- After Paris
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy. The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated - not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism.
- Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That 'A Terrorist' Attacked Its Soldiers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The national mood and discourse in Canada is virtually identical to what prevails in every Western country whenever an incident like this happens: shock and bewilderment that someone would want to bring violence to such a good and innocent country, followed by claims that the incident shows how primitive and savage is the “terrorist ideology” of extremist Muslims, followed by rage and demand for still more actions of militarism and freedom-deprivation.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Professor Randall Hansen
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A discussion about the causes and consequences of revolutionary violence, with the premise that dismissive disgust at bloodshed is an overly simplistic response.
- ISIS Thrives on the Disunity of Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The aftermath of terrorist attacks such as the massacre in Paris are a bad time to produce new policies, but they provide ideal political conditions for a government to take radical, if ill-thought-out, initiatives. Leaders are carried away by a heady sense of empowerment as a worried or frightened public demands that something be done in response to calamity and to prevent it happening again. The moment of greatest risk is not when the bombs explode or the guns fire, but when governments react to these atrocities.
- The Mackenzie Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- 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.
- Reasoning about terror
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The trouble with much of the discussion of terrorism today is that it misses a fundamental point about contemporary terror: its disconnect from social movements and political goals. In the past, an organisation such as the IRA was defined by its political aims. Its members were carefully selected and their activities tightly controlled. However misguided we might think its actions, there was a close relationship between the aims of the organization and the actions of its members. None of this is true when it comes to contemporary terrorism. An act of terror is rarely controlled by an organisation or related to a political demand. That is why it is so difficult to discern the political or religious motivations
- 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.
- The right way to end terrorism
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Gresh discusses a way to end terrorism, by placing an emphasis on the term itself and the repercussions of its meaning and use.
- Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
- 'Shooting to Kill:' Operation Get Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As David Cameron talks tough on shooting terrorists on Britain's streets, bombing Syria, shooting off nuclear weapons at unnamed enemies, over half of the Labour Party's MPs in the House of Commons gaze in admiration, open mouthed, wondering why their leader couldn't be more like that.
- Talking to the Enemy
Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)making of Terrorists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
An anthropologiest explores the social ties and values of terrorists, studying militancy from a social science point of view. He uncovers that terrorists become radicalized through their social networks, the author dubs these group dynamics "organized anarchy".
- The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
- Total terrorism solution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Hoax highlights failures of military, security approaches to terrorism.
- Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
- Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
- Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
- The Young Man Was
Part 1: United Red Army
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.
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