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  1. Abahlali baseMjondolo
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    A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
  2. Alter-globalization
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    A social movement that supports global cooperation and interaction, but which opposes the negative effects of economic globalization.
  3. American Anti-Slavery Society
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    An abolitionist society (1833-1870) founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
  4. American Indian Movement
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    Native American activist organization in the United States which has led protests advocating indigenous American rights, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities, and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the country.
  5. Anarchist St. Imier International
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    An international anarchist organization formed in 1872.
  6. Anti-nuclear movement
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    A international movement against the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
  7. Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
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    An organization that came together in response to the political situation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, first meeting in June 2006.
  8. Ausserparlamentarische Opposition
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    Was a political protest movement active in West Germany during the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s, forming a central part of the German student movement.
  9. Back-to-the-land movement
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    Refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s involving an attempted migration from cities to rural areas.
  10. Black Bloc
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    People who engage in protests wearing black clothing and masks and engaging in property damage. The tactic was developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, and was subsequently adopted by some anarchists, as well as some right-wing groups such as the autonomous nationalists of Europe. Black blocs lend themselves to infiltration by police and agents provocateurs, and it has often been alleged that their primary function, whether intentional or not, is to provide a pretext for police repression.
  11. Black Panther Party
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    African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
  12. Bolshevik Party
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    The Bolshevik party led the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  13. Bruderhof Communities
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    Christian religious communities with branches in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.
  14. The Bund (General Jewish Labour Bund)
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    A secular Jewish socialist party in Central and Eastern Europe operating predominantly between the 1890s and the 1930s.
  15. Camisard
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    French Protestants (Huguenots) of the Cevennes region of south-central France who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
  16. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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    An organization that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. It also campaigns for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
  17. Catholic Worker Movement
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    A collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933.
  18. Chartism
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    A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1850 which takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838.
  19. Chipko movement
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    Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
  20. Chipko Movement
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    Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
  21. Christiansbrunn
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    The name of two religious communes in Pennsylvania, active between 1747 and 1796.
  22. Committee for an Independent Canada
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    A citizens' committee to promote Canadian economic and cultural independence.
  23. Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
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    A British anti-war group set up in 1960.
  24. Communist League
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    The first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1836.
  25. Communist Party of Canada
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    A political party in Canada.
  26. Communist Workers International
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    Founded around the Manifesto of the Fourth Communist International, published by the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in 1921.
  27. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
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    Published: 1991
  28. Conservation movement
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    A political and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.
  29. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
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    A political coalition of progressive, socialist and labour forces anxious to establish a political vehicle capable of bringing about economic reforms to improve the circumstances of those suffering the effects of the Great Depression.
  30. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
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    A Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction. In 1944, it became the government of Saskatchewan under T.C. Douglas, and in 1961, it became the New Democratic Party.
  31. Correspondence Publishing Committee
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    A radical left organization in the US led by C.L.R. James and Martin Glaberman from approximately 1951 until 1962.
  32. Counterculture of the 1960s
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    A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservatism and social repression of the 1950s.
  33. Critical Mass
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    A bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month.
  34. Diggers
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    An English group of agrarian communists in the 17th century.
  35. Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
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    An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
  36. Doukhobors
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    A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
  37. Doukhobors
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    A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
  38. Dutch resistance
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    Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
  39. European Social Forum
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    An annual conference held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also known as the Global Justice Movement) which aims to allow social movements, trade unions, NGOs, refugees, peace and anti-imperial groups, anti-racist movements, environmental movements, networks of the excluded and community campaigns from Europe and the world to come together and discuss themes linked to major European and global issues.
  40. Facing Reality
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    A radical left group in the United States which existed from about 1962 until 1970.
  41. FaSinPat (Zanon)
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    A worker-controlled ceramic tile factory in the southern Argentine province of Neuquén. The name is short for Fábrica Sin Patrones, which means "Factory Without Bosses" in Spanish.
  42. Flying University
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    An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
  43. Folk high schools
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    Institutions for adult education for working-class and poor people, typically based on a popular education model.
  44. Folkways Records
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    A record label that documents folk and world music.
  45. Food Not Bombs
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    A loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others.
  46. Fourth International
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    An international Trotskyist communist organisation which opposes both capitalism and Stalinism.
  47. Frankfurt School
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    A school of neo-Marxist critical theory, social research, and philosophy associated with the original Institute for Social Research of the University of Frankfurt am Main.
  48. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
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    A student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
  49. Freedom Summer
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    A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
  50. The Freedom to be Yourself Campaign
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    Promotes the right to be naked in public.
  51. Gay Liberation Front
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    The name of a number of Gay Liberation groups.
  52. Gay rights movement
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    Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexuality and gender minorities.
  53. Global Justice Movement
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    Is the broad globalized social movement opposing what is often known as "corporate globalization" and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
  54. Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
    Book review
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    Published: 2001
    For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
  55. Grameen Bank
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    A microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit" to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
  56. Herrnhaag
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    A communal spiritual center for the Moravian Unity, an early form of Protestantism.
