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  1. The Accumulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1913
    Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
  2. Age of Extremes
    The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
  3. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  4. Bild Atlas Elsass
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  5. Blacking Out the Yellow Vests on Cable News: Corporate Media Doing its Job
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    France is experiencing a left-leaning popular and working-class uprising consistent with the French revolutionary tradition of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity", yet the majorty of Western media have given very little investigation or serious attention to the momentous events.
  6. Blood and Belonging
    Journey into the New Nationalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
  7. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
  8. Das Capital, Volume 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
  9. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  10. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
    Principles of Economic Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
  11. The Civil War in France
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1871
    Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
  12. The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1850
    Originally a series of articles written between January and October 1850 specially for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue and published in it under the general title "1848-1849."
  13. 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.
  14. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
    Economic Writings 1

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
  15. Connexions Library: Europe Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
  16. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1852
    Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
  17. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  18. En France
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  19. Eradicating Extreme Poverty
    Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A new approach to eradicating extreme poverty, contrasted with conventional "top-down" approaches.
  20. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
  21. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  22. France Remains Faithful to Food as Meals Continue to be a Collective Affair
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In France, life is dominated by three shared meals, and it's taboo to break the ritual, writes Anne Chemin.
  23. France Spring 1968
    Masses in motion Ideas in free flow

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  24. France Stuck in the Extreme Center
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist centre's unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously 'extreme.'
  25. France: Yellow Jackets and labour movement at a crossroads - Social and political questions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    A brief look at the Yellow Vests in 2018. Though they may have their problems they provide a possiblity of change outside the electoral system.
  26. France: Call for solidarity for Action day on 19 March
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The participating trade unions (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, USJ-CFDT, SGJ-FO, CFTC and CGC Journalists' Trade Unions) call on all journalists to mobilise for the national day of a general strike and demonstrations planned for March 19.
  27. France's National Front Draws Strength From Brexit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
  28. France's Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West's Best Values
    Resource Type: Book
  29. Free public transport: from social experiement to political alternative? - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A book review of M. Giovannangeli and J. L. Sagot-Duvauroux's "Voyageurs sans ticket. Liberté, égalité, gratuité : une expérience sociale à Aubagne".
  30. French Democracy Dead or Alive?
    The Gilets Jaunes in 2019

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    An overview of the Yellow Vests: their methods, demands, media coverage and summary of major events from November 2018 to January 2019.
  31. French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds
    'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed.
  32. French judge dismisses French journalist’s complaint against Israeli military
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that a French judge has dismissed French journalist Jacques-Marie Bourget’s complaint against the Israeli authorities because a lack of Israeli cooperation prevented him from pursuing the investigation.
  33. French Revolution 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Seale and McConville set out to relate what happened during the May 1968 revolt in France, to set the explosion in its context of French politics, and to single out what they take to be the original and creative features of the situation.
  34. Front Runner
    Marine Le Pen's campaign to make France great again

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A look at Marine Len Pen, leader of the far-right National Front Party (FN), and the events and circumstances that led to her party's rise in popularity from a fringe movement to the forefront of French politics.
  35. General Strike France 1968
    A factory-by-factory account

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
  36. Guadeloupe and Martinique threatened as pesticide contaminates food chain
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Chemical once used on banana crops threatening livelihoods and public health by polluting soil and sea.
  37. Human rights organisations alarmed by bill that will give surveillance agencies dangerous new powers
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Privacy International, Amnesty International, FIDH, the French League for Human Rights and Reporters Without Borders are alarmed by the expansive surveillance powers to be granted to surveillance agencies contained in a French bill.
  38. IFJ Condemns Killings of Media Staff in Shocking Attack on French Magazine Charlie Hebdo' Office in Paris
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined its French affiliates -- SNJ, SNJ-CGT and CFDT -- in condemning the shooting that has taken place today at the offices of the French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
  39. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  40. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
  41. Journalists Condemn French Crackdown on Roma and Warn Over Rise of Racism
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Journnalists condemn French crackdown on Roma and warn that it will encourage xenophobia and intolerance.
  42. Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  43. Jurassic Park in France: The Return of the French Communist Party and the Melenchon Phenomenon
    An Interview with Yves Coleman

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    For the moment what preoccupies working class people in France is not so much the next elections but the euro crisis and the massive layoffs postponed by the bosses and the Right until after the elections.
  44. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
  45. La Vie en Bleu
    France and the French Since 1900

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A study of recent French history.
  46. The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
  47. May 1968 Graffiti
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1968
    "Don't consume Marx, live him."
  48. Memoirs of Montparnasse
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Glassco reconstructs his adventures in Paris in the 1920s. It's comprised of vignettes featuring James Joyce and Gertrude Stein among others.
  49. The National Question
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
  50. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  51. On the Poverty of Student Life
    Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual and Especially Intellectual Aspects, With a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With

