- Abahlali baseMjondolo
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
- An Action a Day
Keeps Global Capitalism Away Resource Type: Book Published: 2004
- Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents Resource Type: Article 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.
- Activism Under Attack
Resource Type: Book 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?
- 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 Published: 1999 Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
- Activist Endurance
A Look Back at the 2004 RNC Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Even in the face of urgent, ecocidal issues, dissent is a marathon, not a sprint. With authentic solidarity, a daily ego check, and an enduring willingness to evolve, we can each find our pace and help make a difference.
- Activist Toolkit (rabble.ca)
Resource Type: Website Published: 2011 A wiki-style of resources for activists.
- The Activists' Handbook
A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 A guide to grassroots activism.
- Activists in Canada Build Construction Site on Pipeline Executives' Front Lawns
Resource Type: Article Published: 2022 Toronto supporters of the Wet'suweten land defense struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline set up construction sites at the Toronto homes of TC Energy Board Chair Siim Vanaselja and Royal Bank of Canada Executive Doug Guzman. The supporters also flyered the neighborhood with photos of the two men with signs warning, "Your neighbour is pushing the Coastal Gaslink pipeline through Wet'suwet'en Territory at gunpoint."
- Addresbuch Alternativer Projekte
Resource Type: Book Over 500 pages (5" x 7 1/2), written mostly in German. An extensive European resource guide to alternative projects. Contains several indices including an index of the alternative press.
- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Against Activism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 "Activism" stands in contrast to organizing. Organizing aims to bring people together to build and exercise power, informed by a strategic vision for acquiring power and changing society. To be an "activist" now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. Activist is a generic category associated with oddly specific stereotypes: today, the term signals not so much a certain set of political opinions or behaviours as a certain temperament. Worse, many activists seem to relish their marginalization, interpreting their small numbers as evidence of their specialness, their membership in an exclusive and righteous clique, effectiveness be damned.
- Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986 Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
- Agnes Macphail
Champion of the Underdog Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book 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.
- Alternative and Activist New Media
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 An overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share their own DIY information systems and content, and otherwise resist, talk back to, or confront dominant media culture. Today, a lively and contentious cycle of capture, cooptation, and subversion of information, content, and system design marks the relationship between the mainstream center and the interactive, participatory edges of media culture. Five principal forms of alternative and activist new media projects are introduced, including the characteristics that make them different from more conventional media forms and content. The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources.
- Alternative America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990 12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
- Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
Resource Type: Book
- American Communism and Soviet Russia
The Formative Period Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Anarchist Papers 3
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A collection of essays about the history of anarchism.
- Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements.
Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Dixon examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. He presents the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book 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-globalization movement
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Critical of the globalization of capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization.
- The Armies of the Night
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968
- The Art of the Possible
A Handbook for Political Activism Resource Type: Book Published: 2007
- At the Lenin Shipyards
Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 A first-hand account of the rise of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
- Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003
- Bakunin on Anarchy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 An anthology of Bakunin's writings.
- Ballad of the Peace Pushers
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
- The Barefoot Channel
Community Television as a Tool for Social Change Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
- Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
A Toolbox for Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Ideas for organizers.
- Being an Organizer and Being an Activist is not the Same Thing
Community Organizers are the "Brain" that Injects Strategy into the Heart of a Successful Social Movement Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 There is a lot of confusion surrounding the role that organizers and activists play in social movements. Both roles have profound differences regarding their goals and the way they face problems within social movements.
- Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965 This story of the free speech uprising on the Berkeley campus of the University of California was begun in the conviction that an extraordinary event, in an historical sense, had taken place before our startled citizenry; and that it should be described for history as it was.
- The Betrayal
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 The filmmaker's personal journey to confront her past, baring her soul to those most hurt by her troubled youth when she ricocheted from far-left radicalism to neo-Nazi fascism out of a desperate need to belong.
- Beyond Social Democracy
The City and Urban Socialism Resource Type: Book
- Billboard Liberation Front Manual
Resource Type: Article Tactics for improving outdoor advertising.
- Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
Resource Type: Book
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement Resource Type: Article 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."
- The Bomb won't go away on its own
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Boricua's Revolutionary Inspiration
Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921 (Book Review) Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Book review of Kirwin R. Shaffer's Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921.
- Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
- Burying the Typewriter
Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
- Call Me Kuchu
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
- Can the Working Class Change the World?
