Our Generation Journal

When Our Generation was founded in the fall of 1961 it was to be a journal devoted to the research, theory and review of the problem of world peace, presenting alternative solutions to human conflict, elimiting war as a way of life. In our statement of purpose we quoted William James : "What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent to war ; something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be compatible with their spiritual selves as war as proven itself to be incompatible". The statement went on to add, " This must be the ethic of Our Generation, the goal, if our lives have to be meaningful. To this direction our journal is dedicated. It requires a re-examination of our present social structure, our thoughts, our economic interaction, our ethics". For the next several years we published informative and analytical material that aimed to generate and enrich the politics of protest.

By 1963 we noted that the new peace movement had exhausted traditional means of protest, and we began publishing material that both reflected and encouraged the politics of resistance. The movement was analysed as a social movement in the tradition of previous movements. How its goals were to be achieved became as important to Our Generation as the objectives themselves. During that year the editors clearly questioned the possibility of classical insurrectionary change and determined that it appeared to be excluded from our type of society. What was needed was a majoritarian and horizontal social transformation that minimized violence. Two issues of the journal were thus devoted to a study of revolutionary ono-violence as a philosophy of change and the building of a type of movement in which it would be assured that power rests at the base.

By 1966, the journal turned its attention to the politics of institutional challenge. Social change was put on the agenda by the student new left. Called participatory democracy, the kind of social change advocated questioned traditional class analysis and opened a new investigation of how we were to move toward a classless and warless world in a society of advanced capitalism. Of continued interest for us was the ongoing assessement of 'the new movement and its theory of organization' - as a supplement in a 1968 issue was called in response to C. George Benello's important study of a libertarian sociology of organization, Wasteland Culture : Notes on structure, Restructuring and Strategy for Social Change.

In the spring of 1969, the journal published a substantical critique of social democracy and offered as an alternative perspective the concept of an extra-parliamentary opposition as a congruence for movements for radical social change. The fall 1971 issue saw the publication of various articles on the city and urbanization which attempted to place the new politics within a meaningful space. In the same issue we published Murray Bookchin's seminal piece Toward a liberatory technology, which gave a real grounding to calls for decentralization in highly industrial societies.

In the years that followed, an ongoing analysis of structural and material trends in our society were studied and the results published alongside a critical assessement of new social movements such as women's liberation and the ecology movement. During the entire history our underlying motive was that of trying to ascertain how humanity could avoid international conflict, especially a third world war. This search contined to make us examine root causes, hence a radical impulse to understand how fundamental change does or can take place, and what kind of movement was required.

The readership of Our Generation changed through the years, although there was also a steady group who supported this evolution of ideas. Those who hold State power over us also took note.

On June 15, 1971, the Sollicitor-General of Canada, Jean-Pierre Goyer, wrote a worried letter to his Cabinet colleagues. He referred to a report from the 'Security Service' warning him about the dangers of an extra-parliamentary oppostion which seeks the 'creation of counter or parallel institutions within society but opposed to it and to the electoral process". The letter noted that the theoretical reference for this concept was the journal Our Generation.

What this politician and State official was worried about was the existence of social movements that were not only critical of representative or parliamentary democracy and political parties, but that offered a different notion of society that was authentic - local, decentralized and participatory. This kind of social and political arrangement would not only challenge the centralization of political and economic power but would encourage popular intervention in areas considered the exclusive prerogative of the State on an ongoing basis.

Every social and political revolution since that of 1789 had both a democratic and libertarian dynamic at its heart. Publishing up from below were social movements not satisfied with 'representation only' and periodic elections to gain consent and give the State legitimacy. These social forces sought direct involvement in the decision-making process. They sought to control the politics of daily life through communal and workplace self-management. In a word, they sought direct democracy, not one mediated through representatives. This kind of power by people has always worried not only liberals like Mr. Goyer but also those to his right and to his left.

