt to document some important tendencies developing in the motor car industry but which are relevant to modern production as a whole.
Marx, theoretician of anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
The Movable Airport
The politics of government planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
An account of the manoeuvring and bureaucratic runaround that went into the planning of the Pickering airport, and of the resistance that it produced.
Native Canadians and the United Church in Winnipeg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A study of the status status of Ministries, Lodge and Indian workers, and recommendations.
Northern Perspectives
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Not in God's Image
Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of "nonviolent weapons" at their disposal. Listed are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. Excerpted from The Politics of Nonviolent Action.
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence.
The President and the Presidency
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Chomsky assesses public reactions to the Watergate scandal, dividing them into two categories: cynicism or outrage. He further explores the different perceptions of what in fact Nixon's criminal actions were and discusses the meaning of the principle of unconstrained executive power in relation to democracy.
Primary Sources in Canadian Working Class History 1860-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Productivity
The Employers' attack and How To Fight It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Public Assistance Food Allowance Increase
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
An analysis of the effect on the Alberta poor of a 9% food allowance increase in 1972-73.
Radical America - Volume 7, Number 2 - March-April 1973
Working Class Struggles in Italy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
Real Time 2
A catalog of ideas and information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Roots of Class Struggle in the South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Sellout
The Giveaway of Canada's Energy Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Documents the misdevelopment of Canadian energy resources.
Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
Small is Beautiful
A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
The Social Passion
Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914- 28
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A Socialist Alternative For Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
Third World: Development of Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1973
Multi-media resource kit examines general international development issues with real-world examples.
Tourists of the Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
An Unauthorized History of the RCMP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Underhanded History of the USA
Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Unfashionable Human Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A discussion of apparel, in the broadest sense of the word, and how it has reflected and shaped attitudes to the human body.
Vietnam: Whose Victory?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
VTR - Edmonton Chinatown...A Beginning...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Report on the use of video tape to facilitate Chinese community's role in shaping the direction of their community.
Watergate
A sceptical view
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Noam Chomsky asserts that in light of the other telling symptoms of an unhealthy democracy - such as Kissinger's murderous war ambitions - the Watergate scandal should not have come as a shock to even the least cynical. He illustrates why Nixon's small-scale coup attempt and the revelations which followed should not be the focus of skepticism, noting that there are other issues which deserve more attention.
Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Workers' Control
A Reader on Labor and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Informal Work Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
Stan Weir on some of his life experiences at work and what he saw as the "the only organizational form opposed to formal bureaucracies which cannot be captured by them", the informal work group.

1972

Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
A report on Britain's Government Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1989
Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
Women, Resistance and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1974
Working
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1974
People talk a bout what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.
Women's Liberation and Revolution
A Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1973
A Parable of Pigs
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
There once was a pig farm that was operated by an old farmer, his son, and a hired man. The farmyard was filled with hundreds of pigs of all sizes, and they all ate their swill from a huge trough.
Danbury: Anatomy of a Prison Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Towards a Method for the Revolutionary Reconstruction of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
On the critique and transformation of everyday life as a key part of the struggle for revolutionary transformation. Published in Liberation magazine April 1972.
A is for Anachronism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Experiences of a teacher.
Begin at Start
Some Thoughts on Personal Liberation and World Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Cambao - The Yoke
The Hidden Face of Brazil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Canada's Water: For Sale
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Describes the pressures behind U.S. demand for Canadian water and the Canadian response and presents the case against grand engineering schemes, major dams, and large river diversions.
Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
Community
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
The time has come to start a community. The purpose of this article is to explain why and how.
"Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis" -- A Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Discussion of Marx's Theory of Crisis (Part 1)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Ernest Mandel#s Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Fantasy and the Counter-Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the usefulness of speculative fiction in our search for an alternative way of life.
Forum: Canadian Life and Letters - 1920-1970
Selections from the Canadian Forum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Foundations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Communes, communism, comradeship -- whatever you wish to call the mood of the young both in and out of communal homes -- will die without an understanding of our foundations, in history, where we have been, where we are going, what we are doing here.
Free Ourselves
Forgotten Goals of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Great Gay in the Morning
One Group's Approach to Communal Living and Sexual Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Greenpeace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
History and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Two critiques of Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism.
The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The impoverishment of the Canadian left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Perhaps the most visible phenomenon 9and the most painful) on the scene of social change in Canada today, is the lack of any real left alternative to either bourgeois or liberal radical politics.
Institute for the Study of Cultural Evolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
An attempt to make the university of humanity a conscious coordinated effort towards humanity at peace with itself and its environment.
Karl Marx: Essential Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
Labour Martyr: Joe Hill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The story of the rebel songwriter and union activst Joe Hill, who was murdered by the state of Utah in 1915.
Liberation - Volume 17, No. 3, 4, 5 - August 1972
Workers: A Special Section
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
A Long View from the Left
Memoirs of an American Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A memoir of a member of the American Communist Party.
Louder Voices
The Corporate Welfare Bums
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotksyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
Native Rights in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A report on the legal rights of the natives of Canada.
A New History of Leviathan
Essays on the Rise of the American Corporate State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The New Refugees
American Voices in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
One Dimensional Man In Class Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Only Connect
On Culture and Communication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Only One Earth
The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The Paris Commune of 1871
The View from the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
For the Left, the Paris Commune of 1871 stands as the first example of the exercise of political power by a working class. Socialists, Communists and Anarchists have all looked to this 72-day revolution for lessons - often conflicting - in the development of approaches to state power, democratic processes and a vanguard party in socialist revolutions. This volume gives the English reader direct access to a substantial collection of documents from the time of the Commune - most of which have remained unpublished even in France. These are writings in which some Communards themselves express the view that the Commune was an egalitarian social revolution committed to the ultimate abolition of classes.
The Party of Eros
Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The Pentagon Papers and U.S. Imperialism in South East Asia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Chomsky considers the imperial interests of the USA in South East Asia, claiming that these are revealed in the Pentagon Papers. Then, after a detailed account of the content, he suggests that mere anti-communist goals were not the sole motivation for moving into the region but it was rather the "perceived significance of Southeast Asia for the integrated global system that was to be organised by American power."
Playgrounds are only one aspect of the struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Quebec A Chronicle 1968-1972
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
Special Issue: Quebec
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
Radical Perspectives in the Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
Reichstag Fire: Ashes of Democracy
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
Samuelson#s #Transformation# of Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Somehow, and for reasons known only to himself, Paul A. Samuelson cannot leave Marx alone.
Schule und Fabrik
Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Silencing the Workers
Censorship in the National Film Board
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
'Solidarity' and the Neo-Narodniks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Some realities to remember
An exchange on Adventure Playgrounds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An attempt to bring together, in the form on a historical outline, some of the political hypotheses and methodological guidelines that circulated within the Italian working-class movement in the period 1967-1972.
Toronto For Sale: the Destruction of a City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An account of how the Toronto City Council rezoned land to maximize land densities, favoring the interests of private developers over the public in the 1970s.
Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
The tightly knit structures of the big industrial unions leave no room for maneuvering. There is no reasonable way in which young workers can use the union constitution to overturn and overhaul the union structure. The constitution is against them; the money and jobs available to union bureaucrats are against them. And if these fail, the forces of law and order of city, state and federal governments are against them. If that were not enough, the young workers in the factories today are expressing the instinctive knowledge that even if they gained control of the unions and reformed them completely, they would still end up with unions # organizations which owe their existence to capitalist relations of productions.
The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Published in the May 1972 and August 1972 issues of Liberation magazine.
Viet Peace will come with victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
Vietnam
How the government became wolves
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972
In note of the fact that the American administrations never deviated from the basic assumption that communism must be defeated, Noam Chomsky describes how the image of the USA as a noble and virtuous political leader that is "bewildered and victimized, but not responsible" had been concocted.
Vote!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
The Warsaw rising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Ways of Seeing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
"What is Class Consciousness?" -- A Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1972

1971

Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1975
Diet for a Small Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1975
Farmers Confront Industrialism
Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1975
On Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971 Published: 1975
On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1973
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
The Russell Lectures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1972
These lectures explore Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
Sexual Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1972
Speaking and Language
Defence of Poetry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1972
Goodman writes, "I do not think there can be a rule for the appropriate use of formal or vernacular language...The best is to try for a vernacular that molds itself to what is going on and to use it critically".
Study No. 22
Task Force on Labour Relations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971 Published: 1972
After Pinkville
In Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Chomsky begins by expressing criticism of the peace movement protestors. He claims that their demands on the US government to "stop bombing and enter negotiations" in Vietnam were insufficient; they should have instead called for immediate withdrawal and adherence to international law. Chomsky then turns his criticism towards the American moral standing, citing one professors take on foreign policy: "To crush the people's war, we must eliminate the people". He parallels this to the moral level of Nazi Germany and questions the US's lack of moral considerations in the Vietnam War.
Alienation
Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The alienation of radical theatre
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The American Economy: Crisis and Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Since capitalist economic policy must make no mention of the exploitation relations underlying the capitalist mode of production, economists and politicians must seek #solutions# to economic problems in terms of market phenomena.
America#s War in Indochina
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
There is no special reason for America#s intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called #free world,# and particularly to the power which dominates it.
The Anarchists
The men who shocked an era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The history and ideology of anarchism.
Bakunin on Anarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
An Indian History of the American West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
A well documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian.
Cabbagetown: A Working Class District
Hugh Garner's novel revisited
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The Canadian Whole Earth Almanac
Profile of a project
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Children's Play and Official Playgrounds
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Childrens Liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The Class Nature of Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Israeli society is not merely a society of immigrants; it is one of settlers. The society, including its working class, was shaped through a process of colonization. The permanent conflict between the settlers' society and the indigenous, displaced Palestiniann has never stopped and has shaped the very strcuture of Israeli sociology, politics, and economics.
The Coming of the New International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Communism Takes China
How the Revolution Went Red
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Conversation with Allende
Socialism in Chile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Counter-Planning on the Shop Floor
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
"Culture", Science and State-Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Neither culture nor science can lead lives separate from the economic realities of the societies which nurture them. Science and culture, even as they are procliamed to be the harbingers of revolutionary change, are being used today by the existing social order to preserve itself.
The Decline of Working Class Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The Enemies of Anarchy: A Critical Summary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Exploitation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Jenkins argues that the conventional approaches to international relations, aid and development are a sham that is all the more unforgivable because they pretend to be scientific and objective when in fact they are a series of compounded lies in defence of the status quo.
The Fallacy of "Community Control"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The idea of community control which proceeds from a geographic definition of community contains the serious fallacy of assuming that any neighbourhood is or can becomes a community (of equals). This fallacy leads to the consequent, easily documented failure to achieve any fundational -- or even minor, for that matter -- social changes. The community control advocates themselves recognize the failures, but they do not understand the cause: the lack of class analysis upon which an adequate theory can be built to guide one's practice.
The Female Eunuch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Foreword to the War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
In Bertrand Russell's War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Chomsky introduces the themes to be explored in Russell's book on the Vietnam Tribunal. He points out the complacency in Europe and the USA and calls the Tribunal as a renouncement of the crime of silence. Although the Tribunal was not accurately reported, criticisms arose, two of which Chomsky highlights: 1) The bias of jurors, witnesses and participants; and 2) The superfluous nature of the Tribunal in light of the atrocity of the crime of barbarism.
From the workers: a practical critique of bourgeois sociology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Ho
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
A portrait of Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh.
The House of Horrors that Jack Built
A look at early childhood literature
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
In Defense of the Student Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
In 1971, Chomsky proclaims the student movement to be the one organized segment of the intellectual community that is genuinely and actively committed to the kind of social change needed. However, he outlines what he finds to be the grave tactical mistakes being made by the movement, one being their search for confrontation. Chomsky sees this as "suicidal". However, regardless of his practical criticisms, he continues to express his explicit support.
Inside Rochdale
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
What Rochdale has done is to provide a meeting ground on which those disenchanted with the running of modern society can attempt to work out an alternative environment.
The Kronstadt Uprising 1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
A letter of resignation
I refuse to brainwash Canadian students
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Life on the Line
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Working on an assembly line in an auto plant.
Makers of our Daily Bread
An interview with two bakery workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Mass Communications and American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
Mayday
The Case for Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Chomsky addresses the expected "cooling" of the Student Movement in light of negative reviews of the May Day demonstration. He analyzes this cooling as a key factor in US strategy, especially in relation to the Congress and disputes arguments such as civil disobedience is illegitimate in a democracy as decisions are reached via democratic institutions. After his exploration of the numerous questions surrounding the issue of civil disobedience, Chomsky warns that by blocking channels of protest, the government may "bring about a domestic crisis of indeterminable proportions".
No Futher Retreat
The Fight to Save Florida
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The Organizer's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The newly found "poor" have become a focus for middle class activists. Having learned in the schools and universities that the working class either did not exist or that if it existed, it was co-opted and apathetic and could not possible act as the agent for social change, they found it "refreshing" to locate this new constituency.
Origins of the International Socialists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The People's History of Cape Breton
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Photography and the Powerless
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
A critique of photographers who come to exploit "the poor."
The poverty of sociology
A review of James Lorimer's "Working People"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
The Radical Therapist
Therapy means change not adjustment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Revolutionary Priest
The Complete Writings & Messages of Camilo Torres
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Rules for Radicals
A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
Rumours of War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The Socialist Register 1971
A survey of movements and ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
The Struggle for Quebec
Spokesman Pamphlet No. 13
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Toward an Authentic Canadian Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Recent developments have only further revealed what has been evident for a long time, namely, the impotence and irrelevance of the Canadian left; the fact that it is minute, factionalized and unable to mobilize people around critical issues, or day-to-day problems.
Two Miners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Unbecoming Men
A Men's Consciousness-Raising Groups Writes on Oppression and Themselves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Weatherman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
Women's liberation, then and now
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Working People
Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Zur Strategie und Organisation von "Lotta Continua"
Internationale Marxistische Diskussion 18
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
An Introduction to Capitalism
Four lectures on Marxian Economies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Marxist-Humanism#s concept of #Subject#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1971
Transcendence has, in academia, both a theological and philosophic meaning far removed from practice. But transcendence as a historic category means people abolishing the old, creating the new; indeed it is the only real transcendence; all else is hogwash.

1970

Reservations Are For Indians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1991
Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.
Old Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1977
The Communist Movement
From Comintern to Cominform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1975
The Irrational in Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1975
The Irrational in Politics examines the way in which we have been programmed by social and sexual patterns of the dominant ideology. The result is mass produced individuals incapable of automous thought and perpetually craving authority and leadership. In this light he looks as well at the sexual revolution and the failure of the Russian Revolution. His aim is to allow the ordinary individual to aquire insight into their own phychic structure and in doing so become harmonised with their own deep aspirations and desires.
Design for the Real World
Human Ecology and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1973
Why the things you buy are expensive, badly designed, unsafe, and usually don't work.
Revolutionary Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1971
At War With Asia
Essays on Indochina
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Bad Trip
The Untold Story of the Spadina Expressway
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Bertrand Russell and Industrial Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Bertrand Russell's Last Message
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
The Bolsheviks & Workers' Control
The State and Counter-Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization.
Cambodia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Chomsky discusses the invasion of Cambodia. He describes it in terms of the internationalization of the Vietnam war as well as explores the internal developments leading up to the event. Specifically, Chomsky focuses on the right-wing coup of Prince Sihanouk on March 18th 1970 as the turning point from neutrality to destabilization.
The Children's Crusade
The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Close the 49th Parallel Etc
The Americanization of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
Do It
Scenarioes of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Economy of Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Empire and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Enemy
Notes on Imperliasm and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Energy Poker Game
The Politics of the Continental Resources Deal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Eye for an Eye
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Four inmates talk about the American penal system over 50 years of rehabilitation and the corruption inherent of the prison system.
For a Socialist Ontario in an Independent Socialist Canada
Resolutions prepared for the Ontario New Democratic Party Convention, October, 1970 by the Ontario Waffle Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
The Great Conspiracy Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Hard Times
An Oral History of The Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The High School Revolutionaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Two young teachers travel across America gathering the views of young high school radicals.
The Higher Circles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Hip Culture
6 Essays on its Revolutionary Potential
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
In North Vietnam
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Chomsky traveled to North Vietnam in 1970 to explore the state of the country and give lectures at the Polytechnic University. While there, he discovered that although the nation had begun to lay the foundations for modernization and development, progress had been dramatically disrupted through the war with America. He reveals that the "air war of destruction" was in fact not as accurate in targeting military points as previously claimed. Yet Chomsky notes the enduring spirit of the Vietnamese who accept each struggle - whether with the Chinese, Mongols, Japanese, French, or Americans - as a succession of victories.
The Indochina Story
A Fully Documentary Account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Left at the Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Legend of Marx, or 'Engels the founder'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Lenin and Luxemburg: Negation in theory and Praxis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
Marx's Theory of Alienation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Die Massenstreikdebatte
Arbeiterbewegung Theorie und Geschicthe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The New Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Notes on Anarchism
In Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Noam Chomsky explores numerous variations and philosophies associated with the anarchist notion. He considers them in a context of historical development and elaborates with his own perspectives, explanations, and general commentary.
On Wielding the Subversive Scalpel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
In subversion, we leave behind the interminable argument between the good bureaucrats & the bad ones. By subversion we do not mean, as in its common usage, #overthrowing the government# & replacing it with ourselves. We mean undermining the very addiction, the sick, junkie-like need, to govern or be governed at all. In the end / in the beginning, there are no leaders, no followers: there are only actors.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
An anthology of poems, some by socialists, other by poets who do not identify themselves as socialist but who have written poetry reflecting a socialist sensibility.
The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Hobbes to Locke
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Politics of War
The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Pollution Probe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Push Comes to Shove
The Escalation of Student Protest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Diary of Kelman's undergraduate years at Harvard during times of SDS-led student protest.
Radical America - Volume 4, No. 6 - September - October 1970
Special Lenin-Hegel Issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Radical America - Volume 4, Number 6
Special Lenin-Hegel Issue - Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Reclaiming the Canadian economy
A Sweddish approach through functional Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
An attempt to elucidate "classical anarchism," a la Proudhon, Kropotkin, etc., so as to repudiate "neo-anarchism," with its emphasis on "escapist individualism" and "action for the sake of action."
The Revolution Game
The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Russia, China and the West 1953-1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Silent Surrender
The multinational corporation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Sisterhood is Powerful
An Anthology of Writing From the Women's Liberation Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs, and manifestos.
Socialism in Cuba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Standing Fast
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Struggle for Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
A socialist critique of late-60's/early-70's British society and economics, with emphasis on the distortion of resources' availability and use, as well as capitalism's inate predilection for war. Is concludes that the only recourse is socialist revolution.
This Book Is About Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A collection of articles from This Magazine is About School containing many first person narratives that argue that the current school system is rife with inequality and repression. Repo points out that "free" schools have less freedom than most people expect. One theme that does emerge is that through the emergence of common responsiblities in the 'free" system adult and children alike have started to feel like members of a large intense clan -- they have begun to feel like citizens for the first time.
Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx#s views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a #Marxist# group of any kind # that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Twentieth Century Pacifism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren't very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of 'just talking' and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
Verdict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A Visit to Laos
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
Chomsky shares an account of his 1970 visit to Laos, revealing the heavy atmosphere owing to foreign power presence. "The US has penetrated every phase of existence (as well as destruction).#" He explores Laos' recent political history in the contexts of the Pathet Laos and American involvement, as well as the difference between the local and American understandings of where the source of conflict lies.
Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
La tyrannie d'une absence de structure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970
The Tyranny of Structurelessness - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1970