Resource Type: Book Published: 2018 A look at how the working class and its allies can oppose capitalism to bring radical change.
- Can we shop our way to a better world?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 In this article Umair Mohammad summarizes arguments from the introduction and first chapter of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism. Mohammad argues that lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, he says, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
- Canada: The Communist Viewpoint
Resource Type: Book Published: 1948 Tim Buck, the national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, sets out the Communist position on the big questions of Canada's destiny.
- Canada's Fighting Seniors
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A look at the growth of a senior's movement in Canada in the 1980s.
- Canada's Young Activists
A Generation Stands Up for Change Resource Type: Book 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.
- Canadian activist stubs
Wikipedia category page Resource Type: Article
- Canadian activists
Wikipedia category page Resource Type: Article
- Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 Reinventing tactics of resistance has become a central preoccupation for the movement of movements. How do we make rebellion enjoyable, effective, and irresistible? Who wants the tedium of traditional demonstrations and protests - the ritual marches from point A to B, the permits and police escorts, the staged acts of civil disobedience, the verbose rallies and dull speeches by leaders?
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- Cease Fire Now
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 On behalf of thousands of Israelis who have demonstrated in the streets of Tel-Aviv within hours after the start of the war, we demand: To stop at once the attack on Gaza!
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- Chicago '68
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
- Children of Privilege
Student Revolt in the Sixties Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- The Children's Crusade
The Story of the Company of Young Canadians Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- Choices
A Family Global Action Handbook Resource Type: Book 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.
- Chomsky for Beginners
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003
- Climate Insurgency
A Strategy for Survival Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth s climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts from above and non-governmental ones from below that explains why climate protection has failed so far. Then, it proposes a global nonviolent insurgency for climate protection to overcome that failure.
- The C. L. R. James Reader
Resource Type: Book
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article 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
- 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 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.
- The Communist Party in Canada
A History Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 A history of the Communist Party in Canada from its beginnings to the 1970s.
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965 Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Community Dreams
Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
- Confronting Injustice
Social Activism in the Age of Individualism Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article Published: 1994 This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article Published: 1994 A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 A comparative analysis of working-class consciousness in Britain, France, Italy and the United States which seeks to answer the question of whether the working class today is a potentially revolutionary force.
- Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
- Counter Power
Making Change Happen Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement Resource Type: Book 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."
- Death In Honduras - The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016
- Defender of the Forests
Bonnie Phillips vs. the Timber Beasts, Gang Green and the Big Foundations Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Veteran forest advocate Bonnie Phillips passed away on May 4, 2015 in Olympia, Washington. This article is based on her final interview.
- Democracy is in the Streets
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago Resource Type: Book 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.
- Demonstrate against the Israeli Assault on Gaza ! Lift the Siege!
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Join us this Saturday at 11:00 to demand that the Canadian government call for an immediate halt to Israel 's attacks and an end to the siege of Gaza! Followed by Free Gaza - A Teach-In, 1:00 - 5:30 st United Steelworkers Hall, Toronto.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- Digital Revolutions
Activism in the Internet Age Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Symon Hill on the role of the Internet in activism and social change.
- Dignite delegates deported by Israel
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Canadian Boat to Gaza Update. The Freedom Flotilla 2 delegates from the Dignite-Karama have been deported by Israel, including Stephan Corriveau of the Tahrir, who arrived back in Canada Wednesday.
- Directory of the American Left
Resource Type: Book 1775 listings. Also publish Directory of the American Right, 2160 listsings, $9.95.
- Do It
Scenarios of the Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- Don't Agonize, Organize
Resource Type: Article Published: 1983
- A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
Resource Type: Article Published: 1985 What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
- Ecodefense
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- The Emma Goldman Papers
Resource Type: Website The Emma Goldman Papers Project has collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents from around the world by and about Emma Goldman (1869-1940), a leading figure in American anarchism, feminism, and radicalism. In the spirit of Emma Goldman, the EGPP has extended its scholarly research to serve the community-to educate the public about the complexity of engagement in social and political transformation. It has published a microfilm edition of the papers (1991-1993) and A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources (1995).
- The Empire of Mind
Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Strangelove believes the Internet is a dire threat to capitalism.
- Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
Resource Type: Book
- Europe Against the Current
Catalogue of Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World Resource Type: Book 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.