The 1960s was a decade which also reflected this democratic vs. libertarian dynamic. This reflection began for some of us when we sought to directly participate in questions like foreign and defence policy, two of the most restricted and closely guarded domains of the central State. During the early part of this decade the reflection was further refined by such political philosophers as Hannah Arendt, author of the important study On Revolution. In this work she suggested that the natural outgrowth of revolutions ha sbeen the localist council system of self-government as the most authentic expression of popular objectives ; that these communal forms may provide the pattern for a new kind of politics based on power of cooperation between local units, and so ensures political freedom. Hannah Arendt, who had become well-known for her studies on totalitarianism, pointed out that the council, the organ of participation, has been totally neglected for the political party, the organ of representation, which developed at the same time. On Revolution developed a theory of a radical alternative to existing parliamentary politics. The two main organizational ideas were direct democracy at the local level, and federation at the regional and national levels. For us that also meant that a country's external relations with others countries were not mere reflection of a declared public philosophy but rather reflected the prevailing values of dominant institutions. Of these, the political institutions promoted a formal, consenting and passive form of democracy. A democracy of participation, on the other hand, sought new social forms of local and community control through which the powerless can act. Unconsciously, the generation of the 1960s, as well as that of the 1970s, picked up the longstanding libertarian dynamic that Arendt, Bookchin, Paul Goodman, George Woodcock and others had detected in the historical upheavals of the past.

This cry for democratization and participation, in spite of its largely cultural forms, had wide repercussions. In May 1975 the Trilateral Commission's Report of the Trilateral Task Force on the Governability of Democracies was made public. Several features of the original unpublished version of this Report are noteworthy. Pessimism and authoritarianism pervade the document, specifically Prof. Samuel P. Huntington's section on America, called "the democratic surge of the 1960s : a challenge to all existing authority systems". As more people became involved in public affairs, according to Huntington, their disappointment was inevitable, given the unresponsiveness of certain political institutions. The result was a rapid decline in the belief that the State and its supporting agencies were neutral. There was also an accompanying disenchantment with political parties. The Report concluded that if the system was to correct itself, this "excess of democracy" must be reduced. It argued for an emphasis on the fact that the "arenas where democratic procedures are appropriate are limited". Since the functioning of the system requires "some mesure of apathy and noninvolvement" active citizens and groups should be cooled out.

The recommendations included : more economic planning because an increase in average income encourages political apathy ; stronger political leadership (read centralization of political power) ; government aid to political parties and financing of elections ; restrictions on the freedom of the press, e.g. "...there is also the need to assure to the government the right and the ability to withhold information at the source" ; cutbacks in education because the democratization of education has raised expectations ; alienation attacked at its roots, therefore "a more active intervention in the area of work". Experiences in the co-management of the workplace are rejected in favour of State aid for experimentation with new forms of work organization.

During the decade of the 1970s, notwithstanding the attempt of the mass media to convince us that the movement was dead, feminists founded the women's liberation movement, environmentalists founded the ecology movement, and citizen groups sprang up in various urban urban centres to fight not only for better housing and green spaces, but also for community control. Among the more radical of these movements the question of social change, decentralization and participation surfaced, spilling over into debate and experimentation.

The early 1980s witnessed a renewed and much more powerful peace movement. Initiated by the politics of protest, it has moved into the politics of resistance in several countries, notably Britain and West Germany. Once again, this social movement, often a point of convergence for the movement(s) of the 1960s and 1970s facing the inflexibility the nuclear State(s), has begun not only to question the legitimacy of the system but also to act outside the parliamentary order through the use of civil desobedience. It is no mere coincidence that in Britain, the birthplace of parliamentary democracy, we see civil desobedience using peace camps, largely organized by women, using a new method of resistance. Alongside this campaign we also see a consciousness moving towards the politics of institutional change in the form of local socialism - that is, a form of socialism favouring a re-definition of the role of the municipality and all major questions facing citizens, including ecology and war and peace. It is also no mere a coincidence that in West Germany, a society with a highly authoritarian past, the massive anti-nuclear power movement of the 1970s which began in the countryside and which stressed the importance of regionalization and decentralization, has moved from the politics of protest and resistance to that of institutional change as embodied by the Greens who combine ecology, feminism and pacifism. In these situations and others, class-based insurrectioalism, led by vanguard political parties, has been shunned.

