- African-Americans and Black Oppressors
Resource Type: Article
- 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.
- Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Albert Woodfox, Gary Tyler - two examples among many of what the racist and bureaucratic "carceral state" in America is about.
- Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
An interview with Adolph Reed, a political scientist and Bernie Sanders supporter, who dicsusses assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the tasks ahead.
- Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
- The Black Infinity Complex
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organizers coming together as a liaison to create a united front of existing structures of grassroots organizations and community institutions, and organizers like you, or scholars.
- Black Politics After 2016
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A article on the significance of race in American politics, particularly since the 2016 election, and the symbiotic relation between antiracist politics and Democratic neoliberalism.
- Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Class Notes
Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Reed argues against the solipsistic approaches of cultural or identity politics, and in favour of class-based political interpretation and action. Class Notes moves on to tackle race relations, ethnic studies, family values, welfare reform, the so-called underclass, and black public intellectuals.
- Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
What's Not in The Great Debaters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
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 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history
- The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- The Economy of Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
- Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
Resource Type: Book
- For true liberation, Black Lives Matter is not enough
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A movement that held true to a goal of liberation would challenge the fundamental assumptions of social, economic, and political organization under capitalism.
- From Ferguson to Baltimore
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Combined with racial profiling, combined with the practice of predatory profiling and predatory policing, police departments are using parking and traffic tickets as a revenue base to increase their budget. All these bring us to a place where police violence is rampant. The more contacts you have with the police, the more possibilities you have of being subject to a violent interaction.
- 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.
- Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
- In a Time of Torment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- 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.
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Media and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
- Moral Appeals Aren't Enough
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand for change.
- The Movement Has a History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized.
- The Murder of Walter Scott
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A video capturing the murder of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, has gone virtal.
- Our Movement Is Global
an interview with Alice Ragland
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Against the Current interviewed Alice Ragland, who has been central to organizing Black youth in Cleveland against the police murder of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old shot to death two seconds after the police arrived at the park where Rice was playing with a toy gun.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking Reformism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Though I support BLM’s policy goals and shock-tactics, their lack of analysis of the forces behind the oppression of Black and other people seems to put them in an awkward place. Their use of shock tactics makes them too radical for the reformists, while their emphasis on piece-meal reforms and little else alienates the radicals. It puts them in a kind of activist nether-space that makes unity difficult.
- Reflections After Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
I am a white man with a Black son. I did not have or get him young and fill his head with illusions of diversity and colorblindness, the way some white parents do. I met him when he was a young teen, living in the housing projects, well on his way to having a reality-based world view built around the urban litany of poverty, gangs, drugs, murder, jail, dysfunctional schools and police abuse - and very much not about diversity and colorblindness.
- The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1948
The impetus of the Negro movement toward the revolutionary forces, which we have traced in the past, is stronger today than ever before.
- Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- SDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Under a Soprano Sky
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Sanchez's poetry combines her pristine lyricism with her strong voice and black female themes to challenge not only the effete definition of poetry, but also the very intellectual hyprocrisy which underguards that effetism. In her poetry, Sonia Sanchez, keenly attuned to the changing moods of the Black community, attests to the continued depth and breadth of her castigation of the social, political and economic evils that stifle the human spirit.
- What Black Lives Matter means for Labor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An account and analysis of the centrality of the Black freedom struggle to the working class movement as a whole, arguing that the struggle for Black liberation is a precondition for human liberation generallyand recognizing the deep historical thread connecting the centuries-old struggle for Black freedom in the U.S. and the struggle to organize the working class to fight for workers' power.
- What is the Left?
Resource Type: Article
Stephens argues that class struggle is central to overcoming oppression.
- Why Black Lives Matter Can't be Co-opted
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
Black Lives Matter BLM never was and never had the potential to be what people like this fantasized that it was.
- Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Cleveland Black Lives Matter Convening was a "game changer" because it made clear the Movement is long term. Whether its next step will add a call for a break with the two-party system, time and struggle will tell.
- Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
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