1969

The Unjust Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1999
Attacks Canada's governments for their treatment of Native People and calls for just solutions.
A history of the peace movement in Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1982
An Opposing Man
The Autobiography of a Romantic Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1974
The memoirs on Ernst Fischer, a socialist literary and art critic.
Peace in the Middle East?
Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1974
An analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict arguing for socialist bi-nationalism as the way out of the morass.
The Rebel Church In Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1974
On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1973
Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
Revolutionary Organization
Versus Bureaucratic and "Democratic" Centralism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1973
An advocacy for democratic, "uncentred" socialism as an antidote to Stalinist repression, elitism by workers' leadership and blindness to the "understandings of today's reality." Also included is a short article by Anton Pennekoek, on "Party and Class".
Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969 Published: 1972
An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
Brazil: The People and The Power
The Pelican Latin American Library
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1972
On Organization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1972
The authors argue that political groups, whether large or small, formal or informal, hierarchical or not, can only be a hindrance to revolutionary developments.
Listen, Marxist!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1971
Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' destroying the New Left.
New Reformation
Notes of a Neolithic Conservative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1971
The Present Moment in Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1970
The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
The Agony of the American Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
A series of essays analyzing the issues facing socialism in the United States.
American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
Art and Pornography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Direct, shop-floor organization have emerged that are willing and able to call strikes in its own name and fight against both the union and the management in a struggle to assert the power of the working class in production.
A Call to Community
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
A proposed community.
Capitalism and Socialism: A Rejoinder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Those who seem frightened of new ideas might at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while. But even this seems to be asking too much. In argument, they defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
DRUM was formed in May 1968 during the course of a wildcat strike that protested against an increase in production without an increase in man-power. Most of the plant porkchoppers were off in Atlantic City at a union convention and the plant was shut down by a joint effort of older Polish women from the Trim Shop and young black workers.
The Economic Transformation of Cuba
A First-Hand Account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
An Essay on Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Since our schools and universities are unwilling to adopt basic, or even moderate, reform, the only way to achieve a worthwhile education is through free schools.
The Frail Ocean
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
French New Working Class Theories
From Radical America April 1969
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The Freudian Left
Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
General Strike France 1968
A factory-by-factory account
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
The Haunted Fifties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
Human Nature and Social Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Latin America: Undervelopment or Revolution
Essay on the Development of Undervelopment and the Immediate Enemy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Living the Revolution
The Yippies in Chicago
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
David Lewis Stein portrays the Yippie movement as a middle-class endeavour in which the leaders (Rubin and Hoffman) represent a new version of an old middle-class virtue: ambition. They are media savvy and know how to court the press and televison.
Long March, Short Spring
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The Making of a Counter Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Man for Himself
An Inguiry into the Psychology of Ethics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Mandel's Economics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Marx & Keynes
The Limits of the Mixed Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
Le Mepris N'Aura Qu'un Temps (Hell no Longer)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1969
A documentary of a construction worker's home life, life on the job, and unemployed.
The New Left
A Collection of Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
New Left Caucus (Toronto Student Movement)
A Draft Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Puts forward an alternative to Leninst factions which emerged in the Toronto Student Movement in 1968-1969. The authors state that "We consider ourselves, therefore, Marxists but not Leninists, though we are prepared to work with various shades of Leninists in struggling against the common enemy, capitalism and imperialism. At the same time, however, we will not be cowed over by those who seek to resurrect Comrade Stalin as a hero, or justify the suppression of the Kronstadt Revolut, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia, etc. Our conceprt of socialism is different, and though we have no worked out program as yet, we will not allow the vanguard formations to close our options for us.
Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The Politics of Being Queer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Goodman writes: "On balance, I don't know whether my choice, or compulsion, of a bisexual life has made me especially unhappy or only averagely unhappy. It is obvious that every way of life has its hang-ups, having a father or no father, being married or single, being strongly sexed or rather sexless, and so forth; but it is hard to judge what other people's experience has been, to make a comparison. I have persistently felt that the world was not made for me, but I have had good moments.
Proposition 31
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Radicalism in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The Reproduction of Daily Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
What sustains capitalism? Our acceptance of everyday activities. The text offers a clear introduction to basic Marxist concepts like commodity fetishism and surplus value; it also traces the transformation of human activity into capital.
Rights and Wrong
Some Essays of Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The Roots of American Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Roots of Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
Student Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Student Power and the Canadian Campus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Studies on Marx and Hegel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Towards a New Past
Dissenting Essays in American History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Towards an Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in Canada
Published in Our Generation, Volume 6, Number 4
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
The U.S. Aggression in Vietnam
Protocol
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
The Beginning of an Era
On the May 1968 revolt in France
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969
History of the Canadian peace movement until 1969
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1969

1968

"We Called a Strike and No One Came"
or Confessions of SDSers (An Allegorical Epic with Footnotes)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1973
Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1972
Essays by the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
Everyday Life in the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1971
50 Years of World Revolution
An International Symposium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1971
History and Class Consciousness
Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1971
Mao as a Dialectician
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1971
Sexuality and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1970
A study of sexual issues in the emergence of the extra-parliamentary left in West Germany during the 1960s. Reiche develops a theoretical view of the evolution of sexuality in the West.
Western Capitalism Since the War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1970
Industry and Empire
Volume 3: From 1750 to the Present Day
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
Hobsbawm documents the rise of the industrial revolution in Britain from its origins around the mid 1700s, its expansion throughout the Victorian decades and finally its effects on British society up to the 1960s.
Latin America: Reform or Revolution
A Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
Living and Learning
The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
Organizing for Worker's Power
Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofri of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, with an introduction by militants in southern Ontario.
The Poverty of Liberalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
Regis Debray and the Latin American Revolution
A collection of Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
The Rich and the Super-Rich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
The Art of Negotiating
Psychological Strategies for Gaining Advantageous Bargains
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Negotiation cannot be considered a game accord to Nierenberg; everyone must win. If participants were to try to co-operate instead of compete, they would be more likely to reach a lasting, mutually beneficial solution.
Capitalism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
The revolution must of course start with the overthrow of the exploiting class and with the institution of workers' management of production. But it will immediately have to tackle the reconstruction of social life in all its aspects. If it does not, it will surely die.
The Documentaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Federalism and the French Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Trudeau argues that nationalism is not a legitimate basis for a state. Nationalist states are undemocratic because they are "by nature intolerant, discriminatory and# totalitarian."
France Spring 1968
Masses in motion Ideas in free flow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
In a Time of Torment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
May 1968 Graffiti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
"Don't consume Marx, live him."
North Vietnam: A Documentary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Off the Record
The CCF in Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Paris: May 1968
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
This is an eyewitness account of two weeks spent in Paris during May 1968. It is what one person saw, heard or discovered during that short period.
People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Philosophers and Public Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
In order for Chomsky to address the symposium's topic of Philosophers and Public Policy, he outlines the premises upon which his discourse is based. He claims that the USA faces a crisis that is largely due to "moral degeneration". For example, he asserts that the change of Vietnam policy should have been based on the fact it was "wrong" as opposed to the fact it was merely failing. Chomsky recognizes that philosophers are versed in the analysis of the intellectual culture of society and limits their responsibility to interpreting the world differently; the task of working for actual change is assigned to all citizens. Accordingly, he calls upon universities and professors to analyze the premises and ideologies of public policies - independent of the organs of power - consequentially laying the foundation for reestablishing the integrity of intellectual life, moral perception, and cultural values.
The Political Economy of Growth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Reflections on a Political Trial
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
In wake of the sentencing of 4 of the 5 men on trial for illegal activities against the draft, Chomsky explores the details of the so-called "Spock" case as well as its meaning for both the "peace movement" and the state of American democracy. Though the issues of legality, legitimacy, and resistance must be, according to Chomsky, considered in the context of the democratic system, these were not addressed in Court. Chomsky reveals the flawed-nature of America's institutions, observing that if the outcome of this trial were to be taken as a guide of conduct, citizens would have to avoid all public acts undertaken jointly with others who share his views in order to avoid risk of prosecution.
Review: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
Myrdal#s dilemma is his theoretical attempt to combine irreconcilable, namely, a capitalist market economy with authoritarian controls designed to subject capital production to actual social needs. This forces him to misunderstand both capitalism and socialism, and to provide them with features they do not possess. It induces him also to assume that it is actually possible to treat the development problems of South Asia in relative isolation from the problems of the capitalist world economy.
The Revolution of Hope
Toward a Humanized Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Silent Spring
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
The Town Labourer
The New Civilization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Canadian Labour in Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4: 1945-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Economic reality and dialectics of liberation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968
To work out a NEW relationship between theory and practice, a methodology is needed which is independent of existing state powers but rather flows from THE greatest "energizing principle" # the mass quest for universality, the Third World fight for freedom, TOTAL freedom, [which] refuses to subordinate the fight against class structure WITHIN a country to any "two camp theory" as if the struggle between the "East" and the "West" is the one that will liberate "The Wretched of the Earth."
May 1968 Documents
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1968

1967

Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution
Ten essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 2009
One of the first studies to identify the importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
The Revolution of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 2001
The classic complement to Debord's Society of the Spectacle. Vaneigem examines the minutia of power as "abstracted mediation and mediated abstraction" that permeates everyday life and the means of seizing control of our lives and truly living.
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
A Symposium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1979
Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1973
Rodinson argues that Zionism fits into the general pattern of Western colonialism, and that Arab opposition to Israel is the opposition of a colonized people towards their colonizers.
Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
Containment and Change
Two Dissenting Views of American Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
Containment and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
Economic History of Britain Vol. II
Reformation to Industrial Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
The Unfinished Revolution Russia 1917-1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
Lenin's Last Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
The Arusha Declaration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
Behind The Lines - Hanoi
December23 - January 7
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
The Crisis of Modern Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
The double tragedy of Che Guevara
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
To prepare themselves for the uphill struggle on two fronts it becomes necessary to also have a clear head, that is to say, a revolutionary theory, fully integrated with the self-activity of the masses. It is for this reason that we must not blind ourselves to the double tragedy of Guevara's death. Bravely he lived and bravely he died, but he did not do in Bolivia what he had done in Cuba: relate himself to the masses. Guevara's isolation from the mass movement arose from a certain concept of guerrilla warfare as a substitute for social revolution.
Marxism: A Re-Examination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
The Moral Ambiguity of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
On Resistance
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Several weeks after the 1967 anti-war demonstrations in Washington, Chomsky shares his impressions of resistance - both its possibilities and limitations.
On the Backgrounds of the Pacific War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
This essay touches on several questions: on Muste's revolutionary pacifism and his interpretation of it in connection with the Second World War; on the backgrounds of Japan's imperial ventures; on the Western reaction and responsibility; and, by implication, on the relevance of these matters to the problems of contemporary imperialism in Asia. WHile Chomsky does not advocate a particular "political line", he does assert that it was the lack of radical political critique which, though not exclusively, contributed to the atrocity of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Origins of American Marxism
From the Transcendentalists to De Leon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
The Origins of Dialectical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
The myth that Karl Marx formulated a fully worked-out method and philosophical system called “dialectical materialism” is the core claim of Marxism, but it has no basis at all in the writings of Karl Marx and but a slim basis in the writings of Frederick Engels. It is widely recognised now that Marx was not a philosopher and the term “dialectical materialism” was invented after his death.
Rent Strikes in New York
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
Revisiting 'Black Power,' Race and Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
There is no such suprahistorical abstraction as racism. In each historical period it was something different. It was one thing during slavery, another during Reconstruction, and quite something else today. To further insist that "Whatever their political persuasion," "All Whites" are "part of the collective white America" so that the U.S. has "180 million racists" is to blur the class line which cuts across the race divisions as well as to muffle the philosophy of total freedom which has created a second America.
The Situationists and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Our task is to link up the theoretical critique of modern society with the critique of it in acts. By detourning the very propositions of the spectacle, we can directly reveal the implications of present and future revolts.
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Demovracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
Solidarity As We See It
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Who Rules America?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Workers# Control
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
Russia – How the Revolution was Lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967

1966

Woman's Estate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1976
The Hidden Injuries of Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1972
Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
The Sociology of Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
The Age of Imperialism
The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1968
Communism in Europe Vol. II
Continuity, Change and the Sino-Soviet Dispute
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1967
The Harrad Experiment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1967
Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
Basta!
Enough! The Tale of Our Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Democracy and Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
Gray maintains that liberal democracy places power in only a few hands and calls for a radical democratization of power within the framework of an economy owned, controlled, and responsible to the public.
History of the October Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966
Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
For Baran and Sweezy, capitalist problems are exclusively market problems.
Ten Days That Shook the University
On the Poverty of Student Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1966
Published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste.

1965

History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965 Published: 1971
Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism'.
History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published: 1971
Classes in Modern Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published: 1970
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published: 1969
The Great Fear in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published: 1969
The Pillage of the Third World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published: 1968
This book investigates whether, despite the termination of old colonial ties, the metropolitan areas of the world do not continue to exploit the underdeveloped countries of the world by virtue of long-established economic relationships.
Socialist Humanism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published: 1966
An international symposium whose contributors explore the humanist essence of socialism. Among the contributors are Herbert Marcuse, Maximilien Rubel, Norman Thomas, T.B. Bottomore, Raya Dunayevskaya, Ernst Bloch, and Bertrand Russell.
'Be his payment high or low'
The American Working Class in the Sixties
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
Whether workers win a particular struggle or are forced to retreat or manage to hold their own varies considerably with time and place and the particular relationship of forces in each factory. What remains constant throughout, however, is the struggle itself and the search for new social forms.
The Berkeley Student Revolt
Facts and Interpretations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Canada's Indians: A Powerless Minority
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
Discusses several complicated issues bringing to light the troubling relationship between the Canadian government and Native communities.
The Comfortable Pew
A Critical Look at Christianity and the Religious Establishment in the New Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
For Workers' Power
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
The road to socialism - and socialism itself - means the conscious and independent action of workers. It means the end of the division between leaders and led. By their rigid, hierarchical structure most "revolutionary" organizations encourage precisely those divisions. A socialist society will be one in which decisions will be taken by workers' councils, composed of elected and revocable delegates, and where the workers themselves will manage production.
The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
It is, of course, true that it was contact with the Negro people that inspired the Berkeley revolt. It is, however, also true that the Berkeley revolt, followed by the teach-ins, in turn, changed the climate for free speech on the pivotal question of war and peace for the whole country.
Humanism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
The resumption of the struggle for socialism would also be the rebirth of socialist humanism.
The Jewish Wife & Other Short Plays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
A collection of six short plays.
Lament for a Nation
The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
The Prophet Unarmed
Trotsky: 1921-1929, Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
The Real World of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
The Rising American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
The Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if #the thirties# represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
Total Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Marx#s Humanism Today
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1965
The 1844 Manuscripts didn#t just #pave the way# for #scientific socialism.# Humanism wasn#t just a stage Marx #passed through# on his voyage of discovery to #scientific economics# or #real revolutionary politics.# Humanist philosophy is the very foundation of the integral unity of Marxian theory, which cannot be fragmented into #economics,# #politics,# #sociology,# much less identified with the Stalinist monolithic creation.

