- 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.
- All That Our Hands Have Done
A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- Anarcho-syndicalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Die "andere" Arbeiterbewegung und die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Repression von 1880 bis zur Gegenwart
Ein Beitrag zum Neuverständnis d. Klassengeschichte in Deutschland. Mit ausführl. Dokumentation zu Aufstandsbekämpfung, Werkschutz u.a.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Argentina: From Anarchism to Peronism
Workers, Unions and Politics 1855-1985
Resource Type: Book
This book by three Argentinian authors traces the history of what is Latin America's oldest and largest working class. Its mid-19th century origins in migration from overseas and internal proletarianization are traced. The authors relate the history of Argentinian workers' clashes with both the state and employers and the preponderant influence that anarchists and syndicalists had over the labour movement in the early 20th century.
- Austerity vs. the Planet:The Future of Labour Environmentalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Last December members of the International Trade Union Confederation joined other civil society activists in a mass sit-in at the COP21 talks in Paris. Unionists and their allies, some 400 strong, filled the social space adjacent to the negotiating rooms for several hours, in defiance of a French ban on protests that remained in effect in the wake of the November 13 terrorist attacks. The ITUC delegation demanded the negotiators go back to the table and make a serious effort to incorporate labour's demands for a just transition – which, at its heart, is concerned with making sure workers in environmentally unsustainable industries are retrained and put to work building a new, sustainable economy.
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
- The Birth of a Holiday
The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.
- The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- The British Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1940
- Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Labour in Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
A historical study of the relationship between the labour movement and the social democratic party in Canada, as that relationship developed since the birth of modern industrial unionism.
- The Canadian Labour Movement
A Short History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Chalk River Machinists Sign New Deal with A.E.C.L.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
70 Machinists ratify new three-year deal with AECL.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
- 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.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Connexions Library: China Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
- A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Compilation and updates of many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. The author offers perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life.
- Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
- Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Federal Writers' Project
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
A United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression
- For Workers' Climate Action
Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
- The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
How Industrial Unionism was Won
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
- The Guangdong Six and the rule of law (of value): Preliminary theses on the December 3 crackdown
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Information about the December 3, 2014 crackdown on Chinese labour activists is now widely available in English and several other languages, but there has been little satisfactory analysis of its significance -- in relation to business as usual in China, to comparable situations in other countries, or to workers' struggles as such.
- 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.
- Heaps, Abraham Albert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
- Higgins, Jim - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Jim Higgins (1930 – 2002).
- How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
- How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
- 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.
- 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.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labour mass mobilization in modern American history. In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labour demonstrations in modern American history.
- The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
- Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
A Report by the Solidarity Center
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
- Kazakhstan's 99 per cent
Protests by Kazakhstan's oil workers in 2011 were crushed, but anger remains over huge inequalities of income and lifestyle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Kazakhstan could be among the world’s top 10 oil producers by 2020, but the Kazakhs who get the oil out of the ground don't benefit much from it. In May 2011 thousands of oil workers in western Kazakhstan began the biggest strikes since the country emerged from the breakup of the USSR.
- Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
- Labor Film Archive
Films, videos and film festivals that focus on work, workers and worker’s issues
Resource Type: Website
The Labor Film Archive's goal is to present films and documentaries from around the world depicting aspects of work marginalized or absent in most commercial theatres. The Labor Film Database is an excellent resource for searching for union and labor related movies. The site also features a "Streaming Online" category which includes titles like Union Maids, America's Victory: The 1997 UPS Strike, and Real Union Busting. Cost: Free streaming (no registration required). Over 1,700 films and videos are listed here, searchable by title, director, actors and/or keywords.
- Labour in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Labor in the Age of Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Climate change must be stopped. But who will do the stopping? Who, in other words, could be the political subject of an anticapitalist climate revolution? Stefania Barca argues that this social agent could be, and indeed must be, the global working class. Yet to play this role, the working class must develop an emancipatory ecological class consciousness.
- Labour movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour relations.
- The Labor Party in the Big Picture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
THE LABOR PARTY convention was inspiring. At the Detroit chapter's report-back meeting, locked-out newspaper workers talked about how good it felt to be in a convention hall where everyone would support you, "unlike the Democrats and Republicans."
Authorizing the possibility of electoral campaigns means that, in the places where those happen, we have the potential to attract a whole different layer of members.
- The Labor Party's Pittsburgh Convention
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
BETWEEN NOVEMBER 13-15 in Pittsburgh, over 1400 delegates from six national unions, over two hundred local unions and thirty-nine chapters of the Labor Party met for its first Constitutional Convention. These delegates, representing trade union bodies whose memberships total over one million (and some thousands of party members), recommitted the LP to the comprehensive program adopted at the founding convention in Cleveland in 1996.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Labour's lost leader
The legacy of Tony Benn
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
From an interview to Tony Benn - sometime in the mid-1990s - his point of view about how broad and profound was the defeat of both trade unionism and the democratic socialist left over the previous decade.
