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ANONYMIZER:
Open URL
Sometimes it's better to cruise the Web anonymously without
leaving your calling card at the sites you visit.
Anonymous
Web Publishing
Anonymizer Publishing accounts cost $10 (USD) per month and provide
web publishing space without the need to give us any information
about you. If you pay via postal mail with a money order, you
do not need to provide any personal information.
EPIC's
Privacy Information and Tools:
Bacard's
Privacy Page
Get lots of privacy information and the tools here.
Tons of
links for free, unbreakable PGP encryption here:
PGP-Users Mailing List Home
Page
The
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
Members of the coalition include the American Civil Liberties
Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Human Rights
Watch, the Internet Society, Privacy International, the Association
des Utilisateurs d'Internet, and other civil liberties and human
rights organizations.
Good
Sites for Labor:
Labor Unions - Workers' Parties, Organizations, Publications -
Web Sites
LabourNet
(UK)
This is the BEST site for news and support of current labor
struggles around the world.
LabourNet also says:
"We provide a free service for striking or locked out workers.
If you are involved in a trade dispute or just want to publicise
your labour/trade union related cause, please contact us by email
or telephone: + 44 171 713 1941."
The risephoenix site takes a lot of material from LabourNet
in solidarity with international labor.
IWW
- The Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial
Workers of the World, the Wobblies! They have one of the most
glorious histories of working class struggle in the US. And they
are on the rise again: One Big Union. No Political Parties. It's
Revolutionary Unionism! Check out their great site -- lots of
good stuff, including their newspaper The Industrial Worker.
And you can join them online!
Labor Party Home Page
This is the new party in the USA (not the one in the UK), founded
in June 1997, with a base in some of the most progressive and
important unions in the country and in community organizations.
You will find the Labor Party Press newspaper here along
with the party's most important documents. JOIN IT!
AFL-CIO
Home Page
The home of the USA's largest federation of unions.
Commodity
Fetish Times
A deep and wonderful site: Globalization and its discontents,
marxist and left political economy, history of workers councils
and links to worker council sites, links to anarcho-syndicalist
sites, critiques of capitalism and post-fordist production. Theory
and practise of the revolutionary workers movement.
The
Organizer
Excellent practical and action oriented analyses of workers'
struggles, and a very good newspaper too. Subscribe to it. They
are also working for international solidarity and an end to sectarian
squabbles.
ILC
- International Liaison Committee for a Workers' International
Anti-Sectarian unifier of working people's struggles internationally.
The
National Peoples Campaign
An activist organization in the US acting as an umbrella organization
for jobs and against cuts, fighting racism, police brutality,
and in favor of popular power against capitalist oppression.
Liberty
for the People
Fed
up with political groups and parties, corrupted political and
labor leadership, secretive "vanguards," and the oppression or
betrayal of the people they claim to represent? Maybe its time
to consider the anarchist approach. This site is one of the deepest
anarchist / libertarian resources to be found anywhere, includes
good material debunking phony right-wing and pro-capitalist "libertarianism."
Solinet
- The Solidarity Network
A good Canadian, union-sponsored activist site.
The
UE International Labor Information and Action Site
The United
Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE).
The UE-FAT Strategic Organizing Alliance is an effort to build
a new kind of international solidarity which is focused on organizing.
The FAT and its affiliated unions are working to develop democratic,
independent unions in Mexico; and the UE, with the help of individuals
and other unions, are providing support for this work in a variety
of ways. The UE-FAT Strategic Organizing Alliance has Organizing,
Educational, Cultural, Worker to Worker, Emergency Action and
Fundraising components.
NATCA
Voice
A very deep site with lots of good material from a variety
of sources.
From the National Air Traffic Controllers Association in the U.S.
TWU
Local 7 Home Page
Telecommunications Workers Union, local 7, in BC, Canada. A
good site, with news for their members, some especially interesting
articles on the news page here,
and good links here.
VICNET
Australian Labour and Trade Union Page
A central communications point for labor in Australia.