1964

Hungary 56
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1968
The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
Strategy for Labour
A Radical Proposal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1967
The Warfare State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1967
Eros Denied
Sex in Western Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1966
One-Dimensional Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1966
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1965
The personal story of the man who become the most dynamic leader of the Black Revolution in the United States, completed shortly before his assassination.
The Socialist Register 1965
A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964 Published: 1965
The Democratic and the Authoritarian State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
The Marxism of Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1964
The Naked Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
Quebec - A Double Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1964
Discusses Quebecois nationalism in the early 1960s.
The Socialist Register 1964
A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1964
Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
A Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto
An open letter to the Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964

1963

Beyond a Boundary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1983
Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
Canadian Dimension
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963 Published: 1983
The Feminine Mystique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1971
The Making of the English Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1968
Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1968
Science & Survival
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1967
The Triumph of Conservatism
A Reinpretation of American History, 1900-1916
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1967
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A report on the banality of evil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1965
Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
Lenin, Trotsky and the Vanguard Party
A Contemporary View
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1963 Published: 1964
The Other America
Poverty in United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1964
The Big Sell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Lenin and the Vanguard Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1963
To believe that Bolshevism, or to be more precise, Leninism, would under the circumstances advocate or preach the theory of the vanguard party is to continue slander of Leninism, but not to his theory of the party (that is no longer viable) but to his central doctrine # the role of the proletariat in the preservation of society from barbarism. To interpret Leninism as the advocacy of a vanguard party of three million is nearly as bad as the doctrine of Goebbels that Christ was not a Jew. Objective circumstances in Russia forced Lenin into a certain position. He accepted it without apologising for it. He knew what he was doing and he knew also, for he said it many times, what he was not doing. His doubts about it, not only for other countries but for Russia, he made public many, many times.
The Prophet Outcast
Trotsky: 1929-1940, Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Unarmed Victory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Whither Latin America?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
The Art of Loving
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
Canadian Dimension Online
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963
We are a magazine which shows there is an alternative to the corporate agenda and the dictates of the global market; that the dream of a better society is still alive. It provides a forum for debate, where red meets green, feminists take on socialists, socialists take on social democrats, whites hear from aboriginals, activists report from all corners of Canada, trade unionists report from the front lines, campaigns make connections, and the latest books, films, web sites, CDs, and videos are radically reviewed.
The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1963
The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism lies also in this: that despite all theoretic contributions and singleness of purpose in achieving total freedom, it asks to be "taken over" by the masses, to be subjected to the daily and long-range tests, so long only as the UNITY of theory and practice, worker and intellectual, technologically backward and technologically advanced economies, all merge in order never to stop short of "the ultimate": the new society, the new human dimension, the incorporation within the individual of all of his mental and manual talents.

1962

Marxist Economic Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962 Published: 1971
Against the American Grain
Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Canadian Neocolonialism in Latin America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
Discusses the role of Canadian capital in foreign markets and the drive behind Canadian businesses to control valuable assets in Latin American countries.
The Essential Gandhi
His Life, Work and Ideas: An Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
A selection of Gandhi's writing.
From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
For Korsch, all the imperfections of Marx's revolutionary theory which, in retrospect, are explainable by the circumstances out of which it arose, do not alter the fact that Marxism remains superior to all other social theories even today, despite its apparent failure as a social movement. It is this failure which demands not the rejection of Marxism but a Marxian critique of Marxism, that is, the further proletarisation of the concept of social revolution. There was no doubt in Korsch's mind, that the period of counter-revolution is historically limited like everything else -- that the new social productive forces embodied in a socialist revolution would re-assert themselves and find a revolutionary theory adequate to their practical tasks.
Marxism and the Intellectuals
A review of Raymond Williams# Culture and Society and The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
Raymond Williams has shown the origins of British socialism in the history of Britain itself. He has concentrated on the manner in which British writers and the British workers have created what exists in Britain today. He has developed the idea of culture from an exclusive possession of the educated and intellectuals and shown that the only meaning the word has for today is a total way of life of the whole people.
Plunder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
A tragic drama of global imperialism and racism involving characters from Asia, Africa and North America.
The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
People have not finished talking about the Russian Revolution, its problems, its degeneration, and about the regime it ultimately produced. And how could one? Of all the revolts of the working class, the Russian Revolution was the only victorious one. And of all the working class's failures, it was the most thoroughgoing and the most revealing.
Some Remarks on War Spirit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962
How under modern conditions can we wage peace instead of war? We need a vast increase in the opportunities for initiative and making important decisions. This involves considerable decentralization of management, in industry, in government, in urban affairs like housing and schooling. It involves the use of our productivity to insure minimum subsistence, but otherwise the encouragement of individual enterprises. We must forthrightly carry through the sexual revolution, encourage the sexuality of children and adolescents, get rid of the sex laws and other moral laws.
Theses on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1962

1961

Character Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961 Published: 1976
Origin and Function of the Party Form
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961 Published: 1974
The central thesis that we wish to state and illustrate is that Marx and Engels derived the characteristics of the party form from the description of communist society.
The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961 Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
Socialism or Barbarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961 Published: 1969
The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
The Wretched of the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961 Published: 1968
Fanon explores the psychological effect of colonisation on the psyche of a nation as well as its broader implications for building a movement for decolonization. He critiques nationalism and imperialism and discusses the role of intellectuals and of language in revolutionary situations. Fanon argues that revolutionary groups should look to non-proletarian strata, especially peasants, to organize against the colonial power.
The Contours of American History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961 Published: 1966
The Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961 Published: 1965
The Commune, Paris 1871
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
The most significant aspect of the Paris Commune is that it created social forms which in a sense define socialism itself, social forms which serve as yardsticks for proletarian revolutions past, present and to come. These forms provide criteria for analyzing the social nature of any particular regime.
The Anatomy of a Party
The National CCF 1932-1961
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Banning Cars from Manhattan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
The Belgian General Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
The strike of 1960-61 was the culmination of a growing movement of social protest that had been building up over many years. The economic situation of Belgium had been slowly deteriorating. The last and most drastic attempt to improve it, at the expense of the working class, was the introduction of the loi unique, which cut into workers' purchasing power and threatened their conditions of work. On December 14, 1960, a one-day demonstration was called by the Socialist Party and the trade unions to protest against this law. It met with tremendous success. On December 20, the day the debate on the law began in Parliament, the municipal workers came out on official, nationwide, strike. While most of the other unions were discussing what to do next, a spontaneous movement of unparalleled extent swept the country like a tidal wave.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
Designing Pacifist Films
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
Marx's Concept of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
It is one of the peculiar ironies of history that there are no limits to the misunderstanding and distortion of theories, even in an age when there is unlimited access to the sources; there is no more drastic example of this phenomenon than what has happened to the theory of Karl Marx in the last few decades....I shall try to demonstrate that this interpretation of Marx is completely false; that his theory does not assume that the main motive of man is one of material gain; that, furthermore, the very aim of Marx is to liberate man from the pressure of economic needs, so that he can be fully human; that Marx is primarily concerned with the emancipation of man as an individual, the overcoming of alienation, the restoration of his capacity to relate himself fully to man and to nature; that Marx's philosophy constitutes a spiritual existentialism in secular language and because of this spiritual quality is opposed to the materialistic practice and thinly disguised materialistic philosophy of our age.
Perspective for Conscious Change in Everyday Life
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Revolutionary Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
We here wish to examine one of the most fervently adhered to dogmas of the "Left": the need for a tightly centralized socialist party, controlled by a carefully selected leadership. The Labour Party describes this type of organization as an essential feature of British democracy in practice. The Bolsheviks describe it as a "democratic centralism". Let us forget the names and look below the surface. In both cases we find the complete domination of the party in all matters of organization and policy by a fairly small group of professional "leaders".
Soviet Marxism
A Critical Analysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1961
Completed by Raya Dunayevskaya (1910#87) on Jan. 26, 1961, these Notes comprise one of the few studies by a Marxist covering the whole of Hegel's Logic.

1960

Die Standhaften
Über den Widerstand in Kassel und Hessen-Waldeck 1933-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960 Published: 1978
Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960 Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of Socialism and Democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory which sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being, in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
Cuba
Anatomy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960 Published: 1969
The Waste Makers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960 Published: 1967
Anton Pannekoek
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its transformation into a movement of social reform, and its eclipse as an independent class movement in the contemporary world. But Pannekoek also experienced its revolutionary potentialities in the spontaneous upheavals which, from time to time, interrupted the even flow of social evolution. He entered the labour movement a Marxist and he died a Marxist, still convinced that if there is a future, it will be a socialist future.
Black Like Me
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
Foreword to A.S. Neill: Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
A. S. Neill#s system is a radical approach to child rearing. His book Summerhill is of great importance because it represents the true principle of education without fear.
Letter to the New Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
The roots of anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
There are reasons why the discrimination against a certain race suddenly bursts forth into the lynching of an individual Negro. There are reasons why discrimination against another race takes the form, in late 19th century France, of a single wronged individual as happened in the military conspiracy against Dreyfus, whereas in another country, like Tsarist Russia, it took the form of anti-Jewish pogroms.
Socialism Reaffirmed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1960
"The emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves". The working class cannot entrust its historical task to anyone else. No "saviours from on high" will free it. The class will never achieve power, its power, if it entrusts the revolutionary struggle to others. Mass socialist consciousness and mass participation are essential. The revolutionary organization must assist in their development and must ruthlessly expose all illusions that the problem can be solved in any other way. Moreover the working class will never hold power unless it is prepared consciously and permanently to mobilize itself to this end.
Summerhill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960

1959

Mirage of Health
Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1979
Modern Capitalism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1975
For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
Socialism in One Country 1924-1926
Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1970
Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1969
A personification of the unity of theory and practice, Rosa Luxemburg#s life and work require a description of her activities as well as her thoughts - they are inseparable.
A Dying Colonialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1967
Primitive Rebels
Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1965
A study of 'primitive' or 'archaic' forms of social agitation.
Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1959
Pierre Berton's poem, Requiem for a fourteen-year-old, appeared in the Toronto Star on Oct. 5, 1959; six days after 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang.
Economics of the War Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1959
Ever since Lord Keynes# dictum that wars#like pyramid-building and earthquakes#may serve to increase wealth, it has been increasingly recognized that war and preparation for war are necessary aspects of the prevailing economy and a condition of its proper functioning.
Life Against Death
Psychoanalytical meaning of history
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Marx and Engels
Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
Nationalism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1959
Nations, whether #knitted together# by ideology, by objective conditions, or by the usual combination of both, are products of social development. There is no more point in cherishing or damning nationalism in principle than in cherishing or damning tribalism or, for that matter, an ideal cosmopolitanism. The nation is a fact to be suffered or enjoyed, to be fought for or against according to historical circumstances and the implications of those circumstances for various populations and different classes within these populations.

1958

Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 1971
Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
Politics Past
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 1970
A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
Socialism in One Country 1924-1926
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 1970
Puritanism and Revolution
Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 1968
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 1966
A Decentralist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
The Influence of Social Factors in Child Development
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
f parents really wish that their children be not only successful but also to be mentally healthy, they must consider as essential those norms and values that lead to mental health and not only those that lead to success.
A Marxian Oddity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
Message of the Non-Jewish Jew
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1958
The Jewish heretic who transcends Jewry belongs to a Jewish tradition.

1957

Workers' Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957 Published: 1974
A translation of an essay, "Sur le Contenu du Socialisme," written by Cornelius Castoriadis under the pseudonym "Peirre Chalieu," and originally published in the journal Socialisme out Barbarie in 1957. Castoriadis writes that "the experience of bureaucratic capitalism allows us clearly to perceive what socialims is not and cannot be. A close look both a past proletarian uprising and at the everyday life and struggles of the working class - both East and West -- enables us to posit what socialism could be and should be."
Ironies of History
Essays on Contemporary Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957 Published: 1966
Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency#s Conditions of Organization and Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1957
Founding manifesto of the Situationist International.
Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1957
Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of #the Jewish people.# They ask how could #the Jewish people# do this to #a helpless minority# when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not #the Jewish people# who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous.
The Uses of Literacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
The Breakdown of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
Kohr maintains that throughout history, people who have lived in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang.

1956

Celebration of Awareness
A Call for Institutional Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956 Published: 1970
Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956 Published: 1961
A selection of Marx's writings intended to present the evolution of his ideas, the main features of his mothod, and the chief conclusions of his research.
A User's Guide to Détournement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
The Economics of War and Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Wars, like crises, are inherent in uncontrolled capital accumulation even though their actual occurrence in time is not predictable.
Every Cook Can Govern
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1956
Fromm's sane society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing # Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration.
Zionism # the ideology of Jewish chauvinism # showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such.
What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy.
Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Marx and Freud
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Marcuse#s book renews the endeavor to read Marx into Freud. Marcuse wants to resurrect the #explosive# revolutionary content of Freud#s theories.
The Weapon of Theory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1956
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.

1955

William Morris
From Romantic to Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1977
A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
The Myth of Sisphus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1975
Heretics and Renegades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1969
Heretics and Renegades is a collection of essays which appeared in a number of British, American and French literary and scholarly periodicals.
Eros and Civilization
A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1962
Thinkers and Treasurers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1960
On the Content of Socialism: Part 3
From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955 Published: 1958
We have tried to show that socialism is nothing other than people's conscious self-organization of their own lives in all domains; that it signifies, therefore, the management of production by the producers themselves on the scale of the workplace as well as on that of the economy as a whole; that it implies the abolition of every ruling apparatus separated from society; that it has to bring about a profound modification of technology and of the very meaning of work as people's primordial activity and, conjointly, an overthrow of all the values toward which capitalist society implicitly or explicitly is oriented.
On the Content of Socialism: Part 2
From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955 Published: 1957
The development of modern society and what has happened to the working-class movement over the last 100 years (and in particular since 1917) have compelled us to make a radical revision of the ideas on which that movement has been based.
Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
The Freedom Charter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955
Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
On the Content of Socialism: Part 1
From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1955

1954

The Interregnum 1923-1924
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954 Published: 1969
The Prophet Armed
Trotsky: 1879-1921, Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954 Published: 1965
How to Lie With Statistics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954
Illustrates how statistics are misused and misunderstood.
The Myth of Lenin#s 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1954
Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the 'defense of the fatherland' but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.

1953

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1936 - 1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953 Published: 1972
The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Voume Three
Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953 Published: 1971
Lenin's Moscow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953 Published: 1971
The Second Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953 Published: 1970
On Workers' Culture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1953
From the stories that we get every day from the shops, we can see a new form of struggle emerging. It never seems to be carried to its complete end, yet its existence is continuous. The real essence of this struggle and its ultimate goal is: a better life, a new society, the emergence of the individual as a human being.
Letter to Socialisme ou Barbarie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1953
Councils are not only the means by which workers will exercise power after the taking of social power by the workers; we consider them as also being the organisms by means of which the workers will conquer this power.
Democracy in Alberta
Social Credit and the Party System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1953

1952

Put Work in Its Place
The Complete Gude to the Flexible Work Place
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952 Published: 1988
Punching Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952 Published: 1973
The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Volume Two
A history of Soviet Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952 Published: 1966
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952 Published: 1962
The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
The Politics Of Gorter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1952
In the years after 1920, Gorter in contact with the small groups of the extreme left, worked to clarify the idea of the organisation of workers councils and thus collaborated in the future renewal of the class struggle of the proletariat. During this time the socialist politicians of the second international, as members of parliament and ministers, were occupied in bailing out a bankrupt capitalism for the bourgeoisie.

1951

Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951 Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
Client-Centered Therapy
Its current practice, implications and theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951 Published: 1965
Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1951 Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
Stalin's Frame-Up System and the Moscow Trials (Review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1951
Trotsky#s own indignation over the Moscow Trials, although understandable since they were directed against his followers and fellow-oppositionists, was nevertheless inconsistent with his own political outlook and conception of dictatorship. The terroristic system he came to bewail was after all originally headed by Lenin and Trotsky, and was proudly defended by the latter in his book Terrorism and Communism.

