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  1. Activist archiving in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
  2. Against the Grain: The British far left from 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Against the Grain views the "far-left" as anything to the left of the British Labour Party. This includes the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), Red Action, the Socialist Party (SP), the SWP, other left groupings and anarchist groups.
  3. The Agony of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A series of essays analyzing the issues facing socialism in the United States.
  4. Amadeo Bordiga and the Myth of Antonio Gramsci
    Chiaradia, John

    Resource Type: Book
    Looking at the conflicting roles of Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci in the history of the Italian Communist Left in the years between 1912 and 1926.
  5. American Dreamers
    How the Left Changed a Nation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    History of the radical left in the United States from the abolitionists to anti-globalization activists. The author sees the left as historically championing a pluralist spirit that runs counter to the "born capitalist" American society.
  6. American Jacobins
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In a recent broadside against the Occupy movement, Alexander Cockburn assailed, among other things, “the enormous arrogance which prompted the Occupiers to claim that they were indeed the most important radical surge in living memory. Where was the knowledge of, let alone the respect for, the past?”
  7. Anarchism in the Rear-view Mirror
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This is not an attack on the militancy of our libertarian comrades. This text is an attempt to clarify our practices to avoid repeating the historical mistakes of the labor movement, addresses the comrades who are beginning to make a synthesis between Marxism and anarchism.
  8. Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn
    A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century,

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
  9. The Anarchists
    The men who shocked an era

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    The history and ideology of anarchism.
  10. Angry Brigade: Documents and Chronology, 1967-1984
    Resource Type: Article
    The eight libertarian militants on trial in the Old Bailey in 1972 who were chosen by the British State to be the 'conspirators' of the Angry Brigade, found themselves facing not only the class enemy with all its instruments of repression, but also the obtusity and incomprehension -- when not condemnation -- of the organised left.
  11. Archive That, Comrade!
    Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    Archive That, Comrade! explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate.
  12. Archiving With May Day Rooms
    From the Marx Memorial Library to Cold Bath Fields

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In our day, as the traces of our radical movements are being thrown into rubbish pits, as state sponsored “austerity” demands the commodification of every inch of space, and with sinister intent destroys the evidence of our past, its joys, its victories. Clear out the closets, empty the shelves, toss out the old footage, shred the underground press, pulverize the brittle, yellowing documents! Thus neo-liberalism organizes the transition from the old to the new; they must silence alternatives.
  13. Art and Aesthetics on the Left
    An interview with Andrew Hemingway

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
  14. At a Fork in the Road
    A Debriefing on the RCP

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
  15. Bequests
    Leaving a social justice legacy

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
  16. The Berkeley Student Revolt
    Facts and Interpretations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    An anthology of writings on the Berkely student revolt of 1964.
  17. Break Their Haughty Power
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  18. Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
    The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Choosing Our Future
    Dr. Zofia Pakula Spring 2015 Lecture Series

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  22. The Communist Manifesto in Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Eric Hobsbawm’s opening address to the international conference organised by Espaces Marx on the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto.
  23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  24. Connexions Library: History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
  25. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
  26. The Debate at Halle
    Against The Current vol. 156

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    There were two defining moments in the history of the international working-class movement in the first half of the 20th century. The first, by far the most discussed and written about for obvious reasons, was the revolution in Russia in October 1917 and its subsequent isolation and defeat. The second was the disaster in the German movement, which had been for half a century the model of a militant, socialist working-class movement, and the subsequent collapse of that movement in the face of Nazism.
  27. 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.
  28. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  29. Exclusive excerpts from Ernest Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  30. 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.
  31. The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
  32. Fight the Power!
    A Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking Peoples

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Throughout history, ordinary people have risen up against oppression and injustice. Fight the Power visualizes 14 key moments in the last 200 years when people across the English-speaking world stood up and fought for a better life for all.
  33. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A political and cultural history of each year of the 1960's, focusing on one person to exemplify the year. Activist John Lewis is used to emphasize the Civil Rights movements heating up in 1960; Clark Kerr and the Berkeley "free speech movement" characterize 1964.
  34. Framing the Sixties
    Corporate Media Shadows and the 1960s

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    What Really Happened to the 1960s is a look at the role the media played in the presentation and interpretation of the struggles of the 1960s. Simultaneously, it is a consideration of the meaning of democracy in a society where the media is owned by corporations and elites who consider democracy antithetic to their hegemony.
  35. Frank Fried (1927-2015)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
  36. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
  37. Free Speech Movement Archives
    Resource Type: Website
    Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
  38. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
  39. The Freedom Archives
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    The Freedom Archives contains over 10,000 hours of audio and video tapes as well as extensive documents. These materials date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements.
  40. 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.
  41. From 1960s New Left to Trotskyism
    Recollections of a Participant

