- Alert: Police raid opposition party headquarters, arrest protesters amid continuing unrest in Perak State
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) strongly protests continuing police arrests of protesters and a related raid at the headquarters of the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) to eliminate critical expression about the political crisis.
- The American Police State
The Government Against The People
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
How the CIA, FBI, IRS, NSA and other agencies have spied on Americans during seven administrations.
- Amnesty International, Canadian Section
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Die "andere" Arbeiterbewegung und die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Repression von 1880 bis zur Gegenwart
Ein Beitrag zum Neuverständnis d. Klassengeschichte in Deutschland. Mit ausführl. Dokumentation zu Aufstandsbekämpfung, Werkschutz u.a.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Anti-Capitalist Demonstration of May 1, 2013 in Montreal
Journée des Travailleurs et Travailleuses: Manifestation Anti-Capitaliste
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2013
Montreal 2013: police state. Montreal's municipal goverment passes a bylaw that suspends the right of citizens to assemble unless they have received advance permission from police. Citizens who assert their right to assembly are kettled by police and arrested.
- Anti-Socialist Laws
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Were a series of acts, the first of which was passed on October 19, 1878 by the German Reichstag for a limited term, and the later ones regularly extending the term of its application.
- Assange completes second year in Ecuadorean embassy in London
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has just completed his second year under permanent British police surveillance in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he sought refuge to avoid extradition to the United States via Sweden and a possible death sentence there.
- Bahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants.
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Cameroonian authorities confuse journalism with spying
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Two journalists - freelance investigative reporter Simon Ateba and Radio France Internationale correspondent Ahmed Abba - are being held illegally by the Cameroonian authorities, who claim that their journalistic work constituted spying.
- Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
- Canada's Red Scare 1945-1957
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A summary and examination of Canada's Red Scare, the name used to describe the paranoia and ideological insecurity that swept Canada in the years following the Second World War amidst widespread mistrust of the Soviet Union. Volume 61 of The Canadian Historical Association booklets.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
- Cartoonist Zunar could get 43 years in prison for nine cartoons
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns well-known cartoonist Zunar’s trial on a sedition charge for posting nine of his cartoons on Twitter, and urges the Malaysian authorities to stop harassing him judicially and psychologically.
- Chicago Seven
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Seven defendants charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Chile Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
- China puts Tibetan writer and husband under house arrest amid Kerry Visit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Chinese Authorities placed Tsering Woeser and her husband, Wang Lixiong, under house arrest on July 9 during US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to China.
- China: Human Rights activist detained for six months without charge
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Since September 2017, human rights activist Zhen Jianghua has been in police detention and his lawyer Ren Quanniu has been denied access to his client. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) demand the immediate release of Zhen Jianghua.
- Chinese Efforts to Quash Human Rights Campaigns Rippling Out of Control, says PEN
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A string of disappearances and arrests of over 100 human rights lawyers in China in the past week is the boldest move yet in Beijing's sprawling campaign to destroy China's human rights movement.
- The CIA
A Forgotten History
Resource Type: Book
Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
- The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
- Cointelpro
The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
- COINTELPRO
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- 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 Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Court strips national news agency of its licence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by a Moscow court's decision today to grant a request by the Federal Agency for the Supervision of Communications, Roskomnadzor, for the withdrawal of the news agency Rosbalt's licence
- CPJ condemns harsh prison sentences for Journalists in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
CPJ talk about its opinions on the sentencing of 3 journalists to long prison sentences in Egypt on terrorism-related charges.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka#s journalists and media organizations.
- Debs v. United States
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917.
Eugene V. Debs was an American labour and political leader and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for the American Presidency. On June 16, 1918 Debs made an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting US involvement in World War I. He was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917 and convicted, and sentenced to serve ten years in prison.
The case against Debs was based on a document entitled Anti-War Proclamation and Program, showing that Debs' original intent was to openly protest against the war. The argument of the Federal Government was that Debs was attempting to arouse mutiny and treason by preventing the drafting of soldiers into the United States Army. This type of speech was outlawed in the United States with the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917. The defense argued that Debs was entitled to the rights of free speech provided for in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights. This was one of three cases decided in 1919 in which the Court had upheld convictions that restricted free speech.
- Doing Time for Peace
Moral Lights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism.
- Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
- Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
In this disturbing and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts by military and police forces to deploy sound against enemies, criminals, and law-abiding citizens. During the 2004 battle over the Iraqi city of Fallujah, U.S. Marines bolted large speakers to the roofs of their Humvees, blasting AC/DC, Eminem, and Metallica songs through the city's narrow streets as part of a targeted psychological operation against militants that has now become standard practice in American military operations in Afghanistan. In the historic center of Brussels, nausea-inducing sound waves are unleashed to prevent teenagers from lingering after hours. High-decibel, "nonlethal" sonic weapons have become the tools of choice for crowd control at major political demonstrations from Gaza to Wall Street and as a form of torture at Guantanamo and elsewhere.
- Five Burmese mediamen sentenced to hard labor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Five Burmese media workers are sentenced to 10 years hard labour for violating Burma's State Secrets Act.
- 451 at Zuccotti Park
"Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people."
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The books at Zuccotti Park were hauled away in dumpsters belonging to the sanitation department. The pretext of the destruction was "cleaning" the park which, the Mayor said, was filled with "filth". This is the rhetoric of Mein Kampf.
- Four years in prison for cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders deplores the four-year jail sentence that Beijing Intermediate Court No. 1 imposed on the cyber-dissident Xu Zhiyong on 26 January on a charge of gathering a crowd to disturb public order.
- Free speech fights
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Free speech fights are conflicts over the right to speak freely, particularly involving the Industrial Workers of the World efforts in the early twentieth century to organize workers and publicly speak about labuor issues.
- From Wikileaks to TSA
Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
- Gambia Authorities use trial to continue persecuting radio journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing harassment of Teranga FM radio manager Alagie Sisay, who is being tried in Gambia on charges of sedition.
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- Global Unions Call for Immediate End to Repression in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Global Unions, collectively representing over 200 million union members, including in Turkey, stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey. Our organisations wish to reiterate their serious concern at the repeated use of brutal & excessive measures
- Haaretz reporter Uri Blau facing up to seven years in prison
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Journalist faces heavy jail sentence for using classified military papers to document human rights abuses and murders by the Israeli military.
- Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years
His Idealism Remains at Large
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
28-year-old political activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. This was the maximum sentence he could receive after his non-cooperating plea deal.
- Hamas forces attack journalists covering Gaza protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Hamas security forces attacked local journalists covering a peaceful demonstration calling for Palestinian national unity on Tuesday. At least one journalist was taken to the hospital after being beaten.
- Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists
The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party -- the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US -- from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a national organization in the early seventies, its extension into major industry throughout early part of that decade, the devastating schism in the aftermath of the death of Mao Tse-tung, and its ultimate decline as the 1970s turned into the 1980s.
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- Hollowing out democracy and law
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
- Honduras: Joint appeal for end to persecution of community and opposition media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters for Latin America and Caribbean and Reporters Without Borders appeal again for an end to the hostility toward community and opposition media in Honduras.
- How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
- How the UAE Tried to Silence a Popular Arab Spring Activist
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Earlier this year (2014), as a wave of counterrevolution and repression continued to roll back popular democratic uprisings across the Middle East, one of the Arab Spring’s most popular online activists found himself sitting in a jail cell.
- How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
- The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
- IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
- IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals the desperation of the regime to curb democracy.
- IFJ and EFJ condemn "outrageous" 7.5 year jail sentence for Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 7.5 years in jail
- IFJ and EFJ urge Turkey to release two UK journalists facing terror charges
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have today backed their affiliate in Great Britain and Ireland, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), in urging the Turkish authorities to immedia
- IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents for Jaffnaâ##s three main newspapers were attacked.
- IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free speech after it put pressure on the website's host.
- IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
- IFJ urges Hamas to release a Palestinian journalist held incommunicado
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today backed its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), in urging Hamas to immediately release Palestinian journalist Shadi Ahmad Shaker Shaheen
- Information Terrorists?
The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that the attacks on WikiLeaks by the US government could as easily be used against news organizations and political organizations.
- Interview with Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Interview with Bahraini activist Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
- Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- Istanbul's Shameful May Day
Silencing the Masses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
"I was walking through the streets of Istanbul. Smoke and tear-gas bombs were exploding everywhere and people were running, pursued by police in riot gear". I lay for a while analysing my dream. It was May the first – International Workers’ Day.
- Jail terms upheld for Shiite opposition members, trials of photographers begin
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns a special court’s decision in Bahrain on to uphold the prison sentences that were passed on 14 members of the Shiite opposition.