1950

State Capitalism and World Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1986
Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1981
A collection of essays by George Orwell.
Empire and Communications
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1972
The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923 - Volume One
A History of Soviet Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1969
Unpopular Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1969
A collection of essays that argues against dogmatic beliefs in politics, philosophy and other related topics.
The Authoritarian Personality
Studies in prejudice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1967
Notes on Left Propaganda and How to Spread the Word
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1967
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1967
The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1950 Published: 1963
Principles of Nuremberg
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1950

1949

China Shakes the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949 Published: 1973
Jack Belden's classic account of the Chinese civil war.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1949 Published: 1969
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel.
Ancestors of the Proletariat
Tercentenary of the English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
After Charles I had been executed, the Levellers aimed directly at the overthrow of the military government of Cromwell in the name of the people. The great political act of the abolition of the monarchy, dramatized in the execution of the King, was in their eyes entirely subordinate to the positive reorganization of society.
Cromwell and the Levellers
Tercentenary of English Revolution: 1649-1949
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
Levelers were a loose organisation of kindred political thinkers who from stage to stage expressed the rapidly developing political consciousness of a great social and political mass movement.
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, Held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August, 1949. Entry into force 21 October 1950.
Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
Stalin and German Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949
Why Socialism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1949

1948

Notes on Dialectics (Hegel, Marx, Lenin)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948 Published: 1980
State Capitalism in Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948 Published: 1974
How to Defend Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion # a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers# world without exploitation and oppression.
The Nature of Stalinist Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1948
There is an unbridgeable antagonism between the definition of Russia as a degenerated workers# state and fundamental elements of Marxism, such as, to take one example, the self-mobilisation and self-conscious action of the masses as a necessary element for the socialist revolution.
New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
Letter to the New York Times
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
Obsessions of Berlin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
The Russians are Berlin#s second great obsession. The rape of the city is burned deep into the minds of its inhabitants because it is associated with their greatest disappointment. Long before the fall of the city, refugees from the East told horrible stories about the Russians# behavior. So did the radio. But wishful thinking discounted these stories as exaggerations and propaganda. At any rate, it could not get worse than it was. The same hope that welcomed Hitler in exchange for the depression welcomed now the Russians in exchange for the bombings.
The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
The impetus of the Negro movement toward the revolutionary forces, which we have traced in the past, is stronger today than ever before.
Strikes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
State power acquires now an important function in organizing business life. In the devastated Europe it takes the supreme lead; its officials become the directors of a planned economy, regulating production and consumption. Its special function is to keep the workers down, and stifle all discontent by physical or spiritual means. In America, where it is subjected to big business, this is its chief function. The workers have now over against them the united front of State power and capitalist class, which usually is joined by union leaders and party leaders, who aspire to sit in conference with the managers and bosses and having a vote in fixing wages and working conditions. And, by this capitalist mechanism of increasing prices, the standard of life of the workers goes rapidly downward.

1947

Kafka's Prayer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1976
Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1968
Communitas
Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1960
Visions of urban life.
Communitas
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1947 Published: 1960
Anarchist site with news and information for people who are questioning the system which hates them. In English, French, German and Catalan.
From the Ground Up
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1956
Strata in the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Many of the lowest union officials have been separated from the ranks to some extent and try to keep their jobs to keep the protection and favors which the job gives them. The lowest layers of the union leadership also develop a legitimate organizational loyalty to their union. They are the conscious union propagandists. But while this is a necessity in the building and maintenance of any organization, in times of crisis this loyalty can temporarily retard good union militants from striking out on a new road.
Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Until the final collapse of the German labor movement, the retreat of the 'ultra-left' appeared to be a return to theoretical work. The organizations existed in the form of weekly and monthly publications, pamphlets and books. The publications secured the organizations, the organizations the publications. While mass-organizations served small capitalistic minorities, the mass of the workers were represented by individuals. The contradiction between the theories of the 'ultra-left' and the prevailing conditions became unbearable. The more one thought in collective terms the more isolated one became.
Bolshevism and Stalinism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
There is no philosophy of history without Marxism, and there can be no Marxism without the dialectic.
The 'Inevitability of Socialism'
The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of 'equal possibility.' But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence - in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable.
The Invading Socialist Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
The Jewish Problem After Hitler
Palestine and the Fourth International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
The American and English working class must not support the Zionist drive for a Jewish State (or what, under existing conditions means the same thing, a drive for Jewish immigration and colonisation) which, while befitting imperialism, opposes the most elementary interests equally of the Arab masses as of the Jewish.
Public Ownership and Common Ownership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Under public ownership the workers are not masters of their work; they may be better treated and their wages may be higher than under private ownership; but they are still exploited.
Religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Theses On The Fight Of The Working Class Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1947
Extension of the strike to ever larger masses, the only tactics appropriate to wrench concessions from capital, is fundamentally opposed to the Trade Union tactics to restrict the fight and to put an end to it as soon as possible. Such wild strikes in the present times are the only real class fights of the workers against capital. Here they assert their freedom, themselves choosing and directing their actions, not directed by other powers for other interests.
Trotskyism in the United States 1940-47 Balance Sheet
The Workers Party and the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
The Johnson-Forest tendency presented this balance sheet of Trotskyism in the United States for its co-thinkers at home and abroad who shared the program and principles of the Fourth International.
Verboten und Verbrannt
Deutsche Literatur - Jahre unterdrükt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947

1946

Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1946 Published: 1996
An album of songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie about the notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists in the 1920s who were charged and eventually executed after a highly dubious trial for their supposed involvement in a robbery.
Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946 Published: 1978
The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1978
The Jewish Question
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1970
Reveille for Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1969
Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
Anti-Semite and Jew
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1965
Drawing the Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1962
Jewish Question Since World War II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946 Published: 1947
After Ten Years
On Trotsky#s The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946
The Failure of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Capitalism cannot be annihilated by a change in the commanding persons; but only by the abolition of commanding. The real freedom of the workers consists in their direct mastery over the means of production. The essence of the future free world community is not that the working masses get enough food, but they direct their work themselves, collectively.
Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution
A Discussion Article on the Thesis of the IKD
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Capitalism fetters, i.e., hampers, impedes the development of the productive forces. But it does not bring them to a halt. They move forward by advance, retardation, standstill, but they move forward, bringing the proletariat with them. The theoretical analysis is that the more capitalism increases the productive forces, the more it brings them into conflict with the existing social relations. The more it increases and develops the productive forces the more it socializes labor and the more it degrades it and the more it drives it to revolt.
Luxemburg’s Theory of Accumulation
How it Differed with Marx and Lenin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Dunayevskaya argues that Luxemburg was on the wrong track in her attempt to revise the conclusions of Marx's Capital.
Middle East at the Crossroads
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
The events of the last few weeks (1945) in the Middle East have drawn the attention of the whole world to what is happening in this region. The terroristic acts of Zionist military organizations, the strikes and demonstrations of the Arab masses in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad against Zionism, and the concentration of British troops in Palestine has aroused numerous questions whose answer will demand an uncovering of the socio-economic roots of the tangle in which this part of the world is involved.
A New British Provocation in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
British imperialism, for years on end, has attempted to direct the ire of the Arab masses against the Jewish population of the country. For this purpose the policy of Zionist expansion has been supported, a policy which results in the eviction of Arab tenants from the land, drives Arab workers from jobs, and strengthens the Zionist fortress which is determined to establish a Jewish State in Palestine. Imperialist support for Zionism is calculated to achieve two results: One, to establish a power which directly supports it, which will constitute a faithful ally against the Arabs in every instance of an anti-imperialist uprising of the Arabs of the Middle East; the other, to have Zionism serve as a means of diverting the ire of the oppressed Arab masses away from imperialism onto a side issue # clashes with Jews.
A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
As against that altogether dogmatic approach which had already sterilized the revolutionary Marxist theory in all but a few phases of its century-long development in Europe, and by which the attempted extension of Marxism to the US has been blighted from the very beginning, it is here proposed to revindicate the critical, pragmatic, and activistic element which for all this has never been entirely eliminated from the social theory of Marx and which during the few short phases of its predominance has made that theory a most efficient weapon of the proletarian class struggle.
Palestine Strike
Arabs and Jews Unite
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
The biggest strikes in the history of Palestine far surpassing any other which have taken place, broke out last month (April 1946). 32,000 workers came out, of which 26,000 were Arabs and 6,000 Jews.
Politics and the English Language
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
The Program of the Minority
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
Serfdom in a Free Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Terrorism in Palestine
Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Terrorist activity in Palestine has been revived on a larger scale than formerly, calling the attention of the entire press to the organisations of the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern Gang and their activities. Socialist internationalists must answer the question: what is the character of these organisations? Are they an anti-imperialist factor in the liberatory struggles of the colonial peoples?
They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation
On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946
Marx drew a great theoretical conclusions from the experience of the Commune. He showed that the capitalist army, the capitalist state, the capitalist bureaucracy, cannot be seized by the revolutionary proletariat and used for its own purposes. It had to be smashed completely and a new state organized, based upon the organization of the working class.

1945

Animal Farm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1945
Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
Fascism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
Fascism is not a product that is specifically Italian or specifically German. It is the specific product only of decaying capitalism, of the crisis of the capitalist system which has become a permanent one. It has a double origin in the determination of big business to revive the profit mechanism by exceptional measures and in the revolt of the pauperized and despairing middle classes.
In a time of duplicity
From the Diary of Victor Serge # III
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
The Lesson of Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1945
Hitler's hundreds of thousands of storm troopers represented an enormous expense. They were thugs hired by the German bourgeoisie to fight its battles against the working class. In the years 1930-33 the German bureaucracy engineered election after election hoping to discredit parliamentary government and open the way for authoritarian rule. Despite his immense influence over the petty bourgeoisie, Hitler, by 1932, was on the wane. The German bourgeoisie deliberately maintained Nazism to have some power in reserve against Bolshevism. True, he dominated them afterward. We do not mean for one moment to deny the energy, the inventiveness, the will, the tenacity of Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. We do not deny their skilful use of social contradictions. He himself was obviously a born leader of men and an orator the like of whom Europe has not often seen. But from the time he began, the German bourgeoisie, the military caste, the bureaucracy, all built him up and without their active conscious support he would have been nothing.

1944

The History of American Trotskyism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944 Published: 1972
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944 Published: 1969
The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944 Published: 1968
Germany and European Civilization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1944
From at least the time of the publication of Capital to the present day, all political and social thought, particularly in Europe, have revolved around the ideas of Marxism. And these ideas were nourished, developed, propagated and defended above all by the German proletariat. Not only the revolutionary movement but modern thought owes the German workers a debt which it can never repay. So far has Marxism penetrated into the thought of the time that today the ideas of hundreds of thousands of intellectuals, who consider themselves anti-Marxists, have validity only to the extent that they have borrowed or unconsciously assimilated the very ideas which they oppose.
Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1944
The history of science is a history of erroneous statements. Yet these erroneous statements which mark the progress of thought have a particular quality: they are productive. And they are not just errors either; they are statements, the truth of which is veiled by misconceptions, is clothed in erroneous and inadequate concepts. They are rational visions which contain the seed of truth.
A New International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1944
The idea of socialism is henceforth inseparable from respect for the individual, the spirit of liberty, and of really democratic institutions. Socialist ideology demands strict self-criticism, a re-exami-nation of theories, whilst allowing for the scientific learning of the last 50 years and of historic experience. #Marxism is a method and not a dogma.#

1943

Bound for Glory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943 Published: 1970
The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
The French Anarchists
From Chapter 1 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
Of this hard childhood, this troubled adolescence, all those terrible years, I regret nothing as far as I am myself concerned. I am sorry for those who grow up in this world without ever experiencing the cruel side of it, without knowing utter frustration and the necessity of fighting, however blindly, for mankind. Any regret I have is only for the energies wasted in struggles which were bound to be fruitless. These struggles have taught me that, in any man, the best and the worst live side by side, and sometimes mingle # and that what is worst comes through the corruption of what is best.
Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
On Second Congress of Comintern
From Chapter 3 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
World capitalism, after its first suicidal war, was now clearly incapable either of organizing a positive peace, or (what was equally evident) of deploying its fantastic technical progress to increase the prosperity, liberty, safety, and dignity of mankind. The Revolution was therefore right, as against capitalism; and we saw that the spectre of future war would raise a question-mark over the existence of civilization itself, unless the social system of Europe was speedily transformed. The fearful Jacobinism of the Russian Revolution seemed to me to be quite unavoidable; as was the institution of a new revolutionary State, now in the process of disowning all its early promises. In this I saw an immense danger: the State seemed to me to be properly a weapon of war, not a means of organizing production. Over all our achievements there hung a death-sentence; since for all of us, for our ideals, for the new justice that was proclaimed, for our new collective economy, still in its infancy, defeat would have brought a peremptory death and after that, who knows what? I thought of the Revolution as a tremendous sacrifice that was required for the future#s sake.
On Third Congress of Comintern
From Chapter 4 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
I did not feel disheartened or disoriented. I was disgusted at certain things, psychologically exhausted by the Terror and tormented by the mass of wrongs that I could see growing, which I was powerless to counteract. My conclusions were that the Russian Revolution, left to itself, would probably, in one way or another, collapse (I did not see how: would it be through war or domestic reaction?); that the Russians, who had made superhuman efforts to build a new society, were more or less at the end of their strength; and that relief and salvation must come from the West. From now on it was necessary to work to build a Western working-class movement capable of supporting the Russians and, one day, superseding them.
Negroes in the Civil War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943
The struggle of the Negro masses derives its peculiar intensity from the simple fact that what they are struggling for is not abstract but is always perfectly visible around them. In their instinctive revolutionary efforts for freedom, the escaping slaves had helped powerfully to begin and now those who remained behind had helped powerfully to conclude, the self-destructive course of the slave power.
Why Strikes Fail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1943
Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.

1942

The Theory of Capitalist Development
Principles of Marxian Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942 Published: 1968
Behemoth
The Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1942 Published: 1966
Character and Social Process
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1942
The social character results from the dynamic adaptation of human nature to the structure of society. Changing social conditions result in changes of the social character, that is, in new needs and anxieties. These new needs give rise to new ideas and, as it were, make men susceptible to them; these new ideas in their turn tend to stabilise and intensify the new social character and to determine man#s actions. In other words, social conditions influence ideological phenomena through the medium of character; character, on the other hand, is not the result of passive adaptation to social conditions but of a dynamic adaptation on the basis of elements that either are biologically inherent in human nature or have become inherent as the result of historic evolution.
Materialism And Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1942
Marxism is not an inflexible doctrine or a sterile dogma. Society changes, the proletariat grows, science develops. New forms and phenomena arise in capitalism, in politics, in science, which Marx and Engels could not have foreseen or surmised. But the method of research which they formed remains to this day an excellent guide and tool towards the understanding and interpretation of new events.

1941

Reason and Revolution
Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941 Published: 1968
Escape from Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941 Published: 1965
Workers' Councils
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941 Published: 1947
Now the goal becomes distinct; opposite to the stronger domination by state-directed planned economy of the new capitalism stands what Marx called the association of free and equal producers. So the call for unity must be supplemented by indication of the goal: take the factories and machines; assert your mastery over the productive apparatus; organize production by means of workers' councils.
Pannekoek's "The Party and the Working Class"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1941
The Workers' Fight against Fascism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1941
We do not propose to discuss the #task# of the workers. The workers have already too long done other people's tasks, imposed on them under the high-sounding names of humanity, of human progress, of justice, and freedom, and what not. It is one of the redeeming features of a bad situation that some of the illusions, hitherto surviving among the working class from their past participation in the revolutionary fight of the bourgeoisie against feudal society, have finally been exploded. The only #task# for the workers, as for every other class, is to look out for themselves.
Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1941
To prove that the particular state-monopoly capitalism existing in Russia did not come about through state trustification but by methods of social revolution explains its historic origin but does not prove that its economic law of motion differs from that analyzed by Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin. It is high time to evaluate #the economic law of motion of modem society# as it applies to the Soviet Union and not merely to retain for statified property the same #superstitious reverence# the opportunists entertained for the bourgeois state.

