- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- Against Activism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 "Activism" stands in contrast to organizing. Organizing aims to bring people together to build and exercise power, informed by a strategic vision for acquiring power and changing society. To be an "activist" now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. Activist is a generic category associated with oddly specific stereotypes: today, the term signals not so much a certain set of political opinions or behaviours as a certain temperament. Worse, many activists seem to relish their marginalization, interpreting their small numbers as evidence of their specialness, their membership in an exclusive and righteous clique, effectiveness be damned.
- Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March Resource Type: Book Published: 2007
- Against Sectarianism
The Challenge of the Labor Party Resource Type: Article Published: 1974 Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
- 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.
- The Agony of the American Left
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 A series of essays analyzing the issues facing socialism in the United States.
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
- Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
- Anarchist St. Imier International
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
- 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).
- The Atomized and Siloed U.S. Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 We're increasingly siloed as organizers and protesters. The environment literally decays as we watch, and the Trump administration is hard at work dismantling what environmental regulations there are.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- Beyond the Fragments
Feminism and the Making of Socialism Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
- Big media versus the people
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
- Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
Resource Type: Book
- Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
- The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
- The Canadian Left
A Critical Analysis Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
- The Canadian Left Debates Its Future
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 A debate on left strategies which collects wide-ranging responses from a variety of sources to Canadian Dimension's special issue on Eurocommunism, compiled in the hope that this exchange will advance the level of discussion and provoke still further debate in the ranks of the Canadian left.
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- A comment on Greece and Syriza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 This analysis is a rebuke to the notion that there is nothing between the far left and social democracy. That diagnosis may have been appropriate in the period of revolutionary growth beginning in 1968. This period, marked by the long-term decomposition of once dominant social democratic parties, is quite different.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Communist League
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
- The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book Published: 1848 Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
- Communist Workers International
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Library Chronological Index
Resources by Year of Publication Resource Type: Website Published: 2012 Documents in the Connexions Library catalogue in sorted by year and date of first publication.
- Crisis of the State, Crisis of the Left
Articulating Socialism After the Anarchist Moment Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article Published: 1875 Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- Defending the Left
An Individual's Guide to Fighting for Social Justice, Individual Rights, and the Environment Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Directory of the American Left
Resource Type: Book 1775 listings. Also publish Directory of the American Right, 2160 listsings, $9.95.
- Docs Populi
Documents for the public Resource Type: Website Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century.
- Essays on the Left
Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 Essays collected as a tribute to T.C. Douglas on the occasion of his retirement ad leader of the New Democratic Party.
- Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Book Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
- Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don't want ... and get it.
- The Far Left and the Far Right Actually Have a Lot in Common
Resource Type: Article Published: 2021 It is the strangest thing to know that most of the regular people attracted to both the far left and the far right very clearly appear to be motivated by a desire to stand up to an elite that is actively destroying the lives of so many people around the world, but they have such radically differing ideas of each others motivations, and of the nature of the elite they oppose.
- Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
- Film as a Subversive Art
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
- For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
- Fourth International
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
- 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.
- The Freudian Left
Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
- Gay imperialism: Postcolonial particularity
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Since her refusal to accept the Berlin Pride Civil Courage Award, Judith Butler has been a leading critic of "homonationalism" and the closely related phenomenon of so-called "pinkwashing." Homonationalism is understood here as an ideology which uses a nation's liberal attitudes toward homosexuality as a means of encouraging racist attitudes toward other nations, on the grounds that they are supposedly less enlightened. Butler stated in a May 2010 address on "Queer Alliance and Antiwar Politics" in Ankara, Turkey that "in some parts of Europe and surely in Israel as well, the rights of homosexuals are defended in the name of nationalism."
- 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.
- 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.
- Great moments in satire: a love note to the haters
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 An article by Hugh Goldring about Great Moments in Leftism, a comic strip that highlights the often absurd nature of the radical left.
- Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- Green Municipalism
Critical evaluation Resource Type: Article Refers to the encouragement of environmentalism from the municipal, rather than state or national basis.
- Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
- Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 12 volumes
- How the Left betrayed the Truckers
The convoy is despised by those who should support it Resource Type: Article Published: 2022 Ottawa's truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps.
- If I Am Not For Myself
Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 In a journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
- If I Can't Dance ....
Why is the Left So Boring? Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
- The impoverishment of the Canadian left
Resource Type: Article Published: 1972 Perhaps the most visible phenomenon 9and the most painful) on the scene of social change in Canada today, is the lack of any real left alternative to either bourgeois or liberal radical politics.
- Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article Published: 1864 Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
- International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A political international whose member organisations identify with the Italian left communist tradition.
