- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- 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.
- Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- 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.
- 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.
- The American Class System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- 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.
- The American Worker
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A description and analysis of the lives of American factory workrers after the Second World War, written by a young autoworker.
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- Die "andere" Arbeiterbewegung und die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Repression von 1880 bis zur Gegenwart
Ein Beitrag zum Neuverständnis d. Klassengeschichte in Deutschland. Mit ausführl. Dokumentation zu Aufstandsbekämpfung, Werkschutz u.a.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
- Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A Canadian pamphlet with English translations of three articles originating with the Italian autonomist Marxist organization Lotta Continua.
- A Blueprint for a New Party
With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in working class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A proposal for a national political organization that would have chapters at the state and local levels, a binding program, a leadership accountable to its members, and electoral candidates nominated at all levels throughout the country.
- Book Review: The Condition of the Working Classes in England
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reveiw of Nicholas Comfort, Surrender: How British Industry Gave Up the Ghost, 1952–2012 (2012) and Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (2011).
- Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
- Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
- The British Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1940
- Build a Base in the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
- Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
- Burying the White Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda. The white working class is a zombie that doesn't know it's dead. Or if it's not fully zombified yet, its members are all too busy cleaning their AR-15s and posting racist comments on YouTube to vote for a progressive. That is, if they're not already on the Trump bandwagon, which they probably are. At least that's what the Democratic Party wants you to believe.
- 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.
- Can We Build a Progressive Future If We Dismiss a Large Part of the Working Class?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
It is hard to imagine a stable progressive future for our country with many millions of working-class Americans mobilized in angry opposition. At best this will create a political deadlock that frustrates possibilities for the lasting and radical reforms we so desperately need.
- The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
- The Canadian Labour Movement
A Short History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- 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
- Chavs
The Demonization of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
An analysis of Britain's working class and the sociopolitical attitudes regarding them.
- "Chavs", class and representation
A review of Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Chavs traces the rise of an offensive caricature of the working class: a racist hooligan, an alcoholic thug; women unable to control their vaginas, men unable to control their fists; brainless, feckless scroungers-working class people, as represented by the term chav, are nothing more than parasitic growths on society. Jones demonstrates how the figure of the chav is used to deflect blame away from the structures that create inequality onto individuals.
- China in Revolt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
- 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.
- The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 1: An Age Like This
Resource Type: Book
- Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 2: My Country Right or Left
Resource Type: Book
- The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 3: As I Please
Resource Type: Book
- The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4: 1945-1950
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- The Color of Politics
Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- 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.'
- 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.
- 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.
- The Condition of the Working Class in England
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Library: China Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
- A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Compilation and updates of many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. The author offers perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life.
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1859
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Down To Earth People
Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
- Dying for Growth
Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
Resource Type: Book
- Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management
Resource Type: Article
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
An account and interpretation of the writing of Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
- Essays in Canadian Working Class History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Book
Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- Facing Reality 45 Years Later
Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
- 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.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Farewell to the Working Class
An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Gorz argues that changes in science and technology have broken the power of industrial workers, especially skilled workers, and that, as a result, they are no longer central to the socialist project.
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- 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.
- For Workers' Climate Action
Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
- French New Working Class Theories
From Radical America April 1969
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Genocide by Prescription: The "Natural History" of the Declining White Working Class in America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of 'premature deaths' -- a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. This is the first time in the country's 'peacetime' history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline -- and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A biography of George Orwell.
- The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
- Glaberman, Martin
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
- Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
- A Guide to Working Class History
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A guide to resources about the history of working people in North America. The bulk of it is about the United States; the final section is on Canada.
- 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.
- Her Head a Village
and Other Stories
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
In her second book of short fiction, Silvera speaks of what it means to be Black, a woman and a lesbian.
- Here We Go Again, Trash-Talking The Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This column begins with a brief story about the author's two grandmothers who lived in trailer homes.
- The Hidden Injuries of Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- Hogtown
Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.
- 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.
- The Idea of May Day on the March
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1913
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
- Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
- Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
- International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
- 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.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- It's Our Own Knowledge
Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
Resource Type: Book
- Jews, Marxism and the Worker's Movement
Resource Type: Website
A subject index of texts from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Leon and Luxemburg; texts from the Jewish Socialist & Labor Movement and the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jews.
- Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
A Report by the Solidarity Center
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
- 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'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.
- Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
- The Labor Party's Pittsburgh Convention
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
BETWEEN NOVEMBER 13-15 in Pittsburgh, over 1400 delegates from six national unions, over two hundred local unions and thirty-nine chapters of the Labor Party met for its first Constitutional Convention. These delegates, representing trade union bodies whose memberships total over one million (and some thousands of party members), recommitted the LP to the comprehensive program adopted at the founding convention in Cleveland in 1996.
- Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
This volume presents lectures in 1983 and 1984 on the history of the Canadian working class.
- Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm's ecological revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Although scientists have been publishing on the viral consequences of deforestation for decades, Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency is the first publicly accessible book that connects pandemics, climate change, and capitalism.
- Lessons From the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Acuna tries not to romanticize the working class, but he considers them his teachers.
- 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.
- Letter from Marty Glaberman to Zerowork
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Martin Glaberman explains some of his criticism of the Zerowork journal.
- Liberty Against the Law
Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- 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 and Death After the Steel Mills
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world.
Steel mills were the economic backbone of many cities across the Midwest and Northeast until the 1980s. When the industry left, former workers not only took a hit economically -- they also felt displaced and suffered disillusionment and a loss of identity.
- Life in the Factory
Resource Type: Article
This pamphlet concerns itself with the life of the working class in the process of production. and seeks to understand what the workers are thinking and doing while actually at work on the bench or on the line. Romano, himself a factory worker, has contributed greatly to such an understanding by his description, based upon years of study and observation, of the life of workers in modern mass production.
- The Making of E.P. Thompson
Marxism, Humanism, and History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
This study is an analysis of E.P. Thompson's humanism and Marxism as they are woven throughout his politics, theory, and historical studies. Arguing against a "purely academic reading" of Thompson, Palmer examines the criticisms of Thompson's work and defends the view of history and human agency that leads to a politics of practice, rather than a politics of theory.
- 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.
- The Making of the English Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
- 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.
- Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Marx and the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Marx, from which this is extracted, painted a warts-and-all portrait which shatters all the romantic and orthodox-Marxist idealisations of the founder of modern communism, while leaving intact and perhaps clearer than ever, Marx’s essential humanist and critical insights into the trajectory of modernity.
- 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.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
- A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 55: The Making of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The development of capitalism entails two complementary processes. The first, explored in MHW 54, is competitive capital accumulation. The second, explored here, is the making – and continual re-making – of the working class.
- A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split.
- A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
- A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
- A Marxist History of the World part 92: The Great Boom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the first three decades after the war, the world economy experienced unprecedented growth rates and falling unemployment. But the boom rested on unstable foundations.
- 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.
- Marx's Theory of Working-Class Precariousness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In the last decade and a half the concept of worker precariousness has gained renewed currency among social scientists. This trend grew more pronounced after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2009, which left in its wake a period of deep economic stagnation that still persists in large parts of the global economy. Most scholars define precariousness by reference to what workers lack, including such factors as: ready access to paid employment, protection from arbitrary firing, possibility for advancement, long-term job stability, adequate safety, development of new skills, living wages, and union representation.
- 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."
- 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.
- Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
The Political Thought of Stan Weir
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
- Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Mineworkers of Guyana
The Making of a Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Written by a former worker who himself grew up on Alcan's Plantation Mackenzie bauxite mine in Guyana, this is a readable account of the life and history of a Third World working class. It throws new light on the constantly recurring themes of company exploitation, trade union democracy, and the limits of nationalization in transforming management-worker relations.
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In McDowell County -- the poorest county of West Virginia , people were open to, even preferred, a real alternative to Trump and Clinton.
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S. But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this "demographic" among political reporters and operatives.
- Modern Capitalism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
- Modern Politics
Resource Type: Book
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
- The myth of the reactionary white working class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This identity-based presentation of Tuesday's election is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
- New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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.
- A New Type of Political Organization?
The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- 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.
- The Newsletter #3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- 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.
- No Power Greater
A Century of Labour in British Columbia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
- Notebook of an Agitator
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
- Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally and socially -- upper-class African Americans can work and live almost anywhere if qualified -- much hasn’t changed for the working poor who are Black.
- On E.P. Thompson's Legacy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In a tribute to E.P. Thompson, Cohen gives insights into his work "The Making of the English Working Class" regarding its valuable focus on the self-activity and self-organization of the people.
