In Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, we ask whether or not the many forms of social and political protest current in the world today share opposition to the expansion of the culture of capitalism.  Thus a question becomes whether or not each of the protests represented in the following list of web sites share a common goal, or whether they are unrelated, each movement pursuing its own separate goals?  This page contains links to general antisystemic sites and organizations,  labor protest sites, indigenous protest sites, environmental protest sites, feminist protest sites, minority protest sites, and political protest sites.  There is, of course, often considerable overlap in the sites, many explicitly identifying capitalist expansion as the object of their protest.

Anarchism is a movement largely opposed to state power, the state viewed as "the organised violence of the bourgeoisie against the workers and the system of its executive organs."  Its main doctrines formed in the late 19th Century, its main figures included Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin in Europe, and Emma Goldman in the United States.  At Anarchism International you can find the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists, some historical background on the evolution of the Organizational Platform, various documents, along with links to other anarchist sites.

A good point of entry to various anarchist groups in New York, with links to other anarchist organizations around the world.  You might want to check out the essay by Emma Goldman, "Syndicalism: Its Theory and Practice," for one statement of the goals and purposes of anarchism by one of its major proponents..

Arm The Spirit defines itself as "an autonomist/anti-imperialist information collective based in Toronto, Canada. Our focus includes a wide variety of material, including political prisoners, national liberation struggles, armed communist resistance, anti-fascism, the fight against patriarchy, and more."  At the site you'll find an extensive collection of articles on antisystemic protest, as well as reports on current affairs taken from news accounts.   Check out, for example, the collection of articles on anti-abortion violence in the United States.  You'll also find links to various nationalistic movements, such as the Kurdish national liberation movement, and Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).

Boycott Action News
http://www.coopamerica.org/Boycotts/bancover.htm

One way to protest the excesses of the culture of capitalism is to boycott it; that is, refuse to purchase the products of corporations that abuse employees, consumers, or the environment.  At this site you can get information on existing boycotts and the reasons for them.  You can also find out whether or not they get results.

Modeling themselves after the committees of the thirteen colonies who formed to resist what they saw as British oppression, the COCDS consists of activist groups that seek constructive solutions to the problems of poverty and unemployment, racism, sexism, health, education, and housing.  As of now (9/17/98) the site is still under construction, but contains positions papers and links to other antisystemic organizations.

 

Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/index.htm

Compiled by Ohio University Professor Emeritus of History James Chastain, this online encyclopedia contains a large number of articles written by scholars from around the world on topics related to the "Springtime of the Peoples," the popular revolutions that spread across Europe in 1848. Users can browse the encyclopedia by alphabetical entry or by contributor, although the latter is not currently available. Typical entries contain one lengthy or several smaller paragraphs and a bibliography. The site also includes an introduction by Chastain which discusses the study of 1848 and the Encyclopedia’s contents. Both scholars and students studying nineteenth-century Europe will find this site a handy reference resource. (Scout Report, November 5, 1999)

Some scholars would define the French Revolution as the first stirrings of antisystemic sentiment, and the event that led later to the Revolution of 1848.  You can find out about the French revolution, the events that led up to it, and the motivation that led the people of France to overthrow the monarchy.

A site devoted to restoring and maintaining the rights of indigenous and colonialized peoples.  Their concerns are with the "solidarity with and concern for the indigenous and colonial peoples throughout the world who must continue their struggles for recognition of their rights, in the face of a growing global economy which effectively negates their powers of self-determination as distinct peoples."   Excellent source of news and links to other anti-systemic sites.

"Organized anarchy? The political tenets of Anarchism are often misconstrued. The Mid-Atlantic Infoshop dispels this confusion by providing an extensive collection of anarchist and activist resources on the Web that promote voluntary cooperation, equality, and free association among persons. Within the guide, myriad information resources are clearly arranged by topic area, such as Anarcha-feminism, Anarchist Opinion, and Practical Anarchy. Also included in the guide are an anarchist news kiosk, a comprehensive anarchist FAQ, and a search engine for anarchy on the Web." (The Scout report for the Social Sciences, 10/20/98)