VICNET's What's New, Campaigns and Actions is here.
Current actions in Australia can be found here.
Italian
"Coordinamento Nazionale delle RSU"
(National Coordinating Committee of Shop Steward Organizations)
In Italian. Site also includes in English and Italian:
Good links
to trade union sites and some good pages of international
labor.
Unions
On The 'Net
A good resource listing lots of labor and labor related sites.
Syndicaliste's
Home Page
Comité Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire : in
French here and in
English here
UNIONE
SINDACALE ITALIANA
In
Italian, with links to sections in English
with French, Spanish coming:
"The Italian Syndicalist Union (USI) was founded in 1912 by
a revolutionary and anarco-syndicalist split of the early CGdL
and reached its major extension in 1922 with 500.000 adherents,
before the fascists destroyed it. The Union was founded again
in 1950 and completely restored at the end of the 70's. Today,
although it still refers to revolutionary syndicalism and libertarian
federalism, it also refers to self-management as the unique way
to the global anti-capitalist and self-managed society."
Site includes: ITALY
1920, when 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces.
Le
Monde Libertaire
In French. The French Anarchist weekly newspaper:
this month's issues and archives,
including "Les articles du Monde libertaire depuis janvier
1998" and "Le catalogue de la librairie du Monde libertaire."
All
about Anarchism - also news of Irish politics
Lots of interesting stuff here.
Spunk
Press home page
An excellent resource: Spunk Press collects and distributes
literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism
and related issues.
Irish
Anarchist Publications from the Workers Solidarity Movement:
Workers Solidarity, Red & Black Revolution, and
Anarchist News.
These are publications of the Workers Solidarity Movement , an
anarchist group active in Ireland. Articles cover aspects of Irish
History and current struggles including union/workplace struggles,
community struggles and anti-imperialism.
La
CNT: Confédération Nationale du Travail
- in French.
"la Confédération Nationale du Travail essaie de développer
un syndicalisme différent. Longtemps ignorée et marginalisée,
elle émerge aujourd'hui forte des expériences accumulées, pour
dire bien fort que le pire n'est pas fatal et qu'il n'est pas
trop tard pour agir autrement. "
Le
Combat syndicaliste - in French
Le CS, mensuel de la Confédération Nationale du travail, traite
de questions d'actualité, se fait l'écho des luttes ouvrières
et sociales tant nationalesqu'internationales, réalisent des dossiers
sur des thèmes précis (protection sociale, Prud'hommes, réduction
du tempsde travail...) ou des numéros plus spécialement consacrésà
un secteur particulier (dossier éducation...).
Anarchism
and Revolutionary Syndicalism in Africa
Web site includes - South Africa: Workers Solidarity Federation;
Nigeria: Awareness League; Sierra Leone: The Industrial Workers
of the World; Lebanon: Al Badil al Taharouris
Freien ArbeiterInnen Union
- Germany
In German.
Workers
Solidarity Alliance - San Francisco
affiliated with the International Workers Association
Rebel
Worker Magazine
The Paper of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, based in Australia.
The A.S.F. is an affilated body with the International Worker's
association.
Workers
World
The newspaper of the Workers World party in the USA.
A good source of current news on workers' struggles.
An
Anarchist FAQ Webpage
This web site holds an anarchist FAQ. Its aim is to present
what anarchism really stands for and indicate why you should become
an anarchist.
Progressive
Labor Party WWW Home Page
Leninist vanguardist party in the U.S. and their newspaper
Challenge/Desafio.
Revolutionary
Worker Online
Newspaper and site of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA.
Plawiuk
Pontificates
Voice of the Rebel Worker: An
outstanding site with a good mix of pro-worker material from this
Canadian worker/activist.
And Plawiuk has an excellent links page: Workers
on the WWW Unite!
Zapatista
National Liberation Front
Everything from and about the Zapatista Uprising in Mexico's
Chiapas state.
Resources
of value to workers
News - Information - History - Research - Exposes - etc.
