1. 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.
2. Against the Tide
   The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. The Alberta Teachers' Association
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. All That Our Hands Have Done
   A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
5. 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.
6. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
7. ATS Ratifies First Agreement with Machinists!
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   First collective agreement for 65 ramp and aircraft grooming workers at Calgary International Airport.
8. BCNU thanks nurses for convincing the provincial government to sign Bill 18 into law
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Enabling Licensed Practical Nurses to join other nurses in the same bargaining association will improve patient care by maximizing efficiencies and collaboration among nurses and with employers.
9. 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?
10. Beyond the Fields
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
11. The Big Lie About the Tax Bill: Why Bosses Will Never Raise Wages
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The big lie underlying the $1.5-trillion Trump/Republican Congressional tax bill is that Corporations will pass much of it on to workers in the form of higher wages, and to consumers in the form of lower prices.
12. Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
    Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
13. Break Their Haughty Power
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
    
14. BC Nurses' Union
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
15. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
16. The Business Page
    How To Read It and Understand the Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    
18. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    
19. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
20. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
21. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
22. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
23. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
24. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
25. The Canadian Left
    A Critical Analysis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
26. Canadian Union of Public Employees
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. Chalk River Machinists Sign New Deal with A.E.C.L.
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    70 Machinists ratify new three-year deal with AECL.
30. Challenging Unions
    Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
31. Chinese Workers' Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 111
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
32. Christian Labour Association of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
33. The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
    Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Steve Early explains why and how the 2008-2010 battles within the progressive wing of the U.S. labour movement occurred.
34. 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.
35. Class Struggle at the Waistline
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
36. Close the 49th Parallel Etc
    The Americanization of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
37. Collective Bargaining Course Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
38. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    With the ultimate aim of combatting racism within the labour movement, the Cross Cultural Communication Centre, under the auspices of the Humber Collage for Labour Studies, ran a ten-week, 30 hour pilot course entitled 'Work Racism and Labour.'
39. Common Sense for Hard Times
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
40. Confederation of Canadian Unions
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
41. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
42. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
43. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
44. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
45. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
46. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
47. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
48. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
49. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
50. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
51. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
52. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
53. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
54. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
55. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
    
56. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
    
57. 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
    
58. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
59. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    
60. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
    
61. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
62. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
63. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
64. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
65. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
66. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
67. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
68. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
69. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
70. 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.
71. CUPW 1981: Mother's Rights, Union Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    
72. Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
73. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
74. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
75. Doubling Down in Atlantic City
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
76. E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
    Communications in the public interest
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
77. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
78. Eugene V. Debs Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
79. The Exploitation Explosion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
80. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
81. Fairfield Workers Ratify First Agreement!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Hotel workers ratify first collective agreement.
82. Falling Behind
    The State of Working Canada, 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
83. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
84. The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
    Jeremy Brecher
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
85. Frequently Asked Questions about Workers Solidarity Alliance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    
86. General Strike France 1968
    A factory-by-factory account
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
87. Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
88. 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
89. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
90. Governments Must Act for Sustainable and Equitable Recovery
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    On this May Day, Global Unions call on governments to assume their responsibilities and join together to end the crisis. They need to create decent, sustainable jobs and stand up for the rights of people at work.
91. Gramsci & Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    In a polemic against the syndicalists, Antonio Gramsci argued that the syndicalists were wrong in maintaining that unions were capable of being organs of workers' revolution. He said this confused a marketing organization of labor within capitalism -- the trade unions -- with an organization for running production in a socialized economy -- the workers councils. Because the function of a union is to affect the terms and conditions of the sale of labor to the employers, he argued, it is an organization specific to a capitalist society.
92. The Great Transformation
    The political and economic origins of our time
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
93. 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.
94. Hospital Employees' Union
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
95. How to Keep Union Records
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    
96. How to Make Union Meetings Interesting and Useful
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Meetings should give members a sense of power by bringing them together. They can see and feel that they are not alone, that others have similar problems, and that others have found solutions. They can learn from each other, combine ideas, and build something bigger.
97. IAM Expands at Vancouver International!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Machinists union attracts new members at Vancouver International Airport.
98. IAM Welcomes NIU Members to the Family!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    IAM Welcomes 200 new members in North Bay.
99. IAMAW Pursues Potential Aveos Investors!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Union takes on leading role in finding solution to closure of Aveos Fleet Performance Inc in Montreal, Winnipeg, Mississauga and Vancouver affecting 2600 jobs.
100. 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.
101. An Injury to All
     The Decline of American Unionism
     Resource Type: Book
     The author, a union organizer and activist, details the decline of the American union movement.
102. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
103. International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1989
     