Wayne Grytting's wonderful site that points out some of the linguistic contortions corporations and government use to minimize the effects of bad news.  Here's a sample: " With shortages of labor cropping up many companies are turning to a new source of employees right here in the USA: our prison system and its 1.7 million inmates. In the words of the Wall Street Journal, "economic reality and criminal justice intersect in America. " Corporations are finding that parolees and inmates in halfway houses and drug abuse programs make good employees. Why? Because says the Journal, "Street and prison life, it turns out, aren't bad ways to prepare for certain jobs." (Let it be noted for the record, the Journal reported this with a straight face without questioning the nature of jobs requiring such "preparation." ) A key reason for their success? "The parolees do so well in part because they are under tight supervision and risk returning to jail if they fail a drug test." Another vital lesson for managing our nation's workers. (WSJ 5/12)

Hosted by ZNet, the Website of _Z Magazine_, this archive features an excellent selection of writings and other materials from renowned cultural and political analyst Noam Chomsky. At the site, users will find the full text or excerpts from fourteen of Chomsky’s books, the former including major works such as _What Uncle Sam Really Wants_, _Necessary Illusions_, and _Deterring Democracy_. Another major feature of the archive is a large number of audio selections; the site offers various radio interviews and talks and the full contents of several CDs of significant Chomsky lectures. Other sections of the archive include a large number of Chomsky’s articles from _Z Magazine_ and the text of selected talks, interviews, and debates. Users will want to be sure to visit the Introduction section, which highlights recent additions to the archive, among them several audio and text selections on Kosovo and the Balkans. (Scout Report 5/21/99)

In addition to seeking alternatives to violene, one of the aims of Non-Violence Web is to stimulate thought and discussion regarding the creation of alternative societies. 

One World describes itself as 200 global justice organizations under one roof.   Here you will find the latest in global news and stories relating to human rights, the environment, and economic exploitation.  You can even sort through the news by country.

This site represents a good example of how persons can utilize the Internet to publicize concerns related to the expansion of the culture of capitalism.  Created by Robert Cherwink, the site contains a rich archive on material about social injustice, environmental concerns, and corporate abuse that is updated weekly.  You can search the site by keyword.

An Online magazine devoted to stories having to do with social justice (e.g. labor issues, human rights, peasant protest, etc).  For example, you can find articles on harrassment and layoffs of workers in the U.S. who complained about nuclear safety, thoughts on the massacre in Chiapas, and protests over austerity measures in Brazil.

These two sites highlight revolutionary art from the former East Germany and from imprisoned fighters and supporters of the PCP (Communist Party of Peru, also known as "Shining Path"). The first site, hosted by the Stanford University Library, features 25 posters commissioned by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) government during the 1970s and 80s. The posters address themes such as anti-(American) imperialism and solidarity with leftist movements in Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The second site is produced by the Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru (CSRP), a Berkeley, CA based organization. The exhibition contains 20 works created with materials smuggled into Peruvian prisons. The themes will be familiar to anyone acquainted with the Marxist-Leninist aesthetic: the strength of solidarity and of international revolutionary movements, the power of women, and resistance and the people’s war. (Scout Report, 7/30/99)

A site largely devoted to publicizing the social and environmental damage caused by economic globalization, largely through full-page ads in the new York Times.  The ads themselves are informative articles about issues such as genetic engineering, the industrially-induced global water shortage, and species extinction.   But you can also find some excellent backgound material on these and other issues.

It is often a thin line between violence and social protest, between one group's "terrorist" and another's "freedom fighter." How would you, for example, classify the unabomber?  At this site you can read Ted Kaczynski's critique of industrial society and his defense of his actions.  (alternative site for Manifesto)

Begun by Devesh Kumar, The World Revolution defines itself as "a new, large-scale, activist social movement for progressive social change. It aims to resolve in a comprehensive manner the major social problems of our world and our era.  Major objectives & issue areas of the WR include: Peace- Social Justice - Environmental Balance - Economic Well-Being - Ethical Culture."  Check out the overview.

Do you want to talk to Noam Chomsky?  Ask Barbara Ehreneich a question?   Or just find a wealth of progressive Web links?  Z-Net is a great place to start.  You have to register to participate in the forums and discussions, but it is free.  The site is an extension of Z Magazine, one of the best of the alternative publications.  You can also find articles, reviews, and other resources too numerous to list.  Check out, for example, the article on the politics of hunger.

