1. Age of Extremes
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
2. Amadeo Bordiga and the Myth of Antonio Gramsci
   Chiaradia, John
   Resource Type: Book
   Looking at the conflicting roles of Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci in the history of the Italian Communist Left in the years between 1912 and 1926.
3. American Communism and Soviet Russia
   The Formative Period
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1986
   A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
4. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1969
   Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
5. Art and Aesthetics on the Left
   An interview with Andrew Hemingway
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Andrew Hemingway is an art historian and Professor Emeritus at University College London. His books include Artists on the Left. American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926-1956 (Yale University Press, 2002) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
6. 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.
7. A Better World: Programme of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
   Resource Type: Article
   The actual lives and actions of people themselves reveal a deep-seated belief in the possibility and even the certainty of a better future.
8. The Black Belt Communists
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   During the Great Depression, black sharecroppers and the Communist Party waged war against tenant farming in the South.
9. The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control
   The State and Counter-Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   A pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization.
10. Canada: The Communist Viewpoint
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1948
    Tim Buck, the national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, sets out the Communist position on the big questions of Canada's destiny.
11. The Chairman's New Clothes
    Mao and the Cultural Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    Analyzes the Chinese "cultural revolution" as a power struggle through which Mao Zedong sought to regain control of the party.
12. 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.
13. The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919 - 1929
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Author documents the positive contribution of the Comintern (Communist International) in its early revolutionary years and its decline under Stalin.
14. The Communist International and U.S. Communism
    1919 - 1929
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    For most commentators the Comintern's role in the development of American Communism is wholly negative. Zumoff challenges this narrative.
15. Communist League
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
16. The Communist League
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of Terms
    Resource Type: Article
    On the meeting of the Communist League in June 1847.
17. A Communist Life
    Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985
    Resource Type: Book
    Jack Scott's experiences from joining the Communist Party of Canada to founding the Canada-China Friendship Association in the early 1960s.
18. 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.
    
19. The Communist Party in Canada
    A History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A history of the Communist Party in Canada from its beginnings to the 1970s.
20. Communist Party of Canada
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A political party in Canada.
21. Communist Workers International
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.
22. Communists on Wall Street
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    Eurocommunism in practice.
23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
24. The Constitution of the Communist Party of China
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
25. Critique of the Gotha Programme
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1875
    Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
26. Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
27. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
28. Dilemmas of Third World Communism
    The Destruction of the PKI in Indonesia
    Resource Type: Book
    Dilemmas of Third World Communism is a study of the Indonesian Communist Party that aims to answer more general questions about the difficulties, and even defeats, encountered by so many left-wing movements in the Third World. Olle Tornquist argues that one fundamental reason for the Indonesian military's successful destruction of the Party lay in the Party's failure to analyze the nature of the post-colonial capitalist society that was emerging.
29. A Documentary History of Communism, Volume 2
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
    
30. Documents of the Fourth International
    The Formative Years (1933-1940)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Documents from conferences of the Left Opposition and its successors leading up to the founding conference of the Fourth International.
31. Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Essasys on capitalism, class struggle, communism, Leninism, and ultra-leftism.
32. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
33. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
34. 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.
    
35. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
36. Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
37. From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    Among the innumerable questions raised by the fate of the Russian Revolution, two form the poles around which we may organise all the others. The first question is: What kind of society was produced by the degeneration of the revolution? (What is the nature and the dynamic of this regime? What is the Russian bureaucracy? What is its relation to capitalism and to the proletariat? What is its place in history? What are its present problems?)
38. From Lenin to Stalin
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
39. From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Parliaments are becoming increasingly empty trappings: the parties are collapsing, destroying one another, and losing their political credibility: the trade unions are changing into ruins. The breakdown of this organisational and political system all along the line is inevitable.
40. A German Lenin?
    Book Review of "In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi" edited by David Fernbach
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of the compiled writings of Paul Levi, a leading figure in the German Communist movement.
41. Germany 1921: The March Action
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1964
    The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
42. Gesprache Mit Marx und Engels
    Resource Type: Book
    