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    What I am going to do today is talk about the 1960s—the last time there was serious social struggle in the U.S.—and why some of us concluded that struggle, even quite militant struggle, is not enough.
  42. Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
    Book review

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
  43. Grassroots archive information sheet
    About your archive - collection - resource centre - library

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.
  44. Harvey Richards Media Archive
    Movement Photographer of the 1960s

    Resource Type: Website
    The Harvey Richards Media Archive contains a treasure of images of the political and social upheavals of the 1960s on the west coast and of the devastating impact of capitalist resource exploitation in western forests, among other subjects.
  45. The History of American Trotskyism
    From Its Origins (1928) to the Founding of the Socialists Workers Party (1938): Report of a Participant

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Trotskyist leader Cannon recounts the early history of the Trotskyist movement in the United States.
  46. History of the Socialist Party of Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
  47. H.K. Yuen Social Movement Archive
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    The H.K. Yuen collection is a unique archive of primary materials on social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes materials on a wide range of movements internationally, with a focus on Berkeley, Oakland, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The collection features multimedia primary documents from the Free Speech Movement, the Third World College mobilizations, the United Farm Workers, the student strike at San Francisco State University, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, the International Hotel Mobilizations, Stop the Draft Week, the Women’s Movement, and many more. The collection contains a wide range of media including organization flyers, underground newspapers, photos, posters, and film. But the most extensive and unique aspect of the collection is more than 30,000 hours of audio content. Utilizing some of the earliest reel-to-reel recording technology publicly available, H.K. Yuen documented countless rallies, protests, debates, and meetings. In addition to personal recordings, he also recorded relevant shows off of the Pacifica network and community radio, including documentaries, interviews, and live broadcasts from events for 20 years without missing a single day. Most of this content is unique and not preserved elsewhere.
  48. Homage to Catalonia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1938
    George Orwell's account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
  49. How to use the libcom library
    Resource Type: Article
  50. I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
    Resource Type: Book
  51. Ian Birchall reviews Ernie Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Anyone who was active in Britain's Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in the late 1960s will remember Ernie Tate, whose energy and enthusiasm made such a contribution. Now, 45 years later, he has published two volumes of memoirs from the 1950s and 1960s.
  52. In Memory of the Proletariat Party
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1903
  53. International communism well documented in new publications
    Review of books about the Third International

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    A review of International Communism in the era of Lenin: A Documentary History; Soviet Russia Masters the Comintern: International Communism in the Era of Stalin's Ascendancy; The First Three Internationals: Their History and Lessons.
  54. International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
  55. 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.
  56. The Italian Long ’68
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
  57. It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    The path to a better world can't be found without knowledge of history. "It's Not Over" analyzes attempts to supplant capitalism in the past in order to draw lessons for emerging and future movements that seek to overcome the political and economic crises of today. This history is presented through the words and actions of the men and women who made these revolutions, and the everyday experiences of the millions of people who put new revolutionary ideas into practice under the pressures of enormous internal and external forces. This is history that can be applied to today's struggles to shape our world, in which new ideas are emerging to bring about the economic democracy that is indispensable to a rational and sustainable future.
  58. James P. Cannon on the Legacy of the IWW
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Formed in direct opposition to the craft unionism of the American Federation of Labor, the IWW drew its membership largely from young workers who took to the road to find work where they could -- as railroad construction workers, lumberjacks, metal miners and seamen. Taught by harsh experience that the bosses could not be overpowered at the ballot box, those who formed the IWW called for "One Big Union" that would serve as the instrument to seize the means of production from the capitalist class.
  59. Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Kneen describes his book as his “political theological autobiography.” The book is a personal life-story with a focus on the 1950s and '60s, coming from someone who was active in the peace and social justice movements in the USA and Canada over the past 5 decades or so. It starts with an inside story of the New Left and the peace and Civil Rights movements in North America, and the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, and continues with his life as a farmer and writer in Canada.
  60. Robert S. Kenny Collection
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    A collection of books, documents, and other materials pertaining to the radical and labour movements, particularly in Canada at the Rare Books Library at the University of Toronto. It contains approximately 25,000 items collected by Robert S. Kenny, who was a member of the Communist Party of Canada. The Canadian section, which has 382 books and 768 pamphlets, was acquired by the library from Kenny in 1977. The international section of the collection was donated by Kenny in 1993.
  61. The Labadie Collection
    Resource Type: Website
    The Labadie Collection was established in 1911 when Joseph Labadie, a prominent Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. Although the Collection was originally concerned mainly with anarchist materials (the field in which it remains strongest), its scope was later widened considerably to include a great variety of social protest literature together with political views from both the extreme left and the extreme right. Materials are now collected from all parts of the world. In addition to anarchism, the Collection's strengths include: civil liberties (with an emphases on racial minorities), socialism, communism, colonialism and imperialism, American labor history through the 1930s, the IWW, the Spanish Civil War, sexual freedom, women's liberation, gay liberation, the underground press, and student protest.
  62. 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.
  63. Left in Hebrew
    Resource Type: Website
    A video archive. We believe that change is possible and achievable. Our history is full of stories of many amazing, dedicated comrades who struggled relentlessly during many decades for a just world. This site, which includes Audio-visual fragments depicting their struggle is dedicated to them.
  64. Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
  65. Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
    The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
  66. Letter to the Next Left
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The problem of agency is especially relevant to what remains of the Left today, and it is the part of C. Wright Mills’ Letter to the New Left that is the most problematic.
  67. Carl Lichtenstein
    1942 - 2011

