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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryThe ABC of Communism Bukharin, Preobrazhensky; (edited by Carr, E. H.) Book 1920 Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action. Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991  Hobsbawm, Eric Book 1994 A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991. Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918): Connexipedia Article Article Was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen. Battle of the Somme: the horrific epitome of the first world war German, Lindsey Article 2014 Thousands of men who went over the top that morning thought they would meet little resistance. 57,000 were dead or wounded by the end of the day. The Changing History of the First World War Trudell, Megan Article 2014 The war the Tories and their favourite historians would like to spin is one where nationalism was triumphant and where workers and soldiers did their duty for their country. For other historians, the ... Christmas in the Trenches McCutcheon, John Article 1984 Lyrics to a song commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
Either Or Luxemburg, Rosa Article 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,... French Army Mutinies (1917): Connexipedia Article Article Involved nearly half of the French infantry divisions stationed on the western front. Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia Malik, Kenan Article 2014 Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Wes... The Great Class War: 1914-1918 Pauwels, Jacques R. Book 2016 In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war ... The Great Schism: Socialism and War in 1914 Blackledge, Paul Article 2014 This article sketches the limitations of Second International Marxism before outlining the strengths and weaknesses of Lenin’s alternative. The Great War and Canadian Society: An Oral History Read, Daphne Book 1978 Recollections of Canadian men and women who lived thorugh the First World War and recall life in the trenches and on the homefront. The Junius Pamphlet: The Crisis of Social Democracy Luxemburg, Rosa Book 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 abil... Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global Mason, Paul Book 2010 Mason realtes a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles. Manifesto of the Sixteen: Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Article A document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War. A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution? Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split. A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War. A Marxist History of the World part 69: The First World War Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 Neil Faulkner looks at how capitalism plunged humanity into an abyss of carnage, destruction, and waste without precedent, as mass production methods produced industrialised slaughter. A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution. A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded? A Marxist History of the World part 76: Italy's 'Two Red Years' Faulkner, Neil Article 2012 Like Germany, Italy was on the brink of revolution in the summer of 1920, after the strains of imperialist war had levered open deep fractures in an unstable social order. The mass strike in the First World War Fuller, Chris Article 2015 The mass strikes of the First World War displayed all the characteristics earlier described by Rosa Luxemburg. City and trade-wide strikes; national strikes; street fighting; demonstrations; the raisi... 100 years ago: Two calls to struggle against the world war Riddell, John Article 2014 Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, 100 years ago, two Russian socialist leaders, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, published antiwar manifestos that greatly influenced the international soc... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014: Killings by Police Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2014 Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015: Land seizures and land take-overs Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a... A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present Zinn, Howard Book 1995 Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Harman, Chris Book 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and today Riddell, John Article 2014 World War I began 100 years ago. Today's ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks Waters, Mary Alice Book 1970 A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg. Shirkers and Conchies: How Governments Tried to Silence WWI Resisters Gee, Tim Article 2014 Peace activists faced enemy treatment but left a legacy of perserverance, writes Tim Gee. The Story of the Christmas Truce Article On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German t... Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991 Palmer, Bryan D. Book 1983 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 sweepi... World War One and the rehabilitation of slaughter Faulkner, Neil Article 2014 Damaged by Iraq, ground down in Afghanistan, defeated over Syria, the jingoistic right are determined to rewrite the history of the First World War in an effort to rehabilitate imperialist war in the ... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryThe Patricias: A Century of Service Bercuson, David, J. 2013 There have been many books that have examined the various regiments of the Canadian Forces. But few have been written with the depth of expertise and wealth of imagery seen in The Patricias: A Century... Through the Iron Bars Two years of German occupation in Belgium Cammaerts, Emile; Illustrated by Louis Raemaekers 1917 |