1940

Darkness at Noon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940 Published: 1968
The English Revolution 1640
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1940
Leon Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1940
Trotsky's works, and most of all his History of the Russian Revolution, will immortalize his name as a writer and politician. But there is a real need to oppose the development of the Trotsky legend which will make out of this leader of the Russian state capitalist revolution a martyr of the international working class # a legend which must be rejected together with all other postulates and aspects of bolshevism.
Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1940
The working class is going into this war burdened with the capitalistic tradition of Party leadership and the phantom tradition of a revolution of the Russian kind.
Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution
Direct Action Pamphlets No. 11
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940

1939

Royal Moments in Broadcasting
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939 Published: 2007
Fascism and Big Busness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939 Published: 1973
A history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.
Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939 Published: 1972
A biography of Rosa Luxemburg written by a German revolutionary who worked with Luxemburg in the Spartacist organization.
Class Politics in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
Zionism is a factor that weakens the class struggle of the Jewish masses, and strengthens the reaction outside of Palestine as well as the reactionary forces in Palestine. Jewish immigration into Palestine, which is mainly an immigration of workers, strengthens, on the one side, the power and weight of the working class in the country, the power which, regarded historically, is the most extreme anti-imperialist factor and, cm the other hand, in so far as it is Zionist, it strengthens the exclusivist positions and the forces of imperialism in Palestine.
Council Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
There is no dearth of proposals as to how to revive the labour movement; however, the serious investigator cannot help noticing that all such proposals for a #new beginning# are in reality but the restatement and rediscovery of ideas and forms of activity developed with much greater clarity and consistency during the beginnings of the modern labour movement.
Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
What distinguished Kautsky from the general run of intellectuals who flocked to the labour movement as soon as it became more respectable and who were only too eager to foster the trend of class collaboration, was a greater love for theory, a love which refused to compare theory with actuality. Only as a theoretician could Kautsky remain a revolutionist; only too willingly he left the practical affairs of the movement to others. However, he fooled himself. In the role of a mere #theoretician#, he ceased to be a revolutionary theoretician, or rather he could not become a revolutionist. As soon as the scene for a real battle between capitalism and socialism after the war had been laid, his theories collapsed because they had already been divorced in practice from the movement they were supposed to represent.
Karl Marxs Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Otto Rühle's abridged version of Volume One of Das Capital. First published undeer the title "Living Thoughts of Karl Marx".
Kronstadt Again
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
Serge charges that, after the rebels had been disarmed, there was a general massacre of prisoners. And that such as were not shot down on the spot were executed in batches by the Cheka, after secret trials, for some weeks after the uprising had been completely crushed.
Review of #Karl Marx# by Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
In conspicuous distinction to many other interpretations of Marx, this book concentrates upon the essentials of Marxian theory and practice.
The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1939
Russia must be placed first among the new totalitarian states. It was the first to adopt the new state principle. It went furthest in its application. It was the first to establish a constitutional dictatorship, together with the political and administrative terror system which goes with it. Adopting all the features of the total state, it thus became the model for those other countries which were forced to do away with the democratic state system and to change to dictatorial rule. Russia was the example for fascism. There is an unbridgeable opposition between bolshevism and socialism. Nationalism, authoritarianism, centralism, leader dictatorship, power policies, terror-rule, mechanistic dynamics, inability to socialize-all these essential characteristics of fascism were and are existing in bolshevism.

1938

The Black Jacobins
Toussaint L'Overture and the San Domingo Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938 Published: 1963
An account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803.
Secrecy and Revolution
A Reply to Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938 Published: 1963
Whether Trotsky wills it or not, no limit has been set to the analysis of the Russian revolution, which he has served so outstandingly, so tremendously # despite the measure of responsibility which must be laid to his name for certain tragic errors.
Collectives in Spain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938 Published: 1945
A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
Excerpts from the #Notebooks#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938 Published: 1944
Kronstadt 1921: Trotsky#s Defense. Response to Trotsky
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
It is in fact in the domain of repression that the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party committed, from the very beginning of the revolution, the gravest errors, those which were to most dangerously contribute to on one hand to the bureaucratization of the party and the state, and on the other to disarming the masses and, more particularly, the revolutionaries. It is about time that we realized this.
Obituary: Leon Sedov
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
In Leon Lvovich, Trotsky has lost more than a son of his own blood # he has lost a son in spirit, an irreplaceable companion in struggle.
British Policy in Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The three principal factors in the political arena in Palestine 1in 1938 are British imperialism, the Arab nationalist movement under its present leadership and the Zionist movement.
Fascism and Big Business (excerpt)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Events have demonstrated with tragic clearness that the moment the working class allows the fascist wave to sweep over it, a long period of slavery and impotence begins # a long period during which socialist, even democratic, ideas are not merely erased from the pediments of public monuments and libraries but, what is much more serious, are rooted out of human minds. Events have proved that fascism physically destroys everything opposing its dictatorship, no matter how mildly, and that it creates a vacuum around itself and leaves a vacuum behind it.
General Remarks on the Question of Organisation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Organisation is the chief principle in the working class fight for emancipation. Hence the forms of this organisation constitute the most important problem in the practice of the working class movement. It is clear that these forms depend on the conditions of society and the aims of the fight. They cannot be the invention of theory, but have to be built up spontaneously by the working class itself, guided by its immediate necessities.
Homage to Catalonia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
George Orwell's account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
The Jewish-Arab Conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The conflict between the Arab masses and Zionist aspirations can only be solved to the extent that Jewish masses in Palestine renounce Zionist exclusivism.
Karl Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
It is the purpose of this book to restate the most important principles and contents of Marx's social science in the light of recent historical events and of the new theoretical needs which have arisen under the impact of those events. In so doing we shall deal throughout with the original ideas of Marx himself rather than with their subsequent developments brought about by the various 'orthodox' and 'revisionist, dogmatic and critical, radical and moderate schools of the Marxists on the one hand, and their more or less violent critics and opponents on the other hand.
Lenin as Philosopher
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Since the importance of Lenin#s philosophy is so strongly emphasised in Leninist organizations, it is necessary to make it the subject of a serious critical study. The doctrine of Party-Communism of the Third International cannot be judged adequately unless their philosophical basis is thoroughly examined.
Lenin as Philosopher
Some additional remarks to Anton Pannekoek#s recent criticism of Lenin#s book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Both in his revolutionary materialist philosophy and m his revolutionary jacobinic politics, Lenin hid from himself the historical truth that his Russian revolution, in spite of a temporary attempt to break through its particular limitations in connection with the simultaneous revolutionary movement of the proletarian class in the West, was bound to remain in fact a belated successor of the great bourgeois revolutions of the past.
Marxism in Our Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
Every social conflict is also a competition. If socialism is to win out over fascism, it must bring humanity social conditions which are clearly superior. The class struggle goes on. For all the dictators# replastering, we hear the framework of the old social edifice cracking. Marxism will go through many vicissitudes of fortune, perhaps even eclipses. Its power, conditioned by the course of history, none the less appears to be inexhaustible.
The Masses & The Vanguard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The leadership principle, the idea of the vanguard that must assume responsibility for the proletarian revolution is based on the pre-war conception of the labour movement, is unsound. The tasks of the revolutionary and the communist reorganization of society cannot be realized without the widest and fullest action of the masses themselves.
Once More: Kronstadt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
I admire Trotsky and accept many of his theories. An article like this # essentially a piece of special pleading, however brilliant # makes it harder to defend Trotsky from the often-made accusation that his thinking is sectarian and inflexible.
Once More: Kronstadt
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
The question which dominates today the whole discussion is, in substance, this: When and how did Bolshevism begin to degenerate?
The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Failure?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1938
As soon as the Bolsheviks recognized that the proletariat was too weak to establish state capitalistic systems favorable to Russia in other countries, and also that the bourgeoisie was no longer willing to risk anything in a struggle against state capitalist Russia, that is, about 1920, the Bolsheviks ceased to support revolutionary movements in other countries and instead prepared for a peaceful side by side existence with the other capitalistic systems.
Trotsky Protests Too Much
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Leon Trotsky is outraged that people should have revived the Kronstadt #episode# and ask questions about his part. It does not occur to him that those who have come to his defence against his detractor have a right to ask what methods he had employed when he was in power, and how he had dealt with those who did not subscribe to his dictum as gospel truth.

1937

Bread and Wine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937 Published: 2005
One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy. Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.
Russia Twenty Years After
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937 Published: 1996
Serge's impassioned account based on his eyewitness observations of everyday life and the detailed realities of Stalinist political repression.
Michael Bakunin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937 Published: 1975
From Lenin to Stalin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937 Published: 1973
A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
Portraying the men and events of our times
The Diary of Victor Serge # II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937 Published: 1950
Farewell to Andres Nin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
Farewell, my friend. Your great courageous life is left to us, full of work and action. Your terrible death is left to us as well. Like you, we must hold out to the bitter end so that socialism be free.
The #Hero# of Kronstadt Writes History
Review of The Revolution Betrayed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
It is only necessary to reflect on the paramount role which Trotsky played in the first thundering years of Bolshevik Russia to understand why he cannot admit that the Bolshevik revolution was only able to change the form of capitalism but was not able to do away with the capitalist form of exploitation. It is the shadow of that period that lies in the way of his understanding.
Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
Marx's study of society is based upon a full recognition of the reality of historical change. Marx treats all conditions of existing bourgeois society as changing, ie more exactly, as conditions in the process of being changed by human actions. Bourgeois society is not, according to Marx, a general entity which can be replaced by another stage in a historical movement. It is both the result of an earlier phase and the starting point of a new phase, of the social class war which is leading to a social revolution.
The Nonsense of Planning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
The literature dealing with the problems of a planned economy has attained proportions comparable only with those of the depression which brought it forth. In all this welter of thought, we may distinguish three main currents: one which stands for the possibility of capitalist planning, another which denies it on principle, and a third which hovers between these extremes and finds its champions both in the bourgeois and socialist camps.
The Political Situation and the Tasks of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
In the present, unequivocally revolutionary situation the slogan #fight for the parliamentary-democratic Republic# can serve no other interests than those of the bourgeois counter-revolution.
Society and Mind in Marxian Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1937
World Revolution 1917-1936
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
No major economic or political development in Russia, and few of the minor ones, can be understood, except in relation to the strength of the revolutionary movement in Western Europe, so long dominated by the Third International.
The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.

1936

The Third International After Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936 Published: 1972
Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936 Published: 1968
Fascism Shall Not Pass
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
On all fronts communists, anarchists, socialists and republicans are fighting shoulder to shoulder. We have also been joined by non-party people from town and country, because they too have realized what a victory for fascism would mean to Spain.
'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
The Inevitability of Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
A reaction to Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx.
The May Days in Barcelona
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
The struggle under way in Spain between revolution and counter-revolution is now entering a new phase, in which the proletariat, educated by the experience of these months of struggle and, above all, by the magnificent May Days, must direct all its forces towards strengthening its class independence, defending the conquests of the revolution and preparing for the taking of power, the indispensable premise for the institution of a socialist regime which will regenerate the country#s economy and establish order.
Party and Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
The belief in parties is the main reason for the impotence of the working class; therefore we avoid forming a new party - not because we are too few, but because a party is an organization that aims to lead and control the working class. In opposition to this, we maintain that the working class can rise to victory only when it independently attacks its problems and decides its own fate.
Party and Working Class
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
We are only at the very earliest stages of a new workers' movement. The old movement was embodied in parties, and today belief in the party constitutes the most powerful check on the working class' capacity for action. That is why we are not trying to create a new party.
State Capitalism and Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
One can raise the question : is not state capitalism the only #way out# for the bourgeoisie ? Obviously state capitalism would be feasible, if only the whole productive process could be managed and planned centrally from above in order to meet the needs of the population and eliminate crises. If such conditions were brought about, the bourgeoisie would then cease being a real bourgeoisie.
Trade Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
The narrow field of trade union struggle widens into the broad field of class struggle. But now the workers themselves must change. They have to take a wider view of the world. From their trade, from their work within the factory walls, their mind must widen to encompass society as a whole. Their spirit must rise above the petty things around them. They have to face the state; they enter the realm of politics. The problems of revolution must be dealt with.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
Workers Councils (1936 article)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1936
Fighting for freedom is not letting your leaders think for you and decide, and following obediently behind them, or from time to time scolding them. Fighting for freedom is partaking to the full of ones capacity, thinking and deciding for oneself, taking all the responsibilities as a self-relying individual amidst equal comrades. It is true that to think for oneself, to think out what is true and right, with a head dulled by fatigue, is the hardest, the most difficult task; it is much harder than to pay and to obey. But it is the only way to freedom. To be liberated by others, whose leadership is the essential part of the liberation, means the getting of new masters instead of the old ones.

1935

Herland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1935
Austro-Marxism and the National Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
The mistake made by those who, starting from the fact that revolutionary Marxism upholds the right of all peoples to independence, argue that the practical consequence of that should be the creation of independent national parties or a federation of organisations with extensive political and administrative autonomy, cannot be sufficiently emphasised. Solidarity between workers of the diverse nations within the same State should be paramount. Class solidarity is better than national solidarity.
The Lenin Legend
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
For Lenisn, socialism was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism.
Luxemburg versus Lenin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or -- the same thing -- as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian.
Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
Some Lessons of the Toledo Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
There will be no unions worth the name unless the militants build and maintain them. Without fighting unions the workers will presently be made the object of an attack which will make 1929-35 seem like #the good old times#.
Why I am a Marxist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1935
For the Marxist, there is no such thing as 'Marxism' in general any more than there is a 'democracy' in general, a 'dictatorship' in general or a 'state' in general. There is only a bourgeois state, a proletarian dictatorship or a fascist dictatorship, etc. And even these exist only at determinate stages of historical development, with corresponding historical characteristics, mainly economic, but conditioned also in part by geographical, traditional, and other factors. With the deferent levels of historical development, with the different environments of geographical distribution, with the well-known differences of creed and tendency among the various Marxist schools, there exist, both nationally and internationally, very different theoretical systems and practical movements which go by the name of Marxism.

1934

Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934 Published: 1972
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
What is Class Consciousness?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934 Published: 1971
Critical of what he saw as Marxism's overly materialistic explanations, Reich proposes the perspectives of psychology and psychotherapy could revitalise radical political thought and the socialist movement.
Legitimacy Versus Industrialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1934 Published: 1965
The Paris Commune told in pictures
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1934
An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
The theory of the collapse of capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1934
Struggle is never simple or convenient.
On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1934

1933

Down and Out in Paris and London
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933 Published: 1969
Life near the bottom in France and England in the early 1930s.
Humanist Manifesto I
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1933
Outlines affirmations on cosmology, biological and cultural evolution, human nature, epistemology, ethics, religion, self-fulfillment, and the quest for freedom and social justice.

1932

Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume One
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932 Published: 1967
Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Two
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932 Published: 1967
Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932 Published: 1967
Lectures on Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1932 Published: 1933
In Praise of Idleness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932
More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
Introduction to Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1932
Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth.

1931

The Sexual Struggle of Youth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931 Published: 1972
Men in Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.

1930

Year One of the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930 Published: 1972
The purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the 'Commune-State' of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge's basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.
The Sexual Revolution
Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930 Published: 1967
The Conquest of Happiness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930 Published: 1965
Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1930
Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930
The Present State of the Problem of 'Marxism and Philosophy'
An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1930
A fundamental debate on the general state of modern Marxism has now begun, and there are many indications that despite secondary, transient or trivial conflicts, the real division on all major and decisive questions is between the old Marxist orthodoxy of Kautsky allied to the new Russian or 'Leninist' orthodoxy on the one side, and all critical and progressive theoretical tendencies in the proletarian movement today on the other side.

1929

Dialectical Materialism & Psychoanalysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
How The Gods Were Made
A Study in Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1929
Sacco and Vanzetti
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1929
This struggle marks the real history of progress. Its heroes are not the Napoleons and the Bismarcks, not the generals and politicians. Its path is lined with the unmarked graves of the Saccos and Vanzettis of humanity, dotted with the auto-da-fé, the torture chambers, the gallows and the electric chair. To those martyrs of justice and liberty we owe what little of real progress and civilization we have today.

1928

Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1928 Published: 1972
A discussion of the concepts at the root of Marxism: the theory of value and commodity fetishism.
Karl Marx: His Life and Works
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1928 Published: 1943
Therewith our appraisement of Marx#s personality has likewise been profoundly modified. Whereas persons of the last generation, in view of the opposing nature of their interests, reflected in their ideology, looked upon Marx either as a criminal disturber of the peace and a devil, or else as a saint and as an infallible pope-those of our own generation can admit him to have been a man equipped both with human weaknesses and with human strengths, both with human vices and with human virtues. We are, indeed, compelled to regard him thus, unless we would refuse to apply the materialist interpretation of history to individuals as well as to general processes. Marx had to be an obstinate, pig-headed, intolerant thinker and investigator; had to regard other people#s opinions with suspicion; had to be hostile towards every alien trend; had to be cantankerous, dictatorial, fanatically obsessed with the rightness of his own convictions, fiercely opposed to any deviations from, any falsifications of, his ideas. He had to concentrate his genius, his understanding, his creative energy, for decade after decade, upon this one point, upon this one scientific task; had to neglect his calling, his family, his livelihood, his friends.

1927

Abstract Labour and Value in Marx#s System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1927 Published: 1978
The lecture develops one of the main themes of Rubin#s Essays on Marx#s Theory of Value, thus providing a useful introduction to the latter work, while developing beyond it in important respects. The lecture aims to bring out more clearly than had the Essays the distinction between the social commensurability of labour that is characteristic of any society that is based on the division of labour, and the specific form in which this commensuration is achieved in capitalist society, the form of abstract labour.

1926

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1926 Published: 1971
Platform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1926
Theory of Knowledge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1926

1925

The Autobiography of Mother Jones
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1925
In spite of oppressors, in spite of false leaders, in spite of labor#s own lack of understanding of its needs, the cause of the worker continues onward.
My Disillusionment in Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1925
Anarchist Emma Goldman recounts her experiences in Russia during the early years of the Revolution, and her subsequent disillusionment with the Bolshevik regime.