This could be characterized as the magazine of protest for the American, middle-class worker.  It contains satire, as well as serious articles about problems with corporate downsizing, but it represents recognition that even the once-secure middle-class worker can be caught in the revolutionary nature of the culture of capitalism (see pp. 306 ff in Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism).

"The aim of these pages is to defend Marxist ideas and their validity for today's labour movement."  The site contains an extensive collection of articles and documents about the history of Marxist thought, and the applications of Marxist ideas to contemporary social, political, and economic problems.  Check out the analysis of the current global economic crisis.

"The Militant is a socialist newsweekly published in theinterests of working people. It features articles on theclass struggle from the United States to Bosnia to NewZealand and South Africa. Every week the Militant coversthe fight for Black and women's rights, union struggles,the campaign to defend socialist Cuba, the Irish freedomstruggle, the fight against the death penalty, the battle for Quebec sovereignty, and many other issues in world politics."

"The primary objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another. The project hopes to stimulate responsible journalists to provide more mass media coverage of those issues and to encourage the general public to demand mass media coverage of those issues or to seek information from other sources."  Check out the top 10 news stories that didn't make the news in 1997, including the news that the U.S. is now the major arms supplier of the world..

The Workers Solidarity Movement was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1984 in response to growing unemployment and inequality.  They state that "Like most socialists we share a fundamental belief that capitalism is the problem. We believe that as a system it must be ended, that the wealth of society should be commonly owned and that its resources should be used to serve the needs of humanity as a whole and not those of a small greedy minority. But, just as importantly, we see this struggle against capitalism as also being a struggle for freedom. We believe that socialism and freedom must go together, that we cannot have one without the other. As Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist said, "Socialism without freedom is tyranny and brutality". The site contains their publications and links to other anarchist organizations.

Chico Mendes was a rubber tapper, union leader and environmentalist whose assassination in 1988 stirred international condemnation and contributed to Brazil’s decision to host the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.  This site describes Mendes's work, and hosts material on rainforest preservation and a movement to continue Mendes's work.

One of the issues addressed in Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism is the degree to which people on the periphery of the culture of capitalism disproportionately suffer from the consequences of environmental devastation.   At the EcoJustice Network you can find out how some groups are fighting back and resisting environmental exploitation.  The site contains up-to-date reports on trouble spots as well as links to other organizations representing groups affected by environmental exploitation.

Paul Mobbs' site contains information on environmental resistence movements along with strategies of protest.  Mobb is a professional environmental investigator, one of a new brand of activists who has managed to turn environmental concerns into a profession.  But his site also contains some wonderful information, including the increasingly infamous GenetiX "Handbook for Action."  The document provides instructions for disrupting genetic modification research, particularly that conducted by Monsanto in Great Britain.  Monsanto has initiated legal action against the group, and has served an injunction on anyone possessing a copy of the handbook.

 

Feminist Protest (For an extensive lists of Websites on feminest protest click here and/or here)

"A database containing bibliographic descriptions of journal articles and book chapters on the position of women in rural societies. Most concern the Netherlands, Western European countries or developing countries. Literature which is important for analyzing their position is also included, e.g. articles on feminist theory and methodology. Articles on labour and health issues and history for example, are included if they concern also the position of rural women. The articles are being selected from 240 agricultural and social science journals. A number of chapters taken from readers and books are also included in the database. At this moment, about 5 000 descriptions are entered into the database."

Just type in a keyword, an author, or a title, and get a list of resouces, many of which can be retrieved through the data base. 

EQUALITY NOW is an international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women. Among their concerns are rape, trafficking, domestic violence, female infanticide, genital mutilation, reproductive rights, gender discrimination, political representation, sexual harassment, and pornography.  At the site you will find specific actions that involve women's rights. 

A Philippine-U.S. women's solidarity organization. Among their concerns is the exploitation of women and men who leave the Philippines each year to work, and end up being driven to prostitution of wage labor at less than poverty wages.  Check out some of these concerns at their "not for sale" page.