Almost all of these and related ideas are in substance in the libertarian socialist and anarchist tradition, like it or not. It is now the purpose of Our Generation to help make this movement self-conscious of its theoretical and practical past, present and potential future. It took some time to determine this self-conscious role for the journal.

The last issue of Our Generation was published in march 1984. The reasons we did not publish another issue are several. Some of us became dissatisfied with the content and orientation of the journal over the last few years. Others wanted to undertake new work. Our managing editor felt no longer able to undertake a role she shouldered as a volonteer for many years. Finally, the financing of the journal became ever more precarious.

When rumours started to circulate that Our Generation had 'folded', many people expressed 'shock' and 'disappointment'. It was heartening to meet people who wanted the journal to continue. Faced with an international situation at an all-time low, the emergence of an organized and ideological Right-wing in the USA, Canada and Britain, and a disquieting confusion in the anti-authoritarian/libertarian movement on the one hand and an urgent need to clarify the perspectives of the new social movements of the 1980s on the other, we decided to continue the journal.

Having consulted widely, soliciting opinions on what we could and should undertake in the form of a renewed project, it became apparent that what was needed is a journal with an international focus and circulation and an explicitly libertarian socialist and anarchist framework. The renewed Our Generation is a continuation of the best of what the journal was in the past, as we consider this a maturation process.

The 'new' Our Generation will continue to publish social analysis and critique. Some of the best received and most widely acknowledged articles produced in Our Generation in recent years have been written generally from a radically Left or libertarian Marxist perspective.

The radical stance informing comment and analysis produced in the journal has been increasingly recast, in turn, by editors and writers, along libertarian socialist and anarchist lines. We shall continue to develop a critique of Marxist analytic categories and authoritarian Marxist politics in terms of anarchist theory and of the practice of social self-management.

The review will provide a forum for the elaboration of a contemporary anarchist theory, and analyses of social and political movements and issues which express the elan of communitarian self-determination. In a world of societies more heavily burdened that ever with centralized, monolithic States, with exploitation and domination so interwined, this approach is more valid and pertinent than ever.

Our Generation will reserve a special place for material which sharpens and refines socio- political analysis from this critical theoretical frame of reference. The aim is to line out a theory, from practice through critical analysis, to practice; that is, towards the building of a warless and classless society of self-determining communities, and communally rooted, autonomous individuals.

Our Generation was an independent semi-annual journal dealing with the theory and practice of contemporary anarchism and libertarian socialism, published every March and September. It ceased publication with Vol.24, No.2, January 1994. The following back issues are available, quantities limited.

All back issues of Our Generation sell for $9.95 each (postage included). To order please send your name and address and the volume number(s) that you would like along with pre-payment to Our Generation, C.P. 1258 Succ. Place du Parc, Montreal H2W 2R3. Prices are in Canadian dollars in Canada and in US dollars elsewhere.

Volume 1, No. 1

ARTICLES

Introduction tot he First Issue by Bertrand Russell
Necessity for Peace Research Institutes by Dr. N. Z. Alcock
Canada Joins the Club by Farley Mowat
Is the Military Mentality Breaking Up? by John B. Witchell
Small Nations and World Peace by Dr. R. S. Bigelow
Norad, Nato and the New Democratic Party by Major W. H. Pope, M.C.
The Recognition of Responsibility by Alice Kimball Smith
20
th Century Man by Dan Daniels
Controls for Outer Space and the Antarctic Analogy, notes by Irena Turnbull