    Resource Type: Book
    The Situationist International and the students at the University of Strasbourg prepared and published (using student union funds) this scathing analysis of student duplicity. While claiming to be revolutionaries, students prepare themselves for a professional career -- "just in case." The pamphlet provides a Situationist analysis of a familiar institution.
  52. On the Uprisings in France
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    At the beginning of March 2016, France's now ultra-liberal Socialist Party (PS) government officially revealed a labour reforms bill whose objective was to promote the competitiveness of businesses operating in France. The bill, commonly referred to as the El Khomri (the country's Labour Minister) law, was instantly perceived by most leftist factions as a fundamental attack on workers rights and a downright sabotage of the French Labour Code ("Code du Travail"), considered one of Europe's most progressive. The law allows for companies to reach "agreements" with its staff over working conditions without the need to negotiate with trade unions, subjecting workers to employers' arbitrary decisions (in regards to longer hours and lower overtime pay) without any legal protection. It also facilitates mass sackings and individual lay-offs by relaxing French law's constraint on firing and hiring, and casts aside the sacrosanct 35-hour work week in favour of a lengthened, more "flexible" one.
  53. One Europe - 100 Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  54. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
  55. The Paris Commune told in pictures
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1934
    An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
  56. The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
    Resource Type: Book
  57. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  58. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
  59. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  60. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
  61. "Que faire": Klassenkämpfe in Frankreich seit dem Mai 1968
    Internationale Marxistische Diskussion 24

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  62. Reflections of a Siamese Twin
    Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    The tension in Canada between the model of an inclusive more egalitarian community vs. bureaucratic closed structures of government. According to Saul, Canada is a complex original which does not fit the model of uniligual nation-states like Britain, France, and the United States, which, he says, is profoundly upsetting to the simplistic colonial minds of the Canadian establishment.
  63. Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
  64. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  65. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
  66. The Return of Martin Guerre
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  67. Revolution in Ukraine? Yes, please! Revolution in France? Rule of law!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Western media coverage has differed with reports describing French protesters as rioters, while Ukrainian protesters were described as revolutionaries. The contrasting reaction has prompted many to ask: If a so-called revolution is allowed to happen in Ukraine, why not in France?
  68. The Rights of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1792
    Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
  69. RWB appeals to media outlets to publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In response to today's shocking attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that cost 12 lives, Reporters Without Borders issues an international appeal to media editors to begin publishing Charlie Hebdo's cartoons tomorrow.
  70. A Saga of Revolution
    Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
  71. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
  72. Situationist International Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
  73. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  74. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
  75. The Socialist Crisis in France
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1901
    "The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."
  76. The Socialist Register 1971
    Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1971
  77. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  78. The Socialist Register 1978
    Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  79. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  81. The Socialist Register 1988
    Volume 24: Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
  82. Studies in the Development of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    A Marxist interpretation of economic development in the period of modern capitalism. Starting with the decline of serfdom, the book deals with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie in the rising urban communities of Europe, with the growth of industrial investment, and with monopoloy in its various forms as a crucial instrument in the growth of capitalism.
  83. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  84. Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  85. Understanding France's General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Labor and capital are at loggerheads in France. As the open-ended strike launched on December 5th against a neoliberal overhaul of the pension system continues to expand, the Macron regime has dug in its heels to defend the advantages this so-called reform would have for the wealthy (even though it has recently been forced to present what it considers to be a "compromise" to the union leadership).
  86. Vaillant Auguste
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Auguste Vaillant (27 December 1861 – 5 February 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893.
  87. Voyages To Utopia
    From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
  88. Why the French Hate Chomsky
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Chomsky's criticism is laden with facts, a substance that seems to elicit ennui among contemporary French thinkers. No doubt the importance of the essay in the French educational system has bred a world of 'philosophers' whose skill at manipulating fact-free ideas was the guarantee of a distinguished career. If the social object is to entertain, then the French school reaches its goal -- mystification is often far more entertaining than straightforward descriptions of reality. On the other hand, if the object is to help readers reach their own understanding of reality, especially political reality, then their first need is to be provided with the basic relevant facts, which most people do not have time to ascertain through their own research. Thus Chomsky is useful to citizens by providing them with the raw material to develop their own ideas in a way that the purveyors of ready-made but flimsily supported ideas are not.
  89. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
  90. Writings on the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Book
    Hal Draper's compilation of all the writings by Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune of 1871, when a working-class-led revolution took power and established a new type of state for the first time in the history of the world - temporarily, in one city.


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