- "Left-Wing" Communism
An Infantile Disorder
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1918
Lenin's repsonse to ultraleftists who advocate 'no compromises' and refuse to work in 'reactionary' trade unions and parliamentary elections.
- Let's Get to Work
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
- 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.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
- Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
- 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 Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolutionary Spain
- 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.
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- Mexico in Labor's Crucible
Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- The Missing Piece
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A strong, independent labour movement could lead the struggle for democracy and justice in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte's revolution, at least so far, looks like nothing more than a reshuffling of the country's political elite. The election seems to mark a period of continuity, not progressive change, in Philippine politics.
- More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
- National Union of Public and General Employees
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
A book that compiles workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- The Nine-Hour Movement
How civil disobedience made unions legal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
From today’s strike-first strategy of fast food workers in America, to the 1965 postal workers wildcat which ushered in public sector collective bargaining, civil disobedience has long been essential to breaking through legal barriers imposed on workers. The birth of Canada's labour movement was during a movement of mass civil disobedience in attempt to secure the nine hour workday.
- Organizing "The Organized"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
For many years, American unions have been trying to “organize of the unorganized” to offset, and, where possible, reverse their steady loss of dues-paying membership. In union circles, a distinction was often made between that "external organizing" – to recruit workers who currently lack collective bargaining rights – and "internal organizing," which involves engaging more members in contract fights and other forms of collective action aimed at strengthening existing bargaining units.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Destabilization and Regime Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1935
- Pannekoek, Anton - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960).
- Parent, Madeleine
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
- Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
- Picketing
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in ("crossing the picket line"), but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.
- Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned newspaper.
- The Power of the People
Active Nonviolence in the United States
Resource Type: Book
A pictorial encyclopedia of the struggles of the U.S. women and men working for peace and justice through nonviolent action. Sections are included on the roots of American nonviolence, the women's rights movement, struggles against slavery, the labour movements, conscientious objection, nuclear pacifism, the Civil Rights movement, ecological struggles, peace encampments, and more.
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- A Program Of Action for the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Programme du Centre de Pastorale en Milieu Ouvrier 1977-78
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Smith's review of a book published on the history of LGBT activisim within the labour movement.
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
- Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- RankandFile.ca
Resource Type: Website
Canadian labour news and analysis from a critical perspective.
- Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Rethinking Canada's Left History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
- Red Clydeside
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A term used to describe the era of political radicalism that characterised the city of Glasgow in Scotland, and urban areas around the city on the banks of the River Clyde such as Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley.
- 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.
- Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
- Renewal through Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Strikes are a major means of trade union self-assertion. A closer look at strikes in Germany reveals interesting trends and developments, indicating new approaches to trade union strategies and practices.
- A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
- Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
- Roads to the Arab Uprisings
Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
This thesis explores aspects of the life, times, and career of Australian journalist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997). During the Cold War, Lockwood was one of the best known members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), variously journalist, commentator, author, editor, orator, pamphleteer, broadcaster.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
- 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.
- Social Movements/Social Change
The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- Socialism and the New Life
The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- The Socialist Register 1976
Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- The Socialist Register 1977
Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- The Socialist Register 1980
Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- The Socialist Register 1983
Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Solidaire No. 7
April 1975
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
Issue focuinsg on the beginnings of a socialist movement in Montreal.
- Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Polish trade union.
- South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
- The Strike and Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
- The Struggle at Peugeot in France
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
When the management of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group announced, in early July 2012, that it was eliminating 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay plant near Paris (3,000 employees) in 2014, it caused a shock wave, well beyond the workers in the automotive sector.
- The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Resource Type: Website
The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
- Ten of the best union songs of all time
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
From Woodie Guthrie to Buce Springsteen, ten great songs written about workers or the union movement.
- Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
- Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
- The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1907
To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The familiar model of union struggle has been ineffective in attempts to change capitalism. I will try to explain why unions have not shaken capitalism's foundations. The explanation will point to the failure to challenge inequalities in returns to labour and capital from production.
- Unless Union Workers Can Strike, They're Dead
Level the Playing Field
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The strike is workers' only viable weapon. Why? Because it, and it alone, immediately affects the company’s profits. Without labour, they're crippled.
- U.S.A : How Federal Workers Could Fight the Shutdown
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they'll have to organize.
- USA - The Labor Revolt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
- We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A review of a documentary on labour conditions in China. The docementary was filmed at great risk but the motiviations and the end product are questionable.
- Which Path for Labour in the Fight for Jobs and an Independent Canadian Economy
...Collaboration or a Militant Class-Struggle Fightback?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
This research and position paper is the United Electrical Workers' (U.E.) response to the report of the Second Tier Committee published in mid-July 1978 after meetings between business, corporations heading the industrial sectors and labour representatives from these sectors.
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
- Why Strikes Fail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1943
Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
- Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A collection of essays describing the working class uprising that occurred in Wisconsin, in February and early March of 2011.
- Women's Trade Union League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
- Workers Solidarity - Volume 1, Number 1 - New Series
February - April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2004
A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
- Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
- Working Lives
Vancouver 1886-1986
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
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