Girls Fight for a Living is an online component to an exhibit from the University of Louisville Special Collections. The exhibit profiles women in the forefront of several industries including some of the first women to earn wages in journalism, the arts, and the military. Along with photographs and accompanying descriptions and texts, Girls Fight for a Living also includes numerous links throughout the exhibit, leading to additional information and resources from a multitude of sources.  (Scout Report for Business and Economics, Dec. 2, 1999)

In Global Problems and the Culture of Caoitalism we discuss the affects that capitalist expansion has had on the role of women.  "Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts is a new study prepared by Marzia Fontana, Susan Joekes, and Rachel Masika for the UK-based Department for International Development (DFID) and published by Briefings on Development and Gender, BRIDGE (reviewed in the March 23, 1999 Scout Report for Social Sciences). The authors advocate the use of gender as a variable in formulating trade policies and consider the implications of trade liberalization on the livelihood of women in poor nations. This 86-page study also reviews existing research on gender and trade and provides case studies for Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica." (Scout Report for Business and Economics, 4/8/99)

A special issue of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies addressing the impact of the global economic on women. The articles are: Introduction  by Alfred C. Aman, Jr.,  Toward a Feminist Analytics of the Global Economy by Saskia Sassen, Implications of Global Polarization for Feminist Work by Gracia Clark, Dividing the Surplus: Will Globalization Give Women a Larger or Smaller Share of the Benefits of Cooperative Production? by Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, STOP STOMPING ON THE REST OF US: Retrieving Publicness from the Privatization of the Globe , by Zillah Eisenstein, Globalization, Privatization, and a Feminist Public by Susan H. Williams, Strategic Sisterhood or Sisters in Solidarity? Questions of Communitarianism and Citizenship in Asia  by Aihwa Ong, and As the World (Or Dare I Say Globe?) Turns: Feminism and Transnationalism by Fedwa Malti-Douglas

A wonderful site commemorating 150 years of struggle for women's rights, beginning with the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.  The site includes a brief history of the movement, a detailed timeline, and lots of other curricular resources.

Lots of good information on the history of the women's right's movement, along with an extensive collection of links to other sites.

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony_ [RealPlayer]
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/

This new documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes tells the story of "one of the most productive working partnerships in US history," that of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. As the site describes them, "Stanton was the leading voice and philosopher of the women’s rights and suffrage movements while Anthony was the powerhouse who commandeered the legions of women who struggled to win the ballot for American women." This fine companion Website offers a number of related resources. First among these is a well-crafted, 20-part overview of Stanton and Anthony’s lives and the nineteenth-century women’s movement with streaming audio that presumably comes from the documentary. The Resources section of the site contains information on teaching the history of women’s rights; selected articles, essays, and original documents; a biographical sketch of Stanton and Anthony; a suggested reading list; and annotated links. Other offerings include a discussion forum, essays on the current state of women’s rights, a kids section, and an interview with the filmmakers. Simply put, PBS has done it again. (Scout Report, November 5, 1999)

A guide to online resources about Russian women, Russian feminism, women’s studies and the women’s movement in the Former Soviet Union.  You will also find links to other sites on global feminism.  For example, you can find a report on the influences of foreign financial support on social movements in Russia.  What are some of the negative consequences and dangers of foreign funding?

"SAWNET, the South Asian Women’s Network, provides a forum for disseminating information about women’s issues in the nations of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Organized into seventeen topical sections, SAWNET includes articles and books by and for South Asian women, background material on South Asian women’s organizations, the latest news about women in the region, and a myriad of other resources relevant to women’s rights and health. SAWNET also hosts an electronic mailing list to discuss issues covered by the Website. Please note that the moderated list is restricted to women only. Detailed subscription information and mailing list policies are available at the site." (Scout Report for Social Sciences, 4/20/99)

"This site was created to introduce secondary and higher education students to some of the primary documents available for the study of women’s involvement in social movements in the US between 1830 and 1930. The material at the site has its origins in editorial projects of undergraduate and graduate students at the State University of New York at Binghamton, collected and revised by Professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin. These are presented as a collection of learning modules addressing specific topics, such as African-American Women and the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893; Women’s Peace Mission to European Capitals, 1915; and Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women’s Organizations in the 1920s, among others. Each module contains an introductory essay and, in most cases, between fifteen and twenty primary documents. The modules have potential in classrooms as either discrete learning units or perhaps as examples to students on how to incorporate primary documents in their essays. Additional resources include a modest collection of annotated links and an internal search engine." (The Scout Report, 11/13/98)

"Developed by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), Women in Politics: Beyond Numbers is an initiative devoted to researching, evaluating, and promoting the role and impact of women in the advancement of sustainable democracy and electoral processes worldwide. This Website functions as an international resource providing information about IDEA’s research projects and publications related to women’s political involvement. The site features an extensive report, "Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers," that examines such issues as obstacles to women’s political participation and the impact of women in international politics, as well as compares the involvement of women within various electoral systems. The site also includes links to relevant resources and maintains several interactive forums for discussing IDEA’s projects to enhance women’s political participation." (The Scout Report for Social Sciences, 11/3/98)

At this United Nations site you can find out about the various UN programs on the empowerment of women, and get access to information and statistics about the status and role of women in countries all over the world.   

