- The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Africa in Crisis
The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Book
Africa in Crisis looks at the causes of African famine and how it is a symbol of a much deeper crisis. African droughts and famines are not just the results of a lack of rain but the end result of a long deterioration in the ability of Africans to feed themselves caused by mistakes made by governments both inside and outside the continent.
- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- The Age of Permanent Revolution
A Trotsky Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- American Civil War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Also known as the War Between the States and several other names, this was a civil war in the United States of America in which eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States.
- American Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The American Revolution is the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America at first rejected the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain, and later the British monarchy itself, to become the sovereign United States of America.
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
Documents of revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A selection of articles, manifestos, speeches, resolutions, letter, diaries, poems, and songs which seek to capture the spirit of the anarchist movement in Rissia.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Anti-Duhring
Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1878
- Beyond a Boundary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
- The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- The Bolsheviks in Power
The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
- A Call to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution.
- 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.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Central American Women Speak for Themselves
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A dossier focusing on the participation of women in the popular movements and revolutionary organizations in Central America. Contains transations from newspapers, pamphlets, documents, interviews and reprints of already-published material.
- The Children's Crusade
The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- The CIA: A Forgotten History
U.S. Global Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This book tells the remarkable story of the multifarious US/CIA interventions in more than fifty foreign countries. Here are all the details of these exploits, the operations behind the overthrow of governments, suppression of revolutions, perversions of elections, assassination of leaders, manipulation of trade unions and other organizations. Here is the account of each of the most significant American interventions.
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- 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.
- Classical Marxism and the Question of Reformism
Gluckstein, Donny
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A central issue for our movement is whether to work towards a complete revolutionary overturning of capitalism and the state that protects it, or rely on partial methods of struggle. This choice is obvious in places such as Egypt or Greece, but applies with equal force to Britain where defence of the welfare state and living standards can mean waiting for the next election or relying on self-activity from below. This article will focus on the response of Marxists during the first quarter of the 20th century to this question.
- Common Sense
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1776
Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
- 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.
- 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.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Consumption: Domestic Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
This article deals with the social organization of production under modern American capitalism. The author considers the impact of technological development on labour and its potential for liberation from work under capitalism.
- The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Counter Power
Making Change Happen
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
- Cuban Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro.
- Cuban Revolution - History
Resource Type: Article
Documents on the Cuban revolution 1959 -
- Declaration of Independence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1776
The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1789
Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
- The Dialectics of Community Control
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
The movement for community control will fall short often, unless it becomes a broader struggle for popular, democratic control of all public institutions and the economy.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Do It
Scenarios of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Donghak Peasant Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Was an anti-government, anti-yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894.
- Egypt's Revolution at Three
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Radwan examines the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi after the ousting of President Morsi.
- Einfuhrungen in "Das Kapital" von Karl Marx
Resource Type: Book
- The Enemy
Notes on Imperialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- The English Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660, in which Parliament challenged King Charles I's authority, engaged in civil conflict against his forces, and executed him in 1649.
- Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A discussion of concepts at the root of Marxism: the theory of value and commodity fetishism.
- Essential Works of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
- Everyday Life in the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Everyday life is non-philosophical in relation to philosophy and represents reality in relation to ideality.
- Fake news about the Rojava revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Sharply different opinions have developed among the radical left in recent years towards the Syrian radical democratic movement led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) -- an initially Kurdish-based force which through a series of political and military struggles and alliances has recently formed the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, as a model for a multi-ethnic, non-sectarian, federal and socially just alternative for the nation and the region.
- February Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
- Fire in the Minds of Men
Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
- For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part One
Contradictions of the Civil Rights Movement: A Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
We describe the black population in the U.S. as an oppressed race-color caste. From their arrival in this country, the Negro people have been an integral part of American class society while at the same time forcibly segregated at the bottom of this society. Thus blacks face discrimination, in different degrees, regardless of social status, wealth or class position. Blacks are today still an integral and strategic part of the working class, despite unemployment and mass incarceration.
- 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.