- Journalists are not Terrorists - Urgent Appeal of Life Sentences Given to Turkish Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Journalists are not terrorists - this is the powerful message the European Federation of Journalists is sending to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Stand Up for Journalism Day following the life sentences given to five Turkish
- Justice Department finally stops harassing New York Times reporter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that New York Times reporter James Risen will not be called to testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer charged with leaking classified information for book about the CIA published in 2006.
- Kang Sheng
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Senior official in the Communist Party of China, in charge of security and repression of dissidents.
- Kent State shootings
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.
- Long jail terms for three bloggers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the long jail terms that three Saudi cyber-activists received this week. Blogger and human rights activist Raef Badawi's sentence for 'insulting Islam'; was increased by a Jeddah criminal court on appeal
- Long Way From Home
The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 - March 5, 1849.
- The mass graves of Kashmir
India's dirty war unmasked
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
- Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Mohammed Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest .
- Montreal revolutionaries, Canadian security and race: An interview with author David Austin
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Recently, Montreal writer David Austin published Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, a groundbreaking work that details the significant breadth and scope of Black Power activism in Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s.
- More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran#s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
- Mounting Repression: Its Meaning and Importance for Quebec and Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
- The National Security State Cops a Feel
Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
- New wave of attacks on freedom of information
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under wa, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests, and abusive treatment in detention as Egyptian authorities maintain their campaign of repression.
- New wave of attacks on freedom of information
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under way, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures include military trials, arbitrary arrests
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- Notes on Russia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1936
- Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Obama signs police state legislation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
- Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
- Palmer Raids
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare, the term given to fear of and reaction against communist radicals in the U.S.
- Philippines slaps libel suit to silence broadcast journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), in condemning the libel suit against ABS-CBN’s broadcast journalist Ted Failon and three members of his staff.
- Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned newspaper.
- Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "terrorism and allied matters" and these police tactics are now the subject of an internal review. They have been widely criticized for lacking accountability.
- The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
- Prime Minister Harper - Keep working to free Fahmy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Canadian Association of Journalists condemns the conviction of Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian journalist who served as Al Jazeera’s acting bureau chief in Cairo, to seven years in prison for terrorism-related crimes.
- The Prosecution and Persecution of Bradley Manning
Setting An Example
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The desire to strip Manning of careful intent has been a tactic of the government that is prosecuting him and the mainstream media who parrot their propaganda from the start.
- Public Declaration: Solidarity against police repression in Montreal
We will not submit to the municipal by-law P-6
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
With this public declaration, we assert our opposition to by-law P-6: we will continue to demonstrate without negotiating our demo routes with police, and we will systematically challenge all tickets that arise from this by-law.
- The Purge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
Between 1947 and 1960 it was even harder than usual for left-wingers in the United States to get by. If you were active on the left, or were thought to be, there were more ways then than now that you could be arrested or threatened with arrest, or have civil rights such as the right to travel abroad withdrawn.
- Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
- 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.
- Red Scare
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both.
- Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.
- Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
- RSF alarmed by journalist's arrest on terrorism charges in Bahrain
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is worried by the terrorism charges brought against Mahmood Al Jazeeri, a journalist with the independent daily newspaper Al Wasat, who has been held for the past 11 days.
- RSF calls for boycott of China's World Internet Conference
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to boycott the second World Internet Conference (WIC) being organized by China, the world's leading "Enemy of the Internet."
- RSF decries Saudi citizen-journalist's jail term and writing ban
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the four-year jail sentence and 15-year writing ban that a Saudi court passed yesterday on writer and citizen-journalist Zuhair Kutbi as "unjust and disproportionate."
- Sad anniversary for Eritrean press freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Dawit Isaak, a journalist with Swedish and Eritrean dual nationality who used to work for the Eritrean newspaper Setit in Asmara, is spending his 5,000th day in prison today, May 2, 2015. He has never been sentenced or even charged.
- SDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
- Seeds of Fire - January 2
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea.
- Shirkers and Conchies
How Governments Tried to Silence WWI Resisters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Peace activists faced enemy treatment but left a legacy of perserverance, writes Tim Gee.
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- '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.
- Snowden journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is outraged that US journalist Glen Greenwald's Brazilian partner David Miranda was detained and questioned for 9 hours at London's Heathrow airport under the UK's Terrorism Act, and that his mobile phone, laptop
- Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveillance tool from Bahrain across five continents.
