1. 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.
2. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   
3. Against Sectarianism
   The Challenge of the Labor Party
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1974
   Members of the Socialist League argue that Trotskyist-socialists should continue to work within the NDP with the goal of winning the ranks of the NDP to a socialist program.
   
4. 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.
5. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1978
   Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
6. Bakunin vs. Marx
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1978
   The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
7. Beyond the Fragments
   Feminism and the Making of Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
   
8. Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
   
10. The Canadian Left
    A Critical Analysis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP. Penner asserts that a serious inquiry into the history of the socialist movement is needed, both to examine the past mistakes and and to learn what is valuable to ensure the further growth of social democracy.
11. 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
12. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
13. The Communist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1848
    Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
    
14. Critique of the Gotha Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1875
    Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
15. Directory of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    1775 listings. Also publish Directory of the American Right, 2160 listsings, $9.95.
16. Essays on the Left
    Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
17. Eurocentrism
    Resource Type: Book
    Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
18. Everything you wanted to know about sects but were afraid to ask
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    We would rather fight for what we want (even if we don#t get it in our lifetime) than fight for what we don#t want ... and get it.
19. Fictitious Capital for Beginners
    Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
20. Film as a Subversive Art
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
21. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
    
22. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
    How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
23. The Freudian Left
    Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
24. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
25. Green Municipalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
26. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
27. If I Am Not For Myself
    Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    In a journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
    
28. 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?
29. The impoverishment of the Canadian left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1972
    
30. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1864
    Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
31. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
32. Das Kleine Rotbuch Almanach
    Resource Type: Book
    
    
33. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
34. Looking at the Conference
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
35. Rosa Luxemburg
    A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
36. Manifestos, Programs, Visions
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
40. On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
    
41. On Unions and the Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
    
42. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
    
43. The Origins of the Modern Leftism
    Resource Type: Book
    
44. Orwell and the Left
    Resource Type: Book
    
45. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
46. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
    
47. Popular Education Conference - Overview
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A report on the Popluar Education Conference.
48. The Port Huron Statement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
49. Portugal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    The revolutionary process in Portugal is not one that lends itself very easily to a coherent political analysis. Political leadership is quickly thrown up by the creative energy of the workers and peasants and as quickly discarded as its usefulness to them wears thin.
50. Postmodernism and the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    Barabara Epstein provides an overview of the approach and subculture of postmodernism and how they relate to, or conflict with, leftwing ideas.
51. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
    
52. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
53. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
54. Reform and Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1968
    An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
    
55. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
    
56. 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.
    
57. Renewing Socialism
    Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
58. The Romance of American Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
59. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
    
60. Socialism or Barbarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
61. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    The left#s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
62. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
63. 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?
64. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
65. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1938
    Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
    
66. The Two Souls of Socialism
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of Socialism and Democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory which sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being, in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
67. 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.
    
68. The Un-Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
    
69. The Unknown Dimension
    European Marxism Since Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
70. Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1972
    A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
    
71. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
72. 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.
73. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
74. Why the Leninists Will Win
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
75. Words, words, words...
    Diemer, Ulli
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
76. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    

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1. Radical Digressions