Connexions: What it is, how to use it
Connexions is many things: above all, a library featuring information about socialchange with 1000s of articles, books, films, etc. You can find stuff quickly, but to take advantage of thewealth of information on the site, use the research tools: theSearch tool, browseableSubject Index,Title,Author,ChronologicalandFormat indexes, and the many links withindocuments and on the menus (top and side) to related topics and further resources.More details about using Connexionshere...
Other Voices: The ConnexionsNewsletter
GetOther Voices, Connexions’ free newsletter, via email oronline onConnexions.org.
Organizing: Who, Why, How
Change requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by a movementfor change, and movements grow out of organizing. Connexions features articles, books, and other resources related to organizing.Read on...
Seeds of Fire: APeople’s Chronology
What happened on this day in history? Seeds of Fire is people’s history,preservingmemories of struggle, resistance, and persistence. Explore what happened on this day -- or on any day oftheyear. Find out about people, movements, strikes, rebellions, revolts, uprisings, and revolutions, as wellasthe crimes of the ruling classes. Start with what happenedtoday....
The Connexions Archive
The Connexions Archive is a sister project to the Connexions website whichkeeps alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice. Connexions preserves‘alternative’ histories that rarely appear in the mainstream record, and makes them availableonline to a wide public, as well as in physical form to researchers and scholars. Established in 1975, theConnexions Archive preserves and publishes materials spanning more than 50 years of grassroots activism.Findoutmore....
AlternativeMedia List
Connexions presents a selective list of alternative media: publications, websites,andbroadcasters that offer critical alternatives to the mainstream corporate and state-owned media. We hopethatit helps you to find websites and media that you’ll find useful in finding out and understandingwhat’s happening in the world. Explore ithere...
Connexions Quotations
Words of wisdom and throught-provoking insights: a selection of quotations aboutsocialchange, resistance, politics, and a wide range of other topics. Quotations are arranged in alphabeticalorderby the first letter of the first word, you can also browse by Author or Topic. Explore themhere...
Connexions Gateways
The Connexions website has tens of thousands of pages and images related to manydifferent issues and topics. To help you navigate the site and find what you are looking for (or perhapswhatyou didn’t even know you were looking for) Connexions offers a variety of overview pages designed toprovide introductions and pathways to exploring different topics and issues.Read on...
Connexipedia
Connexipedia is an online encyclopedia with more than 1,000 articles onactivism,radicalism, resistance, solidarity, social justice, events, movements, organizations, and people.BrowseConnexipedia using theA-Z Index orthePersons,Organizations orEvents indexes.
People’s History, Memory&Archives
The struggle to create a different future is also a battle over history and themeaningof history. Mainstream media and institutions of power try to consign inconvenient histories, struggles,andalternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s historyprojects such as grassroots archives – including Connexions – preserve and share stories ofresistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. This page is a gateway to resources onpeople’shistory and grassroots archives.Find outmore...
Manifestos, Programs, Visions
A selection of radical and progressive political manifestos, statements, programs andvisions dating from 1649 to the present.here....
What is Socialism?
Socialism is one of the most searched terms on the Internet – and onConnexions.org. What is socialism? Why are so many people talking about it? What are the differentvarietiesof socialism? Does socialism offer realistic solutions to the world’s problems? Connexions has agatewayto resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas. You’ll find articles, books,quotes, and a wealth of links to different ideas about socialism, its past, and its future. Investigatesocialismhere....
What is Marxism?
Marxism is a way of critically studying and trying to change the world, a world whichisitself constantly changing. Connexions features a variety of interpretations of Marxism, with the emphasisonperspectives that see Marxism as a theory and practice of revolution, seeking to liberate society fromcapitalism and oppression, and create a free, just, and communal society inspired by the principle“Fromeach according to their ability, to each according to their needs.” Investigate Marxismhere....
