1. 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.
   
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Adventures in Marxism 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
   
5. 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.
6. AKPress
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A worker-run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles. Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world.
7. 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.
8. Anarchism and Marxism
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Political movements focused on achieving human liberation through political action.
9. Anarchist St. Imier International
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
10. The Anarchists
    The men who shocked an era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    The history and ideology of anarchism.
11. Anarcho-syndicalism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
12. Autonomism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A set of left-wing political and social movements and theories close to the socialist movement. Autonomism (autonomia), as an identifiable theoretical system, first emerged in Italy in the 1960s from workerist (operaismo) communism.
13. Becoming a Revolutionary
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
14. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
15. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
    
16. 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.
17. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
18. Canada, Politics and Direct Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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?
    
22. The Chatto Book of Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
23. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
24. Coming Home to the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black women I became close to helped me overcome painful shyness. Later my father, a Methodist minister, was arrested trying to integrate churches in Jackson, Mississippi.
25. Common Sense 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1776
    Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
26. 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.
    
27. Communist League
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
28. 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.
    
29. Communist Workers International
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.
30. 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.
31. Correspondence Publishing Committee
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A radical left organization in the US led by C.L.R. James and Martin Glaberman from approximately 1951 until 1962.
32. 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.
33. 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."
34. Debs, Eugene V.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    American socialist politician and union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1855-1926).
35. 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.
    
36. The Dialectical Imagination
    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research
    Resource Type: Book
    
37. 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
    
38. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
39. Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
40. 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.
41. Facing Reality
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A radical left group in the United States which existed from about 1962 until 1970.
42. 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.
43. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    
44. 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.
45. 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.
    
46. Forget Shorter Showers 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Why personal change does not equal political change.
47. Friend and Lover
    The Life of Louise Bryant
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
51. Hard Core Green
    How to Kick Corporate Butt
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
52. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
53. The High School Revolutionaries
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Two young teachers travel across America gathering the views of young high school radicals.
    
54. 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.
55. 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.
56. I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    
57. 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.
58. 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.
    
59. 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.
60. In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
61. 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.
62. International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political international whose member organisations identify with the Italian left communist tradition.
63. International Communist Tendency
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
64. International of Anarchist Federations
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
65. International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Was an international association of left-socialist parties. The member-parties rejected both mainstream social democracy and the Third International.
66. International Workers Association
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries.
67. 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.
68. Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the Background to #Facing Reality#
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    
69. Introduction to this issue (#3)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    
70. The Irresistible Revolution
    Living as an Ordinary Radical
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
71. Johnson-Forest Tendency
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Refers to an American radical left tendency associated with Marxist theorists C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya.
72. 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."
73. 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.
74. 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.
75. League of Revolutionary Black Workers
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
76. Left-Wing, Anti-Bolshevik and Council Communism
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Index to the works of #Left Communists# (a.k.a. #Council Communists# or #Anti-Bolshevik Communists#) and other ultra-left Communist currents and the debates between Left Communists and the leaders of the Comintern and each other.
77. Left-wing internationals, list of
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" # such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" # may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
78. 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.
79. Levellers
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political movement during the English Civil Wars on the 17th century which emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance.
80. A libertarian Marxist tendency map
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the important tendencies in libertarian Marxism. Contains a brief written history with links to key individuals, groups and publications, and a graphic map.
81. Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
82. Libertarian Socialism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
83. Lotta Continua
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Italian left-wing organization.
84. Luxemburgism
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A revolutionary theory within Marxism and communism based on the writings of Rosa Luxemburg.
85. 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.
86. 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.
87. 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.
88. 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.
89. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
90. 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.
91. 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.
92. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
93. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
94. The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967
    
95. The New Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    
96. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
97. 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.
98. 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.
99. 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.
    
100. 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.
     
101. Paine, Thomas
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
102. Tom Paine, restless democrat
     Profile of a radical
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2009
     Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that #my country is the world and my religion is to do good#.
103. A Parable of Women's Liberation
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Meredith Tax.
104. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
     Resource Type: Internet WWW site
     Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
105. 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.
     
106. The Port Huron Statement 
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1962
     A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
107. The Power of Women United
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2008
     Interview with Kipp Dawson.
108. Presenting Insurgent Notes
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2010
     We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
     "Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
109. 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.
110. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
     
111. 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.
112. 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.
     
113. 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.
114. Radicalism in America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1969
     
115. Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1978
     Radio in action in Italy.
116. 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.
117. Red City, Blue Period
     Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
     Resource Type: Book
     
118. 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.
     
119. Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2004
     Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
120. Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos# 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2006
     
121. Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2008
     Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in several crucial yet previously neglected ways. What’s most valuable about the book is her attempt to encompass such subjects as race, labor radicalism, Black religion and the civil rights movement all in one narrative.
122. Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
     Against The Current vol. 135
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2008
     I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
123. Reveille for Radicals 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
     Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
124. List of revolutions and rebellions
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
125. 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.
126. 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.
127. Rosa Luxemburg
     Abridged Edition
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
     A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
     
128. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
129. 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.
130. SDS 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
     
131. Situationist International
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     A group of revolutionaries, founded in 1957, which developed a radical Marxist critque of life under advanced capitalism. They suggested and experimented with the construction of situations: the setting up of environments favourable to the fulfillment of human desires outside and against the economy of markets and wage labour. The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and attacked the capitalist degradation of life and the fake models advertised by the mass media and proposed a revolutionary alternative which integrated politics, art, critical thinking, desire, and play.
132. 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.
133. Socialism from Below
     Resource Type: Book
     
134. 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.
135. Solidarity
     Resource Type: Internet WWW site
     A democratic revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization which publishes Against the Current magazine.
136. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
137. Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     German socialist students' organization.
138. 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.
     
139. 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.
140. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1969
     
141. Student Protest
     The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1968
     
142. Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     
143. 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.
144. 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.
145. 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.”
146. 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.
147. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
     Against The Current vol. 134
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 2008
     Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
148. 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.
149. 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)."
150. Upstream
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1991
     
151. 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.
152. 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.
153. Weatherman
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     A history of the Weatherman organization.
154. 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.
     
155. What's Left: Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche
     Resource Type: Book
     
156. 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.
     
157. 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.
158. 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'.
159. 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?
160. Young Radicals
     Resource Type: Book
     

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