LabourStart:
where tradeunionists start their day
A rich resource, including current important news and events.
Includes the Labor Website of the week.
Jay's
Leftist and "Progressive" Internet Resources Directory
Just like it says: this is a wonderfully deep source of progressive
Net resources.
And: They made us the "Leftist Site of the Week."
Homeopathic
Self-Sufficiency Site!
Yes, Capitalist Medicine is as corrupt and profit-driven
as the rest of the system.
Not only do big capitalist drug and insurance companies rip us
off and limit our access to good health care, they ALSO determine
health-care training, what gets researched, and what is acceptable
as medicine. The result? Only health care practices that bring
in the big profits are acceptable.
This is the only class-conscious health site that I know of. It
shares lots of useful, in-depth information.
One specially useful section of the site provides specific advice
on cheap and effective remedies for "Workers, Union Members,
Strikers, Activists, Demonstrators, Liberation Fighters, & All
of the Good Trouble Makers." You can find that section of
the site - here.
Gulf
War Veteran Resource Pages
Lots of stuff for the vets.
The
Marx/Engels Internet Archive
Marxism, even after so many disasters, remains alive and vital
today as a tool for the liberation of working people. Why? Go
to this site and read/download the classics of Marxism, and find
out. It's full text and searchable, with all the classics!
There
IS a Welfare problem:
CORPORATE
WELFARE Information Center
"The $150 billion for corporate subsidies and tax benefits
eclipses the annual budget deficit of $130 billion. It's more
than the $145 billion paid out annually for the core programs
of the social welfare state: Aid to Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC), student aid, housing, food and nutrition, and all direct
public assistance (excluding Social Security and medical care)."
"After World War II, the nation's tax bill was roughly split between
corporations and individuals. But after years of changes in the
federal tax code and international economy, the corporate share
of taxes has declined to a fourth the amount individuals pay,
according to the US Office of Management and Budget."
--Boston Globe series on Corporate Welfare
And the hosting site, Envirolink,
is well worth a visit too.
Covert
Action Quarterly: a great source of solid, well-research information
on the activities of the ruling class and its governments, both
the overt and secret ones. Covert Action Quarterly has won numerous
awards for investigative journalism. It is read around the world
by investigative reporters, activists, scholars, intelligence
buffs, news junkies, and anyone who wants to know the news and
analysis behind the soundbites and headlines.
The CAQ
Archive of back issues
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NameBase Book Index & ESSAYS
Terrific research tool, plus Daniel Brandt has put up a lot
of his penetrating and well-researched articles.
Hightower
Radio
Jim Hightower's progressive populist revelations about the
doings of the bosses and their hirelings--and a general call to
working people to open their eyes and get on the move. In
RealAudio.
The
Activist's Web-Starters Kit
Good resources here. PLUS, you can download their Favorites/Bookmarks
add-on that will put a whole host of new progressive links into
your browser!
Working
Class Revolutions
Anarchist perspectives on Revolution: the Paris
Commune of 1871, The
Russian Revolution of 1917, The
Spanish Revolution of 1936, The Mexican Revolution, and more.
Here's how this site describes these excellent pages:
"Human history has been marked by many many attempts by ordinary
people to take power into their own hands. A lot of crap gets
talked about what a revolution is though so as well as discussing
this in the abstract here we look at specific examples of revolutions
each of which met with mixed success. These articles also seek
to answer the questions what is the role of anarchists in a revolution
and how do we get to a revolution? Above all else it aims to show
that revolutions are still possible."
Spanish
Revolution and Civil War - a history in posters and photos
In July 1936, the opening shots of the 2nd World War were fired
in Europe's poorest country . . .
The
Bolsheviks and Workers Control
This site says:
"The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet
by Maurice Brinton exposing the struggle that took place over
the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian
Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic
Leninist 'history' of the relationship between the working class
and their party during these years (1917 - 21) but it also provides
a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed
in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities
of revolutionary organisation and, some 26 years after the original
was written, this is perhaps its greatest contribution today."
