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  1. Canada Remapped
    How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Explores what might happen in the event of a decision by Quebec to separate from Canada.
  2. Canada's 1960s
    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement.
  3. The Case Against Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
  4. Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
  5. Cree Agenda Becomes Part of Federal Election
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1999
    The politicians of all parties are acting as if Aboriginal rights are irrelevant to this question of Quebec secession. Not only is it relevant: it is, in fact, central to the whole question. And if the politicians would only admit this frankly, the terms of the whole debate would be changed overnight.
  6. Declaration of Support for Quebec's Right to Self-Determination
    Signatories: Professors at University of Toronto and York University

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
  7. Devolutionary Notes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  8. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  9. Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1905
    Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
  10. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
  11. 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.
  12. Matthew Coon Come Speech, September 19, 1994
    Speaking Notes for Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come Centre for Strategic and Iinternational Studies

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    The status and rights of the James Bay Crees in the context of Quebec secession from Canada.
  13. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
  14. The National Question
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, -- the right of nations to self-determination -- is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
  15. The Partition Principle
    Remapping Quebec after Separation

    Resource Type: Book
    Considers the question: if Canada is divisible, then why not Quebec? McAlpine argues that Quebec cannot separate from Canada and expect to retain its present borders. He maps out the specifics of how Quebec might be partitioned in the event of separation, and devotes special attention to aboriginal land claims and the status of Montreal.
  16. The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1896
  17. Quebec Agrees to Negotiate, Kidnap Crees First But "Negotiate"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    Canadians as a whole seem to be unaware of the depth of the double standards advocated by the separatist leaders. We Crees are only too grimly aware of them, however, since we will be the first and most deeply affected community if the separatists ever get a chance to put their current secessionist policies into practice.
  18. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
  19. The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1939
  20. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  21. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  22. The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him .
  23. Self-Determination
    Thinking about self-determination in the Canadian context

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A critique of how many of the left approach 'self-determination'.
  24. Self-Determination for Whom?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
  25. Thinking About Self-Determination
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
  26. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".



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