- Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
- Almanac Singers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Group of American folk musicians specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with union organizing.
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
- La Causa
The California Grape Strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
- Confederation of Canadian Unions
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Continental Service Agents Join Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Continental Airlines Service Agents at Toronto's Pearson Airport wanted the protection and better wages afforded by union membership so they turned to the largest union in air transport in North America - the IAMAW.
- Critique of Syndicalist Methods
Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
- Facebook Facts
Finding Friends and Foes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
- Farmworker Movement Documentation Project
The Farmworker Movement: 1962-1993: Primary source accounts by the UFW volunteers who built the movement
Resource Type: Website
The Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, founded in 2003 by LeRoy Chatfield, is a labor of love. The project seeks to compile and publish primary source accounts from the volunteers who worked with Cesar Chavez to build his farmworker movement during the period, 1962-1993.
- Getting Organized: Building a Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
See also CX2340.
- Guide to taking strike action
Tips and advice on how to effectively organise and carry out strike action at your workplace.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Our labour is the ultimate weapon that workers possess. Without workers bosses cannot make a profit. Strike action can be very powerful, but at the same time it, at the very least, reduces take home pay. More worryingly it may also lead to dismissal. Hardly, surprising therefore, that strike action is usually last resort taken of workers.
- Having the Hard Conversations
Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
- How to Jump-Start Your Union
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
How to Jump-Start Your Union tells how activists transformed their union and gave members hope. Readers will learn how to run for office, work with their communities, build stewards' networks, train new leaders, run a contract campaign, and strike.
- IAM Expands at Vancouver International!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Machinists union attracts new members at Vancouver International Airport.
- IAM Welcomes NIU Members to the Family!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
IAM Welcomes 200 new members in North Bay.
- India: Why are Suzuki automobile workers in jail?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Why are automobile workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India's industrial scene.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Labor's Giant Step
The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936–55
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles in the 1930s that built the industrial unions.
- Let's Get to Work
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Instead of asking "What is to be done?", we could start with a different question: "What should I do?" As it turns out, the right-wing hecklers we've all encountered are half right: we should get jobs. And then we should do what we tell workers to do all the time: organize our workplaces. This tactic has a name and a history. It's called "salting." Salting has deep roots in the history of the labour movement and the Left.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
- Machinists Continue to Grow with OPT
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The IAMAW now represents more Patient Transfer Medical Attendants in Canada than any other union with the addition of 55 members at the Ontario Patient Transfer station in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- Mapping UFW Strikes, Boycotts, and Farm Worker Actions 1965-1975
Resource Type: Unclassified
When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, California, the modern farm workers movement was born. Operating initially as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and later as the UFW, the union spread beyond California as it launched a national grape boycott and inspired farm worker organizing in other states. Researched by Katie Anastas, these maps show the geography of UFW activism, locating more than 1,000 farm worker strikes, boycotts, and other actions.
- A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Meet the Fokkens
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2011
A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
- A Militant, "Minority" Union?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
At the AFL-CI0 convention in Los Angeles in September 2013, a small group of rank-and-file workers managed to alter the convention agenda -- by threatening to protest the presence of Kaiser Permanente, which happens to be their employer.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- New Machinists sign first agreement with Vancouver ATS!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
News members of IAM at ATS in Vancouver sign their first agreement.
- The Newsletter #2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Operation Dixie
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Operation Dixie was the name of the post-World War II campaign by the Congress of Industrial Organizations to unionize industry in the Southern United States, particularly the textile industry. Launched in the spring of 1946, the campaign ran in 12 Southern states and was undertaken as part of a dual effort to consolidate wage gains won by the trade union movement in the Northern United States by raising wage levels in the South while simultaneously transforming the conservative politics of the region, thereby allowing the trade union agenda to win on a national scale.
- Organizing Immigrant Labour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
- Organizing Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
- Promoting your union
Six strategies to get more organizing leads and union members
Resource Type: Book
Promoting Your Union is a book to help union organizers get more organizing leads, create outreach plans to bring in new members and build the power of their unions. The ideas in this book are based on actual best practices from union organizers who are using these tactics in the field.
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation private while organizing textile workers at J.P. Stevens in North Carolina. When the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) offered her an organizing position in a small town in Virginia, Rankin, turned down the opportunity fearing isolation due to her sexual orientation.
- Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1968
- Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Talking About Organizing
A Series
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This is an active online archive of commentaries and stories, first published in Our Times, about the experience of union organizing: what works and what doesn't. It's also the place where you'll find Our Times' columnist Derek Blackadder's WebWork series archived -- articles about online resources for union activists.
- Tomato pickers win higher pay. Can other workers use their strategy?
Florida's tomato pickers took on some of the country's biggest retailers and fast-food chains - and won, transforming working conditions in
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Tactics like this protest outside Wendy's, repeated in cities across the country, have helped make the Coalition of Immokalee Workers one of the most successful worker organizations in the country. By applying pressure to corporations at the top of the supply chain, the big retailers and fast-food chains that buy tomatoes, the CIW has helped tens of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrant workers who pick the bulk of the nation’s winter tomato crop.
- Trade Union
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
Resource Type: Book
A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
- Two Days of Bargaining = New Agreement = Happiness!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
IAMAW Local Lodge 1295 members ratify new contract by 100% margin.
- The Winter of our Discontent
Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
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