1924

From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1924 Published: 1974
Parliaments are becoming increasingly empty trappings: the parties are collapsing, destroying one another, and losing their political credibility: the trade unions are changing into ruins. The breakdown of this organisational and political system all along the line is inevitable.
The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique and Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1924 Published: 1972
Rosa Luxemburg's response to the criticisms of her book 'The Accumulation of Capital'. This volume also includes Nikolai Bukharin's reply to Luxemburg, 'Imperialism and the Accumulation of Capital'.
Manifesto of Surrealism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1924
Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
The Marxism of the First International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1924
On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen#s Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history.
The Lessons of October
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1924

1923

Marxism and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1923 Published: 1970
Anti-Imperialist Struggle in India
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1923
The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1923
It is characteristic of the unity of theory and practice in the life work of Rosa Luxemburg that the unity of victory and defeat, individual fate and total process is the main thread running through her theory and her life. As early as her first polemic against Bernstein’s she argued that the necessarily ‘premature’ seizure of power by the proletariat was inevitable. She unmasked the resulting opportunist fear and lack of faith in revolution as “political nonsense which starts from the assumption that society progresses mechanically and which imagines a definite point in time external to and unconnected with the class struggle in which the class struggle will be won”.
The World Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1923
Russia is now a horrible picture with its revolutionary double nature. It lies there like a huge wreck on the shore, broken up by its revolution. There was a moment when a small lifeboat was sent out to save Soviet Russia. That boat was the KAPD, the best and largest part of the Spartacus Bund, with its new and really revolutionary policy for the world revolution. But Russia with its Bolshevik Government despised the KAPD and declined its help.

1922

1905
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922 Published: 1972
For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
Errico Malatesta: The Biography of an Anarchist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922 Published: 1924
Irish Communist Policy
Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1922
The belief that some foreign power, the State, may accomplish it for the workers by decrees and laws is a social-democratic belief # nay, only the most narrow-minded social democrats believe it; most social democrats in former times knew quite well that the chief force of transformation must come from below. The programme of the Communist Party of Ireland is not only non-Communist because it appeals to the State for everything, but also because it asks from this State only reforms.
Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1922
Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
The Principles of Revoltuionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1922
Adopted at the Berlin Congress of Revolutionary Unionist organizations, 1922.

1921

Principles of Party Organization
Thesis on Organization and Structure of the Communist Parties, adopted at 3rd Congress of the Communist International in 1921
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1921 Published: 1975
Workers Opposition
Solidarity London Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1921 Published: 1968
Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
Why we need the Fourth Communist Workers# International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1921
The language as well as the composition of the Third International can no longer be distinguished from that of Social Democracy. No longer will it set aside any manifestoes as opportunist; the call to participation in the reconstruction of Capitalism resounds ever more clearly as the official Moscow policy.
The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1921
Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
Theses of the Workers Opposition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1921
Advocated the role of unionized workers in directing the economy at a time when Soviet government organs were running industry by dictate and trying to exclude trade unions from a participatory role.

1920

Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1920 Published: 1962
Socialisation (Part II)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Socialism cannot be achieved by avoiding the class struggle. Socialisation which is devised to spare the profits of the capitalist class cannot be a path to Socialism.
Socialisation (Part I)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Marx never spoke of socialisation: he spoke of the expropriation of the expropriators.
The Universal Crisis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
That deafness and blindness concerning the coming dissolution of Capitalism is the historic fatality of the bourgeoisie. But the mass of workers are also blind and deaf to this dissolution. They regard the march of events without understanding, and without knowledge. To hope that the collapse of Capitalism will find a proletariat revolutionarily prepared and conscious of its mission is now shown to be utopian. The collapse proceeds too rapidly, events spring too suddenly before the eyes of men for them to be able to adopt their minds to the new realities. That, however, does not mean that they will do nothing.
The ABC of Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1920
Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
The New Blanquism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
The revolution can only issue from the masses, and it is only through the masses that it is carried out. The Communist Party has forgotten this simple truth and, with the insufficient forces of a revolutionary minority, it wants to do what only the class can do, in such a way that the consequence will be defeat, which will set back the cause of the World Revolution for a long time, at the cost of the most painful sacrifices.
Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
A reply to #left-wing# communism, an infantile disorder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
he tactics that are brilliant for Russia are bad here. They lead to defeat here.
Report from Moscow from Otto Rühle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
The Russian tactic is the tactic of authoritarian organisation. It has been so consistently developed and in the end carried to extremes, by the Bolsheviks to the fundamental principle of centralism that it has led to over-centralism... Centralism is the organisational principle of the bourgeois-capitalist age. With it the bourgeois state and the capitalist economy can be built up. Not however the proletarian state and the socialist economy. They demand the council system. For the KAPD#contrary to Moscow#the revolution is no party matter, the party no authoritarian organisation from the top down, the leader no military chief, the masses no army condemned to blind obedience, the dictatorship no despotism of a ruling clique; communism no springboard for the rise of a new Soviet bourgeoisie.
The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
The revolution is not a party affair. The three social-democratic parties (SPD, USPD, KPD) are so foolish as to consider the revolution as their own party affair and to proclaim the victory of the revolution as their party goal. The revolution is the political and economic affair of the totality of the proletarian class. Only the proletariat as a class can lead the revolution to victory. Everything else is superstition, demagogy and political chicanery.
Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
World Revolution and Communist Tactics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1920
World war and rapid economic collapse now make revolution objectively necessary before the masses have grasped communism intellectually: and this contradiction is at the root of the contradictions, hesitations and setbacks which make the revolution a long and painful process.

1919

The Seattle General Strike of 1919
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919 Published: 1972
From February 6 to February 11, 1919, nearly 100,000 Seattle workers participated in a general strike. This pamphlet is a history of the strike, written by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee shortly after the end of the strike.
Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle
Love and New Morality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1919 Published: 1972
Ten Days That Shook The World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1919 Published: 1960
John Reed's gripping account of the Russian Revolution of November 1917.
Social Democracy and Communism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919 Published: 1927
Once again, as in the time of Marx, communism as a revolutionary and proletarian movement confronts socialism as a reformist and bourgeois movement. And the new communism is not just a new edition of the theory of radical social democracy. As a result of the world crisis, it has gained new depth, which totally differentiates it from the old theory.
Socialization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919 Published: 1920
Socialization according to Bauer's recipe is legal expropriation without economic expropriation, it is what any bourgeois government might propose. The capitalist value of enterprises will be paid to the employers in compensation and henceforth they will receive in interest on bonds what they formerly received in profit. This socialization replaces private capitalism with State capitalism; the State takes on the task of sweating profits from the workers and giving it to capitalists.
The German Revolution - First Stage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Through its rapidity and unanimity the revolution rested on the surface of civil society and could not as yet penetrate into the depth of the great masses.
House of Cards
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
The New War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Soldiers who enlisted, or were conscripted, for the old war have been quietly kept on to fight in the new war which began without any formal declaration. They have not been asked: #Do you approve this war; do you understand it?# They have merely been detained and will now fight against their comrades. Officially the British Government is not at war with Socialism in Europe though in actual fact British and other Allied soldiers have been fighting it for a long time, and British money and munitions are keeping the soldiers of other governments in the field against it.
Order Prevails in Berlin
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!"
The Platform of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
Rosa Luxemburg: Her Fight Against the German Betrayers of International Socialism
Introduction to the Second Edition of the Junius Pamphlet, The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
It is as though Rosa Luxemburg, in anticipation of her sudden end, had gathered together in the Junius Pamphlet all the forces of her genial nature for a great work # the scientific, penetrating, independently searching and pondering mind of the theoretician, the fearless, burning passion of the convinced, daring revolutionary fighter, the inner richness and the splendid wealth of expression of the ever struggling artist. All the good spirits which nature had lavished upon her stood by her side as she wrote this work.
Terrorism and Communism
A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
What are the Leaders Doing?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1919
It is a revolution with all its externally chaotic development, with its alternating ebb and flow, with momentary surges towards the seizure of power and equally momentary recessions of the revolutionary breakers. And the revolution is making its way step by step through all these apparent zig-zag movements and is marching forward.
Russia in 1919
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1919
This book describes the economic, social and political situation Arthur Ransome saw during his visit to Russia in February and March of 1919. Underlining the description of these events is the wrenching famine in Russia caused by the Civil War. In this work Ransome interviews several prominent members of the Soviet government as well as ordinary citizens of Soviet Russia.

1918

The War after the War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1973
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1971
Terrorism & Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1969
Roads to Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1966
The attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato.
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1965
The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1961
The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him .
The Acheron in Motion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The healthy class instinct of the proletariat rebels against the schema of parliamentary cretinism. 'The liberation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself,' says the Communist Manifesto. And the'working class' is not a few hundred elected representatives who control society's destiny with speeches and rebuttals.
The Beginning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Revolutions do not stand still. Their vital law is to advance rapidly, to outgrow themselves.
A Call to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution.
A Duty of Honour
Against Capital Punishment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
The Elections to the National Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
"Left-Wing" Communism
An Infantile Disorder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Lenin's repsonse to ultraleftists who advocate 'no compromises' and refuse to work in 'reactionary' trade unions and parliamentary elections.
Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Life of Korolenko
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Rosa Luxemburg wrote this article as a preface to her translation, from Russian into German, of Vladimir Korolenko’s autobiographical novel Istoriia Moego Sovremennika (A History of My Contemporary). She undertook this work during her imprisonment for socialist opposition to the imperialist war from 1915 to 1918. The preface was written July 1918 in Breslau Prison
Manifesto of the Makhnovists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
We must win # win not so that we may follow the example of past years and hand over our fate to some new master, but to take it in our own hands and conduct our lives according to our own will and our own conception of truth.
The National Assembly
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
Oh! How--German is this Revolution!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
On the Spartacus Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
The Russian tragedy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
There is only one solution to the tragedy in which Russia in caught up: an uprising at the rear of German imperialism, the German mass rising, which can signal the international revolution to put an end to this genocide.
Six Red Months in Russia
An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
The Socialisation of Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
A socialist society needs human beings from whom each one in his place, is full of passion and enthusiasm for the general well-being, full of self-sacrifice and sympathy for his fellow human beings, full of courage and tenacity in order to dare to attempt the most difficult.
War is the Health of the State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.
What Does the Spartacus League Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1918
The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naive illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.

1917

Songs of the Workers
To fan the flames of discontent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917 Published: 1973
Political Ideals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917 Published: 1963
Russell argues that the aim of political institutions is to make the lives of individuals as good as possible through the cultivation of the individual's creative impulses.
An anti-Jewish pogrom in London
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
Russians, Romanians, Armenians, peoples of all oppressed nationalities live here, Jews forming the majority, for Jews, the people who have no country, are always most cruelly oppressed by tyrannical Governments.
After the War Ends
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
When the soldiers return to their homes, new misery and new want are grinning at them. Awful as have been the sufferings that war has brought, in one respect the lot of the proletarians is still worse in times of peace. In war times the workers are needed; the bourgeoisie needs their enthusiasm, their willingness to sacrifice, their good will # the spirit of the army is an important factor in warfare. Money, therefore, becomes a secondary consideration, subservient to the aims of the war; aid and assistance are granted with unaccustomed liberality. The working class suffers, it is butchered, but those at home at least maintain a certain livelihood. That ceases with the coming of peace. The workers are not longer needed as soldiers; they are no longer comrades, defenders of the fatherland, heroes. Once more they become beasts of burden, objects of exploitation. Let them look for work, if they are hungry.
The Hypocrisy of Puritanism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is, indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natural and healthy impulse, and turn his back on joy and beauty.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
The Old Mole
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat.
Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge. It has also adopted the theologic idea; namely, punishment; while the legal and #civilized# methods consist of deterrence or terror, and reform.
The Psychology of Political Violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1917
Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities.
The State and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1917
Lenin on the Marxist teaching on the State and the tasks of the proletariat in the Revolution.

1916

Democracy and Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1916 Published: 1997
John Dewey's classic work on the nature of education, and the ideal ways in which children should be educated.
God and the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1916 Published: 1970
What is Economics?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1916 Published: 1968
An outline of economics from a Marxist perspective.
Either Or
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1916
It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
The Junius Pamphlet
The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1916
The voting of war credits in August 1914 was a shattering moment in the life of individual socialists and of the socialist movement in Europe. Those who had worked for and wholly believed in the ability of organized labour to stand against war now saw the major social democratic parties of Germany, France, and England rush to the defense of their fatherlands. Worker solidarity had proved an impotent myth. Rosa Luxemburg had for years warned against the stultifying effects of the overly bureaucratized German Social Democratic Party and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the trade unions that played such a large role in the party's policy decisions. She spent much of the war in jail, where she wrote and then smuggled this pamphlet. Published under the name "Junius," the pamphlet became the guiding statement for the International Group, which became the Spartacus League.
Newspapers and the Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1916
The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.

1915

The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique
The Accumulation of Capital, or What the Epigones Have Made of Marx's Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1915 Published: 1921
Rosa Luxemburg's reply to the critics of her book The Accumulation of Capital. Originally written in 1915 while Luxemburg was interned in the women’s prison, Barnimstrasse, Berlin, and published after her death.
Force-Feeding a Suffragette
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1915
Marxism as Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1915
Now is the time to bring to the fore the other part of Marxism which has been so neglected; now, when the workers movement must find a new direction, in order to overcome the narrow views and the passivity of the old era, if it wants to overcome the crisis. Men must themselves make history, or else history will be made by others for them. Of course, they cannot build without taking the circumstances into account, but they build nonetheless.
Rebuilding the International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1915
The only real safeguard for peace depends on the resolution of the proletariat to remain faithful to its class politics and its international solidarity through all the storm of imperialism.
Solidarity Forever
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1915
Union song.

1914

A History of Canadian Wealth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1914 Published: 1972
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1914
The true cause, the trigger, the author of this war, is therefore not any particular State, but all the States that pursue an imperialist policy and seek to expand their territories: Germany, England, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and Japan; each one separately and all of them together are its cause. All the chatter of the bourgeois and socialist parties and their newspapers, according to which we are witnessing a war of national defense in which we are obliged to participate because we were attacked, all this chatter is nothing but a trick to dissimulate each country's culpability under a beautiful façade. To say that Germany, Prussia or England is the cause of the war is as stupid and as false as to assert that the cracks which open up on a volcano are the cause of its eruption.
For many years, all the European States have been arming for this conflict. All of them want to satisfy their own rapacity and greed. All of them are equally guilty.

1913

The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
The Idea of May Day on the March
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1913
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
The Political Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1913
If we want to prove ourselves worthy of the great coming events then we must not begin at the wrong end by attempting to make technical preparations for the mass strike. When the situation is ripe, the tactic of the mass strike will present itself. Let us not rack our brains about supporting it at the right time. What is necessary is that you watch the party press to ensure that it is your instrument and expresses your opinion and your mood. You must also see to it that our parliamentarians feel a mass pressing them from behind.

1912

The Socialist Party's Appeal
Candidate of the Socialist Party for the Presidency of the United States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
The Socialist party challenges the right of capitalism to longer exist, and proclaims the program of socialism as the legitimate successor of the present order.
Hope in the Future
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
Socialism#s development also depends on the normal nature of capitalism, its most intimate essence. Nevertheless, of this development as well that want to hear nothing. They want an abnormal capitalism, unnatural, a capitalism that would be made to endure eternally.
How I Became a Socialist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists.
Class Struggle and Nation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
Does the bourgeoisie really have an interest in putting an end to national struggles? Not at all, it has the greatest interest in not putting an end to them, especially since the class struggle has reached a high point. Just like religious antagonisms, national antagonisms constitute excellent means to divide the proletariat, to divert its attention from the class struggle with the aid of ideological slogans and to prevent its class unity.
Marxist Theory and Revolutionary Tactics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
If the party saw its function as restraining the masses from action for as long as it could do so, then party discipline would mean a loss to the masses of their initiative and potential for spontaneous action, a real loss, and not a transformation of energy. The existence of the party would then reduce the revolutionary capacity of the proletariat rather than increase it. It cannot simply sit down and wait until the masses rise up spontaneously in spite of having entrusted it with part of their autonomy; the discipline and confidence in the party leadership which keep the masses calm place it under an obligation to intervene actively and itself give the masses the call for action at the right moment. Thus, as we have already argued, the party actually has a duty to instigate revolutionary action, because it is the bearer of an important part of the masses# capacity for action; but it cannot do so as and when it pleases, for it has not assimilated the entire will of the entire proletariat, and cannot therefore order it about like a troop of soldiers. It must wait for the right moment: not until the masses will wait no longer and are rising up of their own accord, but until the conditions arouse such feeling in the masses that large-scale action by the masses has a chance of success.
Political Appeal to American Workers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
There is but one issue that appeals to this army the unconditional surrender of the capitalist class. To be sure this cannot be achieved in a day and in the meantime the party enforces to the extent of its power its immediate demands and presses steadily onward toward the goal. It has its constructive program by means of which it develops its power and its capacity, step by step, seizing upon every bit of vantage to advance and strengthen its position, but never for a moment mistaking reform for revolution and never losing eight of the ultimate goal. Socialist reform must not be confounded with so-called capitalist reform. The latter is shrewdly designed to buttress capitalism; the former to overthrow it. Socialist reform vitalizes and promotes the social revolution.
What Now?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
We must now give battle on all fronts in the Reichstag to the nationalistic clap-trap that dogged our every step in the election campaign and that lurks in militarism, naval policy, colonialism, threats of war and personal rule.
Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1912
In any society, the degree of female emancipation is the natural measure of the general emancipation.