- SOS Media Burundi's dangerous reporting mission
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Almost the only relief for those in search of news in Burundi is to be found at SOS Media Burundi, a collective of journalists that emerged spontaneously within 48 hours of the destruction of the radio stations during the May 2014 coup attempt
- Spying and lying about the left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A company hired by the state of Pennsylvania has spied on left-wing, antiwar and student groups.
- The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
Resource Type: Article
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A study of the role of the FBI in the postwar Red Scare, focusing especially on Ronald Reagan's long and creepy relationship with the FBI. It is also a fascinating account of the origins and development the New Left, and a powerful examination of how the FBI corroded due process and democracy.
- Take action: Help free imprisoned songwriter
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Freemuse, a free expression organisation for musicians and composers, is asking for your support to help dissident singer/songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga. He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President
- 10 years in prison for circulating information in public interest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old WikiLeaks informant and cyber-activist linked to Anonymous, has become the fourth whistleblower to receive a long jail sentence this year in the United States.
- Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
- The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech.
- They Dare to Speak Out
People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby
Resource Type: Book
The author of this book served 11 terms as a Republican Congressman from Illinois. He describes the influence on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on the U.S. Senate and Houseof Representatives. He describes the attempts of AIPAC to influence the curricula of university departments of Middle East Studies. He shows how leading Jewish spokespeople who criticize Israel are shunned and kept from questioning some of Israel's policies.
- This Rough Game
Fascism and Anti-Fascism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Renton describes the rise of European Fascism, the condition of Weimar Germany, British fascism, Battle of Cable Street and Hitler's life.
- Trial of Irina Khalip begins in Belarus
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for the Belarusian government to drop all charges against Irina Khalip, the Minsk-based correspondent for the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, who has been imprisoned since December.
- The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
- Truth in Chains
The Arrest of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Tell a truth that discomforts power, that challenges its domination over our lives, our discourse, our very thoughts, and you will be destroyed. No institution, public or private, will stand with you; the most powerful entities, public and private, will be arrayed against you, backed up by overwhelming violent force. This is where we are now. This is what we are now.
- Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region of Tunisia.
- Turkey: Cumhuriyet journalists face trial on 24 July
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) join their affiliates TGS and DISK Basin-Is in condemning the trial of the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet
- Turkey's Urban Uprising
The Struggle for Democracy against Inequality, Oligarchy, Oppression, and Tyranny
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In Turkey, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the country, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters, in dozens of cities, met with massive state repression and violence, resulting in a few deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.
- Twelve journalists killed on Mindanao island in "dark day for press freedom"
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province, Philippines, by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the provinces governor. More than 30 other people were murdered.
- 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement.
- UK government's culpable persecution of Guardian
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
We are deeply shocked by the British government's culpable persecution of the Guardian's journalists, Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said today.
- 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.
- Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
- Unrelenting crackdown on critical voices in China
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned about the pressure applied by Chinese authorities which forced a prestigious University publication to block online access to more than 300 articles on its website.
- Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China.
- A War on Wikileaks?
Unhinged at the US State Department and Pentagon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
If the state fails to make any sense - not surprising - it is because it is has no intention of doing so. The state is appealing to something more visceral with all of this posturing: fear. It wants to strike fear into the minds and bodies of people working with Wikileaks, or anyone else doing such work, and anyone contemplating leaking any classified records. Fear is its greatest weapon of psychological destruction, with proven success at home. The outcome the state hopes for is greater self-censorship and greater self-monitoring.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
- Western cancel culture has gone nuclear in targeting an entire country
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
By now, we're all used to righteous people pitching fits and ganging up, mean-girl style, on those they feel have committed transgressions against the status quo. But amid the conflict in Ukraine, some are actually trying to deplatform the world's largest country by attacking anyone and anything even remotely associated with it.
- What everyone should know about repression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1926
- The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything
Resource Type: Article
A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again.
- Why Spain's new gag law is threat to free flow of information
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Spain plans to ban demonstrations in front of government buildings on the basis of 'disturbing public safety'. The people of Spain refuse to accept this censorship and move to repeal the law by the end of the year.
- WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create mirror sites.
- Winnipeg 1919
The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
The Winnipeg General Strike was a landmark in Canadian political and labour history. This book, with the lively and clearly-written strikers' account of the strike and more than 40 photos of major strike events, offers the perspective on the strike of the people who organized it. Second edition.
- Zelensky's Hardline Internal Purge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
Ukraine's 'pro-democracy' president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents.
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