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  1. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  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. Autonomous Media
    Activating Resistance & Dissent

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
  4. The Betrayal
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    The filmmaker's personal journey to confront her past, baring her soul to those most hurt by her troubled youth when she ricocheted from far-left radicalism to neo-Nazi fascism out of a desperate need to belong.
  5. Canada's Young Activists
    A Generation Stands Up for Change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Twenty five personal accounts of the important work of some of Canada's most prominent young activists championing causes from child labour to environmentalism.
  6. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  7. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  8. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  11. Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
    Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
  12. The High School Revolutionaries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Two young teachers travel across America gathering the views of young high school radicals.
  13. Hoffman, Abbie
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
  14. Long March, Short Spring
    The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An examination of the world student rebellions of the late 1960s.
  15. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  16. The New Left
    A Collection of Essays

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Essays from participants in the American New Left of the 1960s.
  17. New Left Caucus (Toronto Student Movement)
    A Draft Manifesto

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1969
    Puts forward an alternative to Leninst factions which emerged in the Toronto Student Movement in 1968-1969. The authors state that "We consider ourselves, therefore, Marxists but not Leninists, though we are prepared to work with various shades of Leninists in struggling against the common enemy, capitalism and imperialism. At the same time, however, we will not be cowed over by those who seek to resurrect Comrade Stalin as a hero, or justify the suppression of the Kronstadt Revolut, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia, etc. Our conceprt of socialism is different, and though we have no worked out program as yet, we will not allow the vanguard formations to close our options for us.
  18. 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.
  19. The New Radicals
    A Report with Documents

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    An analytical portrait of the young radical activists who have repudiated traditional liberalsim and who seek a new vision of American through civil rights, university reform, and anti-war and anti-poverty activities.
  20. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  21. "No one represents us": the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    On 15 May 2011 thousands of people, mainly young, demonstrated all over the Spanish state under the slogans "For real democracy now" and "We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers". The demonstrations explicitly rejected the participation of political parties or trade unions.
  22. An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
  23. Our Generation
    Volume 4 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1966
  24. Push Comes to Shove
    The Escalation of Student Protest

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Diary of Kelman's undergraduate years at Harvard during times of SDS-led student protest.
  25. Revolution for the Hell of It
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  26. The Revolution Game
    The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
  27. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
  28. 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.
  29. '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.
  30. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
  31. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  32. SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
  33. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  34. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
  35. We Are Everywhere
    Resource Type: Book
  36. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  37. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  38. Young Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
  39. The Youth Communes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A short survey of American youth communes of the late 1960s.

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