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  1. African Americans and Immigrant Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.
  2. Alice in Migraland
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2013
    The story of how undocumented students organized creatively and strategically and got the Federal Government to grant them legal status.
  3. American Dreams: Lost and Found
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
  4. Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
  5. Building a Solidarity City
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
  6. California Greens Advance: The Camejo and Chretien Campaigns
    Against The Current vol. 124

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In California the Green Party is changing both in its social composition and in its political diversity. The party's support for immigrants' rights, especially around the issue of state driver's licenses, has won the party growing support among Latinos. Leading activists such as Nativo Lopez, Chair of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), and Miguel Araujo, from Centro Azteca, have come into the Green Party.
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  11. Challenging Kim Moody
    Against The Current vol. 130

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Two reports challenge Kim Moody’s assertion (“Immigrant Workers in the United States,”Part 1, ATC 127) that “[t]he claim is raised by some that the rapid growth of immigrant Latinos in the workforce has had a negative impact on wages. In any overall sense, the answer has to be no...”
  12. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  13. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  14. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  15. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  16. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  17. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  18. 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
  19. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  20. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  22. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  24. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
  25. Death in the Desert
    Migrants Risk Everything to Cross the Border

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    This is a NAFTA border. Money moves freely, people with money do too, but the poor are pushed into a dangerous cycle of crossing the desert.
  26. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
  27. False Promises 
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  28. 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.
  29. The foreign victims of criminal injustice
    Resource Type: Article
    How non-UK offenders are often denied truth, fairness and justice.
  30. A Gran Marcha and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    March, 2006 marked an eruption that hit the streets, showed its strength, and took everyone including its participants by surprise. Millions marched all over the country: 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Denver, 10,000 in Detroit and Milwaukee, 10,000-20,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix—and somewhere between 500,000 and a million in the Gran Marcha in Los Angeles on March 25. As the U.S. Congress and Senate hold their wretched deliberations on "immigration reform," the communities affected have shown they will not be passive objects, but active subjects, in this debate. As this issue goes to press, mass marches have continued and Congress has recessed in deadlock on the issue.
  31. How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
    Lobbying for Lock-Up

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny. Yet few people realize that this is happening on an enormous scale in the United States.
  32. "Illegals" of the World Unite?
    Against The Current vol. 141

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    An interview with David Bacon.
  33. Immigrant Students and Workers Take to the Streets: Outpouring in Chicago
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In late February, word began to spread around Chicago about a protest against HR 4437, a bill passed by the House of Representatives to criminalize undocumented immigration, as well as aid given to undocumented immigrants (for more information on HR 4437, see http://www.ilrc.org/HR4437.html). A humble-looking activist website announced, in English and Spanish, "Unite!.March against HR 4437 General Strike!"
  34. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
    Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890- 1925

    Resource Type: Book
    Tells the story of the Jewish and Italian women who came to inhabit New York's Lower East Side during this period of massive migration.
  35. Immigrant Workers in the United States (Part 1)
    Against The Current vol. 127

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The rise of mass immigration in much of the developed world began its acceleration with the global economic crisis of the 1970s. A deepening crisis of profitability; the collapse of the Bretton Woods currency system; and the recession of 1974-75 encouraged an acceleration of foreign direct investment, the rise of multinational corporations, and the subsequent increase in trade.
  36. Immigrant Youth Victory!
    Against The Current vol. 159

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    President Obama’s directive removing the threat of deportation from hundreds of thousands of young people is a tribute to the heroism of those who have come out as “Undocumented and Unafraid.” It’s still a long way from stopping the terror affecting immigrant communities — but under an administration that frankly has been a disgrace and disaster for civil liberties, human rights and due process, this victory shows the power of well-rooted and courageous activism to make a positive difference.
  37. Immigration
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    A report on the current state of immigration policy in Canada and the possible ramifications of Bill C-24.
  38. An Interview with Patricia Campbell
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
  39. Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage For Jewish 'Untouchables'
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  40. 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.
  41. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  42. A Letter from North America – Our Migrant Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    This is the third of Ernie Tate’s letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond.
  43. 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).
  44. Living "Illegal"
    The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
  45. 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.
  46. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    An analysis of American capitalism.
  47. Nous, les travailleurs immigrants
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
  48. On Immigration and Wages
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
  49. 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.
  50. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
    Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
  51. Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
  52. Political Correctness: Handle with Care 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice.
  53. Position Paper: Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    This Position Paper was prepared by the Committee Against the Deportation of Immigrant Women (C.A.D.I.W.) in response to the growing discrimination and harassment faced by immigrant women.
  54. A Primer on Immigrant Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  55. The Public Charge Rule for Immigrants Evokes the Antebellum Slave Codes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Immigration historians have written extensively about how the archaic provision Trump is relying on had antecedents in state laws regulating Atlantic immigration in the 1800s. But little, if anything, has been said in the media about how Trump's rule is also rooted in a different set of state laws, specifically, state slave codes and other antebellum-era laws designed to preserve slavery and limit the movement of freed slaves.
  56. Raising the Workers' Flag
    The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
  57. 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.
  58. Refugee Sandwich
    Stories of Exile and Asylum

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  59. Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
  60. 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.
  61. A Shared Experience: Bridging Cultures, Resources For Cross-Cultural Training
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  62. Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border
    A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one.
    The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivie, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terrain along the border with Mexico in Arizona, a state that has been obsessing about illegal border crossers coming into the US from Mexico seeking jobs.
  63. The Social Organization of Family Violence
    An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    This study examines the social organization of wife battering among immigrant families in Vancouver. The focus is immigrant women's experience of being battered, and how this experience is located within the Canadian social and economic context.
  64. The Strategy and Organizing Behind the Successful DREAM Act Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Undocumented youth have shown that ordinary people build extraordinary people power, even in the United States.
  65. 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.
  66. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  67. A Troublemaker's Handbook 
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2005
    An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
  68. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2 
    Resource Type: Book
    A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
  69. Twice Removed: Double Punishment and Racial Profiling in Canada
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2013
    Immigrants who commit criminal offences are punished twice: once when they're sentenced for their crime, and again when they are permanently removed from Canada, even if they had lived here since childhood.This is known as "double punishment."
  70. Uncertainty shapes immigrant life in the United States
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Immigrants in the United States without legal residency or who were admitted on a temporary basis feel that their lives have become much more complicated in 2017 because of the current Republican administration's intention to expel thousands of Latin Americans even though they are successfully integrated into the local economy and have no criminal record.
  71. Wadim
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    The story of Latvians who sought asylum in Germany, their lives there, and the consequences when harsh immigration policies suddenly tear them apart in this critique of laws written and applied without regard for human consequences
  72. What Should American Workers Do About Illegal Immigration
    Resource Type: Article
  73. What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
  74. When Human Beings Are Illegal
    Against The Current vol. 136

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  75. Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
    An Honor to Defend Them

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who have been arrested for protesting for peace, civil rights, economic justice, and human rights for all. It is amazing to see people put their freedom on the line when they risk jail for justice.
  76. The Writings of David Roediger
    Resource Type: Article
    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.

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