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  1. Are the police doing their job?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    It makes no sense to demand that the police 'do their job.' The job of the police is to protect the wealth and power of the ruling elite against any challenge.
  2. The Astounding Violence Of Israeli Colonialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Recently the world watched the horrific violence perpetrated inside Gaza, as 2,159 Palestinians - including 577 children, 263 women and 102 elderly - were killed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge over the course of 50 days. Zionist supporters, as usual, managed to rationalize the killing by blaming the victims, best exemplified by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nauseating claim that Hamas "want(s) to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because ... they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause."
  3. Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
  4. The Capital Punishment Debate
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
  5. 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.
  6. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
  7. Columbine Mine massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A conflict in which police and mine guards attacked striking coal miners with machine guns.
  8. Connexions Library: Imperialism and Colonialism Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
  9. Execution Day in Zhengzhou
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
  10. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  11. Fort William Freight Handlers Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A strike by 700 non-unionized immigrants in August 1909 that was defeated by the use of militia and the RCMP and resulted in the firing of hundreds of workers.
  12. GovernmentSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  13. IFJ Condemns Gaza Attack and Demands International Inquiry after Reports of Media Casualties
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists today reacted with shock at the news of the brutal attacks on civilians, including journalists, by Israeli forces in the assault on a flotilla that yesterday tried to breach the military blockade of Gaza
  14. In Remembrance of Things Lost
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It’s astonishing that I actually have to make an argument (and a losing one at that) against murdering children, but this is the reality we ourselves have given birth to.
  15. Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
  16. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  17. Kent State shootings
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.
  18. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
  19. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26
    Engels 1882 - 1889
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1889
    Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
  20. 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.
  21. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
  22. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Mohammed Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest .
  23. Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
  24. The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads
    Hymns to the Silence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides out to collude in a major story in the nation's leading newspaper, to ensure maximum exposure of his killing spree.
  25. The Other 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
  26. 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.
  27. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
    Organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
  28. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
  29. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
    Secrecy and Power
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
  30. Peterloo Massacre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Peterloo Massacre (or Battle of Peterloo) occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000-80,000 gathered at a meeting to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. It is estimated that 11-15 were killed and 400-700 injured.
  31. Predicting Torture
    The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
  32. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  33. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  37. Terrorism & Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Trotsky defends the tactics of the Bolsheviks against Karl Kautsky's attacks.
  38. Terrorism and Communism
    A Contribution to the Natural History of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1919
    Kautsky's attack on the methods used by the Bolsheviks after their seizure of power in Russia.
  39. United Nations Joint Statement
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Joint Statement of Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency.
  40. The United States and Torture
    We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
  41. The Warfare State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967

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