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Political Movements AlterLinks Topic Index Antonio Gramsci Towards an Intellectual Biography Resource Type: Book This biography lifts the study of Gramsci out of the sterile search for orthodoxy or heresy and instead examines Gramsci's personality in its full moral and intellectual complexity. Davidson has succeeded in integrating the circumstances of Gramsci's life: the childhood in Sardinia, the politics of the Italian left in the 1920s, the years of exile and prison - with his developing political and philosophical ideas. Boricua's Revolutionary Inspiration Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921 (Book Review) Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Book review of Kirwin R. Shaffer's Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921. 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. CISPES: Radical, Pragmatic, and Successful Resource Type: Article Published: 1994 Van Gosse analyzes the reasons for CISPES' success in developing a fresh and tenacious approach to solidarity work. Originally published in Crossroads Special Issue on El Salvador Solidarity, Spring 1994. Connexions Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982 Connexions Archive seeks a new home Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home. Development Theory in Transition The Dependency Debate and Beyond: Third World Responses Resource Type: Book This book is an outline of development theory since 1945, and emphasizes the importance of Dependency Theory as a catalyst in forming more relevant and less ethnocentric approaches. It is also the story of the rise to intellectual hegemony of a whole generation of Latin American, Caribbean, African and Indian political economists. This book is a fascinating history of development theory from a Third World perspective. From Dictatorship to Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading. Gandhi's Truth On the origins of militant nonviolence Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi. Germany 1921: The March Action Resource Type: Article Published: 1964 The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding? Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you. A Letter To Other Occupiers Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 We need to act within a wide strategic context, and engage in more than tactical exercises. We need to invite local people to join our ranks and institutions. We cannot hope to win the trust of others, especially others different from ourselves in class background, cultural preferences, race, or gender, unless we stay long enough to win that trust one day at a time. We must be prepared to spend years in communities where there may not be many fellow radicals. In thinking about our own lives, and how we can contribute over what Nicaraguans call a “long trajectory,” we need to acquire skills that poor and oppressed persons perceive to be needed. 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. 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. Manifestations And Declarations Of the Twentieth Century Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century. My Fight Against Apartheid Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 Imprisoned for 15 years on Robben Island in 1965, Michael Dingake's autobiography clearly reveals how his whole life has been bound up with the struggle for liberation in South Africa. His story, full of humour as well as political insight, takes us from his childhood days in Botswana to his recruitment into the ANC during the mass struggles of the 1950s, from his underground work in the 1960s to his kidnapping and imprisonment in 1965. New group urges progressives to build 'One Big Campaign' to take on Harper Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters was officially launched today. The new socialist revolution An introduction to its theory and strategy Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 Chapter 6 - Strategy and Tactics. The first task of the revolutionary movement, its most important task within the next few years, is to destroy bourgeois hegemony and develop a radical consciousness among each of the potential constituencies for revolutionary action. Nothing Is Ever Won Without Organizing Remarks to the First Nonviolence Training Session of the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 All organizing begins with the telling of a story. When we listen carefully to somebody’s story, we learn what motivates him, what she is passionate about. Listening is the first skill and duty of a community organizer. Before we can get somebody to do something, we have to learn what he and she want, which is usually different than what we presumed they wanted. On the Uprisings in France Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 At the beginning of March 2016, France's now ultra-liberal Socialist Party (PS) government officially revealed a labour reforms bill whose objective was to promote the competitiveness of businesses operating in France. The bill, commonly referred to as the El Khomri (the country's Labour Minister) law, was instantly perceived by most leftist factions as a fundamental attack on workers rights and a downright sabotage of the French Labour Code ("Code du Travail"), considered one of Europe's most progressive. The law allows for companies to reach "agreements" with its staff over working conditions without the need to negotiate with trade unions, subjecting workers to employers' arbitrary decisions (in regards to longer hours and lower overtime pay) without any legal protection. It also facilitates mass sackings and individual lay-offs by relaxing French law's constraint on firing and hiring, and casts aside the sacrosanct 35-hour work week in favour of a lengthened, more "flexible" one. Operation Soap Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article Operation Soap was a raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which took place on February 5, 1981. More than three hundred men were arrested, the largest mass arrest in Canada since the 1970 October crisis, before the record was broken during the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs in Edmonton, Alberta. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017 Left Parties Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus. Our Generation Volume 7 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) The PLO The Struggle Within Resource Type: Book A classic study of the diversity of Palestinian political thinking embodied in the PLO - from Baathists to Marxists. The author provides a history of the major debates within the PLO as it has moved from the idea of replacing Israel with a bi-national democratic and secular state to the notion of recovering any part of occupied Palestine and the creation of an independent and separate Palestinian state. The Politics of Urban Liberation Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life. Politics Past Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald. Popular Movements Toward Socialism Their Unity and Diversity Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The following reflections deal with a permanent and fundamental challenge that has confronted, and continues to confront, all popular movements struggling against capitalism. By this I mean both those of movements whose explicit radical aim is to abolish the system based on private proprietorship over the modern means of production in order to replace it with a system based on workers’ social proprietorship, and those of movements which, without going so far, involve mobilization aimed at real and significant transformation of the relations between labor and capital. Both sorts of movements can contribute, in varying degree, to calling capitalism into question; but they also might merely create the illusion of movement in that direction, although in fact only forcing capital to make the transformations it would need to co-opt a given set of working-class demands. A progressive dialogue on the future: Six questions for leftists Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be far more successful. Here are six from my list of the most important questions, as well as my answers, which by their very incompleteness and inadequacy should suggest that more people should work on them. 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. Signs of Change Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Drawn from an exhibition at Exit Art, a cultural center in New York City, Signs of Change is a visual archive of more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera from more than twenty-five nations. Slumming It At the Rodeo The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions. Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Spartacus League (Spartakusbund) Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article German revolutionary movement. Sri Lanka The Unfinished Quest for Peace Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 In August 1987, after years of violence, an accord was signed between the Jayawardene government and Tamil separatists. This clear and readable account explains why the accord failed and, in a fresh and penetrating analysis, takes an in-depth look at Sri Lanka's economy and society and uncovers the roots of the problems which have brought such suffering to its people. SWP History: 1960-1988 Resource Type: Website A website devoted to reviews and discussions related to Barry sheppart's two-volume history of the American Socialists Workers' Party (SWP). Thinking of Joining the ISO? Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 My goal in writing this is to encourage a fundamental re-thinking of “Leninist” party-building efforts in order to help end the unnecessary separation between the socialist movement and the working class that has blocked both movements from beginning to reverse the balance of class forces in America. I strongly believe such party-building efforts have helped perpetuate rather than undermine this crippling separation. Ukip: the battle for Britain Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come? 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. Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Nader discusses areas of convergence where liberals and conservatives can start working together for the public good. What's left of Pakistan's left? For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form. Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured. Zionism in the Age of Dictators Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 Brenner searches through the Zionist record, and finds evidence that it sought the patronage and benevolence of avowed anti-Semites and, ultimately, the collaboration of the Fascists and Nazis. This book shows how from the beginning Zionism's leaders were prepared to go to almost any length to achieve the goal of a separate Jewish state.

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