- Exclusive excerpts from Ernest Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014
- The Expo Files
Articles by the Crusading Journalist Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Collected here for the first time are Stieg Larsson's essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings.
- The Extraordinary Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book 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."
- Farm Gate Defence
Resource Type: Book 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.
- Field Guide to Alternative Media
A Directory to Reference & Selection Tools Useful in Accessing Small & Alternative Press Publications and Independently Produced Media Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984 A listing of tools that list, index or review primarily small and alternative press publications and independently-produced media. The Field Guide is divided into four sections: Subject and Trade Directories, Indices and Subject Bibliographies, Trade and Review Media, and Bookstore and Distributor catalogues.
- The Fight for Freedom for Women
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- Finding Hope After Seattle
Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement Resource Type: Article 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.
- Food Not Bombs
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others.
- For Ourselves
Forgotten Goals of the Revolution Resource Type: Book
- Forget One Direction - We Need a New Direction
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 If people think equality and social justice are unrealistic, then we really are lacking in imagination. When they try to tell you that our better-world ideals are unrealistic, tell them it's unrealistic to allow elite bankers to send tens of millions of people into starvation.
- Former British MP George Galloway speaks in Vancouver Nov. 22
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Former British MP George Galloway speaks in Vancouver Nov. 22 as part of a national tour on Palestine, Afghanistan, and free speech, especially the Harper government's attempts to ban him for purely political reasons.
- Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2006
- Freedom rides
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
- French Revolution 1968
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Seale and McConville set out to relate what happened during the May 1968 revolt in France, to set the explosion in its context of French politics, and to single out what they take to be the original and creative features of the situation.
- From Nukes to Occupy: The Rise and Fall of the Non-Violent Direct Action Movement in the United States, 1976 2012
Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 The non-violent direct action movement originated in the anti-nuclear power movement of the late 1970s / early 1980s. Inspired by the German anti-nuclear movement, activists organized occupations of construction sites for nuclear reactors, aiming to insure no new plants were built. The processes, organizational structure, and culture adopted by these activists differed sharply from the movements of the sixties and early seventies.
- The Future in the Present
Resource Type: Book Published: 1980
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- Global Justice Movement
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Is the broad globalized social movement opposing what is often known as "corporate globalization" and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
- Global Thoughts, Local Actions
Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order Resource Type: Book 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.
- Grassroots media relations
A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
- Hamburg at the Barricades
Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 Articles by the revolutionary journaliist Larissa Reissner, covering the Hamburg uprising of 1923 and the life and times for Germany in the years 1923-1925.
- Happy Activism
Six ways to make our movement strong and feed our spirit. Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 How do we make environmental organizations attractive to large numbers of people? And how do we keep these folks engaged for the years, even decades that it will take to create a sustainable society? My interest here is not to enumerate peoples reasons for activism but rather, based on these reasons, to articulate principles that movement organizers should follow to bring people to the cause.
- Having the Hard Conversations
Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
- Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
- Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals Resource Type: Book Published: 2017 Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy.
- "Hegemony How-To": Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power
A review of Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals, by Jonathan Smucker Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 "How many times, I wondered, had I favored a particular action or tactic because I really thought it was likely to change a decision-makers position or win over key allies, as opposed to gravitating toward an action because it expressed my activist identity and self-conception? How concerned were we really, in our practice, with political outcomes?"
- The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
A report on Britain's Government Machine Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- How I Became Radicalized
It Can Happen To Anyone Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Im not exactly sure when I became radicalized, but it was sometime in the mid 1980s. I purposely use the term radicalize because, with the rise of globalized insurgency in general and al Qaeda and now ISIS in particular, the word has become a favorite in the media, especially for those on the right.
- How the 'guerrilla archivists' saved history -- and are doing it again under Trump
Resource Type: Unclassified Published: 2017 On Inauguration Day, a group of students, researchers and librarians gathered in a nondescript building on the north side of the University of California, Los Angeles campus, against a backdrop of pelting rain. The group had organized in protest against the new U.S. administration. But, instead of marching and chanting, participants were there to learn how to "harvest," "seed," "scrape" and ultimately archive websites and data sets related to climate change.
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Learning to fight in a world on fire Resource Type: Book Published: 2021
- How We Ended the Cold War
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 Peace activists' demand for an end to nuclear madness played a decisive role.
- I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Resource Type: Book
- Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981 Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
- If I Can't Dance ....
Why is the Left So Boring? Resource Type: Article 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?
- The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
- International Blacklist 1983
An Anti-Authoritarian Directory Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 An International directory of anti-authoritarian groups and publications. P. 123 has a list of documentation centres on anarchism. P. 139 has publishing houses and disributors.
- The Intractable Marginality of the Activist Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Strikes are only one form of struggle, and perhaps less and less important as the years pass. But the disappearance of strikes is not an anomaly. It reflects a pattern of diminishing overall levels of oppositional social mobilization. Although there aren't (as far as I know) statistics on it, it is obvious that levels of social struggle generally, in the Canadian state, are lower now than at any time since written records have been kept.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- Israeli Left Archive
Resource Type: Website 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.
- Jewish Canadian activists
Wikipedia category page Resource Type: Article
- The John Lewis Conundrum: Caring for Justice or Carrying Water
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 What the author is writing about John Lewis is not so much a condemnation as it is a reflection of the very meaning of justice and how we can fight for it.
- Kenyan grafitti artists target vulture politicians
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A crew of Kenyan grafitti artists are making murals that urge citizens not to re-elect corrupt politicians who have a legacy of exploiting tribal differences to gain power.
- Das Kleine Rotbuch Almanach
Resource Type: Book
- Landless Peoples Movement
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa formed in 2001.
- Learning from our History
Ernie Tate's Memoir of His Early Years Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Richard Fidler reviews political activist Ernest Tate's two volume Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: Ernest Tate, A Memoir.
- Leftwords Festival of Books and Ideas
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 LeftWords is a free public event that celebrates and promotes the work of progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers whose works appear in books and magazines by Canadian independent publishers.
- The Legacy of the New Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 1994
- Letters of Insurgents
Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 A fictional exchange of letters between people grappling with the question of what the struggle for freedom means in the West and in thecountries of the Soviet bloc. A gripping discussion of the issues of social change and liberation as they affect real
- Libcom.org
Resource Type: Website Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies to increase the power that we, as ordinary people, have over our own lives.
- Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- Long March, Short Spring
The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An examination of the world student rebellions of the late 1960s.
- Long Way From Home
The story of the Sixties generation in Canada Resource Type: Book 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.
- Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
Resource Type: Book
- The Making of a Counter Culture
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Roszak examines some of the leading influences on the youthful counter culture of the late 1960s - Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts, Timothy Leary and Paul Goodman -- and shows how each has helped call into question the conventional scientific world view and in so doing has set about undermining the foundations of the technocracy.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132 Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honeys Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther Kings Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book 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.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Book
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
- Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article Published: 1983
- Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assistance. Their lawyers believe the police violated the European convention on human rights.
- Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
- The Modern Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- The Monkey Wrench Gang
Resource Type: Book
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Move into the light?
Postscript to a turbulent 2007 Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 Can the left movement move into the light and become visible?
- The Movement and the Sixties
Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
- Movements and Messages
Media and Radical Politics on Quebec Resource Type: Book 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.
- Moving Toward A New Society
Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 A vision of a new society, with a strategy for achieving it through non-violent revolution, and specific suggestions for what individuals can do now to work for fundamental social change.
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left Resource Type: Book 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.
- Naming the Moment
Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups Resource Type: Book 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?
- Narmada Bachao Andolan
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An organisation that has mobilised tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India.
- Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956 Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 A history of the Canadian Congress of Labour and of the CIO in Canada from the 1930s to the 1950s. The author raises many significant questions concerning the presence of American unions in Canada and the crucial role played by the Communist party in the history of the Canadian labour movement.
- The Need for a New Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- The New Left
A Collection of Essays Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Essays from participants in the American New Left of the 1960s.
- The New Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
- The New Left Reader
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An anthology of writings from the 1960s New Left.
- The New Radicals
A Report with Documents Resource Type: Book Published: 1966 An analytical portrait of the young radical activists who have repudiated traditional liberalsim and who seek a new vision of American through civil rights, university reform, and anti-war and anti-poverty activities.
- The New Student Left
An Anthology Resource Type: Book Published: 1967 A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses.
- A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America Resource Type: Book 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.
- A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America Resource Type: Book 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.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa Resource Type: Book 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.