- On Roediger's Wages of Whiteness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
An extended discussion and critique of David Roediger's book Wages of Whiteness. Allen writes: "David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, because of its almost universal acceptance for use in colleges and universities, has served as the single most effective instrument in the socially necessary consciousness-raising function of objectifying 'whiteness,' and in popularizing the 'race-as-a-social-construct' thesis. As one who has been the beneficiary of kind supportive comments from him for my own efforts in this field of historical investigation, I undertake this critical essay with no other purpose than furthering the our common aim of the disestablishment of white identity, and the overthrow of white supremacism in general."
- On the First International
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- On to Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
- 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.
- On workplace organisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.
- Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
- Organizing for Workers' Power
Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofri of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, with an introduction by militants in southern Ontario.
- Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
The newly found "poor" have become a focus for middle class activists. Having learned in the schools and universities that the working class either did not exist or that if it existed, it was co-opted and apathetic and could not possible act as the agent for social change, they found it "refreshing" to locate this new constituency.
- 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 - April 9, 2016
Corporate Crime
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. Yet all too often corporations break the law and engage in criminals acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
There are movements demanding that corporations be held accountable for their crimes in a serious way, and, specifically, that corporate executives should face jail time when the corporation they are in charge of engage in behaviour that causes death, injury, and illness. Our topic of the week for this issue of Other Voices is Corporate Crime, and a number articles, as well as a book, a film, and a website, explore aspects of the problem.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- Out of the Driver's Seat
Marxism in North America Today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
- OWS and the working class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As frustrating as this may sound to the left, who are justifiably excited over a revival of radical politics, many workers cannot see the movement’s relevancy to their own lives, yet still feel the pangs of the crisis perhaps more painfully than most.
- Pain on Their Faces
Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
An accourt of an epic struggle by workers and their community against a powerful and aggressive corporation -- a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company in Jay, Maine, in 1987-88. Over 40- testimonies by strikers and their supporters explain in their own words the significance of this struggle for themselves, their families, their community and future generations.
- Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Anton Pannekoek and Herman Gorter were leading spokespersons for 'council communism.' They argued for the primacy of workers' own organizations, defending their importance agains the parliamentarists and Bolsheviks who saw in the party the nub of working-class organization, and against the anarchists who saw anathema in all organization. This volume contains represenative texts by Pannekoek and Goter, with an introduction by the editor.
- Pannekoek's "The Party and the Working Class"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1941
- 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.
- Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy – the poultry industry – we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
- Plunderbund and Proletariat
A History of the IWW in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
- Pocket History of the British Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
A brief history of the British working class.
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
- 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.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- 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.
- Quotes about Labour and Unions
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Race and Class
Introduction to the February 12, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Class conflict -- first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race.
- Racism, capitalism and contradictions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Workers under capitalism have a dual existence: both as collective producers struggling against capital for control of the workplace, for hours and wages, but also workers compete as each other.
- Racism in Asia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Racism in Asia exists for similar reasons that racism elsewhere exists, with roots in events that have happened anywhere from thousands of years ago to the present.
- Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Rethinking Canada's Left History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
- Recast Dreams
Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown
Resource Type: Book
- Red City, Blue Period
Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- A Red Metamorphosis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The following essay has been written and published in response to increasing requests from researchers for information on the background and development of historian Terry Irving and his approach to history.
- Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
- Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class
Torchbook Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A study of Cuban workers after consolidation of the Castro regime.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1937
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.
- 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.
- 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."
- Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
- 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.
- A Seventh Man
A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
- A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A history of how labour and working-class groups have been alienated or disserviced by the major US political parties, particularly by liberal policies which are primarily aligned with business interests.
- Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
- Social and Sexual Revolution
Essays on Marx and Reich
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
A collection of essays by Bertell Ollman. Ollman tackles issues such as Karl Marx's concepts of class, class consciousness, and communism; he argues for the absorption of Wilhelm Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and he dicusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying its central purpose as an instrument of class struggle.
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- The Socialist Register 1964
Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1964
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1968
- The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- The Socialist Register 1975
Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
- The Socialist Register 1978
Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- The Socialist Register 1981
Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- The Socialist Register 1983
Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1996
- Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
- Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
- Soviets in Italy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Articles which Antonio Gramsci wrote for the weekly Turin journal Ordine Nuovo during 1919 and 1920.
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Steel Strike
Hamilton 1946
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- Strikes, List of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
- Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Syriza and Sanders: "Just Say 'No'" to Neo-liberalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Hopes for Syriza's negotiations with the banking troika in the EU simmered and even boiled over among elements of the left, especially after the vaunted "No" referendum vote suggested that the Greeks would not succumb to another wave of austerity measures but would instead stand firm, even if this meant potentially leaving the EU. We have seen these hopes dashed by the subsequent "negotiations," in which Tsipras seemed to have negotiated backwards, arriving at an agreement that was worse than the one rejected by the Greek voters in the referendum vote.
- A Tale of Two Offices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
- The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Resource Type: Website
The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- Technology, the Labor Process, and the Working Class
Monthly Review July-August 1976
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Theories of Patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The most persistent and widespread theory around the women’s movement today is that of patriarchy. This is justified by pointing to the existence of women’s oppression in societies other than those of western capitalism.
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
- Trade Union
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- 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.
- 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.
- The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
"Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
- The 24 hour day: women, work and class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Movements of women, as well as those involving large numbers of women, will increasingly be features of resistance to neoliberalism. The extent to which they succeed will be the extent to which they are able to challenge the class basis of neoliberalism, and its consequences.
- Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Essays on the history of working men and women from the late 18th to the late twentieth century discussing British working class traditions, political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, peasants and politics, revolution, sex and jazz.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unity brings strength
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
- The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
- The Uses of Literacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1957
In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- What is Class Consciousness?
PUblished as October 1971 issue of Liberation magazine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Critical of what he saw as mainstream Marxism's overly materialistic explanations, Reich proposes the perspectives of psychology and psychotherapy could revitalise radical political thought and the socialist movement.
- What Is Important?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams's 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A book review on White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Written By Joan C. Williams).
- Whose side are you on? The mundane decline of labour history
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The following polemical intervention by Humphrey McQueen is published as a contribution to understanding the nature, and practice, of radical history.
- Why environmentalists must support workers' struggles
Global Capitalism is the Real Enemy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
This is to specifically address class struggle as it relates to the ecological crisis. It will not address all the other (many!) reasons that working class struggle must be waged and supported.
- Why the Industrial Working Class Still Matters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
It is evident today that the vast majority of the population (perhaps 80% of the workforce) live and reproduce themselves only through wage-labor that produces surplus value, regardless of the nature of the commodity (good or service) they produce. Whatever the changing weight of the industrial sector of this enormous, working majority, it is clear that the working class as a whole is proportionately far larger today than at the time of classical Marxist writers.
- Why the Working Class?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the centre of socialist politics.
- Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying "Deaths of Despair"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Franklin examines the reasons behind the steadily growing mortality rates for working-class white Americans, which he attributes to both workplace hazards and mental illness resulting from joblessness, poverty, and despair.
- William Morris
From Romantic to Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
Resource Type: Book
- Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
- Workers Against the Monolith
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
How the so-called Communist parties became forces of order and counter-revolution.
- The workers' government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a ‘left’ government within the existing parliamentary set-up.
- Workers Hold the Keys
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
- Workers Hold the Keys
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An interview with Vivek Chibber.
- Workers of America, Unite! Racism is a Trade Union Issue
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The American working class is the most powerful in the world, is the most productive in the world and we operate the largest and most profitable economy in the world. American workers are also represented by national unions that have the most resources, the biggest staffs and the largest bank accounts, greater than any other trade unions in the world. Yet, without question, American labour is politically the weakest in the world among the large economies, largely because we remain so violently divided.
- Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
- The Working Class and Social Change
Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- 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.
- Working Class Movement Must Be Independent
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A new chapter in the history of the South African working class was opened in Soweto on 21-22 July 2018, when representatives from over 147 South African working-class formations represented by 1000 delegates assembled to unite workplace and community struggles.
- The Working Class: Saskatchewan's Political Orphan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
We all suffer from the absence of working class politics. We are smothered in the business-oriented, neoliberal 'consensus' instructing us to reconcile ourselves to 'the new reality' -- rollbacks in social welfare and universal publicly funded programs; huge tax cuts to business and the rich, driving up public debt and enriching finance capitalism; an end to secure employment and guaranteed benefits; surrendering our dreams of home ownership unless we are prepared to accept a lifetime of debt enslavement; a future of uncertainty and endless personal struggle to sustain ourselves and our children. Flippant commentators now tell us the proletariat has been replaced by 'the precariat', and this will define the future of this new capitalism.
- Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The working class, trade unions and the left: the contours of resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Vernell talks about the attacks of the British government to stabilise capitalism, as well as the response of the working class.
- Working Hours
Resource Type: Article
In this article written around 1972, Guido Viale, a member of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, discusses the struggle for less work and shorter hours.
- Working People
An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
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