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  1. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
  2. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  3. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
  4. 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.
  5. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  6. The East York Workers' Association
    A Response to the Great Depression

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  7. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  8. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  9. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
  10. France Spring 1968
    Masses in motion Ideas in free flow

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  11. General Strike France 1968
    A factory-by-factory account

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
  12. A Guide to Working Class History
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  13. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
  14. The Idea of May Day on the March
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1913
    The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
  15. International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2011
    March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
  16. Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
  17. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  18. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  19. Marxism and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
  20. New Hogtown Press
    After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
  21. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  22. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
  23. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
  24. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  25. 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.
  26. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  27. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
    Resource Type: Book
  28. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  29. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
  30. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973

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