- Activist archiving in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
- Alternative Toronto: 1980 - 1995
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2018
A community archive and historical map of Toronto’s alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and early 1990s.
- Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer.
- Black Panthers and other Histories Video and Audio Recordings
Resource Type: Website
- British Pathé Film Collection
Resource Type: Website
A vast collection of historical events and social activity on film. 85,000 newsreels are searchable and viewable on YouTube, equating to 3,500 hours of filmed history.
- 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.
- Ciné-Archives
Resource Type: Website
Ciné-Archives gère le fonds audiovisuel du Parti communiste français - Mouvement ouvrier & démocratique. Elle a pour mission la conservation et la promotion de ces archives.
- 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.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Mandate and Statement of Values
Resource Type: Article
A succinct summary of the Connexions project and the values that guide it.
- cyRev Archive
A journal of Cybernetics Revolution, Sustainable Socialism, and Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Beginning in the summer of 1994, the Third Wave Study Group released Issue 1 of "cyRev: A Journal of Cybernetic Revolution, Sustainable Socialism, and Radical Democracy." Six more print issues followed, and by the winter of 2004, cyRev was totally electronic. Here in the archive you will find all the articles from issues one through eight, plus more recent articles and editorials on issues such as globalization, technology and ethics, economics, labor, and much, much more.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- The Diggers Archive
Resource Type: Website
The Diggers emerged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s. The Digger Archives is an ongoing Web project to preserve and present the history of this group.
- Ecosocialist International Network website archive
Documents from 2009 to 2013
Resource Type: Website
Documents and articles that are relevant to ecosocialism.
- Films for Action
Changing the World Through Film
Resource Type: Website
Film offers us a powerful tool to raise awareness of important issues not covered by the mainstream news. Our goal is to provide citizens with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society. Our website has cataloged over 2500 of the best films and videos that can be watched free online, sorted into 40 subjects related to changing the world.
- FoundSF
Shaping San Francisco's Digital Archive
Resource Type: Website
FoundSF is a wiki that invites history buffs, community leaders, and San Francisco citizens of all kinds to share their unique stories, images, and videos from past and present. There are over 1,800 articles here presenting primary sources, essays, and images from history.
- Frankfurt School Resources
Marxist, Communist, Frankfurt School, & Later-Marxist Critique - Media Theory and Theorists
Resource Type: Website
Writings of Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and others.
- The Freedom Archives
Resource Type: Unclassified
The Freedom Archives contains over 10,000 hours of audio and video tapes as well as extensive documents. These materials date from the late-60s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international solidarity movements.
- Google a great painting
Project allows users to get a close-up view of works from 17 museums
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Google's Art Project allows viewers to browse works from 17 museums including the Metropolitcan Museum, MoMA, The National Gallery, Tate Britain and others in super-high resolution.
- Grassroots archive information sheet
About your archive - collection - resource centre - library
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.
- Hi-tech gives hope to low-tech sounds
A New York blogger's love of obscure African tape recordings has brought forgotten artists to global attention
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
New York-based ethno-musicologist Brian Shimkovitz blogs about African popular music, which is rarely heard outside its region of origin. He is credited with increasing the listenership of these obscure artists abroad with his blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa.
- IISH in Archives Portal Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Archival materials at the IISH are now accessible through Archives Portal Europe. The portal provides access to information on archival material from the inventories of hundreds of archival institutions in Europe. The user can search in 39,323,587 descriptive units linked to more than 141,000,000 digital objects from 397 institutions.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. 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.
- Israeli Left Archive
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2006
An evolving data base of the Israeli Radical Left. The long range vision of this project is to continue to digitalize thousands of items (leaflets, internal documents, newspaper articles and press clippings, movement periodicals, photographs, protocols and other materials). The origins of the current developing data base are in the private archive of Dafna and Reuven Kaminer. In general, the data base is devoted mainly to the radical left and the women's peace movement during the sixties, seventies and the eighties.
- Labor Film Archive
Films, videos and film festivals that focus on work, workers and worker’s issues
Resource Type: Website
The Labor Film Archive's goal is to present films and documentaries from around the world depicting aspects of work marginalized or absent in most commercial theatres. The Labor Film Database is an excellent resource for searching for union and labor related movies. The site also features a "Streaming Online" category which includes titles like Union Maids, America's Victory: The 1997 UPS Strike, and Real Union Busting. Cost: Free streaming (no registration required). Over 1,700 films and videos are listed here, searchable by title, director, actors and/or keywords.
- Leather Archives & Museum
Resource Type: Organization
The Leather Archives & Museum is a library, museum and archives pertaining to Leather, fetishism, sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices. The geographic collection scope is worldwide and includes all sexual orientations and genders. The library collection contains published books, magazines, scholarly publications, films and electronic resources related to the subject matter. The museum collection contains original erotic art and artifacts from alternative sex organizations and individuals. The archival collection contains unpublished papers and records from notable activists, artists, businesses and organizations related to the subject matter.