- Forty years after the portuguese Carnation Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On the eve of April 25, 1974, Portuguese society was smouldering from contradictions accumulated in half a century of dictatorship. At the heart of these contradictions was a war that lasted thirteen years, to hold on to the African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. This conflict conditioned the whole of national life, because of the social suffering caused by the mobilization of two hundred thousand men, a tenth of the working population (a human cost equivalent to twice that of Vietnam), because of the wave of migration driven by hunger and the war, and because of the impossibility of a military solution, the only one contemplated by the regime.
- 40 years ago: the grandeur and the limits of the Portuguese Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Portuguese Revolution plunged its roots in the crisis of the Salazar regime. A fascist dictatorship based on a reactionary ideology which would serve as inspiration for the Vichy regime, the Estado novo (“New State”) presents original features in comparison with the fascist regimes of Mussolini and Hitler, features that help to explain both its longevity and its weakness at the moment of its crisis in the early 1970s.
- The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- France Spring 1968
Masses in motion Ideas in free flow
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Free Association
Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization
Resource Type: Article
The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
- French Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
- French Revolution of 1848
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
One of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe.
- From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Among the innumerable questions raised by the fate of the Russian Revolution, two form the poles around which we may organise all the others. The first question is: What kind of society was produced by the degeneration of the revolution? (What is the nature and the dynamic of this regime? What is the Russian bureaucracy? What is its relation to capitalism and to the proletariat? What is its place in history? What are its present problems?)
- From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Parliaments are becoming increasingly empty trappings: the parties are collapsing, destroying one another, and losing their political credibility: the trade unions are changing into ruins. The breakdown of this organisational and political system all along the line is inevitable.
- From Wildcat Strike to Total Self Management
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Vaneigem’s book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
- The Future in the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
- German Revolution of 1918-19
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I.
- The Great Reversal
The Privatization of China
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
In these essays Hinton argues that Deng XiaoPing and his privatization reforms destroyed the achievements of the Maoist Revolution of 1949.
- Greek War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
War of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829.
- Haitian Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The only successful slave revolt in history which established Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks.
- Hamburg at the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Articles by the revolutionary journaliist Larissa Reissner, covering the Hamburg uprising of 1923 and the life and times for Germany in the years 1923-1925.
- Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
12 volumes
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
Paul Cardan's critique of 'Marxism'.
- How Timisoara Started the Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
An account of the start of the revolt that overthrew the Ceausescu regime in Romania in 1989.
- How to Start a Revolution
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
A documentary on the work and ideas of Gene Sharp, a theorist of non-violent revolution.
- Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
One of many revolutions that year and closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of the People's Republic of Hungary.
- Hungary 1956
Resource Type: Book
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- Hungary 56
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
- Iceland's Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital. In reality the responses to the 2008–9 Icelandic banking crash were only modestly progressive and failed to bring about any kind of shift to the left. They have also been much more contested locally than most international media accounts reflect.
- In Defence of October
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1932
- In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A discussion about the causes and consequences of revolutionary violence, with the premise that dismissive disgust at bloodshed is an overly simplistic response.
- In Defense of Marxism
Resource Type: Book
- In Nobody's Backyard
Maurice Bishop's Speeches 1979-1983: A Memorial Volume
Resource Type: Book
A collection of Maurice Bishop's speeches accompanied by an introduction from Richard Hart, former Attorney-General of Grenada under the New Jewel Movement.
- Introduction to Social Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
- The Invading Socialist Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1947
History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
- Inventing the People
The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
- Ireland's Unfinished Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
- Jose Marti
Architect of the Cuban Revolution
Resource Type: Book
This book looks at Marti as both thinker and man of action in relation to his own country (Cuba), Latin America as a whole, and the United States. Turton presents Marti as a contradictory man, avoiding the hagiographical tendencies of many biographers. An original and readable portrait of this great patriot of the Americas and forerunner of the Cuban Revolution.
- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
- Karl and Rosa
November 1918: A German Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A novel about the German Revolution of 1918, focusing on Karl Liebknect and Rosa Luxemburg.
- Karl Marx: Essential Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
- Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
A selection of Marx's writings intended to present the evolution of his ideas, the main features of his mothod, and the chief conclusions of his research.