- International Communist Tendency
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
- International of Anarchist Federations
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
- International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Was an international association of left-socialist parties. The member-parties rejected both mainstream social democracy and the Third International.
- International Workers Association
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries.
- International Working Union of Socialist Parties
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A political international for the co-operation of socialist parties. 1921-1923.
- The Intractable Marginality of the Activist Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Strikes are only one form of struggle, and perhaps less and less important as the years pass. But the disappearance of strikes is not an anomaly. It reflects a pattern of diminishing overall levels of oppositional social mobilization. Although there aren't (as far as I know) statistics on it, it is obvious that levels of social struggle generally, in the Canadian state, are lower now than at any time since written records have been kept.
- Israeli Left Archive
Resource Type: Website Published: 2006 An evolving data base of the Israeli Radical Left. The long range vision of this project is to continue to digitalize thousands of items (leaflets, internal documents, newspaper articles and press clippings, movement periodicals, photographs, protocols and other materials). The origins of the current developing data base are in the private archive of Dafna and Reuven Kaminer. In general, the data base is devoted mainly to the radical left and the women's peace movement during the sixties, seventies and the eighties.
- Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
- Das Kleine Rotbuch Almanach
Resource Type: Book
- Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 An account of an Italian Marxist feminist's experiences and development in the autonomist and feminist movements in Italy in the 1970s.
- Left-libertarianism
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
- The Left: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018
- Left-wing internationals, list of
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
- The Left's Crisis
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 It was indicative of the left's sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities.
- The Left's Crisis
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 It was indicative of the left's sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities.
- Leftwords Festival of Books and Ideas
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 LeftWords is a free public event that celebrates and promotes the work of progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers whose works appear in books and magazines by Canadian independent publishers.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Liberal Antiwar Activism is the Problem
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Every election season, veterans and their families are used as political pawns. During the Democratic National Convention in Philly, the Khans, the mother and father of a Marine Captain who was killed in Iraq, conveniently filled the role for Hillary Clinton and the Neoliberals. At the Republican National Convention, Patricia Smith gladly took the stage for the Neofascists and talked about the death of her son and the non-scandal that is, Benghazi. In the meantime, anyone who opposes U.S. Empire is shit-out-of-luck when it comes to presidential elections and the two major parties. Here, we should commend Gary Johnson and Jill Stein for remaining principled in their views surrounding foreign policy, militarism, torture and surveillance. Theyre the last of a dying breed.
- Libertarian Socialism
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
- Looking at the Conference
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
- Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
- Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
- 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.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website Published: 2016 A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
- 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.
- A New Language is the Number One Imperative for a New Left Project
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Socialists use words few people know to make arguments few people understand to fight for causes few people recognise on people who dont care.
- New Left
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article The New Left was a loose international political movement of the 1960s
- New Left
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
- 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 Newsletter
Periodical profile Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1974 Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
- Not by Bread Alone
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
- On Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
- On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
- Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
- An Open Letter to the British Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Dear friends and comrades, To a foreigner who has been living and working in the United Kingdom for the last sixteen years, the immediate post-referendum situation appears highly paradoxical. It seems as if the shock has been of such a magnitude that even the most celebrated British virtues -- sense of humour, understatement and, above all, solid common sense -- have faded away.
- The Organized Left and the Death of "Pragmatic" Politics
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Shifting political winds are battering the establishment, as the breeze flows to the back of the populists. The left-populist Bernie Sanders didn't conjure the hurricane but adjusted his sails to it. As the political storm grows apace with rising income inequality, new social attitudes are bringing fresh expectations, transforming politics as we know it.
- The Origins of the Modern Leftism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975
- Orwell and the Left
Resource Type: Book
- The Other Israel
The Radical Case Against Zionism Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 A collective effort by a small group of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel to penetrate the dense net of illusion and myth that dominates the thinking and feeling of most Israelis and, at the same time, determines the prevailing image of Israel in the Western world. According to the Zionist fairy tale, the state of Israel is an outpost of democracy, social justice, and enlightenment, and a homeland and haven for the persecuted Jews of the world. The reality, as this book demonstrates, is utterly different.
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1970
- Our Generation
Volume 9 number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 4 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 12 Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Our Generation
Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Anton Pannekoek and Herman Gorter were leading spokespersons for 'council communism.' They argued for the primacy of workers' own organizations, defending their importance agains the parliamentarists and Bolsheviks who saw in the party the nub of working-class organization, and against the anarchists who saw anathema in all organization. This volume contains represenative texts by Pannekoek and Goter, with an introduction by the editor.
- A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
- Popular Education Conference - Overview
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
- The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article Published: 1962 A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
- Portugal
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
- Postmodernism and the Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 1997 Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
- A progressive dialogue on the future: Six questions for leftists
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be far more successful. Here are six from my list of the most important questions, as well as my answers, which by their very incompleteness and inadequacy should suggest that more people should work on them.
- Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
Resource Type: Article A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
- 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.
- Quotes about the Left
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
Resource Type: Audio Published: 2019 Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website Published: 2000
- Raids and Reconstructions
Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
- The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.
- Rebuilding the Left
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Beginning with an overview of the Left in Latin America, from the Cuban Revolution to the present, Harnecker goes on to analyze developments now taking place and stresses the necessity of developing an alternative to present forms of globalization.
- Recovering the Libertarian Tradition
Resource Type: Article An interview with E.P. Thompson.
- 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.
- Reflections on the Canadian Left Today
Resource Type: Article Published: 1992 A letter detailing some of the problems the author thinks the Canadian Left has been suffering from over the last three years.
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 1968 An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
- The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
Resource Type: Article Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
- Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
- Renewing Socialism
Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- Revolution.international
Resource Type: Website Web resources on revolutionary politics and revolution.
- The Romance of American Communism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- 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.
- Self-Determination
Thinking about self-determination in the Canadian context Resource Type: Article A critique of how many of the left approach 'self-determination'.
- Sinistra.net
The online archives of the communist left Resource Type: Website Texts of the Communist Left.
- Situationist International
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A group of revolutionaries, founded in 1957, which developed a radical Marxist critque of life under advanced capitalism. They suggested and experimented with the construction of situations: the setting up of environments favourable to the fulfillment of human desires outside and against the economy of markets and wage labour. The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and attacked the capitalist degradation of life and the fake models advertised by the mass media and proposed a revolutionary alternative which integrated politics, art, critical thinking, desire, and play.
- Socialism or Barbarism
Resource Type: Article Published: 1969 The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website Published: 2016 A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- Socialist History Project
Resource Type: Website Documents of the revolutionary socialist tradition in Canada. Primarily oriented to Leninist and Trotskyist parties. Documents are no longer being added to the archive, but it remains online.
- Socialist International
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A worldwide organisation of democratic socialist, social democratic, socialist, and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.
- Socialist Project
Resource Type: Website Articles from a socialist perspective, including The Bullet and Relay.
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1967
- The Socialist Register 1969
Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1969
- The Socialist Register 1971
Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1971
- The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1972
- 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 1983
Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983
- The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986
- Socialist Register 1993
Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1993
- Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1994
- Socialist Register 1995
Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1995
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1996
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1997
- Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
- 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.
- Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article Published: 1994 Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
- Third International (Comintern)
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
- Thoughts about the "college-educated left"
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Today, in the neo-liberal phase of capitalism, neo-liberal ideology is dominant in the universities. Neo-liberalism denies the idea of class, denies that there are any alternatives to capitalism, and rejects so-called grand theories which view capitalism as a historical period with a beginning and an eventual end.
- The Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989 Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- Thunder on the Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The paradox of the present situation is that capital is weakbut the radical left is much weaker. Alternatively, capital is economically weak, but much stronger politically, less because of mass ideological commitment to the system than because of the weakness of credible anti-capitalist alternatives.The present moment a protracted crisis of the capitalist system should offer a more favourable terrain for the anti-capitalist left to put forward alternative perspectives.
- Toward an Authentic Canadian Left
Resource Type: Article Published: 1971 Recent developments have only further revealed what has been evident for a long time, namely, the impotence and irrelevance of the Canadian left; the fact that it is minute, factionalized and unable to mobilize people around critical issues, or day-to-day problems.
- The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
Resource Type: Book Published: 1938 Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
- The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right
Resource Type: Article Published: 2021
- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- The Un-Canadians
True Stores of the blacklist Era Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
- The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
- Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard?
Resource Type: Article Published: 1972 A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Published in the May 1972 and August 1972 issues of Liberation magazine.
- The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article Published: 1969 The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- What is the Left?
Resource Type: Article Stephens argues that class struggle is central to overcoming oppression.
- What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
- Why it's time to realign the left
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Ed Rooksby, one of the supporters of the call for a new radical left party to be formed in Britain, explains why he thinks the time is right to launch such a party and what its aims should be.
- Why the Leninists Will Win
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
- The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Despite what pundits said, the Womens March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?
- Words, words, words...
Diemer, Ulli Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
- The workers' government
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a left government within the existing parliamentary set-up.
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- World Socialist Movement
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An international organisation of socialist parties created in 1904 with the founding of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
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