Volume 1, No. 2

ARTICLES

Preface to the Second Issue by J.B. Priestley
Thesis for the Atomic Age by Dr. Gunther Anders
Internationalizing the Nuclear Disarmament Movement by Dimitrios Roussopoulos
Expecting the Barbarians: A poem by C.P. Cavafy
Let's Have A Seminar on The Bomb by G.J. Ringer
A reply to Dr. Keyston by Michael Maxwell

BOOK REVIEWS

A World Without War by Walter Millis, reviewed by David Maxwell

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON THE BERLIN-GERMAN QUESTION

The Tragedy of United States German Policies by Brigadier General Hugh B. Hester (U.S.A. Ret.)
War and Peace and the Problem of Berlin by Professor Warner Neal
What Our Press Reports compiled by Irena Turnbull

Volume 1, No. 4

ARTICLES

Preface to the Fourth Issue by Dr. Homer A. Jack
C. Wright Mills: The Scientific Imagination of Moral Man by Professor Irving Louis Horowitz
Light Quanta and Vision, A poem by Ralph A. Lewin
Voice of Women: Conference for International Cooperation Year by Helen Tucker
A Psychiatrist Looks at the Nuclear Age by Dr. F.W. Hanley
A Report on the Accra Assembly by K.C. Woodsworth and Stuart Hall

Volume 2, No. 1

ARTICLES

Preface to Fifth Issue by Dr. Brock Chisholm
Canadian Editorial by Ottawa Peace Lobby
Nuclear Arms for Canada: A Strong Case Examined by Professor C.B. Macpherson

SUPPLEMENT ON NATIONALISM AND THE NATION-STATE

Decline of the State by Professor Kathleen Gough
Age of Nationalism by Dr. Hans Kohn
A Copernican World by Emery Reves
Conflict Resolution by Lieutenant Daniel R. Lutzker, M.S.C.

Volume 2, No. 2

ARTICLES

Preface to the Sixth Issue by Premier Jawaharlal Nehru
A Plea for Social Imagination, parts 1-5 by Robert Jungk
New Challenge to Social Change by A.J. Muste
The Nth Country Problem by Christopher Hohenemser
Philosophy & The Quest for Peace by Robert G. Colodny
General Problems of Disarmament & World Order by Louis B. Sohn
Report On The Oxford Conference by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos

BOOK REVIEWS

Kill & Overkill by Ralph E. Lapp
Thinking About The Unthinkable by Herman Kahn

Volume 2, No. 3

ARTICLES

A Plea for Social Imagination, parts 5-7 by Robert Jungk

SUPPLEMENT ON NEUTRALISM AND NON-ALIGNMENT

From Bandung to Belgrade by Dr. Homer A. Jack
Non-Alignment in South East Asia by Malcolm Caldwell
The Prospects of the Policy of Non-Alignment by Joze Smole
Positive Neutralism and the Third World by Peter Worsley
Government Neutralism and Peoples Non-Alignment by Bertil Sanden
The People: A Third Force by Tony Smythe
Alignment and Non-Alignment by David Boulton
Some Comments by Alfred Hassler
Non-Alignment as Applied to Peace Organizations by Kenneth Lee
Poetry by Judy Labow

Special Issue: Volume 2, No. 3

ARTICLES

Violence on Trial by Gabriel Breton
Public opinion on war and shelters by Stephen Withey
What every schoolboy knows by John Weiss
The effects of a 20 megaton bomb by the Scientists' Committee on Radiation Information
Three sides of the Pentagon by Arthur Waskow
The limits of defense by Todd Gitlin
America's new disarmament policy by Mason Drukman
The history of disarmament by Nicolette Carey
Perspective on Berlin by Otto Feinstein
Assessing the Soviet threat by Robert Paul Wolff
Economics of armament and disarmament by Seymour Melman
A 1961 peace walk by Lawrence Landry and Edward Eckenfels
The politics of peace
The organization of peace

Volume 2, No. 4

ARTICLES

The Peace Movement 1963 by A.J. Muste
Some Thoughts on the International Peace Movement by F.C. Hunnius
The Intellectual as an Agent of Social Change by Paul Potter
The Denuded Planet by Gunther Anders