The purpose of WSSLinks is to provide access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies.

"From the Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara this site offers various voices on the affirmative action debate and on multicultural issues. It's a site mainly for scholars and students offering law review articles, analyses, policy documents and other writings. Since it is California-based group, there's a lot of information on Proposition 209. Its major sections include Multiculturalism and Diversity; Measuring Cultural Merit; Assimilation, Integration and Separatism and, an annotated Bibliography." (PBS)

"Created by Dr. Jack Powell and Donald E. Jones II, this site explores African-American history from the beginning of the slave trade, through the Civil Rights movement, to the present. The easy-to-navigate and fast-loading Almanac offers a number of resources for any user interested in an introduction to some of the cultural, political, and social facets of African-American history and identity. These include traditional folk tales, commentary and speeches, the text of 26 related books (including works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry David Thoreau), historical documents, brief biographies, and synopses of key historical events. Additional features include trivia games and a collection of related links." (Scout Report, 4/2/99)

While civil rights is one of the issues addressed by the BRC, their Freedom Agenda is much broader, and includes concerns about growing class differentiation, exploitaton of foreign workers, and environmental devastation.  At the site you will also find a collection of Bulletins addressing world events.  There is also a discussion list that you can join.

"Announcing that his site "is about more than the sixties protest movement era" Bobby Seale (the chairman and co-founder, with Huey P. Newton, of the Black Panther Party), offers his web sites as a nexis for bringing the sixties movement full circle by connecting civil-human rights issues to "ecological-economic enviro-empowerment" awareness and action. You will find here Seale's biography, background on the sixties and some four dozen photos of Party members and key events during the sixties/early seventies." (PBS)

This new special section from the Brookings Institution explores the issue of race and minority politics in America. With articles from the _Brookings Review_, selected op-ed pieces, brief summaries of Brookings books, and links to related resources, the site addresses a wide swath of related topics. These include opportunity and affirmative action, the future of racial and ethnic politics, racial and ethnic preference in school admissions, test scores, and race and urbanization. (Scout Report. 5/7/1999)

A remarkable 45 minute interview with Malcolm X, at that time a Minister in the Nation of Islam.  He was later assassinated after he broke with the leadership of the Nation of Islam.  But the interview is an eloquent summary of the goals of the Nation.

"Designed to be a resource for scholarship in Black Studies," this Website offers a chronology of Malcolm X’s life and a comprehensive listing of his speeches, writings, and interviews, from his letter of application to Islam in 1947 to his "last message" in 1965. Twelve of these items are currently offered in text format, and over two dozen 30-60-second sound clips of Malcolm X’s speeches and interviews are also featured. The site’s Webliography links to resources and Webpages focussing on Malcolm X and his work. The on-site study guide gives an overview of the history of Malcolm X and his years with the nation of Islam, including substantial references to his writings. Note: Given the study guide’s advocacy of Malcolm X’s earlier confrontational perspective, some may find the rhetoric overly political. The site is under the direction of Gerald McWorte at the University of Toledo’s Africana Studies. (The Scout Report for the Social Sciences), 8/10/99)

"Located at Stanford University, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project is producing what will almost certainly become the definitive collection of the great civil rights leader’s writings. When completed, the fourteen-volume _The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr._ will serve as an indispensable reference tool for historians of the civil rights movement. In the meantime, teachers and students can make use of the resources offered at this site. These include a number of full-text primary documents (including the "I Have a Dream" speech and the "I’ve Been To The Mountaintop" sermon), a general biography, a chronology of King’s life, a recommended reading section, and scholarly articles produced by Project staff members (under construction). The Project plans to continually add new documents to the site as they are digitized. Free registration is required to view the papers, and registered users may choose to be informed about future site updates and related events." (Scout Report, 1/1/99)

"The Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound. Moreover, the African-American Mosaic represents the start of a new kind of access to the Library's African-American collections, and, the Library trusts, the beginning of reinvigorated research and programming drawing on these, now systematically identified, collections."  The site links to information about colonization, abolition, black migration, ex-slave narratives and also presents pictures and original documents.

