1. Activism Under Attack
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   What does it say about democracy in Canada when people can be singled out, arrested, jailed, and kept out of a public place at the arbitrary whim of political organizers or police?
2. 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.
3. And Then They Came For Me
   Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
4. The Approaching Storm
   One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Nora Waln, a Quaker journalist, chronicles her experience living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. During those four years, she took covert notes, bearing witness to the rise of Hitler.
5. Banned Books
   Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   
6. Basic and Surplus Repression in Psychoanalytic Theory
   Freud, Reich and Marcuse
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   
7. Big Oil's Ethical Violence
   BP and the Armed Suppression of Dissent in Colombia
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   To challenge impunity is not just to attempt to confine abuses to the past. It serves to expose crimes committed, to preserve memory of the past within the present, and to highlight contradictions between corporate recognition of rights and an economic model that has implied the systematic violation and dispossession of workers and populations around the oilfields. It is part of a process of re-building communities and social organisations wiped out by the violence.
8. Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resistance in the face of Israeli attempts to crush it.
9. Bilin's Mohammad Khatib arrested
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in another in a series of raids that Israeli occupation forces have carried out in Bil#in since June 2009, raids that commenced in tandem to the commencement of legal proceedings in Canada.
10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    
11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
12. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
13. Chinese Workers' Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 111
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
14. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
15. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    
16. Coming Back to Life
    Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
17. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
18. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
19. 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."
20. 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.
    
21. 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
22. Five journalists get ten-year jail terms in Burma for 'violating state secrets'
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In the latest in a series of reverses for media freedom in Burma, a court in the central region of Magway today sentenced five newspaper journalists to ten years in prison with hard labour on charges of violating state secrets.
23. The Freudian Left
    Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
24. 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.
25. Gestapo
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
26. Government Spying Aims to Silence Us
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    What the ruling class is aiming at, with these occasional "leaks" about its spying on us, is not so much to collect information about us but rather to make us feel so totally spied upon that we will be afraid to do or say anything we know the government doesn't want us to do or say.
27. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
28. Honduran political murder
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    
29. How the Government Secretly Demanded the IP Address of Every Visitor to Political News Site Indymedia.us
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Secrecy surrounds law enforcement's communications surveillance practices like a dense fog. Particularly shrouded in secrecy are government demands issued under 18 U.S.C. § 2703 of the Stored Communications Act or "SCA" that seek subscriber information or other user records from communications service providers.
30. A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Peter Dahlin tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People's Republic of China, where he spent 23 days in a 'black prison' in Beijing and was deprived of sleep and questioned with a 'communication enhancement' machine.
31. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
32. IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
33. India - Now Nuclear and Environmental Dissent is a Crime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In modern India any form of dissent from the neoliberal corporate model of development is being criminalised. Opponents of nuclear power, coal mines, GMOs, giant dams, are all under attack as enemies of the state and a threat to economic growth.
34. The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
35. Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own.
36. 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.
37. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
38. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
    Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
39. 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.
40. The mass graves of Kashmir
    India's dirty war unmasked
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
41. Montreal spends $110,000 on private lawyers to fight challenge to anti-protest bylaw
    There's room for austerity around everything except repression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    As the city of Montreal tightens its belt-buckle and is cutting budgets, two Montrealers who are challenging the city's regulations around demonstrations are questioning the amount of resources the city is putting in to defend the bylaws.
42. Myth of a Repressed Memory
    False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    An expose of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Good experimental evidence shows that false memories can easily be implanted.
43. The Narco News Bulletin
    Resource Type: Website
    Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
44. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
45. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
46. New report details 'brutal' Israeli policies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The first bullet struck 16-year-old Samir Awad in his left leg. He staggered away as fast as he could, but was too slow. A second round slammed into his left shoulder, exiting from the right side of his chest. Then, moments later, a third bullet penetrated the back of his skull and exited from his forehead.
47. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
48. Only Poetry Can Address Grief
    Moving Forward after 911
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    A guide for global justice activism in the face of increased repression and potential public opposition.
49. The Party of Eros
    Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    King looks at radical theorists -- Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown -- who have attempted to deal with the intersections of eros and power.
50. Penal transportation
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
51. 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.
52. The Politics of Nonviolent Action
    Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
53. The Politics of the Family
    The 1968 Massey Lectures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Laing makes the case that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential, and instead accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.
54. Pornography and the Sexual Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1961
    
55. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The War Series, Part II, 1942-1945
    Resource Type: Book
    This volume completes the series of Security Bulletins for World War II, discussing security concerns and underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
56. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The Depression Years, Part I, 1933-1934
    Resource Type: Book
    This volume begins a series on the Depression years, discussing security concerns and the underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
57. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The Early Years, 1919-1929
    Resource Type: Book
    This volume contains materials received through the Canadian Access to Information legislation, providing an overview of the genesis of the RCMP.
58. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The War Series, 1939-1941
    Resource Type: Book
    It contains reports the RCMP issued to government of "subversive" activity, now held by CSIS. It covers a time when the CPC was illegal.
59. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The Depression Years, Part II, 1935
    Resource Type: Book
    This fully-indexed volume documents the RCMP's surveillance of the CPC, unions, and unemployed organizations, with coverage of the 1935 election.
60. 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.
    
61. Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    
62. The Return of COINTELPRO?
    Time to Target the Real Terrorists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The FBI was using its offices and agents across the country as early as August 2011 to engage in a massive surveillance scheme against Occupy Wall Street. The documents show a government agency at its most paranoid.
63. 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.
64. Sex-Pol
    Essays 1929-1934
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
65. Sexuality and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A study of sexual issues in the emergence of the extra-parliamentary left in West Germany during the 1960s. Reiche develops a theoretical view of the evolution of sexuality in the West.
66. '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.
67. The Socialist Register 1981
    Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
68. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
69. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
70. Steady erosion of media rights as Thai military tightens its grip
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The IFJ is deeply concerned about reports of increasing control by the Thailand Military Junta over news and information on radio, television, printed and online media.
71. 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.
72. The Struggle for Quebec
    Spokesman Pamphlet No. 13
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Essays analyzing class struggles in Quebec in, and leading up to, 1971.
73. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
74. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    
75. Web of Hate
    Inside Canada's Far Right Network
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Kinsella asserts that some 40 groups are more dangerous than commonly perceived because of their violence and aggressive recruitment.
76. West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
77. What everyone should know about repression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1926
    
78. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
79. When Freedom Was Lost
    The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
80. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
81. Women Organizing for Change
    Confronting the Crisis in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.
82. 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."

Experts on Repression in the Sources Directory

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