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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Against Capitalism
    The European Left on the March

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The Agony of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A series of essays analyzing the issues facing socialism in the United States.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Anarchist St. Imier International
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
  10. 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).
  11. 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.
  12. Bakunin vs. Marx
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
  16. Break Their Haughty Power
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  17. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  27. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. Defending the Left
    An Individual's Guide to Fighting for Social Justice, Individual Rights, and the Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  32. Directory of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    1775 listings. Also publish Directory of the American Right, 2160 listsings, $9.95.
  33. Docs Populi
    Documents for the public

    Resource Type: Website
    Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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 other’s motivations, and of the nature of the elite they oppose.
  38. 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.
  39. Film as a Subversive Art
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
  40. 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.
  41. Fourth International
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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."
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. Green Municipalism
    Critical evaluation

    Resource Type: Article
    Refers to the encouragement of environmentalism from the municipal, rather than state or national basis.
  50. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
  51. Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    12 volumes
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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?
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A political international whose member organisations identify with the Italian left communist tradition.
  58. International Communist Tendency
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
  59. 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.
  60. 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.
  61. International Workers Association
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries.
  62. International Working Union of Socialist Parties
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A political international for the co-operation of socialist parties. 1921-1923.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
  66. Das Kleine Rotbuch Almanach
    Resource Type: Book

  67. 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.
  68. Left-libertarianism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and egalitarianism.
  69. The Left: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. 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.
  75. 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. They’re the last of a dying breed.
  76. 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
  77. Looking at the Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
  78. 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.
  79. 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.
  80. 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.
  81. Marxism.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
  82. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  83. 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.
  84. 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.
  85. 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 don’t care.”
  86. New Left
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    The New Left was a loose international political movement of the 1960s
  87. New Left
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s .
  88. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
  93. 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.
  94. 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.
  95. 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.
  96. 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.
  97. The Origins of the Modern Leftism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  98. Orwell and the Left
    Resource Type: Book
  99. 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.
  100. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
  101. Our Generation
    Volume 9 number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
  102. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
  103. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 4

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
  104. Our Generation
    Volume 12 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
  105. Our Generation
    Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  106. 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.
  107. 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.
  108. Popular Education Conference - Overview
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
  109. The Port Huron Statement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. 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.
  113. 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.
  114. 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.
  115. Quotes about the Left
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  116. Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
    Resource Type: Audio
    Published: 2019
    Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
  117. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
  118. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
  119. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
  120. 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.
  121. 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.
  122. Recovering the Libertarian Tradition
    Resource Type: Article
    An interview with E.P. Thompson.
  123. 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.
  124. 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.
  125. 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.
  126. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article
    Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
  127. 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.
  128. Renewing Socialism
    Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  129. Revolution.international
    Resource Type: Website
    Web resources on revolutionary politics and revolution.
  130. 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.
  131. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  132. 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.
  133. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
  134. Self-Determination
    Thinking about self-determination in the Canadian context

    Resource Type: Article
    A critique of how many of the left approach 'self-determination'.
  135. Sinistra.net
    The online archives of the communist left

    Resource Type: Website
    Texts of the Communist Left.
  136. 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.
  137. 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.
  138. Socialism.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
  139. 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.
  140. 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.
  141. Socialist Project
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a socialist perspective, including The Bullet and Relay.
  142. The Socialist Register 1967
    Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1967
  143. The Socialist Register 1969
    Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1969
  144. The Socialist Register 1971
    Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1971
  145. The Socialist Register 1972
    Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1972
  146. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  147. The Socialist Register 1980
    Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  148. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  149. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  150. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
    Volume 22: Social Democracy and After

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  151. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1993
  152. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
  153. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1995
  154. Socialist Register 1996
    Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1996
  155. Socialist Register 1997
    Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1997
  156. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  157. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  158. 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.
  159. 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.
  160. 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?
  161. Third International (Comintern)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
  162. 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.
  163. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  164. Thunder on the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The paradox of the present situation is that capital is weak—but 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.
  165. 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.
  166. 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.
  167. The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
  168. 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.
  169. 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.
  170. 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.
  171. 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.
  172. 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.
  173. 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.
  174. 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.
  175. What is the Left?
    Resource Type: Article
    Stephens argues that class struggle is central to overcoming oppression.
  176. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
  177. 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.
  178. 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.
  179. The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Despite what pundits said, the Women’s 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?
  180. 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.
  181. 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.
  182. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  183. 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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  2. Marxists Internet Archive


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