- Nieman Reports: Whats the difference between activism and journalism?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 As technology changes how news is gathered and delivered, should journalism continue to be sharply distinguished from activism and other kinds of free speech? An extract by Joel Simon from his new book on global media freedom addresses this question.
- No Border Network
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. They support freedom of movement and resist human migration control by coordinating international border camps, demonstrations, direct actions, and anti-deportation campaigns.
- Not a Carwash
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 In the Albanian capital of Tirana, students, professors, activists and film lovers take to the streets when authorities attempt to redevelop the property of the city's only art house theatre for profit. The changing face of post-communist Albania is the backdrop for this classic battle between art, commerce, artistic passion and government indifference.
- Notebook of an Agitator
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
- Nothing Is Ever Won Without Organizing
Remarks to the First Nonviolence Training Session of the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 All organizing begins with the telling of a story. When we listen carefully to somebodys story, we learn what motivates him, what she is passionate about. Listening is the first skill and duty of a community organizer. Before we can get somebody to do something, we have to learn what he and she want, which is usually different than what we presumed they wanted.
- Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative Resource Type: Book 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.
- Occupy's A**hole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie
Resource Type: Article 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 didnt think we were allowed to say no to. Its heartening to watch the Occupiers begin to work out solutions to what I can only indelicately call the a**hole problem.
- Old-Fashioned Political Activism Doesn't Work
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 If you have ever read an article aiming to make you angry at some government or corporation by exposing some vile wrong-doing of it, then you've experienced at least one author's old-fashioned politcal activism. And if you've ever been asked by some organization, that avoids talking about the necessity and possibility of revolution, to attend a demonstration or sign a petition or vote against some particular governmental or corporate wrong-doing, then you've encountered an old-fashioned political activist organization. If you are, yourself, an old-fashioned political activist, as I once was, then this article is for you.
- On Activism and Organizing: There is a Distinction
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 What's the difference between an organizer, an activist, and someone who is just plain fighting for their life, on a personal level? Often, there is no discernible distinction, as these roles often blend together in ways that could never be separated. But for some people, there is no such complexity. I point this out because, in recent years, there has been a verbal shift in social justice spaces towards referring to everyone involved as an organizer. As a person who believes that we too often negate the meanings of words by transforming them into umbrellaed concepts, I have to say my piece about the matter.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Book 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.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- On the First International
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- On the Poverty of Student Life
Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With Resource Type: Book The Situationist International and the students at the University of Strasbourg prepared and published (using student union funds) this scathing analysis of student duplicity. While claiming to be revolutionaries, students prepare themselves for a professional career -- "just in case." The pamphlet provides a Situationist analysis of a familiar institution.
- One Fine Day
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
- #131+1: Voices in Movement An Oral History of the Mexican Youth Movement of 2012
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 On May 11, 2012, in the heat of the presidential campaign, history took an unexpected turn: a video, the social networks, and marches and mass actions managed to bring a new moment of hope into the history of Mexico, and the Mexican youth surprised the whole world.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 1986 Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Our Generation
Volume 4 Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1966
- Our Little Victory
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Peace Mom
A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism Resource Type: Book 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.
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Resource Type: Book 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.
- People Power
Applying Nonviolence Theory Resource Type: Book 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.
- The People vs. Global Capital
The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights Resource Type: Book 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.
- Piecing It Together
Feminism and Non-Violence Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "terrorism and allied matters" and these police tactics are now the subject of an internal review. They have been widely criticized for lacking accountability.
- Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 What is it like to be targeted by Canada's spy agency? Veteran anti-war and environmental activist Ken Stone knows firsthand and is willing to talk about it.
- Political Dissent: an International Guide
Resource Type: Book Covers some 1,000 political opposition movements, whether violent, terrorist, guerilla, or non-violent, opposition trade union movements, and human rights groups. Details include international affiliation, leadership, background and history, and politica
- Political Ideology
Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique illustrated with actual cases within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
- The politics of rebranding
Resource Type: Article Published: 2021 How politics and social activism have too often become exercises in rebranding not material change.
- The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article Published: 1962 A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
- Power: Building it Without Taking it
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003
- Practice and Ideology in the Direct Action Movement
Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 In the midst of enthusiasm and grandeur, the direct action movement sees a growing anti-capitalist movement everywhere. This illusion stops them from recognizing that, in its present form, the direct action movement is going nowhere.
