- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- The Age of Aquiescenence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? Fraser sets out to solve that mystery.
- Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.
Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.
- The American Connection
Volume 1: State Terror and Popular Resistance in El Salvador
Resource Type: Book
McClintock reveals the U.S. role in introducing new strategies of state terror and counter-insurgency in Central America since the 1960s. Against a backdrop of longstanding class and land ownership patterns the author shows how U.S. refusal to tolerate social reform and its support for brutal security apparatuses have led not only to the current wars in Central America, but inextricably involved the U.S.
- The American Connection
Volume 2: State Terror and Popular Resistance in Guatemala
Resource Type: Book
The author who is now a senior researcher with Amnesty International spent several years unravelling the development of counter-insurgency forces and the role of the U.S. in creating them. This book details how the U.S. notion of counter-insurgency, when applied under highly authoritarian regimes, ultimately converts almost the entire civilian population into the enemy.
- The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
Hope, History, and Unpredictability
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
- An Army of Amateurs
The Story of the SOE Resistance Movement in France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
A first-hand account of the resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
- Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
- The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammad
A song for Gaza
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
- BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
The case for a rights-based BDS campaign against Israeli occupation and apartheid.
- Beyond Judgment
Resource Type: Article
- Bil'in and the Nonviolent Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Tells how the farming village in Bil'in, located in Palestine's West Bank, has been facing its occupier, Israel, head-on. Side by side with Israeli and civil rights activists the world over, the people of Bil'in and their protests have been standing against the injustices imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) since 2004. That was when the IOF's raids began to uproot the village's ancient olive trees and confiscate its farmlands, the main sources of its livelihood. All of it to build their separation wall and illegal settlements.
- 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.
- Bil'in Village
Resource Type: Organization
Palestinian village that has been engaged in continuous non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation.
- 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.
- Bolivian gas conflict
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A social confrontation in Bolivia centering on the exploitation of the country's vast natural gas reserves.
- Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
Resource Type: Film/Video
Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
- By Any Means Necessary
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A review of Dave Hann's book Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-fascism (Zero, 2013).
- 'Call me a terrorist, but I'm no different from Israeli troops defending their homeland'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Some thoughts on the true source of incitement against and hatred of Israelis from a Palestinian who spent 23 years in jail for killing one. In 1990, Muqbel was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Yaakov Shalom in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem. Released after 23 years, he is now a key activist in Fatah, talking on the movement's behalf in West Bank schools.
- Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
Reinventing tactics of resistance has become a central preoccupation for the movement of movements. How do we make rebellion enjoyable, effective, and irresistible? Who wants the tedium of traditional demonstrations and protests - the ritual marches from point A to B, the permits and police escorts, the staged acts of civil disobedience, the verbose rallies and dull speeches by leaders?
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- A Case For Non-violent Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Non-Violent Resistance in Bil'in in the West Bank
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Come to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the non-violent resistance in Bil'in in the occupied West Bank. February 5th from 5 until 6pm at the Iisraeli Consulate 180 Bloor St. W. Toronto.
- Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
- The Cochabamba Water War of 2000 in 2014
Today's Betrayers Will Not Erase Our Memory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Today's betrayers will not erase our memory: Fourteen years ago we won, today it seems like we lost, but we have to rise again to win, and we already know how to do it. From April 4 to 14 in the year 2000 the so-called "Final Battle" was waged in Cochabamba, Bolivia to prevent the privatization of our water. It was part of a strategy designed by the people of Cochabamba in the "Water War" that started on November 12, 1999. Today, after fourteen years of this historic struggle, the people's demands are still the same: democracy, transparency, participation and an economic model that allows us all to enjoy the riches that our Mother Earth generously provides for the benefit of all.
- Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- Communities of Resistance
Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A series of essays advocating grass roots organisations as the pathway to socialism.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
- Conversations about Resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
At first, the scene appears tense. Twenty-one Israeli soldiers in full combat gear are arrayed in a neat line across the main road of the small village of Al Ma’sara, just south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Several of the soldiers wear partial balaclavas which obscure their features, leaving their faces visible only from the eyes up. They stand expectantly, some with their hands resting casually on the butts of their rifles.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Dangerous Grounds
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war.
- The day the Klan messed with the wrong people
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
- The Different Faces of 'Popular Resistance' in Palestine
Manipulating History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Apparently, 'popular resistance' has suddenly elevated to become a clash of visions or strategies between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and its rivals in Gaza, underscoring an existing and deepening rift between various factions and leaderships.
- Dignity of the Nobodies
La dignidad de los nadies
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2005
The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires' poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi-national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands.