1911

Concerning Morocco
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
Mass Action
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
No party executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy, and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders" in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders.
Peace Utopias
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of militarism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts.
One Big Union
An Outline of a Possible Industrial Organization of the Working Class, with Chart
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1911
This is the first edition of a booklet that was revised and republished many times by both the I. W. W. and Daniel De Leon's "Detroit I. W. W." (later the W. I. I. U.), to which the author defected in 1913. Later editions are available on this site: 1919 and ca. 1924.

1910

Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
The Next Step
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
Theory & Practice
A polemic against Comrade Kautsky's theory of the Mass Strike
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1910
Rosa Luxemburg confronts Karl Kautsky on the crucial questions of the General Mass Strike and on the relationship of spontaneity to organization, as well as on the unity of theory and practice. This crucial 1910 debate in German Social Democracy led to Luxemburg's revolutionary break with Karl Kautsky and foreshadowed the collapse of the Second International at the outbreak of World War I.

1908

Foundations of Christianity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1908 Published: 1953
I have proceeded to describe the roots of primitive Christianity without intending either to extol or stigmatize it, but merely to understand it.
There are Reforms and There are Reforms
Or, Two Sorts of Reforms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1908
Those who believe that we will manage to gradually realize socialism by social reform within the current regime misunderstand the class antagonisms that determine reforms. Current social reform, having as a goal the preservation of the capitalist system, finds itself in opposition to the proletarian reform of tomorrow, which will have the contrary goal: the suppression of the system. The organic connection that exists today between reform and revolution is completely different. In fighting for reform the working class develops and makes itself strong. It ends by conquering political power. This is the unity of reform and revolution.
The Illegals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1908
For the anarchist, if he doesn#t care about bourgeois legality and honesty, must above all aim at preserving himself as long as possible for action and realizing to the greatest extent possible for himself the life he desires . His work, rather than appearing harmful and destructive, should be a work of life, a long apostolate of stubborn labor, of goodness, of love.
The Labour Movement and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1908
Unions and political organizations each have their role in the struggle against capitalism.

1907

The Iron Heel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1907 Published: 1971
Socialism and Religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1907
In declaring that religion is a private matter, we do not mean to say that it is immaterial to us, what general conceptions our members hold. We prefer a thorough scientific understanding to an unscientific religious faith. But we are convinced, that the new conditions will of themselves alter the religious conceptions, and that religious or anti-religious propaganda is unable to accomplish or prevent this.
The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1907
To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
Unionism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1907
The labor movement of modrn times is the product of past ages. It has come down to us for the impetus of our day, in pursuit of its world-wide mission of emancipation.

1906

In Russian and French Prisons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906 Published: 1991
Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth
As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
The Jungle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Upton Sinclair's sixth novel and first popular success, written when he was sent by the socialist weekly newspaper Appeal to Reason to Chicago to investigate conditions in the stockyards. Though intended to create sympathy for the exploited and poorly treated immigrant workers in the meat-packing industry, The Jungle instead aroused widespread public indignation at the quality of and impurities in processed meats and thus helped bring about the passage of federal food-inspection laws. Sinclair ironically commented at the time, "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach." The Jungle is the most enduring of the works of the "muckrakers".
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
Preface to the French Edition of #Anti-Patriotism#
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1906
In case of mobilization, regardless of who the aggressor appears to be (for, after all, when a war breaks out, one can never tell who the real aggressor is), the proletariat of the belligerent countries should respond to the call to arms, by an insurrection against their rulers, each within his own boundaries, to establish the Socialist or Communist regime.
Revolution and other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Riot and Revolution
Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1906

1905

Class Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905 Published: 1909
Craft Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
The old form of trade unionism no longer meets the demands of the working class. The old trade union has not only fulfilled its mission and outlived its usefulness, but that it is now positively reactionary.
Socialist Reconstruction of Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Without political organization, the labor movement cannot triumph; without economic organization, the day of its political triumph would be the day of its defeat.
Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
I realize that I stand in the presence of those who in the past have fought, are fighting, and will continue to fight the battles of the working class economically and politically, until the capitalist class is overthrown and the working class are emancipated from all of the degrading thralldom of the ages. In this great struggle the working class are often defeated, but never vanquished.
Anti-patriotism
Speech to the jury at his trial in 1905 for #anti-militarist# activities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Our war-cry against war is #Insurrection Rather Than War!#
Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
Industrial Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
In capitalist society you are the lower class; the capitalists are the upper class-because they are on your backs; if they were not on your backs they could not be above you.
A Modern Utopia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
The Revolution in Russia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Revolutionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905
Socialism and The Churches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
Social-Democracy in no way fights against religious beliefs. On the contrary, it demands complete freedom of conscience for every individual and the widest possible toleration for every faith and every opinion. But, from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.
Constitution and By-Laws of Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1905
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life....

1904

In the Storm
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1904
The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these statesmen or parties.
Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1904
Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the debate within the Russian Social Democratic movement on party organization and democratic centralism. Luxemburg joins Trotsky in warning of the dangers inherent in centralism and argues against the concentration of power in a Central Committee. From a Socialist Revolutionary perspective Luxemburg puts forward compelling arguments against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary Party.
Social Democracy and Parliamentarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1904
Parliamentarism is far from being an absolute product of democratic development, of the progress of the human species, and of such nice things. It is, rather, the historically determined form of the class rule of the bourgeoisie and – what is only the reverse of this rule – of its struggle against feudalism.

1903

Crime and Punishment
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
Let us have done with this savage idea of punishment, which is without wisdom. Let us work for the freedom of man from the oppressions which make criminals, and for the enlightened treatment of all the sick.
An anti-clerical policy of Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
According to Luxemburg, "the incessant guerrilla warfare waged for the last ten years against the priests is for French middle-class Republicans one of the best ways of turning away the attention of the working-class from social questions, and of weakening the class struggle."
In Memory of the Proletariat Party
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
A sketch of Marxist theory.
Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1903
Only in proportion as our movement progresses, and demands the solution of new practical problems do we dip once more into the treasury of Marx's thought, in order to extract therefrom and to utilize new fragments of his doctrine. But since our movement, like all the campaigns of practical life, inclines to go on working in old ruts of thought, and to cling to principles after they have ceased to be valid, the theoretical utilization of the Marxist system proceed very slowly.

1902

Crime and Criminals
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1902
So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
Martinique
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1902
Written after the volanic eruption in May, 1902 at the port of St. Pierre.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1902
The Position and Significance of J. Dietzgen#s Philosophical Works
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1902
A thorough study of Dietzgen#s philosophical writings is an important and indispensable auxiliary for the understanding of the fundamental works of Marx and Engels. Dietzgen#s work demonstrates that the proletariat has a mighty weapon not only in proletarian economics, but also in proletarian philosophy.

1901

The Boycott
Lafargue, Paul
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1901
The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defence of their livelihood. The mere blacklisting of a workshop by a trade union is an offence, in Europe as well as in America, punished by law and the infliction of civil damages, calculated to exhaust the treasury of the union and break down the power of resistance of the workers.
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1901
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
The Socialist Crisis in France
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1901
"The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."

1900

Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1900 Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.

1899

The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events.
Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
The legal eight-hour day is one of the demands on our minimal program. i.e., it is the very least minimum of social reform which we, as representatives of the workers’ interests, must demand and expect from the present state. The fragmentation of even these minimal demands into still smaller morsels goes against all our tactics.
Evolutionary Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1899
The Militia and Militarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general.
Rosa Luxemburg: Speech to the Hanover Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1899
In its struggle, the working class has no greater enemy than its own illusions -- and those who foster illusions.

1898

I accuse!
Letter to the President of the Republic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1898
Emile Zola's condemnation of the frame-up of Captain Dreyfus.
The Industrial Development of Poland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1898
First published in 1898, under the title Die Industrielle Entwicklung Polens.
Opportunism and the art of the possible
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1898
Opportunism is a political game which can be lost in two ways: not only basic principles but also practical success may be forfeited.
Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1898
Luxenburg criticizes Eduard Bernstein's comment: "The final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything!" with the reply "Anyone who says that does not stand for the necessity of seizing political power. You see that some comrades in the Party do not stand for the final goals of our movement, and that it is necessary to express that fact unambiguously."

1896

Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
We must, first of all, learn how we ought to do our work among women.
Reform or Revolution?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
Socialism knows that revolutionary upheavals and transformations proceed from the rock bed of material needs.
The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1896
In foreign policy as in domestic politics, Social Democracy can adopt its own position, which in both spheres must be determined by the same standpoints, namely by the internal social conditions of the phenomenon in question, and by our general principles.

1895

Introduction to Karl Marx#s The Class Struggles in France 1848 to 1850
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1895
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 27
Engels 1890 - 1895
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
Includes The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, and A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891, and On the History of Early Christianity, and The Peasant Question in France and Germany
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 50
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
Proposed Communist Settlement
A New Colony for Tyneside or Wearside
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1895
The Time Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895

1894

Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1894 Published: 1971
On the History of Early Christianity
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894 Published: 1895
The Peasant Question in France and Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894 Published: 1895
Part of the current debate around agrarian issues in which Engels discusses a policy of alliance between the working class and the working peasantry.
How I Became a Socialist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894
Morris looks back over his life and describes his political development.
What Are the Origins of May Day?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1894
As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met, May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands. And, when better days dawn, when the working class of the world has won its deliverance then too humanity will probably celebrate May Day in honour of the bitter struggles and the many sufferings of the past.

1893

Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1893 Published: 1956
The Ideal Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1893
The designer William Morris describes his ideas about book design.

1892

Absolutism and Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1892 Published: 1910
Biography of Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1892
The Mark
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1892
A short essay on the primitive form of collective land ownership in Germany and the subsequent development of private property.
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 49
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1892

1891

A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
The Erfurt Program
Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
Program of Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands.
On the 20th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
The Soul of Man under Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1891
Pleasure is Nature#s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

1890

News from Nowhere
or An Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters From a Utopian Romance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1890 Published: 1892
A utopian novel by William Morris which combines a vision of working class revolution with a picture of a society that is primarily agricultural and based on handicraft production.
Marx and Engels Collected Words Volume 48
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1890
Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1890
Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."

1889

Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26
Engels 1882 - 1889
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1889
Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
Socialism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1889
Morris repudiates the anarchist view that freedom from authority means the individual doing what he pleases under all circumstances. This, he says is "an absolute negation of society".

1888

A Dream of John Ball
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1888
Morris' novel describes a dream and time travel leading to an encounter between the medieval and modern worlds. Morris describes a positive image of the Middle Ages, seeing it as a golden, if brief, period when peasants were prosperous and happy and guilds protected workers from exploitation.
It contains the famous passage "... I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name..."
Shelley's Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1888
One of the few Marxist evaluations of poetry of Percy Byshhe Shelley.
Thomas More and his Utopia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1888
More can only be understood in the light of his age, to comprehend which a knowledge of the beginnings of capitalism and the decline of feudalism, of the powerful part played by the Church on the one hand, and of world commerce on the other, is necessary.
The Utopists: Owen, Saint Simon, and Fourier
Chapter 13 of Socialism From The Root Up
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1888

1887

The Chicago Anarchists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1887
The working-class are up in arms about this matter. Anarchist, Socialist, anti-Anarchist, anti-Socialist alike are astonished, indignant, thoroughly aroused. Everywhere, except in Chicago, meetings are being held, resolution condemnatory of this judicial murder are being passed.
The Policy of Abstention
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1887
Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
The Role of Force in History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1887
The Secularization Yet to be Done
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1887
The secularization of primary instruction, which our bourgeois republic doesn#t want, is nothing but the substitution of one religion for another. It#s a matter of placing the capitalist faith instead of the Christian faith in the brain in process of formation of working class France, for the greater security and profit of the economic and political exploiters.

1886

Socialism From The Root Up
or Socialism Its Growth & Outcome
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886 Published: 1888
Traces the development of history in relation to socialism.
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1886
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 47
Engels 1883 - 1886
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886
Letters.
Socialism: The Ends and the Means
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1886
Shall we waste our wealth or use it? Why do we waste it now? Because we are cowards and therefore unjust. The wealth was made by all and should be used for the benefit of all; but we in our fear have forgotten what is meant by all.

1885

The Manifesto of The Socialist League
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1885
Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
On The History of the Communist League
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1885

1884

How We Live and How We Might Live
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884 Published: 1887
Morris sees capitalist society as based on war#between nations, between rival capitalists, against colonial peoples and between classes. Only the victory of Socialist revolution can end all these wars.
Art and Labour
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884
Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
Art and Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884
Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1884
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1884

1883

Art Under Plutocracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883 Published: 1884
Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
Art, Wealth, and Riches
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883
A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
Articles by Engels in the Labour Standard 1878-1881
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883
Articles by Engels on the Death of Karl Marx
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883
The Right To Be Lazy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1883
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
Useful Work versus Useless Toil
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1883
Morris proposes that while work is essential for our survival, nevertheless "there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work."

1881

First Draft of Letter To Vera Zasulich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1881

1880

A Workers' Inquiry
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
The Development of Utopian Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
The Utopians# mode of thought has for a long time governed the Socialist ideas of the 19th century, and still governs some of them. Until very recently, all French and English Socialists did homage to it. The earlier German Communism, including that of Weitling, was of the same school. To all these, Socialism is the expression of absolute truth, reason and justice, and has only to be discovered to conquer all the world by virtue of its own power. And as an absolute truth is independent of time, space, and of the historical development of man, it is a mere accident when and where it is discovered. With all this, absolute truth, reason, and justice are different with the founder of each different school.
The Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
Under the name "Commune of Paris" a new idea was born, to become the starting point for future revolutions. As is always the case, this fruitful idea was not the product of some one individual's brain, of the conceptions of some philosopher; it was born of the collective spirit, it sprang from the heart of a whole community.
The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1880
This document was drawn up in May 1880, when French workers' leader Jules Guesde came to visit Marx in London. The Preamble was dictated by Marx, while the other two parts of minimum political and economic demands were formulated by Marx and Guesde, with assistance from Engels and Paul Lafargue, who with Guesde was to become a leading figure in the Marxist wing of French socialism.
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1880

1878

Anti-Duhring
Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1878

1875

The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1875 Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1875
Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.

1874

Conspectus of Bakunin#s Statism and Anarchy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1874 Published: 1875
Marx's notes on Bakunin's recent book Statism and Anarchy.

1873

The Bakuninists at Work
An account of the Spanish revolt in the summer of 1873
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1873
This series of articles was written in the wake of the events in Spain during the summer of 1873, which were the culmination of the Spanish bourgeois revolution of 1868-74. Engels focused his attention on the involvement of the Spanish Bakuninists in the abortive cantonal revolts organised in the south and south-east of the country by the Intransigents, an extremist republican grouping that advocated the partition of Spain into independent cantons.
Political Indifferentism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1873

1872

La Liberté Speech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
Citizens, let us think of the basic principle of the International: Solidarity. Only when we have established this life-giving principle on a sound basis among the numerous workers of all countries will we attain the great final goal which we have set ourselves. The revolution must be carried out with solidarity; this is the great lesson of the French Commune, which fell becaue none of the other centres -- Berlin, Madrid, etc. -- developed great revolutionary movements comparable to the mighty uprising of the Paris proletariat.
The Nationalisation of the Land
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
I do not intend discussing here all the arguments put forward by the advocates of private property in land, by jurists, philosophers and political economists, but shall confine myself firstly to state that they have tried hard to disguise the primitive fact of conquest under the cloak of "Natural Right". If conquest constituted a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them. In the progress of history the conquerors found it convenient to give to their original titles, derived from brute force, a sort of social standing through the instrumentality of laws imposed by themselves.
Fictitious Splits in the International
Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
The Hague Congress of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
The fifth congress of the First International.
The Housing Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1872
Only by the solution of the social question, that is, by the abolition of the capitalist mode of production, is the solution of the housing question made possible.

1871

Bakunin on Marx and Rothschild
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1871 Published: 1979
Interview with Karl Marx Head of L'Internationale
Revolt of Labour Against Capital # the Two Faces of L'Internationale # Transformation of Society # Its Progress in the United States
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1871
The Civil War in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1871
Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
Manifesto of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1871
Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
The Internationale
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1871
Is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem and one of the most widely recognized songs in the world.
The Internationale: Recordings
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1871
Versions of The Internationale in more than 40 languages.