  57. Highlander Research and Education Center (Highlander Folk School)
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    A leadership training school and cultural centre located in New Market, Tennessee which provided training to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other organizers and activists.
  58. Hussites
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    A Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus (c. 1369-1415).
  59. Icarians
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    A French utopian movement, founded by Étienne Cabet, who led his followers to America where they established a group of egalitarian communes during the period from 1848 through 1898.
  60. Indian independence movement
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    Encompasses a wide spectrum of political organizations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending British colonial authority in South Asia.
  61. Industrial Workers of the World
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    A revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905. Wobblies were mostly unskilled, low-status migrant workers. The IWW advocated the organization of all workers into one body and supported direct action as the only form of protest open to immigrant workers, who were excluded from the electoral process.
  62. Industrial Workers of the World
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    The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
  63. International Brigades
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    Republican military units made up of many non-state-sponsored, anti-fascist, mostly socialist and communist, volunteers from different countries who traveled to Spain to fight for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.
  64. International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party
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    A political international whose member organisations identify with the Italian left communist tradition.
  65. International Communist Tendency
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    An international centralised left communist organisation formed in 1975.
  66. International of Anarchist Federations
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    Founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
  67. International Revolutionary Marxist Centre
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    Was an international association of left-socialist parties. The member-parties rejected both mainstream social democracy and the Third International.
  68. International Workers Association
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    An international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries.
  69. International Working Union of Socialist Parties
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    A political international for the co-operation of socialist parties. 1921-1923.
  70. International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
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    An international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
  71. Jewish Combat Organization
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    A World War II resistance movement which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
  72. Joe Hill House
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    A Catholic Worker Movement house of hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  73. Johnson-Forest Tendency
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    Refers to an American radical left tendency associated with Marxist theorists C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya.
  74. Kerista
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    A religion founded in 1956 by John Peltz "Bro Jud" Presmont. Throughout much of its history, Kerista was centered on the ideals of polyfidelity (called "responsible non-monogamy") and creation of intentional communities.
  75. Knights of Labor
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    The major labour reform organization of the late 19th century in the United States.
  76. Kommune Niederkaufungen
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    One of the largest intentional communities in Germany.
  77. Landless Peoples Movement
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    An independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa formed in 2001.
  78. Landless Workers' Movement
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    Social movement in Brazil.
  79. League for Social Reconstruction
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    Organization of left-wing intellectuals, founded 1931-32 in Montréal and Toronto.
  80. League for Social Reconstruction
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    A circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education.
  81. Left-wing internationals, list of
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    This is a list of socialist, communist, and anarchist internationals. An "International" such as, the "First International", the "Second International", or the "Socialist International" may refer to a number of multi-national communist, radical, socialist, or union organizations, typically composed of national sections.
  82. Levellers
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    A political movement during the English Civil Wars on the 17th century which emphasised popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance.
  83. Liberation News Service
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    A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
  84. Libertarian League
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    A name used by two American libertarian organisations during the twentieth century.
  85. Life and Labour Commune
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    A Tolstoyan agricultural commune founded in 1921 and disbanded as a state run collective farm in 1937.
  86. Lotta Continua
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    Italian left-wing organization.
  87. Lowell Mill Girls
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    Female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.
  88. Luddites
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    A social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested - often by destroying mechanized looms - against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which were leaving them without work.
  89. Masterless Men of Newfoundland
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    A legendary outlaw society of men escaping press gangs, Royal Navy deserters and runaway indentured servants from Newfoundland fishing plantations.
  90. Mattachine Society
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    One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
  91. Merry Pranksters
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    Group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and who promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
  92. Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
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    A group of manufacturing, financial and retail enterprises based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad which is one of the world's largest worker cooperatives and one important example of workers' self-management.
  93. Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
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    A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
  94. Narmada Bachao Andolan
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    An organisation that has mobilised tribal people, adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river, Gujarat, India.
  95. New Democratic Party
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    A social democratic party and a member of the Socialist International.
  96. New Left
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    The New Left was a loose international political movement of the 1960s
  97. Nine-Hour Movement
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    Was an international workers' attempt to secure shorter working days.
  98. No Border Network
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    Loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. They support freedom of movement and resist human migration control by coordinating international border camps, demonstrations, direct actions, and anti-deportation campaigns.
  99. Non-cooperation movement
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    A series of nationwide people's movements of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress.
  100. Norwegian resistance movement
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    Resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
  101. On to Ottawa Trek
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    In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
  102. One Big Union
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    In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Conference in Calgary and proclaimed support for the Bolshevik and other left-wing revolutions. They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the trades and labour congress of Canada, and form a revolutionary industrial revolution to be called the One Big Union.
  103. Peace movement
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    A social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.