Prevailing
Winds Research
The Center for the Preservation of Modern History.
Prevailing Winds Research is devoted to exposing hidden history,
intellegence abuses, assassinations, coverups, political scandals,
suppresssed technologies, medical fraud, media monopoly and manipulation,
institutional corruption, hemp awareness, religion, mind control,
cults and high strangeness.
Coup
d'Etat in America: the CIA and the Assassination of JFK
Probably the best and deepest source on the Web, with multitudes
of photgraphic and other information and evidence. Want to probe
the real CIA? Here it is!
CIABASE
info
CIABASE provides data on the CIA and other individual or organizational
entities, from information gleaned from 850+ sources of various
political ideologies -- congressional reports, newspapers, and
magazines, including more than 500 books.
Simple
CIABASE search
This is a very stripped down version of CIABASE.
Cocaine
Importing Agency
Probably the most complete site on the Net about the CIA's
drug running activities.
The
Michael Williams Story
Williams has paid the price for opposing George Bush. He's
in exile in Switzerland and needs some help. His story is instructive,
and it's on his site that you will find the Bush
Unauthorized Biography.
CONSPIRACY
NATION ARCHIVES
This source runs the gamut from excellent and rare material
to other stuff that's more dubious. Check it out.
Real
History Archives
This rich site is designed to provide researchers with information,
links and leads to finding real information about the real history
of our current era.
CTKA/Probe
Home Page
Citizens for the Truth about the Kennedy Assassination: Probing
the assassinations.
"If we cannot have the truth once and for all about the government's
murder of John Kennedy, if the warfare interests in our government
are so powerful that they cannot be questioned about such things,
then let us have an end to the pretense that this is a government
of the people."
~ New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison ~
The
Consortium
Excellent original nvestigative journalism by Robert Parry.
Some free articles, mostly by subscription.
Thy
Will Be Done
The Web site for the book: Exposing the Rockefeller/Christian
Fundamentalist schemes to take over the "Third World" for god
and capital. Genocide is just one tool. . .
The
Alternative Guide through the WWW-Galaxy
A guide to progressive stuff on the Net, based in Germany.
FreePacifica
Exposing and Fighting the Right-wing takeover of "Listener
Sponsored Radio"
CounterSpin
Countering the dis-information of the bosses' corporate media.
In RealAudio.
Get
the Real Story from the Left Side of the Web!
An excellent resource: solid information on the political and
social realites of today.
DeepTimes
News Service
Lots of good stuff on the schenaegans of the bosses' government(s).
FAIR
-- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Exposing the distortions and dis-information in the bosses'
media:
"FAIR is the national media watch group that offers well-documented
criticism of media bias and censorship. We seek to invigorate
the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the
press. We scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest,
minority and dissenting viewpoints. "
Paul
DeRienzo page POLITICAL GOODIES
Lot's of good stuff here, from WBAI's Paul, some of which is
on this site with Paul's permission.
Public
Citizen
"Founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen is the
consumer's eyes and ears in Washington. We fight for safer drugs
and medical devices, cleaner and safer energy sources, a cleaner
environment, fair trade, and a more open and democratic government."
The
Nation Digital Edition
The left/liberal magazine online: many good articles.
The
National Web Site for the Republic of Cuba - CubaWeb
Get it from them, not the hostile bosses' media. In Spanish
and English.
Helpful
Sites -
for getting by in the NWO. . .
Do
you smoke? Do your friends smoke?
It may not be a great idea to smoke, but a lot of us do.
Here's a way for smokers (and their friends!) to:
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- Stop
supporting the evil transnational cigarette corporations
- Support
a Native American Tribe that collectively owns and manufactures
cigarettes
- Smoke
chemical-free smokes and stop absorbing the 500 or so
chemicals that big capital puts in their cigarettes
- Smoke
a smooth, premium quality cigarette
- Save
a LOT of money
- Make
money too and supplement your income by telling others
about it
- Help
yourself, your friends, and our sisters and brothers on
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