1870

Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1870 & after
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1870 Published: 1895
The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1870
On the treatment of Fenian prisoners.

1869

Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1860s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1869
The Program of the International Brotherhood
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1869
Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary visions "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."

1868

Marx's Marginal Notes on the Program and Rules of Bakunin's International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1868
Synopsis of Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1868
This is a synopsis of Capital, Volume I, written by Engels in 1868. Upon Capital's release, Engels began constructing a comprehensive summation. Engels' synopsis serves two useful contributions: First, Engels was a far more rapid writer than Marx, and more readable. Second, Engels could distance himself from the massive web of ideas without "losing his place in it", and identify primary points to be made. This text was published in Fortnightly Review. Engels only summarized the first four chapters of Volume I of Capital.

1867

Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1867 Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Capital, Volume One: Chapter 28
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1867
Agricultural people: first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system.

1866

National Catechism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1866
Bakunin sketches out his vision of a social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
Revolutionary Catechism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1866
Bakunin believed that workers were very far from being able to attain revolutionary consciousness on their own. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of a resulting revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize a secret International Fraternity headed by himself. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the Social Revolution.
What have the working classes to do with Poland?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1866
Engels wrote these articles after controversy developed at the 1865 London conference of the International concerning including a demand for Poland#s independence in the upcoming Geneva Congress. In order to substantiate the position of the Central Committee on the #nationalities question,# it was necessary to deal with 1) the Proudhonists who contended politics and national liberation movements have nothing to do with the working class, indeed, detracted from real working class issues, and 2) reveal the demagogic essence of the so-called #principle of nationalities# that helped the Bonapartists make use of national movements for their own political ends.

1865

Value, Price and Profit
Speech by Marx to the International Working Men's Association, June 1865
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1865 Published: 1898
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1865
The speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration at the start of his second term as president.
Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1865
The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.

1864

Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1864
Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1864
Rules of the First International, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.

1863

Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 31
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 32
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63 (Continuation). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 33
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Continuation).

1861

Writings by Marx and Engels on the U.S. Civil War
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1861 Published: 1862
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 28
Marx 1857 - 1861
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1861
Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.

1859

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1859
Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1850s
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1859
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1859
Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.

1858

Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1858
Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.

1857

The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1857 Published: 1973
Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857 Published: 1858
An encyclopedia article by Engels.
Mountain Warfare in the Past and Present
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857
The article was prompted by the Neuchâtel conflict and the plans for the invasion of Switzerland by Prussian troops, widely discussed in the press.
Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations I
The process which precedes the formation of the capital relation or of original accumulation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857
Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations II
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1857
Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
The First Indian War of Independence (1857-1858) and the East India Company (June-August 1853)
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1857
Articles by Marx and Engels on India 1853-1859.

1856

Speech at anniversary of the People#s Paper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1856
The so-called revolutions of 1848 were but poor incidents # small fractures and fissures in the dry crust of European society. However, they denounced the abyss. Beneath the apparently solid surface, they betrayed oceans of liquid matter, only needing expansion to rend into fragments continents of hard rock.

1855

Anti-Church Movement Demonstration in Hyde Park
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1855
The Armies of Europe
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1855

1854

Revolutionary Spain
Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1854
The series of articles Revolutionary Spain was written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune between August and November 1854. Marx observed all the symptoms of the revolutionary movement in Europe and paid much attention to the revolutionary events in the summer of 1854 in Spain. He held that the revolutionary struggle there could provide a stimulus for the development of the revolutionary movement in other European countries.

1853

The East India Company # Its History and Results
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1853
Thus the British Government has been fighting, under the Company#s name, for two centuries, till at last the natural limits of India were reached. We understand now, why during ail this time all parties in England have connived in silence, even those which had resolved to become the loudest with their hypocritical peace-cant, after the arrondissement of the one Indian Empire should have been completed. Firstly, of course, they had to get it, in order to subject it afterward to their sharp philanthropy.
The British Rule in India
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1853
England has broken down the entire framework of Indian society, without any symptoms of reconstitution yet appearing. This loss of his old world, with no gain of a new one, imparts a particular kind of melancholy to the present misery of the Hindoo, and separates Hindostan, ruled by Britain, from all its ancient traditions, and from the whole of its past history.

1852

Heroes of the Exile
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1852 Published: 1960
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852 Published: 1896
Articles by Karl Marx in the New York Daily Tribune
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1852 Published: 1861
In the early 1850#s, Karl Marx (and Frederick Engels, though to a lesser extent) wrote a quantity of journalist news summaries about events in Europe for the New-York Daily Tribune. These articles were often reprinted in other papers: see Semi-Weekly Tribune, The Free Press, Das Volk, The People#s Paper, Die Reform and Others.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852
Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852
Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement.

1851

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1851 Published: 1896

1850

Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1850
Originally a series of articles written between January and October 1850 specially for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue and published in it under the general title "1848-1849."
England#s 17th Century Revolution
A Review of Francois Guizot#s 1850 pamphlet Pourquoi la revolution d'Angleterre a-t-elle reussi?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
For Guizot, English history ends with the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy. For him, everything that follows is limited to a pleasant alternating game between Tories and Whigs. In reality, however, the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy is only the beginning of the magnificent development and transformation of bourgeois society in England. Where M. Guizot sees only gentle calm and idyllic peace, in reality the most violent conflicts and the most penetrating revolutions are taking place.
Manifeste de l'Anarchie
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l#autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu#ils fassent ce qu#ils veulent.
The Peasant War in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1850
The Peasant War in Germany was the first history book to assert that the real motivating force behind the Reformation and 16th-century peasant war was socio-economic (class conflict) rather than "merely" religious.
Reviews from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-ökonomische Revue
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1850
The periodical#s aims were to assess the results of the 1848-49 revolution, to reveal the nature of the new historical situation, and to develop further the party#s tactics. Altogether six issues were published; the last issue, a double one (5-6),came out at the end of November 1850. All further attempts to continue publication were blocked by police persecution in Germany and lack of funds.

1849

The First Trial of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1849
Civil Disobedience
Originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1849
An essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849 which argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
Letters of Marx and Engels: 1849
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1849
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 # March 5, 1849.
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 9
Marx and Engels 1849
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung March 6#May 19, 1849.

1848

Articles by Marx & Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung June 1848 - May 1849
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848 Published: 1849
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Revolution in Paris
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
The bourgeoisie has made its revolution, it has toppled Guizot and with him the exclusive rule of the Stock Exchange grandees. Now, however, in the second act of the struggle, it is no longer one section of the bourgeoisie confronting another, now the proletariat confronts the bourgeoisie.
On the Polish Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
It is above all our Germany which ought to congratulate itself on this explosion of democratic passion in Poland. We are, ourselves, on the eve of a democratic revolution. enceforth the German people and the Polish people are irrevocably allied. We have the same enemies, the same oppressors.
The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1848
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
The June Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
The defeated plebeians are tormented by hunger, abused by the press, forsaken by the physicians, called thieves, incendiaries and galley-slaves by the respectabilities; their wives and children are plunged into still greater misery and the best of those who have survived are sent overseas.
Letters of Marx and Engels: 1848
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1848
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 6
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1848
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1848
Includes the Poverty of Philosophy and The Communist Manifesto.
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
Marx and Engels 1848
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1848
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 # November 7, 1848.

1847

Wage Labour and Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1847 Published: 1891
On the Question of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847 Published: 1888
Article by Marx and Engels in Deutsche-Brusseler-Zeitung April 1847 - February 1848
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847 Published: 1848
Articles by Friedrich Engels in La Reforme October 1847 - March 1848
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847 Published: 1848
The Civil War in Switzerland
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847
Letters of Marx and Engels: 1847
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847
Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality
A Contribution to German Cultural History Contra Karl Heinzen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1847
The Poverty of Philosophy
Answer to the Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1847
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1847
Includes The German Ideology.

1846

The German Ideology
Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner, and of German Socialism According to
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1846 Published: 1932
Marx and Engels take on the "philosophic charlatanry" and pettiness and "parochial narrowness" of the pseudo-radicals of their time, "in particular the tragicomic contrast between the illusions of these heroes about their achievements and the actual achievements themselves."
Letters of Marx and Engels: 1846
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1846

1845

Theses On Feuerbach
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845 Published: 1924
Saint Max
Chapter 3 of The German Ideology
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845 Published: 1846
The State of Germany
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845 Published: 1846
The Late Butchery at Leipzig. The German Working Men#s Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1845
The Condition of the Working Class in England
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1845
The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1845
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1845
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.

1844

Description of Recently Founded Communist Colonies Still in Existence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844 Published: 1845
If the workers are united among themselves, hold together and pursue one purpose, they are infinitely stronger than the rich. And if, moreover, they have set their sights upon such a rational purpose, and one which desires the best for all mankind, as community of goods, it is self-evident that the better and more intelligent among the rich will declare themselves in agreement with the workers and support them.
Further Particulars of the Silesian Riots
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
The causes of these affrays were the incredible sufferings of these poor weavers, produced by low wages, machinery, and the avarice and greediness of the manufacturers.
Beer Riots in Bavaria
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Antithesis of Capital and Labour. Landed Property and Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
The Condition of England
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses
Critique of Hegel#s Philosophy in General
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1844
Estranged Labour
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Letters of Marx and Engels: 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Letters of Marx and Engels 1845
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
The Power of Money
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Private Property and Communism
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Private Property and Labour. Political Economy as a Product of the Movement of Private Property
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Profit of Capital
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Rent of Land
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Wages of Labour
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1844
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 3
Marx and Engels 1843 - 1844
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1844

1843

Articles by Friedrich Engels in The Northern Star December 1843 - December 1849
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843 Published: 1849
Articles by Friedrich Engels in New Moral World October 1843 - November 1844
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843 Published: 1844
On The Jewish Question
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843 Published: 1844
The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843
The German press begins the New Year with apparently gloomy prospects. The ban that has just been imposed on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung in the states of Prussia is surely a sufficiently convincing refutation of all the complacent dreams of gullible people about big concessions in the future.
Justification of the Correspondent from the Mosel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843
The press is obliged to reveal and denounce circumstances, but I am convinced that it should not denounce individuals, unless there is no other way of preventing a public evil or unless publicity already prevails throughout political life so that the German concept of denunciation no longer exists.
Letter: Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1843
Constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
Therefore I am not in favour of raising any dogmatic banner. On the contrary, we must try to help the dogmatists to clarify their propositions for themselves.

1842

On Freedom of the Press (3)
On the Assembly of the Estates
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly # and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? # precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
Articles by Marx & Engels in the Rheinische Zeitung April 1842 - March 1843
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842 Published: 1843
The Divorce Bill
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
In regard to marriage, the legislator can only establish when it is permissible to dissolve it, that is to say, when in its essence it is already dissolved. Juridical dissolution of marriage can only be the registering of its internal dissolution.
Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
We are firmly convinced that it is not the practical Attempt, but rather the theoretical application of communist ideas, that constitutes the real danger; for practical attempts, even those on a large scale, can be answered with cannon as soon as they become dangerous, but ideas, which conquer our intelligence, which overcome the outlook that reason has riveted to our conscience, are chains from which we cannot tear ourselves away without tearing our hearts.
On Freedom of the Press (6)
Freedom in General
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
On Freedom of the Press (5)
Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
On Freedom of the Press (4)
As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
On Freedom of the Press (2)
Opponents of a Free Press
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
On Freedom of the Press (1)
Prussian Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
A deputy from the knightly estate mentioned that in the neighbourhood of Cleve many wood thefts took place merely in order to secure arrest and prison fare. Does not this deputy from the knightly estate prove precisely what he wants to refute, namely, that people are driven to steal wood by the sheer necessity of saving themselves from starvation and homelessness? Is this terrible need an aggravating circumstance?
The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölnische Zeitung
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
What are we to make of an article which disputes the right to its own existence, which prefaces itself with a declaration of its own incompetence?
Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 2
Engels 1838 - 1842
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1842
On the Critique of the Prussian Press Laws
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842
Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet with objections here, outside the frontiers of his own state he can still either place himself under the censorship of another state in the Confederation or take advantage of press freedom in foreign countries. In any case the state retains the right to take repressive measures against possible breaches of the law.
Voyage en Icarie
(excerpt)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1842

1839

The People's Charter
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1839
The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.

1838

The People's Petition
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1838
The Chartist Petition of 1838.

1817

Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System
With Hints for the Improvement of Those Parts of it Which are Most Injurious to Health and Morals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1817

1816

A New View of Society
Or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1816

1812

Manifiesto de Cartagena
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1812

1807

The Phenomenology of Mind
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1807
The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.

1803

Letters from an Inhabitant of Geneva to His Contemporaries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1803
I think that all classes of society would be happy in the following situation: spiritual power in the hands of the scientists; temporal power in those of the proprietors; power to nominate those called upon to carry out the functions of the great leaders of mankind in the hands of everyone; the reward for those who govern to be # esteem.

1792

The Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1792
Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1792
Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern and sought to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body.

1789

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1789 Published: 1996
Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of eleven, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, and his years of labour on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766. As a free man on a Central American plantation, he supervised slaves; increasingly disgusted by his co-workers, he returned to England in 177. In England he worked for the resettlement of blacks in Sierra Leone, married an Englishwoman, and became a leading and respected figure in the anti-slavery movement.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1789
Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.

1788

The Critique of Practical Reason
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1788

1787

The Critique of Pure Reason
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1787
According to Kant, "The first step in regard to the subjects of pure reason, and which marks the infancy of that faculty, is dogmatic. The second, which we have just mentioned, is sceptical, and it gives evidence that our judgement has been improved by experience. But a third step, such as can be taken only by fully matured judgment, based on assured principles of proved universality, is now necessary, namely to subject to examination, not the facts of reason, but reason itself, ... not the censorship but the criticism of reason, whereby not its present bounds but its determinate and necessary limits."

1783

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1783 Published: 1950

1776

Common Sense
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1776
Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
Declaration of Independence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1776
The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
Essay on the art of crawling, for the use of courtiers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1776
The courtier is, without contradiction, the most curious product of the human race. He#s an amphibian animal in which all contrasts are commonly assembled.
The Virigina Declaration of Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1776
Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.

1772

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1772

1769

On Religious Cruelty
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1769
In this essay I am going to examine the different kinds of religious cruelty. Under this name I include those religious opinions that proceed from this cruelty or give birth to it, those acts of barbarism imposed by religion itself, and those its zealots take as an obligation occasioned by its service and love.

1754

A Dissertation On the Origin and Foundation of The Inequality of Mankind and is it Authorised by Natural Law?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1754

1656

The Commonwealth of Oceana
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1656
James Harrington#s Common-Wealth of Oceana (1656) was based on universal land-ownership and was a militant republic dedicated to spreading its democratic system to the rest of the world. Harrington#s well-meaning vision almost landed him in prison and Cromwell banned it.

1652

The Law of Freedom in a Platform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1652

1649

Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 1649 Published: 2009
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
An Agreement of the Free People of England
Manifesto of the Levellers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1649
The Levellers were an informal alliance of agitators and pamphleteers who came together during the English Civil War (1642-1648) to demand constitutional reform and equal rights under the law. Levellers believed all men were born free and equal and possessed natural rights that resided in the individual, not the government. They believed that each man should have freedom limited only by regard for the freedom of others. They believed the law should equally protect the poor and the wealthy.
The True Levellers Standard Advanced
Or, The State of Community opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1649
Winstanley and 14 others published this pamphlet in which they called themselves the True Levellers to distinguish their ideas from the Levellers. Once they put their idea into practice and started to cultivate common land, they became known as "Diggers" by both opponents and supporters. The Diggers' beliefs were informed by Gerrard Winstanley's writings, which encompassed a worldview that envisioned an ecological interrelationship between humans and nature, acknowledging the inherent connections between people and their surroundings. Winstanley declared that "true freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth".

1647

An Agreement of the People of England, and the places therewith incorporated, for a secure and present peace, upon grounds of common right, freedom and safety
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1647 Published: 1649
An Agreement of the People for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1647
Having by our late labours and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our just freedom, and God having so far owned our cause as to deliver the enemies thereof into our hands, we do now hold ourselves bound in mutual duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoid both the danger of returning into a slavish condition.

1637

The New English Canaan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1637

1635

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and seeking Truth in the Sciences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1635

1628

Petition of Right, 1628
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1628
A document setting out the rights and liberties of the subject as opposed to the prerogatives of the crown.

1626

The New Atlantis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1626
Tells of a #lost civilisation# that lives in perfect harmony and peace. Their society is dedicated to the accumulation of knowledge and the study of science and nature.

1550

The Politics of Obedience
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1550 Published: 1997

1516

Utopia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1516

1450

The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1450
A manifesto issued by Jack Cade, a Kentish rebel in 1450, before his march on London.

1215

The Magna Carta
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1215
The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.

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