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Another Spring
This newsletter, as always, is about what is happening in the world, and that – that can weardown even the most resilient spirit. Sorry. But where there is life, there is hope, and this newsletter is abouthope too.
Challenges and Opportunities
We are faced with an uncertain future which will undoubtedly bring a whole array of challenges. But theupheavals that lie before us, internationally and in our own country, will also present us with newopportunities. It is no longer possible to claim that 'there is no alternative.' On the contrary, newalternatives are precisely what we have to create. We have to learn to talk together, figure out what weshare, and live with differences on some issues. To change the world, we also have to change ourselves.
Time to Talk?
If we want to change the world, we need other people – millions, eventually hundreds of millions of others– to agree that the world needs changing and to join us in changing it. We need to persuade a majority ofthe population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary and desirable.That’s easier said than done. What do we say, and who do we talk to? This newsletter offers tenativeexplorations of some of those issues.
This Moment
This issue takes its theme from Anne Frank, who wrote:“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”In discouraging times, those of us who have been working to improve the world need to try to remember thatthis is the moment when we need to keep trying, despite the odds.
Yes to Life in Spite ofEverything
Children and Israel’s war on Gaza 2006 - 2024. The May 25 issue of theConnexions newsletterOther Voices is about the children of Gaza, who have borne the brunt of thewarsand attacks that Israel has inflicted on Gaza, starting in 2006, and continuing through to the currentgenocidal onslaught. The newsletter highlights children’s instinct to keep on living, in the face ofevil, and despite everything they are forced to bear...
Keywords:Gaza -Genocide
“How did you organize before theInternet?”
Connexions is working on a project devoted to answering that question, and we’dlike your help. We’re looking for your recollections, stories, photos, and descriptions of yourwork,and we’re also looking for samples of printed and other materials that you or your group produced.Read more.
Yes, Trumpis vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever
Jonathan Cook writes: “If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: hehas decisively stripped away the ridiculous notion, long cultivated by western media, that the UnitedStates is a benign global policeman enforcing a ‘rules-based order’.Washington is better understood as the head of a gangster empire, embracing 800 military bases around theworld. Since the end of the Cold War, it has been aggressively seeking “global full-spectrum domination”,as the Pentagon doctrine politely terms it... The innovation was that it all happened in front of thewestern press corps, in the Oval Office, rather than in a back room, out of sight. You either pay fealtyto the Don or you get dumped in the river.”
With Trump's tariffs, it's time for a more self-reliant Canada
Donald Trump says he doesn’t need Canadian oil or anything else Canadian. Let’s face it, Canada has beendumped and is on its own. By raising tariffs unilaterally, Trump will grossly violate USMCA, the formerNAFTA. It’s no use doing deals with Trump, that he will break. Instead, let’s dust ourselves off and makethings by Canadians for Canadians. Canada was tossed out of similar arrangements before.
Trump's Threats, Canadian Challenges
US President Donald Trump blew the bugle: Canada should be the 51st State, perhaps he might legally annexit, certainly hold it responsible for its failures as border watchers, for allowing undesirable people toflow into the US and permitting drug peddlers to supply the insatiable consumer market in the US. More,Trump bellowed, Canada’s spending on its military is forcing the US, as the defender of all that is goodand holy, to bear an unfair burden.
My heart broke 20 times
These stories, captured in the hours, days, and few weeks after the ceasefire in Gaza, are a testament towhat war takes and what people hold onto. They are about loss, yes, but also about the small, stubbornacts of survival and hope that keep people going.
We've Been Here Before: A Review of Thomas Frank's "The Wrecking Crew"
Lambert Strether writes: "Thomas Frank’s The Wrecking Crew was published in 2008. It covers the ideologyand praxis of post-Powell Memo conservatism, with particular attention to Bush the Younger — the“maladministration,” we used to call it — ending at the beginning of the Obama Era. Since I got on theFrank train only with 2016’s Listen, Liberal!, I hadn’t read it until I got the bright idea of writingthis post."