- The Praxis Affair
There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded, its spying responsibilities handed to a newly formed Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
- The Problem With College Educated Revolutionaries
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The political views of college-educated activists are shaped by their experiences in an educational institution. They unknowingly impose these particular experiences on the movement and on working class people. They have played a crucial role in preventing any working class leadership from developing.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Protest (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Review of "Protest Inc. - The Corporatization of Activism" by Peter Dauvergne & Genevieve LeBaron.
- Provos and Kabouters
Resource Type: Book
- Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control! Resource Type: Book 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.
- Putting the Arms Industry on Trial
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Sean Douglas and other activists are prosecuting two companies that promoted torture equipment in the UK.
- Quotes about Activism
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Radical America
Resource Type: Book
- Radical America - Volume 2, Number 4 - July-August 1968
Historical Roots of Black Liberation Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1968
- Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Resource Type: Book
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
- Radical Priorities
Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 Otero 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 Raging Grannies
Resource Type: Article We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
- Raising Hell
A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- Rear-View Mirror: A Snapshot of Toronto Activist Art (1976-1996)
Resource Type: Website Published: 2014 A snapshot of Toronto activist art from the 1976 general strike to the 1996 Days of Action.
- The Rebel in the House
Resource Type: Book
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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.
- Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web Resource Type: Article 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.
- Resist
A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond Resource Type: Book 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 Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists Resource Type: Book 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 effect on 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.
- Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- Reveille for Radicals
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
- Review: Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Review of Staughton Lynd's "Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change", a book that by and large uses a story-based pedagogy rather than an analysis-based one. It walks through struggles that Lynd and his wife Alice have been involved in directly.
- Revolution for the Hell of It
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968
- The Revolution Game
The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
- Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Revolution of the Deaf
Resource Type: Article
- Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 1, Canada 1955-1965 Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 The first volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 2, Britain 1965-1970 Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 The second volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- Rise of the naked female warriors
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
- Roadblocks to Climate Activism
The Problem of Natural Localism Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The consequences of global warming. The evidence for the evolving dire effects of building CO2 and other greenhouse gases is getting increasingly conclusive. We are a species influenced by natural localism, and therefore the majority of Americans, and others in the West as well, are not going to abandon a present full of profit and relative comfort as long as the sky is clear in their own local place and time. As to the future beyond their grandchildren, it simply does not seem real.
- Rules for Radicals
A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
- SDS
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
- Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
Farmers and activists more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and t Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunites.
- Signs of Change
Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Drawn from an exhibition at Exit Art, a cultural center in New York City, Signs of Change is a visual archive of more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera from more than twenty-five nations.
- Sisterhood, Interrupted
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild Resource Type: Book 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 Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage Resource Type: Book 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.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book 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.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists Resource Type: Book Published: 1965 An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2007 Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Womens Rights and Environmental Justice.
- Some Assembly Required
Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Nathan Schneider describes his experiences inside the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
Resource Type: Article Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Spunk Library
Resource Type: Website Published: 2002 The Spunk Library featured literature with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues. The content has not been updated since 2002, but the materials assembled to that point are still perserved online. There is an archive/mirror site at http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/SpunkArchive/index.html
- Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
- Steal This Book
Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
- Strategic Thinking and Organizing Resistance
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.
- Strategies for Urban Socialism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
- Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present Resource Type: Book 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 Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History Resource Type: Article 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.
- Student Power
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An anthology of essays.
- Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player Resource Type: Book Published: 1968
- The Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book
- SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
- Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
- Take Back the Nation
Revised Edition Resource Type: Book 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.
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only possible in our time but also existent. All my research and speculation has crystallized around the concept of the TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (hereafter abbreviated TAZ).
- Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government Raids
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Resistance to unjust government action is the duty of all people who care about human rights. As Dr. King reminded us in his letter from a Birmingham jail, "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
- Ten Principles to Guide the Young Activist
Finding Happiness in Helping Others Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Tips for young activists. They say people who live for a higher cause are happier than those who dont. May you always find your happiness in alleviating the pain of others by standing up for what is right and honorable.
- 10 Questions for William Blum
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 "God forbid we should not have a Revolution every 20 years," Jefferson wrote. "The world belongs to the living," he believed, and each generation holds the world in "usufruct." In the United States in 2017, in this whirling age of instantaneous communication, gratification and frustration, TJ would probably Twitter something like: "Make that every 10 years!"