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Obituary for archivist for the Prometheus Research Library.
  68. 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.
  69. Manchester's Radical History
    Exploring Greater Manchester's Grassroots History

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We share an interest in the city’s radical and grassroots history – the local struggles and campaigns that have shaped the city of Manchester and the towns that make up Greater Manchester, and the people that live in them. And we’re inspired by the way that Manchester’s people have maintained a spirit of independence and resistance which has endured down the years.
  70. The Mandate of Heaven
    Marx and Mao in Modern China

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    China’s transformation from a poor country devastated by war into a major world power is a modern legend. But how did this change come about? What are the real living conditions of the peasants and workers? Why, when apparently united in their beliefs, are Russia and China enemies? And why, if Mao is right, must Marx be wrong? Using publications from the People’s Republic and his own extensive research, Nigel Harris has written a serious critique of the history, aims and actions of the communist Party in China.
  71. Mapping American Social Movement Through the 20th Century
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    This collaborative project features maps and other visualizations showing the chronological geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century, including radical movements, labor movements, women's movements, many different civil rights movements, environmentalist movements, and more. Includes interactive maps of more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
  72. Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    These interactive maps below more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
  73. Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
  74. Marx & Engels papers
    Resource Type: Website
    The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
  75. Marx & Engels papers completely available online
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
  76. Marx, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

    Resource Type: Article
    Brief biography of Karl Marx. (1818-1883).
  77. Marx Memorial Library
    Resource Type: Organization
    The Library is home to a number and variety of archives and collections including the full run of the Daily Worker and Morning Star, The International Brigade Archive, Bernal Peace Library, Klugnmann Collection and an extensive Photograph Library.
  78. Marxism.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
  79. MayDay Rooms
    Resource Type: Organization
    MayDay Rooms is an educational charity founded as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements, experimental culture and the radical expression of marginalised figures and groups.
  80. The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Debs was an articulate, far-reaching critic of American society, staunchly anti-capitalist and opposed to both Democratic and Republican parties, which he saw as controlled by Wall Street. In his five campaigns as the Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Debs excoriated the economic exploitation of workers, including the then rampant abuses of child labor, with rare oratorical skill. He advocated for unions in all major industries and promoted a vision of socialism as grassroots economic democracy. In a deeply racist, patriarchal society, he was also staunchly anti-racist and pro-women's rights. When war hysteria swept the country, Debs openly defied the warmongers to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. He did so not as a pacifist, but because he saw the world war as an inter-imperialist dispute among the ruling classes of competing capitalist nations.
  81. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
  82. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
  83. My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
  84. Never Neutral
    On Labour History/Radical History

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  85. New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
    Wikipedia article - Spanish

    Resource Type: Article
  86. 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.
  87. Notebooks 1936-1947
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2019
    Victor Serge - writer, novelist, revolutionary -- left the Soviet Union in 1936 and spent the rest of his life in exile, first in France, then in Mexico. His notebooks, written in the years of fascist and Stalinist ascendency, combine grief at the state of the world with resilience, curiosity, steadfast adherence to his principles, and a love of life and culture.
  88. On "Occupy Wall-Street" and the Demobilizing Interpretation of Postwar American Protest Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Adams discusses the Occupy Wall Street protests.
  89. OPIRG Poster Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    A website with posters produced by OPIRG-York and OPIRG Toronto from the 1980s to the present.
  90. An Opposing Man
    The Autobiography of a Romantic Revolutionary

