1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war # not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
   
2. 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.
3. Adventures in Marxism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
   
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. The Blackest Streets
   The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2008
   
6. Build It Now
   Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
7. Canada, Politics and Direct Action
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1983
   Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
8. Changing The Cogs
   Activists and the Politics of Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
   
9. The Chatto Book of Dissent
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1991
   
10. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
11. Common Sense
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1776
    Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
12. 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.
    
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. 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.
15. The Crisis of Dialectical Materialism and Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    Libertarian socialism is defined first and foremost by the negation of political authoritarianism and theoretical determinism.
16. 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.
    
17. The Dialectical Imagination
    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research
    Resource Type: Book
    
18. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
19. 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.
20. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
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. Friend and Lover
    The Life of Louise Bryant
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
23. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    
24. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
25. The High School Revolutionaries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Two young teachers travel across America gathering the views of young high school radicals.
    
26. I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    
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. 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.
29. Introduction to this issue (#3)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
30. The Irresistible Revolution
    Living as an Ordinary Radical
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
31. The Joy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
32. Libertarian Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
33. 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.
34. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
35. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    
36. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
37. The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
38. The New Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    
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 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.
    
41. 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.
    
42. 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.
    
43. The Port Huron Statement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
44. The proliferation of neo-primitives
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    Neo-primitives prefer an imaginary past to the work of creating a different society.
45. 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.
    
46. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
47. 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.
48. Radicalism in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
49. Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    Radio in action in Italy.
50. Rebels, Reds, Radicals
    Rethinking Canada's Left History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Ian Mckay starts the book with an analysis of what we mean by the "left". He defines the left broadly to include anyone who understands the injustice of capitalism, the possibilty of democratic alternatives and the need for social transformation. He offers an historical approach based on the work of Antonio Gramsc i- an approach he terms "reconnaissance. This would allow leftists to speak to one another across the many dialects of leftism that constitute our traditions. It would allow the left to encompass a greater diversity of people: religious and cultural figures, First Nations, visible minorities, feminists, environmentalists and Quebec nationalists amongst others. McKay writes with those who have struggled for a better world and invites us to go forward to make this a reality - the possibility of a post-liberal, post-capitalist democratic society.
51. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
    Resource Type: Book
    
52. Reveille for Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
53. Right on the Marx
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
54. 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.
    
55. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
56. Socialism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
57. 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.
58. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
59. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The eruptions of #68 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
    
60. 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.
61. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
62. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
63. Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
64. 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.
    
65. Upstream
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    
66. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
67. What Happened to Better Read Graphics?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Four members of the Better Read Graphics collective (identified only by their initials) explain the political differences which led the collective to decide to dissolve in the summer of 1976.
    
68. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
    
69. Wobblies & Zapatistas
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
70. Young Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    

Experts on Radicalism in the Sources Directory

1. Center for Socialist History
2. Radical Digressions