- Ten Thousand Roses
The Making of a Feminist Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
- These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
- This is What Insurgency Looks Like
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
- Traite du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 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.
- Transforming Apathy and Denial
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- Tree-top vigil highlights destruction of Tasmanian forest
Miranda Gibson hopes to bring international attention to the unprotected status of the ancient forests that are threatened by logging Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 For more than three months, 30-year-old Gibson has been living high above the canopy floor that is the home to some of Australia's most threatened indigenous wildlife, including the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tail quolls.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win! Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
Resource Type: Article Published: 1993
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- Ukraine Is Not a Brothel
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2013 Ukraine Is Not a Brothel is a 2013 Australian film directed by Kitty Green. The film debuted at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, although was not part of the competition.The documentary concerns the FEMEN movement, a feminist protest group originating from Ukraine.
- Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 How to push for social change without breaking the law.
- Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press Resource Type: Book 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.
- Unity brings strength
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
- Up Against the Ivy Wall
Resource Type: Book
- The Urban Question and Organizing
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979
- The Veritable Split in the International
Public Circular of the Situationist International Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 What are called "situationist ideas" are nothing other than the first ideas of the period of reappearance of the modern revolutionary movement.
- Volcano Days
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Brian Johnson's semi-fictional novel based on his experience (nervous breakdown, etc.) at the time he was a labour reporter on the Montreal Gazette and a member of the Revolutionary Marxist Group.
- Walking: We Ask Questions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
- Ways and Means
Resource Type: Article Published: 1983 Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
- We Are Everywhere
Resource Type: Book
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- We Are Legion
The Story of the Hacktivists Resource Type: Film Published: 2012 A history of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.
- We Are Wisconsin
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 When a Republican Governors bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
- We Have Still Had It Up to Here: The Year a Movement Was Born
Mexico's Struggle to End the Drug War Is Unlike Any in the World Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The truth is that Mexican public opinion has never fully swallowed the fiction believed by many in the United States that the drug war is somehow about stopping drugs or their abuse. Almost everybody knows that it is primarily a means to enrich the pockets of corrupt politicians and police.
- Weatherman
Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 A history of the Weatherman organization.
- Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
- Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa, formed in 2000.
- What a Way to Run a Railroad
An Analysis of Radical Failure Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 How can the high failure rate of radical projects, in the media and elsewhere, be understood? This book analyses the reasons why many of the key organisations and projects in this sector, which grew up during the 1970s boom in cultural politics, either collapsed or moved into a state of permanent crisis. In attempting to come to terms with this 'history of failure' the key concepts of this movement -- collectivity, internal democracy, participation -- are critically re-examined, and an argument is presented as to how and why radical projects also need to redefine their priorities and take on board questions of efficiency, financial control and marketing if they are to survive.
- 'What can I Do?'
Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article 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.
- What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement - An Insider's View
Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 It's a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents' basement, feeling deflated after the end of Bloombergville (a two-week street occupation outside city hall to try to stop the massive budget cuts of that same year), convinced this country wasn't ready for movement. Now I'm in this living room with some of the most impressive people I've ever met, at the shaky helm of a movement that has become part of the mainstream's daily consciousness.
- What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
- When Freedom Was Lost
The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses Resource Type: Article 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.
- When in Doubt, Do Both
The Times of My Life Resource Type: Book 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.
- Why the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement Should Not Initiate Violence
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 One hazard we must avoid in our struggle is to allow violence to be used in the movement. We can't afford to give our approval to this by green lighting the burning of limousines and the breaking of store windows, as happened in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2017, or by punching the Nazi Richard Spencer in the face, which is satisfying but unproductive.
- Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article The strains that take their toll on community groups.
- Why We Need A "No Compromise" Climate Movement
Between Empire And Its Subjects Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Successful campaigns against strip mining in the Appalachians have included peaceful legal tactics like petitioning, letters to the editor, education, marches and protests, as well as civil disobedience, industrial sabotage, armed defense of Appalachians property and other tactics that are viewed as insurrectionary and violent by todays mainstream environmentalists.
- Women Unite
An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 An anthology doucmenting the Canadian women's movement of the late 1906s and early 1970s.
- Working for Peace
A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
- Working together for peace
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Young Man Was
Part 1: United Red Army Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.
- Z Magazine Online
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Articles from the radical U.S. magazine.
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