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    The memoirs on Ernst Fischer, a socialist literary and art critic.
  91. The Origins of Left Culture in the U.S.: 1880-1940
    Issue 6-7 of Cultural Correspondence and Issue #6 of Green Mountain Irregulars

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    A selection of materials from the early years of radical popular culture in the United States, showing how different peoples, over several generations, sought to create out of their own resources a better, more co-operative society.
  92. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
    Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
  93. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
    Labour Day issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
  94. 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.
  95. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
    We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
    This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
    Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
    Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
    Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
  96. 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.
  97. The Party: Volume 1
    The Sixties, A Political Memoir: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Barry Sheppard was a member of the US Socialist Workers Party for 28 years, and a central leader for most of that time. This is the first of two volumes recounting his life in the party.
  98. People's History, Memory & Archives
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
  99. Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto.
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. The book is generous in its treatment of most of them, though it offers, as it should, analysis of why some groups achieved more in the short term than others while still others left a lasting legacy, for example, in preserving natural areas or working-class neighbourhoods that corporate interests wanted to bulldoze.
  100. The Political is Personal: Why women in the Canadian Marxist group in Struggle changed from opposing to supporting the feminist ideology of the autonomous women's
    MA Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1983

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
  101. The Popular Front Didn't Work
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The Communist Party's 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labour movement and empowered the Democratic Party, a strategy that would be even more destuctive to the socialist left today.
  102. A Price Below Rubies, Jewish Woman As Rebels and Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    A tour of radical thought and movements in Europe from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, refracted though the lives of a series of remarkable, courageous women.
  103. Prometheus Research Library
    Resource Type: Organization
    A working library of American and international Marxist history, documentation, and related interests, maintained by the Trotskyist League.
  104. The Prophet Alarmed
    The Extreme Center: A Warning (Book Review)

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Review of Tariq Ali's The Extreme Center: A Warning. In The Extreme Center, Ali gives more than just a pungent and entertaining smack-down of corruption in British politics.
  105. The Purge
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    Between 1947 and 1960 it was even harder than usual for left-wingers in the United States to get by. If you were active on the left, or were thought to be, there were more ways then than now that you could be arrested or threatened with arrest, or have civil rights such as the right to travel abroad withdrawn.
  106. Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
    Special Issue: Quebec

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1972
    An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
  107. Radical Sydney / Radical History
    Resource Type: Website
    Radical Sydney began in 2010 as a site devoted to the book by Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill titled 'Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes. While this function continues, the blog has expanded as a platform for radical writing about history.
  108. The 'Radical trip' of the the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    MA Thesis, Trent University, 2009
  109. Radicals and Revolutionaries
    The History of Canadian Communism from the Robert S. Kenny Collection

    Resource Type: Article
    Radicals and Revolutionaries explores a significant yet neglected area in Canadian history-the experiences of the radical workers' movement and the Communist Party of Canada. Although a minority current on the Canadian political scene, at key points the radical movement posed a pointed challenge to the established order. Within that section of the socialist movement which openly identified itself as revolutionary, the CPC clearly predominated. It was instrumental in building the industrial union movement and played a key role in many of the major strikes of this century. In the social upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s, its influence extended far beyond its numbers.
  110. 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.
  111. Reasoning Otherwise
    Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada 1890 - 1920

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920, and highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
  112. Rebel Youth
    1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
  113. 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.
  114. Rebuilding the International
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1915
    The only real safeguard for peace depends on the resolution of the proletariat to remain faithful to its class politics and its international solidarity through all the storm of imperialism.
  115. A Red Metamorphosis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The following essay has been written and published in response to increasing requests from researchers for information on the background and development of historian Terry Irving and his approach to history.
  116. Red Rosa
    A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
  117. Rediscovering Radical History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    This essay studies the early days of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Society (ASSLH).
  118. Reinterpreting 1968: Mythology on the Make
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
  119. Renewing Socialism
    Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  120. Review: 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s - Ernest Tate, A Memoir'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Ernie’s modesty leads him to describe his work as a memoir. It is that, but it is much more than that. It is rich in political lessons that apply to today’s circumstances and issues.
  121. Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
    Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Book review of Howard Brick's and Christopher Phelpss Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War.
  122. Revolution and the Color Line
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A review of the biography 'W.E.B. DuBois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line', by Bill Mullen, detailing the life of the influential author and organizer.
  123. 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.
  124. 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.
  125. Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2018
    On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
  126. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  127. Ross Dowson archive
    Resource Type: Website
    An archive of materials related to Canadian Trotskyist Ross Dowson (1917-2002). Some documents are online; with others being digitized.
  128. RossDowson.com
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    An archive of materials related to Canadian Trotskyist Ross Dowson (1917-2002). Some documents are online; others are being digitized.
  129. Die rote Fahne - [Elektronische Ressource]
    Online-Archiv