- 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.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
- Latin America Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1936 - 1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Libya
From Colony to Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
- Living in a Dark Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- The Lost Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A discussion of the Haitian revolution, read through the lens of Julia Gaffield's paper on the lost and found Haitian Declaration of Independence.
- 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.
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
A history of American English.
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 1: The Founders
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Kolakowski gives his interpretation of the origins of Marxism, and analyses the development of Marx's thought and its divergence from other forms of socialism.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Book
- Manifesto of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1871
Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
- 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.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolutionary Spain
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- Marx Engels Internet Archive
Resource Type: Database
- 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.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 47: The French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In the latest of his series on the Marxist understanding of history, Neil Faulkner explores revolution and counter-revolution in 18th-Century France.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 48: The French Revolution - The Jacobin Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the rise of the Jacobin dictatorship and the ever-present threat of counter-revolution in 18th Century France.
- A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
- A Marxist History of the World part 71: Dual power: the mechanics of revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The centuries old Russian monarchy was overthrown in a matter of days in February 1917. Neil Faulkner looks at the months of turmoil that followed.
- A Marxist History of the World part 72: February to October the rhythms of revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The situation of 'dual power' that emerged after the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 was marked by a series of major political crises.
- A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
- A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
- A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
- Mexican War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- My politics in brief
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- The necessary revolution
Working together to create a sustainable world
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
Originally published in 2008 as: The necessary revolution: how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
- The new socialist revolution
An introduction to its theory and strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Chapter 6 - Strategy and Tactics. The first task of the revolutionary movement, its most important task within the next few years, is to destroy bourgeois hegemony and develop a radical consciousness among each of the potential constituencies for revolutionary action.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- The Next American Revolution
Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- Nicaragua
A Revolution Under Siege
Resource Type: Book
Latin American and U.S. scholars and journalists present an independent analysis of the first five years of the Sandinista Revolution. They show the immense problems - organizational, economic, political - faced in transforming a society distorted by decades of the Somoza dictatorship, problems made much more difficult by the U.S.A.'s continuous pressure since 1979 and the CIA's covert war of subversion.
- Nicaraguan Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Encompasses the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.
- 1905
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
- Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- October Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The October Revolution, also known as the Soviet Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution.
- The Old Mole
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1917
The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat.
- On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1926
In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Our Generation
Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
- A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
- The Paris Commune told in pictures
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1934
An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- 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.
- Philosophy and Revolution
From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to mao
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Dunayevskaya argues in favour of a re-evaluation of the theoretical philosophy of Hegel and its application by Marx and the later Lenin to the history of mankind.
- 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.
- Politische Schriften 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- Politische Schriften 2
Resource Type: Book
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Book offers a clear analysis of events in Portugal 1974-1975.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
- Quotes about Revolution
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Digressions 1
Resource Type: Website
Published: 1979
- Radical Political Theory
Resources in the Connexions Library
Resource Type: Website
Books and articles on radical political thought in the Connexions Library.
- Raids and Reconstructions
Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
- Reason and Revolution
Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- 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.
- Redefining Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Modern society certainly remains profoundly divided. It constantly functions against the immense majority of working people. In everyday life the exploited defend themselves against exploitation by part of every single one of their everyday gestures. The present crisis of humanity, it is true, will only be solved by a socialist revolution. But these ideas risk remaining empty abstractions, pretexts for sermons or for a blind, spasmodic activism if one doesn't try to understand the new ways in which the division of society assumes concrete form today, how modern capitalism functions, the new forms taken today by the working class struggle against the ruling classes and their system, and unless one seriously tries to understand what — under these conditions — a new revolutionary activity integrated to the real struggle of people in society might mean and how it could be linked to a coherent and lucid understanding of the world. To achieve this what is needed is nothing less than a radical theoretical and practical renewal.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1896
- Revolution and Counter Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A collection of articles and letters written by Marx for the New York Tribune in 1851 and 1852.
- The Revolution in Russia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1905
- Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- Revolution.international
Resource Type: Website
Web resources on revolutionary politics and revolution.