- Left in Hebrew
Resource Type: Website
A video archive. We believe that change is possible and achievable. Our history is full of stories of many amazing, dedicated comrades who struggled relentlessly during many decades for a just world. This site, which includes Audio-visual fragments depicting their struggle is dedicated to them.
- The Liberator Files
Selections from The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison's Abolitionist Newspaper
Resource Type: Website
The Liberator was a Boston-based Abolitionist newspaper, published by William Lloyd Garrison from 1831 to 1865.
- Luminist Archives
Resource Type: Website
Documents in a variety of formats are made available here as a free public service. The Periodical Archive contains a substantial collection of dissident and counter-cultural magazines, newspapers, journals and newsletters.
- Malcolm X Research Site
Resource Type: Website
A comprehensive website on the life and legacy of Malcolm X , with text, film, video, graphics and more, plus a large listing of African American scholars on the left, with links to their sites and works.
- Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
- Marx & Engels papers
Resource Type: Website
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
- Marx & Engels papers completely available online
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- New Archival Collections: How to Know What’s New at Your Favorite Repository
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
New archival collections at your favorite repository may be the long-awaited key to solving your family history mysteries! But how can you keep up with what’s new at archives and libraries? Professional archivist Melissa Barker shares her favorite tips.
- 1917 and Trotskyist Bulletin online archive
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
1917 is the journal of the International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT). The IBT arose out of a split in the International Spartacist Tendency in the early 1980s.
- 170,000 iconic pictures of Depression-era America released by Yale (Photos)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Gallery with pictures of the Great Depression in the US, depicting the everyday lives and struggles of people.
- OPIRG Poster Archive
Resource Type: Website
A website with posters produced by OPIRG-York and OPIRG Toronto from the 1980s to the present.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
Truth, justice and reconciliation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
- The past belongs to everyone: British Library calls on public to help piece together history
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As the British Library thrusts itself into the digital age, more than a million images from its archives are available online. And it wants the public's help to expand what is known about them.
- People's Archive of Rural India
Resource Type: Organization
Recording the everyday lives of everyday people.
- People's Archive of Rural Ontario
Resource Type: Website
Voices and stories of rural Ontario.
- People's History, Memory & Archives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
- The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection: Marxist-Humanist Archives
Resource Type: Website
The papers of Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987), a Marxist theoretician know for her contributions to Marxist-Humanism.
- la red del Che : the Che network
Resource Type: Website
Website devoted to the life and work of Che Guevara.
- Resources from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and related groups and activities
Resource Type: Website
a listing of the major memoirs written about Students for a Democratic Society, and a link to one major collection of the documents written at the time in PDF format.
- A Response to Lawrence and Wishart
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Lawrence & Wishart, who hold the copyright for the Marx Engels Collected Works, have directed Marxists Internet Archive to delete all texts originating from MECW.
- Rise Up Feminist Archive
Resource Type: Website
A digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s.
- Ross Dowson archive
Resource Type: Website
An archive of materials related to Canadian Trotskyist Ross Dowson (1917-2002). Some documents are online; with others being digitized.
- RossDowson.com
Resource Type: Unclassified
An archive of materials related to Canadian Trotskyist Ross Dowson (1917-2002). Some documents are online; others are being digitized.
- Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
The everyday lives of everyday people
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
- The Slave Narratives
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Resource Type: Website
Interviews with former slaves. Nearly all of the information presented here came from the WPA collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, in addition to the 232 boxes of unprocessed material and county histories.
- Socialist Voice online archive
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2011
Socialist Voice: Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century was an online journal published in Canada from 2004 to 2011.
- Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive
Resource Type: Website
The Sojourner Truth Organization was an American revolutionary group based largely in Chicago during the 1970's and 1980's. This archive serves as a resource for STO's newspapers (Insurgent Worker), pamphlets, shop leaflets, theoretical journals (Urgent Tasks, Tendency Newsletter), collaborative works (Collective Works), and others.
- South Sudan: Remembering the Ones We Lost
Resource Type: Website
Remembering The Ones We Lost is a public memorial that aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan. This unified and public recognition of individual lives being lost through violence is accomplished through the collective efforts of individuals, communities and institutions to name victims. This initiative hopes to bring attention to the shared suffering, give additional meaning to cries for peace and be a tool for understanding and reconciliation amongst South Sudanese individuals and communities.
- The Studs Terkel Radio Archive
Resource Type: Website
Over the course of his 45 years on WFMT radio, Studs Terkel discussed every aspect of 20th-century life with movers, shakers, artists, celebrities, and working folks. From civil rights to labor to jazz, his work spanned an impressive array of topics and figures. These
enchanting, historically-significant interviews are now being made available online.
- UC Davis spent $175,000 to scrub online pepper spray references
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The University of California, Davis, contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Resource Type: Website
Extensive collection of official human rights documents such as UN treaties.
- Virtual Museum of Canada
Resource Type: Website
A project of the Canadian Museum of History, featuring online exhibits.
- Young Lords in Lincoln Park
Resource Type: Website
Dedicated to documenting the history of the displacement of Puerto Ricans, Mejicanos, other Latinos, and the poor from Lincoln Park, as well as the history of the Young Lords nationwide.
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