- Disobedience
The rise of the global fossil fuel resistance
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2016
Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
- Disobedience
Introduction to the January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- Dutch resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Book
Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
- February strike (The Netherlands)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
- 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
Enough
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
- Flying University
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
- 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
- Fragging
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
- Gedenkstatte Deutscher Widerstand
Exhbition Resistance to National Socialsim
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
A thorough and chronological account of the many forms of resistance to Nazism in Germany.
- The German Memorial Resistance Center
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Booklet to accompany the display on the German resistance.
- German resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The opposition by individuals and groups in Nazi Germany to the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945.
- Glezos, Manolis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Greek left wing politician and writer, known especially for his participation in the World War II resistance. (Born 1922).
- God's Spies
Stories in Defiance of Oppression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
- The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
Yes! Magazine Summer 2006
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
- Greek Resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941-1944 during the Second World War.
- The Greeks Get It
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare: the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
- Green Corn Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Popular uprising against military conscription by poor farmers in Oklahoma aligned with the Socialist Party of America.
- 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.
- The Holy Spirit of Resistance
Catholic Social Vision
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Catholics all over the world are now becoming aware of their counter-cultural social vision. They are increasingly recognizing the call of God to active citizenship in building the Reign of God rather than accepting the hopeless parameters of a New World Order of exclusion and passivity so powerfully promoted by massive corporations.
- I would like to dodge the draft-dodgers but
Resource Type: Book
- In Defense of Amira Hass
Claiming the Right of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Amira Hass is a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. She reports on Palestinian affairs in the occupied territories and, over the years, has come to understand the Palestinians’ plight from their own point of view.
- In Honor of Assata Shakur
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
IN 1739, A group of predominantly African-born slaves in South Carolina launched one of North America's largest and costliest revolts. Veterans of the civil wars which proliferated in the wake of the Atlantic Slave trade, fluent in Portuguese and proud Catholics (whose King, as a sovereign voluntary convert, possessed independent relations with Rome), this rebel troop felt powerfully the pull of freedom promised by the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine.
- In the Matter of the International Community v Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In its first full week of a "new" get tough policy, almost 500 young Palestinian demonstrators were injured, shot and maimed, and at least three teens murdered in response to what Israel sees as a rising tide of "militant" resistance against the illegally occupied and, by now, almost completely annexed West Bank.
- Independent Jewish Voices Joins Call for Global Protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Calls for women of the world to unite behind the popular resistance of Palestinian women in defence of their land, rights and dignity
- Intifada:
The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- Jewish Combat Organization
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A World War II resistance movement which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The resistance of the Jewish people against Nazi Germany leading up to and through World War II, including against the Holocaust.
- "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
- Leader and Vassal
Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
- The Life of Death: An Exchange
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
- Luxembourgian general strike 1942
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A pacific resistance movement organised within a short time period to protest against a directive that incorporated the Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht.
- A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
- Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
The Political Thought of Stan Weir
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- Myles Horton
Insights from organizer Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Needed: 5% Participation to Overthrow Crony Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Erica Chenoweth, author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, explains how to overthrow U.S. crony capitalism: “In raw numbers, movements generally achieve systematic change (i.e., in the +80% likelihood category) when they mobilize over 5 percent of the population. The Iranian Revolution, among the largest popular uprisings, achieved about 10 percent mobilization. In the US with 311 million people, this would mean between 15.5 million and 31.1 million people.”
- Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- No surrender in Greece
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers' growing radicalization.
- Norwegian resistance movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
- Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Destabilization and Regime Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Mohammed Khatib and his West Bank supporters hope to rally others to a peaceful campaign for statehood.
- Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
- Paraguay: Women at the Center of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The headquarters of Conamuri is a gentle place that combines work with intimacy, like the campesino life that in some way it reproduces. The experience of Conamuri is great. They make their own rules and follow them in an educated way, not aggressively, but responsibly and with commitment. Although it may hurt, they tell us things to our face.
- 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.
- The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
Resistance in Practice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Pilecki, Witold
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A member of the Polish resistance and the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. (1901-1948).
- Polish Righteous among the Nations
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Polish citizens have the world's highest count of individuals awarded medals of Righteous among the Nations, given by the State of Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews from extermination during the Holocaust.
- Polish underground press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Underground newspaper with a long history of combatting censorship.
- Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- Que se vayan todos!
Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- 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.
- Rescue as Resistance
How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Rescue of the Danish Jews
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
When Hitler ordered that Danish Jews be arrested and deported on 1-2 October 1943, many Danes took part in a collective effort to evacuate the roughly 8,000 Jews of Denmark by sea to nearby neutral Sweden.
