- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, better known as "Freedom Summer," brought in volunteers to help with attempts to register Black voters who had long been prevented by chicanery and terror from doing so. At the same time, in view of the miserable conditions in the state's segregated public schools, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) planned to create "freedom schools" in which volunteers (mostly the whites from the North) would, that summer, teach Black young people in subjects ranging from basic education to Black history and leadership skills.
- The Hidden History of the SNCC Research Department
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
SNCC may have been the most important organization of the postwar civil rights movement. It grew out of the wave of sit-ins in 1960 and was guided initially by Ella Baker, the foundational organizer whose emphasis on bottom-up organizing and democracy deeply shaped SNCC’s vision and methods.
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- How to Rig an Election
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
- 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.
- The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
- 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.
- Pankhurst, Emmeline
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Hobbes to Locke
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A fundamental reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke which emphasizes the role of liberal political theory in justifying the appropriation of property to private ownership.
- Rolling Back Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
- Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women's oppression? If so, what is it?
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- A Short History of Black Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Right's organized movement to suppress the votes of African Americans and Latin Americans, and the urban and rural poor by means of the passing of voter ID (Poll Tax) laws in states receives no mention in the dominant media.
- Suffrage (Voting Rights)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
- Zetkin, Clara - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Clara Zetkin (1857-1933).
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