"RaceSci functions as a centralized collection of information resources relevant to the study of the history of race in science. The site provides comprehensive bibliographies on current scholarship; university syllabi on race and science in regard to medicine, eugenics, rhetoric, and social studies; recent journal articles and news items on affiliated topics; briefly annotated links to associated sites; and a list of requests for comment, calls for papers, and announcements for lectures and conferences. Maintained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RaceSci is edited by Evelynn Hammonds, associate professor of history of science, Michelle Murphy, postdoctoral fellow in women’s studies, and Stephanie Higgs, a graduate student in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society." (Scout Report for Social Science, 5/4/99)

The Web Site for a PBS special on the history of Black protest in America.   Lots of excellent resources.  Check out, for eample, the interview with Angela Davis, one of the major leaders in the struggle for equal rights.

"The Underground Railroad, a current Web feature at National Geographic Online (see the June 28, 1996 Scout Report), explores the pre-Civil War, covert system that helped escaped slaves to reach freedom safely. The site includes The Journey, an interactive first-person account of a runaway slave; Routes to Freedom, a Shockwave map of escape routes; Time Line, which chronicles slavery in the New World from 1501 until the US abolition of slavery in 1865; and Faces of Freedom, a section containing twelve very brief biographies of famous abolitionists and civil rights leaders. In addition, the site includes For Kids, a section for younger students, and Classroom Ideas, which suggests educational activities for K-12 students. A discussion forum and a list of resources and links provide visitors with more opportunities to learn." (Scout Report for Social Sciences, 2/23/99)

Graduate students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have put together this online collection of works by black scholars and historians including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornel West. This page of links is part of the larger UBP index on African American history and culture which links to magazines, newspapers, sports articles, etc.

"Countering the New Terrorism, a new 153-page book published by RAND, has recently been made available online. The book contains four chapters that address the changes, trends, and implications of the new terrorism. The introductory chapter, written by Ian O. Lesser, overviews the changes in terrorism in a changing world. The second chapter, "Terrorism Trends and Prospects," by Bruce Hoffman, looks at trends in international terrorism. Chapter three, "Networks, Netwar, and Information-Age Terrorism," by John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt, and Michele Zanini, examines the special problem of terrorism in the information age. The final chapter, "Countering the New Terrorism: Implications for Strategy," also by Lesser, suggests how to meet terrorist challenges to US interests. The book also includes three figures, one table, an index, and a foreword by Brian Michael Jenkins. Each part of the online book is provided as an individual .pdf file."(Scout Report for Social Sciences, 5/4/99)

Characterizing itself as "a forum for anti-authoritarian political opinion, research and humor," Eat the State contains articles largely concerning the American Northwest.  The magazine raises issues relating to race, the homeless, gender discrimination, etc.  Check out their comments on political prisoners after the release of Geronimo ji jaya Pratt after 25 years in jail.

Characterizing itself as an Online magazine for "writings on the modern urban condition, Radical urban Theory contains articles on urban problems, centering largely on Los Angeles.  One of the more interesting articles concerns chupacabra, the goat-sucking vampire.  Read the article and judge whether or not the story represents a form of resistance to the culture of capitalism similar to that found in the case of spirit possession in Malaysia described in Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (pp 66ff).

Considered by some the first uprising of the proletariat against capitalism, the Commune of Paris represented an uprising of the people of Paris against the French government.  It was one of a series of communes, and while the others were quickly put down, the Paris Commune lasted from March 18, 1870 to May 28, 1871.  This site contains images and documents of the revolt.

The Irish Republican Party of Northern Ireland's political platform centers on "the establishment of a new Ireland based on sustainable social and economic development; genuine democracy, participation, equality and justice at all levels of the economy and society; and a lasting and meaningful peace with unity of purpose and action."  The Website contains the background and history of the party and the struggle against the British occupation of Ireland.   For an alternative view of goals of the people of Northern Ireland check out the site of the Ulster Unionist Party.

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