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1918
  130. 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.
  131. The Russian Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
  132. 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.
  133. Shaping Histories
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    During the last few years, a number of researchers have interviewed the authors regarding their politics and practice in relation to 'history'. In reflecting upon their individual 'historiographies', they have put the following together.
  134. Social History Portal
    Resource Type: Website
    Search and browse digital collections on social history and the history of the labour movement from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st century. More than 900,000 digitised objects (archives, books, brochures, leaflets, photographs, posters, prints, cartoons, sound, films and videos) from 15 specialized archives and libraries in Europe.
  135. Socialism.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
  136. Socialist Thought
    A Documentary History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    An anthology of important documents in the history of European socialist thought, from pre-revolutionary France to the 1950s.
  137. The Sociology of Political Sects
    Four sects in Toronto in 1968-1969

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1972
  138. Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    The Sojourner Truth Organization was an American revolutionary group based largely in Chicago during the 1970's and 1980's. This archive serves as a resource for STO's newspapers (Insurgent Worker), pamphlets, shop leaflets, theoretical journals (Urgent Tasks, Tendency Newsletter), collaborative works (Collective Works), and others.
  139. Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    The History of SDS as You've Never Seen It Before. Captures the idealism and activism that drove a generation of young Americans to try to transform the world.
  140. SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
  141. A Tate Gallery for the New Left
    Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstracts in the Revolutionary Activism of the 1950s and 1960s

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A review essay on Ernie Tate's two-volume memoir on Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s.
  142. "The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
    English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
  143. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  144. To spread the revolution: anarchist archives and libraries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Notes on why anarchists have created libraries (past and present) and some of the challenges they face, drawing on a survey of current anarchist libraries, anarchist history, and the author's own experiences at the Kate Sharpley Library.
  145. The Toronto Reference Library's rich collection of Communist newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
  146. 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.
  147. The triumph of green hearts over sere
    Reflections on student radicalism at Sydney University in the 1910s and the 1960s

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In April 1910, thirty graduates and undergraduates met on the eve of the federal elections with the intention of establishing the University Socialist Society. The conservatives downtown were shocked. The next day, while the voters shifted to the left, and Andrew Fisher looked forward to leading his second Labor government, the Sydney Morning Herald called the formation of a socialist club at the University, ‘The Last Straw’...
  148. 25 and Still in the Red
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    In this commemorative issue, Canadian Dimension kicks off its 25th anniversary by considering how it has survived since its inception and its achievements.
  149. 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.
  150. Unruly Equality
    U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    Unruly Equality traces U.S. anarchism as it evolved from the creed of poor immigrants militantly opposed to capitalism early in the twentieth century to one that today sees resurgent appeal among middle-class youth.
  151. US Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence
    Left Opposition in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2019
    The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labour struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.
  152. US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
    The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2019
    The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.
  153. US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
    Uneven and Combined Development.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2019
    The third in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1954 to 1965, surveying the Cold War era, the Black liberation struggle, the "third wave" of feminism, and more.
  154. Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    In 1968 various student movements had risen up in post-war Europe. The movement in Germany, however, had the long shadow of their parents' roles in Nazism and World War Two.
  155. Wilfred Burchett's Retreat From Moscow
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Between 1965-1968, journalist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was the Moscow-based correspondent for the Communist Party of Australia’s (CPA) newspaper Tribune. A veteran journalist, Lockwood had become a leftist as the result of his front-line experiences covering the Spanish Civil War for the Melbourne Herald. A party member since 1939, his Moscow experiences contributed to him leaving the party in 1969. In these previously unpublished “Notes and Recollections”, drafted in the 1980s, Lockwood recalls his Moscow experiences, and his association with journalist Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983).
  156. You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    A collection of memoirs from people who were part of Progressive Labor Party in the United States in the 1960s.

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