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  1. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Adventures in Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  7. Agnes Macphail
    Champion of the Underdog

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  8. Agrarian Socialism
    The Co-operative Commonwealth in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology

    Resource Type: Book
  9. 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.
  10. Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  11. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
    Resource Type: Book
  12. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  13. American Communism and Soviet Russia
    The Formative Period

    Resource Type: Book
  14. 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.
  15. The Anarchist Papers 3
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  16. 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.
  17. The Armies of the Night
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  18. The Art of the Possible
    A Handbook for Political Activism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  19. At the Lenin Shipyards
    Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union

    Resource Type: Book
  20. 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.
  21. Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
  22. Ballad of the Peace Pushers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Poem by Dorothy Livesay.
  23. Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  24. Beyond Social Democracy
    The City and Urban Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
  25. Billboard Liberation Front Manual
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Tactics for improving outdoor advertising.
  26. Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
  27. 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."
  28. 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.
  29. Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
  30. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1946
  31. Canada: The Communist Viewpoint
    Resource Type: Book
  32. Canada's Fighting Seniors
    Resource Type: Book
  33. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  34. 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.
  35. Children of Privilege
    Student Revolt in the Sixties

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  36. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  37. 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.
  38. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
  39. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  40. 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.
  41. The C. L. R. James Reader
    Resource Type: Book
  42. 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
  43. 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.
  44. The Communist Party in Canada
    A History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  45. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  46. 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.
  47. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  48. 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.
  49. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  50. Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
  51. 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.
  52. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  53. Directory of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    1775 listings. Also publish Directory of the American Right, 2160 listsings, $9.95.
  54. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  55. Don't Agonize, Organize
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
  56. Dorothy Day
    Champion of the Poor

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  57. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  58. Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
  59. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  60. The Empire of Mind
    Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Strangelove believes the Internet is a dire threat to capitalism.
  61. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
    Resource Type: Book
  62. Europe Against the Current
    Catalogue of Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. 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."
  66. 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.
  67. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  68. Fighting Back on the Job
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  69. 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.
  70. For Ourselves
    Forgotten Goals of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
  71. Free Ourselves
    Forgotten Goals of the Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  72. Freedom Riders
    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  73. French Revolution 1968
    Resource Type: Book
  74. From Prince to Rebel
    Peter Kropotkin

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  75. The Future in the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
  76. 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.
  77. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
  78. 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.
  79. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
  80. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
  81. 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.
  82. I Ain't Marchin' Anymore
    Resource Type: Book
  83. 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?
  84. The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  85. Insurgency Online
    Web Activism and Global Conflict

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
  86. 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.
  87. Das Kleine Rotbuch Almanach
    Resource Type: Book

  88. The Legacy of the New Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  89. 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
  90. Literature as Pulpit
    The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  91. Long March, Short Spring
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  92. 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.
  93. Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
    Resource Type: Book
  94. The Making of a Counter Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  95. 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.
  96. Manifesto of the Communist Party
    Resource Type: Book
  97. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
    Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  98. Media for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
  99. The Modern Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
  100. The Monkey Wrench Gang
    Resource Type: Book
  101. Montreal
    A Citizen's Guide to Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  102. 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.
  103. Moving Toward A New Society.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  104. 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.
  105. 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?
  106. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956

    Resource Type: Book
  107. 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.
  108. Networks: The Ecology of the Movements
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
  109. The New Left
    A Collection of Essays

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  110. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  111. The New Left Reader
    Resource Type: Book
  112. The New Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
  113. The New Student Left
    Resource Type: Book
  114. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  115. 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.
  116. 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.
  117. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
  118. 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.
  119. On Organization
    Resource Type: Book
  120. On Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
  121. On the First International
    Resource Type: Book
  122. 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.
  123. 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.
  124. 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.
  125. 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.
  126. The People vs. Global Capital
    The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
  127. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  128. Political Dissent: an International Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Covers some 1,000 political opposition movements, whether violent, terrorist, guerilla, or non-violent, opposition trade union movements, and human rights groups. Details include international affiliation, leadership, background and history, and politica
  129. Political Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  130. The Port Huron Statement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
  131. Power: Building it Without Taking it
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
  132. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  133. Provos and Kabouters
    Resource Type: Book
  134. 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.
  135. Radical America
    Resource Type: Book
  136. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
    Resource Type: Book
  137. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
  138. 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.
  139. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  140. 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.
  141. 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.
  142. Raising Hell
    A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  143. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
  144. The Rebel in the House
    Resource Type: Book
  145. 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.
  146. 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.
  147. Resources For Radicals
    An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  148. Reveille for Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
  149. Revolution for the Hell of It
    Resource Type: Book
  150. The Revolution Game
    The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  151. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
  152. Revolution of the Deaf
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  153. 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.
  154. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  155. 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".
  156. 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.
  157. '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.
  158. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists

    Resource Type: Book
  159. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    The left#s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  160. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
  161. Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
  162. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  163. Strategies for Urban Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  164. 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.
  165. 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.
  166. 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.
  167. Student Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  168. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  169. The Student Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
  170. 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.
  171. 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.
  172. The Temporary Autonomous Zone
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
  173. 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.
  174. 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.
  175. 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.
  176. 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.
  177. 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
  178. 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.
  179. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
  180. 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.
  181. Unity brings strength
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
  182. Up Against the Ivy Wall
    Resource Type: Book
  183. The Urban Question and Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  184. The Veritable Split in the International
    Resource Type: Book
  185. Volcano Days
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Brian Johnson's semi-fictional novel based on his experience (nervous breakdown, etc.) at the time he was a labour reporter on the Montreal Gazette and a member of the Revolutionary Marxist Group.
  186. 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.
  187. Ways and Means
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
    Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
  188. We Are Everywhere
    Resource Type: Book
  189. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  190. What a Way to Run a Railroad
    An Analysis of Radical Failure

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  191. 'What can I Do?'
    Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  192. 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.
  193. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
  194. 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.
  195. 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.
  196. When in Doubt, Do Both
    The Times of My Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
  197. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.
  198. Women Unite
    An Anthology of the Canadian Women's Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  199. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  200. 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.
  201. 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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