- Revolutions
A worldwide introduction to social and political contention
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
- List of revolutions and rebellions
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
- Revolutions of 1848
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of political upheavals throughout the European continent. Described by some historians as a revolutionary wave, the period of unrest began in France and then, further propelled by the French Revolution of 1848, soon spread to the rest of Europe.
- Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
"Germany" at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of 39 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation. As nationalist sentiment crystallized into resistance to the traditional political structure, repeated calls for freedom, democracy and national unity came to threaten the status quo.
- Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- The Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1792
Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
- Romanian Revolution of 1989
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
She was brilliant, insightful, with considerable knowledge and practical experience. She said and wrote things that are worth comprehending, actively considering, and testing out as we try to understand and change the world around us.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Russia in Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- The Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
- Russian Revolution of 1905
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- 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.
- Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
- Social Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1908
Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- Socialist Humanism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
An international symposium whose contributors explore the humanist essence of socialism. Among the contributors are Herbert Marcuse, Maximilien Rubel, Norman Thomas, T.B. Bottomore, Raya Dunayevskaya, Ernst Bloch, and Bertrand Russell.
- The Socialist Register 1974
Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- The Socialist Register 1975
Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
- The Socialist Register 1976
Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1996
- Socialist Register 2017
Volume 53: Rethinking Revolution
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This 53rd volume of the Socialist Register addresses the question of the meaning of revolution in the twenty-first century. Coming to terms with the legacy of 1917 is obviously one aspect of this. ‘October’ was a unique event that provided inspiration for millions of oppressed people, and also became an inevitable point of reference for socialist politics in the twentieth century. The twenty-first century left needs to both understand and transcend this legacy through a critical reappraisal of its broad effects – both positive and negative – on political, intellectual and cultural life everywhere as well as on the other revolutions that took place over the last century. But the main point of the volume is to look forward more than back. All revolutions emerge in conjunctures saturated with unique contra-dictions, contingencies, class alignments and struggles.
- Spanish Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
- State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism or Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- State Capitalism and World Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
The great organisations of the masses of the people and of workers in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard. They arose from the experience of millions of people and their need to overcome the intolerable pressures which society had imposed upon them for generations.
- The State and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1917
Lenin on the Marxist view of the state and revolution.
- Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Studies in Revolution
The Ideological Origins of the European Revolutionary Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
- Ten Days That Shook The World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
John Reed's gripping account of the Russian Revolution of November 1917.
- Thank God for the Revolution
A Journey through Central America
Resource Type: Book
Coxsedge compares daily life in Nicaragua after the revolution with El Salvador at that time, warning of the dangers to the region of US policies.
- Theses on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1962
- Total Self-Management
Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem's book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Vaneigem's book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
- Trotsky
A Documentary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.
- Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
- Velvet Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government in 1989.
- Venceremos
The Speeches and Writings of Che Guevara
Resource Type: Book
- Voice of the American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Weatherman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
- What is a Revolution?
A Total Mess
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Ever since the beginning of the Arab Spring there has been much talk of revolutions.
- What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
- What Kind of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- When in Doubt, Do Both
The Times of My Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
- Women, Resistance and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
- Words Unchained
Language and Revolution in Grenada
Resource Type: Book
The Grenada Revolution proved to be the most sustained anti-imperialist process as yet to have taken place in an English-speaking country, and it made a significant impression on the struggles and hopes of the Caribbean people. Words Unchained points to the living revolutionary experience of the people of Grenada as expressed orally and in writing.
- 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.
- Year One of the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The purpose of Year One of the Russian Revolution is essentially one of reconstructing the chain of events, in the Russia of revolution and counter-revolution, which has led from the 'Commune-State' of 1917 to the party dictatorship of late 1918. The terms of the narrative are fixed by Serge's basic convictions, firstly, that the October Revolution of 1917 was a genuine expression of mass feeling by workers and peasants in their overwhelming majority, and secondly that the revolutionary wave had very quickly exhausted itself, or rather bled itself dry, through the military depredation and economic ruin which wrought havoc in an already enfeebled Russia during the early months following the Bolshevik seizure of power.
- You Don't Play With Revolution
The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
A collection of never-before-published lectures by the Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered in Canada in 1967-68, at the height of James's political maturity.
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