- Abahlali baseMjondolo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
- An Action a Day
Keeps Global Capitalism Away
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- Activism Under Attack
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
What does it say about democracy in Canada when people can be singled out, arrested, jailed, and kept out of a public place at the arbitrary whim of political organizers or police?
- The Activist Cookbook
A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Spicey recipes for fighting economic injustice.
- Addresbuch Alternativer Projekte
Resource Type: Book
Over 500 pages (5" x 7 1/2), written mostly in German. An extensive European resource guide to alternative projects. Contains several indices including an index of the alternative press.
- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Agnes Macphail
Champion of the Underdog
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Agrarian Socialism
The Co-operative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
Resource Type: Book
- Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
- Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
- Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
Resource Type: Book
- American Communism and Soviet Russia
The Formative Period
Resource Type: Book
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
- The Anarchist Papers 3
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
- Anti-globalization movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Critical of the globalization of capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization.
- The Art of the Possible
A Handbook for Political Activism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- At the Lenin Shipyards
Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
Resource Type: Book
- Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
- Ballad of the Peace Pushers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
- Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Beyond Social Democracy
The City and Urban Socialism
Resource Type: Book
- Billboard Liberation Front Manual
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Tactics for improving outdoor advertising.
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- The Bomb won't go away on its own
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1982
Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
- 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.
- Canada's Fighting Seniors
Resource Type: Book
- Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Chicago 68
Resource Type: Book
A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
- The Children's Crusade
The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Choices
A Family Global Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
- Chomsky for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
- Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
- The C. L. R. James Reader
Resource Type: Book
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Community Dreams
Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class
Resource Type: Book
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Democracy is in the Streets
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Directory of the American Left
Resource Type: Book
1775 listings. Also publish Directory of the American Right, 2160 listsings, $9.95.
- Do It
Scenarioes of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Don't Agonize, Organize
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
- Dorothy Day
Champion of the Poor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Europe Against the Current
Catalogue of Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
- The Extraordinary Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1988
Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- Farm Gate Defence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates,mounting production costs and low prices.
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- Food Not Bombs
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others.
- For Ourselves
Forgotten Goals of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Free Ourselves
Forgotten Goals of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Freedom rides
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
- French Revolution 1968
Resource Type: Book
- The Future in the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- Global Justice Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Is the broad globalized social movement opposing what is often known as #corporate globalization# and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.
- Global Thoughts, Local Actions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
- Grassroots media relations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- Hamburg at the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
- Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
- The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
A report on Britain's Government Machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
Resource Type: Book
- If I Can't Dance ....
Why is the Left So Boring?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
- The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- International Blacklist 1983
An Anti-Authoritarian Directory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
An International directory of anti-authoritarian groups and publications. P. 123 has a list of documentation centres on anarchism. P. 139 has publishing houses and disributors.
- Landless Peoples Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
An independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa formed in 2001.
- The Legacy of the New Left
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
- Letters of Insurgents
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
A fictional exchange of letters between people grappling with the question of what the struggle for freedom means in the West and in thecountries of the Soviet bloc. A gripping discussion of the issues of social change and liberation as they affect real
- Long March, Short Spring
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- 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.
- Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
- The Making of a Counter Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Book
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
- The Modern Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- The Movement and the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
- Movements and Messages
Media and Radical Politics on Quebec
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A study of the attempt by social and political movements in Quebec to shape their own communication strategies in oppostion to the power of the state and the mainstream media.
- Moving Toward A New Society.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
- Naming the Moment
Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
- Narmada Bachao Andolan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956
Resource Type: Book
- The Need for a New Socialist Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1984
It has fallen to socialists in the last decades of this century to undertake the daunting task of establishing new socialist directions just as our forerunners had to do in the first decades of this century.
- Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
- The New Left
A Collection of Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- The New Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- The New Left Reader
Resource Type: Book
- The New Radicals
Resource Type: Book
- The New Student Left
Resource Type: Book
- A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central America and other solidarity networks.
- A New Weave
Popular Education in Canada and Central America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central American and other solidarity networks.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- No Border Network
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Notebook of an Agitator
Resource Type: Book
- Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Book
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- On the First International
Resource Type: Book
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Organize! Organizing for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A guide to community organizing with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
- Our Little Victory
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1987
It took an issue like Litton to get us working together, and in our little victory we can take a great deal of pride. We were lied to, threatened, denied information and harassed, all in an unsuccessful effort to discredit us as "ignorant" and "of the enemy." American-inspired militarism has mastered the means by which its opposition in this way becomes popularly misinterpreted. It is worthwhile to look at some aspects of the work of The Island Way which enabled the groups to be a credible opposition.
- Peace Mom
A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
- People Power
Applying Nonviolence Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
- Piecing It Together
Feminism and Non-Violence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- Political Ideology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1962
A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
- Power: Building it Without Taking it
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Provos and Kabouters
Resource Type: Book
- Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2010
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Radical Priorities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A broad range of subjects is covered with a view to alerting people about the problems humanity is facing, and possible solutions we can undertake. What is particularly significant about this collection is that C.P. Otero lucidly presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky#s social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky#s politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
- The Raging Grannies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
- Raising Hell
A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
- Resist
A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Reveille for Radicals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
- Revolution for the Hell of It
Resource Type: Book
- The Revolution Game
The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Revolution of the Deaf
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Rules for Radicals
A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
- SDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Sisterhood, Interrupted
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
- Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
The left#s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
- Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
- Strategies for Urban Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- The Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1965
Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if #the thirties# represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
- Student Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
- Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group#s path to success with director Ben Fine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
- Take Back the Nation
Revised Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
- Talking Back to the Right
A guide for community activists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
- Ten Thousand Roses
The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
- Traité du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.
- Transforming Apathy and Denial
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1990
Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1993
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1970
Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren't very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of 'just talking' and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
- Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
- Unity brings strength
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
- Up Against the Ivy Wall
Resource Type: Book
- The Urban Question and Organizing
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- The Veritable Split in the International
Resource Type: Book
- Walking: We Ask Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
- Ways and Means
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
- We Are Everywhere
Resource Type: Book
- Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa, formed in 2000.
- What a Way to Run a Railroad
An Analysis of Radical Failure
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- 'What can I Do?'
Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
- When Freedom Was Lost
The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
- Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The strains that take their toll on community groups.
- Women Unite
An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Working for Peace
A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Working together for peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is a language that all can agree on.
- Worthington provokes election controversy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1984
The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
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