- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
- Beyond Oppression, Beyond Diversity: Class Analysis and Gender Inequality
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Massive increases in tuition fees resulting from government cutbacks to education were not addressed at a Status of Women conference -- an indication that much of what shall be referred to in this paper as "left feminism" has increasingly lost its way.
- Beyond the Spectacle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
- Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
- Burying the Typewriter
Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Dark history of Canada's First Nations pass system uncovered in documentary
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Little known policy restricted people living on reserves, enforced for nearly 60 years.
- Escape from Camp 14
The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
- Flaunting It!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
- Fuck Love
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A biography of George Orwell.
- God Dies by the Nile
Resource Type: Book
This is a novel which illustrates the class dimension of the oppression of women. It can also be seen as a metaphor for the Sadat regime and landlords' oppression in general.
- God's Spies
Stories in Defiance of Oppression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
- Good Girls, Bad Girls
Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
- I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In the United States, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a specific set of politics among the left reigns king. Today, you could go into any university, on any number of liberal-to-left blogs or news websites, and the words “identity” and “intersectionality” will jump out you as the hegemonic theory. But, like all theories, this corresponds to the activity of the working class in response to the current composition of capital.
- Is there a White Skin Privilege?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left -- but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism.
- Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
- Jews Are Not an Equity-Seeking Group
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Anti-Semitism, pervasive and deadly only a couple generations ago, is no longer a form of oppression. Jews are not currently oppressed on the basis of Jewish identity alone. Measured in terms of social power, a white Jewish male is just another white male, his Jewishness of no more relevance than if he were Dutch or Irish.
- Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
Toward a Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
- Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
A study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family.
- Marx rediscovered
A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Sheila McGregor states that Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression. Brown situates her book in the current economic and political context, noting the role that women play both in the world economy and in recent tumultuous struggles such as the Occupy movement and, not least, in the revolutions in the Middle East beginning in 2011. At the same time, parts of Brown's book are contraditory and frustrating.
- A Marxist History of the World part 19: Mother-goddesses and power-deities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of private property altered the position of women - from occupying a central role in society to suffering what Engels called ‘the world historic defeat of the female sex’.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- 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.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
- The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg on the national question, federalism, autonomy, and the right of nations to self-determination.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- 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.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- The roots of gay oppression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Supremacy, oppression, and power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
- Theories of Patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The most persistent and widespread theory around the women’s movement today is that of patriarchy. This is justified by pointing to the existence of women’s oppression in societies other than those of western capitalism.
- Towards a Marxist Critique of 'Privilege Theory'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A contribution by Tad Tietze to an ongoing debate on Marxism and 'privilege theory.'
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- Weatherman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
- Why This Radical Leftist is Disillusioned by Leftist Culture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
I will always believe in "The Revolution". But I am becoming very frustrated with modern "activist" culture.
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