  104. Peace Movement (Canada)
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    Canada has a long tradition of an active and vocal peace movement. During the late 1950s and 1960s, concern over the dangers of atmospheric testing and the debate over the presence in Canada of nuclear weapons provided a focus for Canada's fledgling peace movement.
  105. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
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    A United States trade union which operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration.
  106. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
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    A religious movement, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers.
  107. Rochdale College
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    An experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada. 1968-1975.
  108. Russell Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal
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    A public body organized by British philosopher Bertrand Russell which investigated and evaluated American foreign policy and military intervention in Vietnam.
  109. Second International
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    Organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889.
  110. Shakers
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    The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, was a Protestant religious sect.
  111. Situationist International
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    A group of revolutionaries, founded in 1957, which developed a radical Marxist critque of life under advanced capitalism. They suggested and experimented with the construction of situations: the setting up of environments favourable to the fulfillment of human desires outside and against the economy of markets and wage labour. The SI analyzed the modern world from the point of view of everyday life and attacked the capitalist degradation of life and the fake models advertised by the mass media and proposed a revolutionary alternative which integrated politics, art, critical thinking, desire, and play.
  112. Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
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    A Marxist political party founded in 1893.
  113. Social Gospel
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    The Social Gospel was an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1890s through the 1930s.
  114. Social Gospel
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    The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labour, inadequate labour unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
  115. Socialisme ou Barbarie
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    A French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period which existed from 1948 until 1965. Socialisme ou Barbarie was critical of Leninism, rejecting the idea of a revolutionary party, and placing an emphasis on the importance of workers' councils, and saw the daily struggles of working people as creating the true content of socialism.
  116. Socialist International
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    A worldwide organisation of democratic socialist, social democratic, socialist, and labour political parties. It was formed in 1951.
  117. Socialist Labor Party of America
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    Party advocating "socialist industrial unionism" - a belief in a fundamental transformation of society through the combined political and industrial action of the working class organized in industrial unions.
  118. Solidarity (UK)
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    Libertarian socialist organisation and magazine of the same name in the United Kingdom.
  119. Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
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    Polish trade union.
  120. Spartacus League (Spartakusbund)
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    German revolutionary movement.
  121. Spies for Peace
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    A group of anti-war activists associated with CND and the Committee of 100 who publicized government preparations for rule after a nuclear war.
  122. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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    One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
  123. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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    Student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
  124. Surrealism
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    A cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.
  125. Third International (Comintern)
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    An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
  126. Treatment Action Campaign
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    A South African AIDS activist movement.
  127. Underground Press Syndicate
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    A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
  128. Underground Railroad
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    An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.
  129. United Farmers of Alberta
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    A farmers' organization established in 1909 as an amalgamation of the Canadian Society of Equity and the Alberta Farmers' Association. The UFA was interested in rural economic, social and political issues.
  130. Urban Citizen Movements
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    Community groups that are often organized around concerns about land use and the way planning decisions are made in local government.
  131. Vietnam Veterans Against the War
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    A national veterans' organization.
  132. Waffle
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    A group established in 1969 as a left-wing caucus within the New Democratic Party.
  133. Weather Underground Organization
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    An American radical left organization.
  134. Women's Freedom League
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    An organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigned for women's suffrage and sexual equality.
  135. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
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    Founded 1915 in The Hague, the Netherlands, by women active in the women's suffrage movement in Europe and North America. They sought to end the war and seek ways to ensure that no more wars took place.
  136. Women's Labour Leagues (Canada)
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    Women's Labour Leagues emerged in Canada prior to WWI. Their purpose was to defend the struggles of women workers and support the labour movement.
  137. Women's Suffrage (Canada)
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    Suffrage campaign in the late 19th century which aimed to achieve votes for all women as a democratic right.
  138. Women's Trade Union League
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    A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
  139. Workers Film and Photo League
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    A loosely knit alliance of local organizations that provided independent visual media to people in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world.
  140. Workers' Opposition
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    A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
  141. Workers' Opposition
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    A group within the Russian Communist Party that struggled to achieve workers rights and trade union control over industry.
  142. Workers Unity League
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    A national trade union federation that was formed in 1929 on the initiative of the Communist Party of Canada in line with the decision of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1928 that communists break with their previous policy of working inside existing labour parties and labour unions to push for more militant stances.
  143. World Social Forum
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    An annual meeting that defines itself as "an opened space - plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan - that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidary, democratic and fair world....a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism".
  144. World Socialist Movement
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    An international organisation of socialist parties created in 1904 with the founding of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
  145. Youth International Party (Yippies)
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    A youth-oriented radical and countercultural offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
  146. Yugoslav Partisans
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    A Communist-led World War II resistance movement engaged in the fight against Axis forces and their collaborators in Yugoslavia from 1941-1945.
  147. Zapatistas
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    Revolutionary group based in Chiapas, the southernmost, and one of the poorest, states of Mexico.
  148. Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowej
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    An underground resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940.

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