43. The God That Failed
    Resource Type: Book
    
44. Gramsci's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
45. 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.
46. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
47. 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."
48. 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.
49. Homage to Catalonia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1938
    George Orwell's account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
50. Hungary 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    
51. 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.
52. In Defense of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    
53. International Communism in the Era of Lenin
    A Documentary History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
54. 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.
55. John Reed Clubs and Proletarian Art - Part I
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The writings of Marx and Engels provide no support for the idea, frequently associated with Marxism, that the movement of the working class to emancipate itself from capitalism and build a classless society requires a proletarian or revolutionary art as an aid to its struggles.
56. Jurassic Park in France: The Return of the French Communist Party and the Melenchon Phenomenon
    An Interview with Yves Coleman
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    For the moment what preoccupies working class people in France is not so much the next elections but the euro crisis and the massive layoffs postponed by the bosses and the Right until after the elections.
57. 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.
58. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
59. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
60. Left-wing internationals, list of
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
61. Leon Trotsky Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Trotsky's speeches.
62. The Little Band
    The Clashes Between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928-1932
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
63. The Mackenzie - Papineau Battalion
    Canadian Participation in the Spanish Civil War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    The story of over twelve hundred Canadians who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
64. Main Currents of Marxism
    Volume 3: The Breakdown
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Kolakowski examines the origins and development of Stalinism, as well as the contributions of Trotsky, Gramsci, Lukacs, Marcuse, and others, and traces developments in Marxism it period after the Second World War.
65. Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
    
66. Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1920
    Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
    
67. 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.
68. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
69. The Mass Psychology of Fascism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
70. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
71. The Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China
    Resource Type: Book
    
72. 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.
73. On the First International
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
74. An Opposing Man
    The Autobiography of a Romantic Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    The memoirs on Ernst Fischer, a socialist literary and art critic.
75. The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1921
    Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
    
76. Our Path: Against Putschism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1921
    If a Communist Party is to be built up again in Germany, then the dead of central Germany, Hamburg, the Rhineland, Baden, Silesia and Berlin, not to mention the many thousands of prisoners who have fallen victim to this Bakuninist lunacy, all demand in the face of the events of the last week: “Never again!”
77. 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.
78. The Platform of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
    
79. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
80. 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.
81. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
82. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
83. 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.
    
84. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
85. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
86. Revolution.international
    Resource Type: Website
    Web resources on revolutionary politics and revolution.
87. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
88. The Romance of American Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
89. Russia in Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
90. Russia in Revolution 1900-1930
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    A portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval.
91. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
92. Situationist International Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
93. The Socialist Register 1967
    Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1967
    
94. The Socialist Register 1970
    Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    
95. The Socialist Register 1975
    Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1975
    
96. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
97. The Socialist Register 1978
    Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
98. The Socialist Register 1982
    Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
99. The Socialist Register 1988
    Volume 24: Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
    
100. Socialist Register 1994
     Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1994
     
101. Socialist Register 1995
     Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1995
     
102. Socialist Register 1997
     Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1997
     
103. Soviet Russia Masters the Comintern
     International Communism in the Era of Stalin's Ascendancy
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     A documentary history.
104. Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1976
     
105. Steel Strike
     Hamilton 1946
     Resource Type: Book
     
106. 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.
107. The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     A collection of Leon Trotsky's writings on the situation in Germany from 1930 to 1940. From 1930 on Trotsky sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Germany, and warned that the policies of the Communist Party and the Social Democrats were likely to lead to disaster. He urged a common front, mobilizing the German working class regardless of party affiliation, against the Nazis.
108. Sweat and Struggle
     Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
109. 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.
     
110. Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1920
     Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
     
111. Third International (Comintern)
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
112. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1938
     Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
     
113. Trotsky
     A Documentary
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1972
     An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.
114. The Un-Canadians
     True Stores of the blacklist Era
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1992
     Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
115. The Unperfect Society
     Beyond the New Class
     Resource Type: Book
     
116. A Veteran Communist Speaks
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
117. Workers Opposition
     Solidarity London Pamphlet
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1968
     Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
118. Working Class Communism
     A Review of the Literature
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     
119. Yours in the Struggle
     Reminiscences of Tim Buck
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1997
     Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.

Experts on Communist Movement & Parties in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive