- Bound By Power
Intended Consequences
Resource Type: Book
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
- Canadian State Trials
Volume One: Law, Politics and Security Measures, 1608-1837
Resource Type: Book
This series of essays explores the role of the law in regulating perceived threats of military invasion, violent protest, disaffection, etc.
- The Chatto Book of Dissent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Chronicles of Dissent
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Dismantling Democracy
Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
- Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- The Future Belongs to the Blasphemers
A message from ex-Muslims to mark International Blasphemy Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Some people believe that disagreeing with deeply held beliefs is hate. It is not. I want to remind you that many of the most powerful ideas, ideas that changed our world were once heretical. I want to remind you that many of the most radical thinkers and reformists in past eras were blasphemers against the established order of their day.
- Gag Rule
On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
- Germany East
Dissent and Opposition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
An overview of oppositional movements in East Germany, ranging from the 1953 insurrection to the oppositional movements of the 1908s.
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
- Libel Law is dangerous
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
- A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
- News and Dissent
The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
- The Origin of America's Intellectual Vacuum
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A profile of Chandler Davis, a blacklisted mathematician who served six months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- The Other Israel
Voices of Refusal and Dissent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- Our Generation
Volume 21 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US.
- Profiles in Dissent
The Shaping of Radical Thought in the West
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.
- The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
- The Saddled Cow
East Germany's Life and Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
After exclusive interviews with adherents and opponents of the state, the author describes East Germany's recent history.
- Secularist Center for Inquiry Delivers Statement to UN Opposing "Defamation of Religions" Resolution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Center for Inquiry (CFI), a secularist think tank and NGO has delivered a statement strongly opposing the proposed "Combating the Defamation of Religions" resolution backed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Speaking the truth to Jews
Resource Type: Article
Many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy are blanketed as attacks on Israel's right to self-defense and therefore as attacks on Israel's right to exist and, therefore themselves as anti-Semitic.
- Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
- Will the government's counter-extremist programme criminalise dissent?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies - from nursery schools to optometrists - will be legally obliged to participate in the U.S. government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Under the fast-tracked Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, schools, universities and health service providers can no longer opt out of monitoring students and patients for supposed radicalised behaviour.
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