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  1. The Accumulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1913
    Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
  2. Black Repartition
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Black Repartition (Chyornyi peredel; also known as Black Partition), Party of Socialists-Federalists, a revolutionary populist organization in Russia in the early 1880s.
  3. The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed.
  4. Enemies of the People
    How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.
  5. 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.
  6. Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
  7. Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
  8. Hugo Chávez and the Crisis of the Dependent Countries: Nationalism, Populism & Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    THE SMASHING ELECTORAL triumph of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez, previously imprisoned because of his participation in a failed military coup against the government of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez provoked diverse reactions and much confusion.
  9. The Menace of Right "Populism"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
  10. Not Your Father's Far Right
    Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
  11. The Organized Left and the Death of "Pragmatic" Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Shifting political winds are battering the establishment, as the breeze flows to the back of the populists. The left-populist Bernie Sanders didn't conjure the hurricane but adjusted his sails to it. As the political storm grows apace with rising income inequality, new social attitudes are bringing fresh expectations, transforming politics as we know it.
  12. Peril from the Right
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Many serious observers hold that the crisis in Europe has not come to an end. With the restructuring of the Greek national debt and the enlargement of the European Stability Mechanism, only time was bought, yet the fundamental problems of over-accumulation2 and the imbalances of the current accounts among the members of the Eurozone still persist.
  13. Populism
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Populism mixes elements of core political ideologies, like socialism, liberalism and neo-conservatism, opposition to powerful elites in public life, and advocacy of more real power for "the people." All populisms explain the distribution of power and operation of basic social institutions in terms of a fundamental antagonism between "the people" and "power elites."
  14. Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Is there any reason to think that Redneck Revolt and the new Rainbow Coalition will turn out differently from the People's Party? American history shows that any political group, left, right or center, that fails to challenge in practice the white community and the institutions and patterns that maintain it will reinforce an identity that has led countless potentially progressive movements to ruin and whose capacity to do harm is by no means exhausted -- no matter how vigorously it denounces “racism” and capitalism and how many coalitions it enters with non-whites. Simply put, white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so -- and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers.
  15. Right-Wing Populism in America
    Too Close for Comfort

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
  16. Slumming It At the Rodeo
    The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
  17. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  18. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  19. Socialist Register 2003
    Volume 39: Fighting Identities

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
  20. Victory in Stagnation?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    An analysis of the direction of the German left party, Die Linke, in the wake of the 2017 national elections.
  21. We need popular participation, not populism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.


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