104. 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.
105. 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.
106. Labour Left Out
     Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2006
     
107. Labour Martyr: Joe Hill
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1972
     The story of the rebel songwriter and union activst Joe Hill, who was murdered by the state of Utah in 1915.
108. The Labor Wars
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
109. 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.
110. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
     Great Cities of North America Since 1600
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1996
     An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
111. 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."
112. 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.
113. Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
     Resource Type: Article
     Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
114. Machinists Ink New Deal with Dettson!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     New deal with a new employer - makes all the right moves, creates joint labour relations commitee and reactivates Health and Safety Committee.
115. Machinists make Significant Gains at Kal Tire!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Workers at Kal Tire in Sparwood BC make significant financial gains in new 3-year deal. These workers repair damaged truck tires for the mining industry. The tires valued at $100,000 each can have there lifespan expanded by 20% with these repairs!
116. Machinists Ratify First Agreement with Empire Living!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     IAMAW answers concerns of retirement home workers in new contract. Workers wanted seniority provisions when they joined the IAMAW in February 2011. This new agreement delivered on that promise!
117. Machinists Ratify New Deal with Bolger Steel!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     Machinists sign four-year deal with Bolger Steel in Cornwall Ontario.
118. Machinists Ratify New Deal with Hobart!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Contract language improvements, increased pension contributions by the employer and new weekend shifts highlight this agreement
119. Machinists ratify with Bombardier CTM!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Machinists members sign six year deal with aviation tube maker Bombardier CTM
120. Machinists Take Air Canada to Court!/Union says company breached Air Canada Public Participation Act
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Air Canada's largest union - IAMAW take the company to court to breaching the Air Canada Public Participation Act - tied to compasny decision to sell off aircraft overhaul centres in Montreal, Winnipeg and Mississauga - job loss 3200!
121. 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.
122. Marxism and the Trade Unions
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1970
     Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
     
123. 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.
124. Marxists Internet Archive
     Resource Type: Website
     Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
125. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1906
     Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
126. 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.
127. 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.
128. 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.
129. National Union of Public and General Employees
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
130. New Classifications and Language Highlight Burrard Deal!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Two new classifications and two long overdue language changes to disciplinary clauses are the higjhlights of this agreement.
131. New Internationalist
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
132. 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.
133. News and Letters
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
134. The Newsletter
     Periodical profile
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1974
     Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
135. 1998 Directory of Labour Organizations in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1998
     
136. 1997 Directory of Labour Organizations in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1997
     A compilation of unions, union memberships, congresses and other labour organizations.
137. Ninety-Nine Days
     The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1995
     
138. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2002
     Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
139. Nurses union convention kicks off Tuesday morning (March 5)
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     More than 400 nurses from around the province will be gathering at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver starting tomorrow (March 5) for the annual convention of the BC Nurses' Union.
     
140. Obsolete Communism
     The Left-Wing Alternative
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1969
     An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
141. On the Trade Unions
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1969
     
142. On Unions and the Class Struggle
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1973
     Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
     
143. Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
144. Ontario Nurses' Association
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
145. 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.
146. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
     Labour Day issue
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2015
     Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
147. Our Generation
     Volume 4 Number 3
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1966
     
148. Our Generation
     Volume 6 Number 3
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1969
     
149. Our Generation
     Volume 8 Number 4
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1972
     
150. Our Generation
     Volume 11 Number 4
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     
151. Our Generation
     Volume 13 Number 12
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     
152. Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
     All About Unions in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1987
     A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
153. 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.
154. Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1975
     Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
155. The Principles of Revoltuionary Unionism
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1922
     Adopted at the Berlin Congress of Revolutionary Unionist organizations, 1922.
156. 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.
     
157. 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.
158. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
159. Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1972
     
160. Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2014
     Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
161. Raising the Workers' Flag
     The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2012
     A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
162. Rank and File
     Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
163. Renewal through Strike
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Strikes are a major means of trade union self-assertion. A closer look at strikes in Germany reveals interesting trends and developments, indicating new approaches to trade union strategies and practices.
164. The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
     A Case Study of Foreign Domination
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1982
     
165. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1970
     
166. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1971
     
167. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #6
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1975
     
168. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2004
     A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
169. 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.
170. Social Reform or Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1908
     Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
171. 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.
172. The Socialist Register 1973
     Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1973
     
173. The Socialist Register 1976
     Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1976
     
174. The Socialist Register 1982
     Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1982
     
175. The Socialist Register 1987
     Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1987
     
176. Socialist Register 1991
     Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1991
     
177. Socialist Register 1996
     Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1996
     
178. Socialist Register 2013
     Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2013
     This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
179. Society of Energy Professionals
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
180. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2006
     South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
181. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1973
     A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
     
182. The State of the World Atlas
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1981
     
183. The Statutes of Revolutionary Unionism (IWA)
     Resource Type: Article
     
184. 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.
185. Sweat and Struggle
     Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
186. Swissport Ottawa ratifies New Agreement!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     IAMAW members in Ottawa ratify new agreement with Swissport by 95% Margin.
187. They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
     Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
188. Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2015
     Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
189. Torkin Manes’ Associates Take to the Streets to Help the Homeless
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     From May 29 to June 2, the associates of Torkin Manes LLP are delivering food and clothing to homeless people throughout the city from 6:00 pm to midnight through the Canadian Jewish humanitarian and relief organization Ve’ahavta.
190. Toronto's Poor
     A Rebellious History
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2916
     Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
191. Trade Union
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     
192. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1968
     An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence.
193. Trade Unions: International Solidarity in Action
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     International solidarity can be understood as cooperation between trade-union organisations that, by their nature, share the same objectives because they represent the workers of their countries. It takes on a special importance when the workers are employed by the same multinational company or in the same worldwide type of industry.
194. Trade Unions: The Difficult Path to Solidarity in One's Own Interest
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     In both the ideals and the rhetoric of trade unions international solidarity plays a major role. Trade union practice, however, is first and foremost focused on the context of those nation-states, in which they were able to achieve their most important victories in the 20th century. It is those achievements within the national framework which are being undermined with the help of the EU and its institutions.
195. 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.
196. 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.
197. The Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1907
     To be sure, revolutions and revolutionary struggles cannot be transplanted artificially, by means of ‘good intentions’, into a country. But the examples and lessons of a neighbouring revolutionary country can at least shake the belief that treading softly is the only method of achieving bliss. And well they should.
198. Unions Against Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Unions -- as well as employers -- stand in the way of workers' political freedom. Labour militants who become union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet's second essay, John Zerzan documents "The Revolt Against Work."
199. Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1972
     The tightly knit structures of the big industrial unions leave no room for maneuvering. There is no reasonable way in which young workers can use the union constitution to overturn and overhaul the union structure. The constitution is against them; the money and jobs available to union bureaucrats are against them. And if these fail, the forces of law and order of city, state and federal governments are against them. If that were not enough, the young workers in the factories today are expressing the instinctive knowledge that even if they gained control of the unions and reformed them completely, they would still end up with unions - organizations which owe their existence to capitalist relations of productions.
200. Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
     Resource Type: Article
     Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
201. United Nurses of Alberta
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
202. U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1992
     A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
203. Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2017
     On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
204. Waterous Workers See the Light and Join the Machinists!
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Machinists expand their membership at Waterous Power Systems as parts and service personnel join Local Lodge 1722
205. What's left of Pakistan's left?
     For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form.
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2017
     Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured.
206. What's the Matter With That Union Boss?
     The Real Yes Men
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
207. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1973
     The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
     
208. Why Bosses Hate Unions
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2015
     Unions vastly improve the wages and working conditions of their members. No wonder they're still under attack.
209. Why Workplace "Accidents" Happen
     Safety Costs Money
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Many industrial and manufacturing companies resort to almost any means (some of them not entirely legal) to dissuade employees from joining a union because besides having to offer higher wages and improved benefits (and giving employees a voice in how they’re treated by management), they are required to provide a safe work environment. Safety costs money and every company is interested in saving money.
210. Women's Trade Union League
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
211. Workers in a lean world: unions in the international economy
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2016
     In a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of contemporary labour relations on a global scale.
212. Working Class Experience
     Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1992
     From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
213. The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
     Low-Level Insurgencies
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2014
     The start of the twenty-first century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.
214. Workmates: direct action workplace organising on the London Underground
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     An online pamphlet detailing resistance in the late 1990s by London Underground employees to outsourcing via a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. Workers organized outside the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) to form a new collective, dubbed the Workmates.
215. Year of the Strike
     A Short Story
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     A short story about a boy's money-making scheme during the year his father and other workers go on strike at the town glass factory.

Experts on Unions in the Sources Directory

1. African Union
2. Central American Integration System
3. History & Policy
4. Hospital Employees' Union
5. International Labor Rights Forum
6. Marxists Internet Archive
7. Ontario Nurses' Association