- Resistance
One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
The memoir of a French resistance fighter and museum worker who chronicles the undergroud network of resistance in Paris during the occupation. She then chronicles her imprisonment and the slave labour she endured in Germany. The final section of her memoir recounts her release by the Americans and the time she spent helping them hunt Nazis after the war.
- Resistance during World War II
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
- Resistance in Vichy France
A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone, 1940-1942
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Righteous among the Nations
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An honorific used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
- Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
Riot police, teargas and stun grenades fail to stop passe livre movement taking over Central do Brasil train and bus hub
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Thousands of commuters were shepherded through demolished ticket gates at the Central do Brasil station amid a violent confrontation over proposed fare rises that resulted in fires, arrests and disruption of transport networks. The station in downtown Rio echoed with police percussion grenades and the protesters' celebratory samba drumming as they seized control of the main bank of ticket machines.
Close to a thousand people joined the passe livre (free pass) march, sparked by the announcement by the city mayor, Eduardo Paes, that bus fires will rise from 2.75 reais to 3 reais (£0.75/US$1.25) on Saturday. That may seem cheap compared with London or New York. But for a daily commuter on a minimum monthly wages of 724 reais a month it leaves transport costs at more than a sixth of income."
- Sabotage
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
In a workplace setting, sabotage is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency generally directed at causing some change in workplace conditions.
- Samizdat
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A key form of dissident activity across the Soviet-bloc; individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader, thus building a foundation for the successful resistance of the 1980s.
- Santas, Apostolos
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II. (Born 1922).
- 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.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- '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.
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Socialist Register 2012
Volume 48: The Crisis and the Left
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2012
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Die Standhaften
Über den Widerstand in Kassel und Hessen-Waldeck 1933-1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
- Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change.
- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- They Want to Prohibit Us from Dreaming
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A 2014 interview with renowned Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated last week.
- This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Charles Cobb, a veteran civil rights activist who served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the American South, unfolds a powerful narrative about Southern grass-roots black individuals and groups who played essential roles in African-American resistance. He reveals how they acted to protect black people and their allies throughout the ages with the careful use of violent self-defense methods.
- This Rough Game
Fascism and Anti-Fascism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Renton describes the rise of European Fascism, the condition of Weimar Germany, British fascism, Battle of Cable Street and Hitler's life.
- Total Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Twentieth convoy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Transport 20 (XXth convoy) was a Jewish prisoner transport in Belgium organized by the Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Belgian Resistance freed Jewish and Gypsy civilians who were being transported by train from the Dossin Barracks.
- 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.
- Die Vielen Gesichter des Widerstands
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A national veterans' organization.
- Voices of Resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The National Energy Board's Joint Review Panel (JRP) has just published its recommendation that the Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway to transport Alberta's tar sands oil to the northwest coast of British Columbia should be approved.
- The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
- The War Isn't Over, But Israel Has Lost
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Israelis - and their backers in the American political establishment - appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- When Push Comes to Shove
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
When the police are ordered to move against the OWS demonstrators, we must move to counter the police. Our response should be that workers in all different kinds of jobs act immediately to interrupt business as usual-regardless of what union leaders say or do. For example, transit workers should refuse any request to assist in the transport of individuals who are arrested. Truck drivers should refuse all deliveries to city agencies-other than those providing health care or emergency services. The more interruptions, the better!
- When Soldiers Resist
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Let's remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.
- White Rose
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
- The Whole World is Watching
Chinese Diggers?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.
- Why Israel Won't Survive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
- Widerstand und Verweigerung in Deutschland 1933 bis 1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Wie Alles Anfing
How it All Began - The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerilla
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The original German edition of Wie Alles Anfing was seized by security police when it appeared in 1975. The resulting trial and publicity raised an international outrcy and the book has since been republished in German and translated into six languages.
- Women, Resistance and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
- You Can’t Force-feed Occupation to those who Crave Freedom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Israel wants to believe that through force of will it can keep the tide of accountability at bay in the occupied territories. But belligerent occupations – especially ones where no hope or end is in sight – engender evermore creative and costly forms of resistance. A physical act of resistance can be temporarily foiled. But the spirit behind it cannot be so easily subdued.
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
- Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
- Yugoslav Partisans
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A Communist-led World War II resistance movement engaged in the fight against Axis forces and their collaborators in Yugoslavia from 1941-1945.
- Zapatista Communities: "Resistance and Rebellion Are Our Weapons"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration of resistance, and a seminar to "provoke thought, reflection, critique." This article presents some of the words of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the event.
- Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowej
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An underground resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940.
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