SUPPLEMENT ON NON-VIOLENCE

Non-Violent Direct Action by April Carter
Non-violence vs. Pacifism: A Psychiatrist's View by E. James Lieberman
The Negro and Non-Violence by Tom Kahn
Letter from Aldous Huxley to Anthony Brakes
Non-Violent Defence by Adam Roberts
Bibliography on Non-Violence
Poetry by Pierre Leger

Volume 3, No. 1

ARTICLES

A Report on the Confederation for Peace
The International Confederation: The Great Debate, A.J. Muste and Claude Bourdet

SUPPLEMENT ON NON-VIOLENCE- PART 2

Reflections on Non-Violence by Johan Galtung
Vision and Failure by Theodore Olson
Some Experiences and Considerations by Eyvind Hytten
The Need for a Substitute for War by Gene Sharp
Poetry and Graphics
Anti-War Sentiments in Gulliver's Travels by Herbert Marx
The Role of the Scientist by Ivan Supek

Volume 3, No. 2

SUPPLEMENT ON PEACE RESEARCH

A Critical Definition of Peace Research by Johan Galtung
Needs and Opportunities in Peace Research and Peace Education by Kenneth Boulding
New Directions in Social Science: Peace Research by Ruth L. Bunzel
Some Remarks on the History of International Conflict Resolution by Remigiusz Bierzanek
The Need for a Study on the Psychology of Disarmament by Kenneth Boulding
Creative Alternatives to a Deadly Showdown by Muzafer Sherif
Peace Research U.S.A. by Thomas Hayden and Richard Flacks
Peace Research in Asia by Elise Boulding
Nuclear Physicists in British Novels: The Moral Equation by G.J. Ringer
Peace Training: A Beginning by Theodore Olson
Student Politics and World Politics: Ferment and Change by Philip G. Altbach and Gail Paradise

Volume 3, No. 3

SPECIAL ISSUE ON UNILATERALISM

Unilateralism: Gesture or Policy? by Adam Roberts
Morality in International Politics by Walter Stein
Unilateral Initiatives: A Strategy in Search of a Theory by Irving Louis Horowitz
The Meanings of Unilateralism: A Peace Movement View by Alan Shuttleworth
Unilateralism as a Process by John Burton
Nationalism, Internationalism or Non-Alignment? by Nicholas A. Sims
Germany: Obstacles to Disarmament by Egon Becker
Poland and Unilateralism by Karol D. Lapter
Imperative and Impossible: Unilateralism in the USA by David McReynolds
Is There a Theory of Unilateralism by April Carter

Volume 4, No. 3

ARTICLES

Quebec and the Intellectuals by Andre Cardinal
Youth and Canadian Politics by James Laxer and Arthur Pape
The Latin American Student Movement by Miguel Rotblat
Les Travailleurs Etudiants du Quebec by Jean Laliberte
Comments: by Francine Dansereau
The Student Neestow Project by Liora Proctor
Comments: by Clayton Ruby
The End of Ideology as Ideology by Robert Alan Habar

Volume 5, No. 1

ARTICLES

The Dialectics of Political change in Canada by B. Roy Lemoine
Blockade the Arms
A Necessary first step: Unilateral Disarmament for Canada by E.G. Adams
The "Berkeley Issue" in Time and Place by John R. Seeley
Have the Intellectuals a class interest? by Anatol Rapoport
Student Political Activism by Christian Bay
The Limits of University Reform by Peter Clecak
Student Motion in B.C. by George Reamsbottom
The Quandary of l'Union Generale des Etudiants du Quebec by Robert Favreau
Student Syndicalism by Carl Davidson

Volume 5, No. 2

ARTICLES

The War on Poverty in the USA & in Canada by Dave Nolan and Edouard Smith
Canada, Vietnam and the War Industries by Philip Resnick
Black Riots and Vietnam by David Porter
Facts in Search of Theory: Political and Apolitical Students by Christian Bay
Political and Apolitical Students: The New Radicals and the Multiversity by Carl Davidson
The Student Revolts in Montreal by Frank Brayton
Civil War on Campus by Elliot Blinder

BOOK REVIEWS

After 20 Years: The Decline of NATO (Barnet and Raskin), reviewed by James M. Minifie
The Necessity of Choice (Kissinger), reviewed by Danny Drache
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), reviewed by George Haggar
The Political Illusion (Ellul) and the The American Power Structure (Rose), reviewed by Philip Resnick
Strategy for Labour (Gorz), reviewed by James Jacobs
French-Canadian Society, Vol. 2 (Martin and Rioux), reviewed by Fred Caloren
The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Moore), reviewed by Mike Goldfield

Volume 6, No. 3

ARTICLES

Historical Perspectives 1968
Stalin is dead but Neo-Stalinism lives
Radical Perspectives 1969 by Herbert Marcuse
Why the Soviets Intervened in Czechoslovakia by David Horowitz
Mexico's New Movement by Nardo Perello
What's Happening at Simon Fraser University by James Harding
The Two Souls of Socialism by Hal Draper
Participative Techniques of Social Integration by Martin Oppenheimer
The Movement, its structure and community- a discussion by Watson Thompson, Evan Stark, and Jody Palmour

BOOK REVIEWS

The Dialectical Sociology of George Gurvitch (Bosserman), reviewed by Philip Resnick
The Social Construction of Reality (Berger and Luckman), reviewed by Charles Taylor
Cocksure (Richler), reviewed by Patrick Coleman
Risinghill (Berg), reviewed by Kenneth-Charles Du Puis
Dialogue with Erik Erikson (Evans), reviewed by Raymond Price
Canadian Labor in Politics (Horowitz), by Ed Finn

Volume 6, No. 4

ARTICLES

The Progressive Tradition in Saskatchewan by Lorne Brown
The Saskatchewan C.C.F. by Arthur K. Davis
Socialism and the N.D.P. by Richard Thompson
The N.D.P. Since Its Founding by Evelyn Dumas and Ed Smith
No More Waiting by Dan Daniels
Theses for the Transformation of Democracy by Johannes Agnoli
The Multi-National Corporation and Canada by Mel Watkins
Political Repression in Canadian History: Part 1 by James Harding
The Exploitation of Youth by Melody Kilian and Rick Ayers
The C.E.G.E.P. General Strike in Quebec by Adele Lauzon

BOOK REVIEWS

J.S. Woodsworth, A Man to Remember (MacInnis), The Third Force in Canada (McHenry), A Prophet in Politics (McNaught), Agrarian Socialism (Lipset), The Compassionate Rebel (Stevens), A Protest Movement Becalmed (Zakuta), reviewed by Lorne Brown
Matters of Principle: Labour's Last Chance (Tyrell, Calvocoressi, Smith, Lipton, Rex, Seers and White), reviewed by Denis Deneau
Social Policies for America in the Seventies (Theobold), reviewed by C. George Benello
The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion (Hoar), reviewed by Dan Daniels

Volume 7, No. 1

EDITORIALS

The Radical Implications of the Ecology Question
The Black Panthers
It's the rich that gets the gravy, it's the poor that gets the blame
The Quebec elections, has the countdown begun?

ARTICLES

The New Left in Quebec by Adele Lauzon
The New Left in Ontario by Philip Resnick
The New Left in Saskatchewan by Richard Thompson
The Truth is Great, and will prevail by Peggy Duff
Interview: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial- Davis, Kunstler, Weinglass, and Abbie Hoffman
The Power to Destroy and the Power to Create- An Ecology Manifesto

BOOK REVIEWS

The Roots of American Foreign Policy (Gabriel Kolko), reviewed by Miles D. Wolpin
American Power and the New Mandarins (Noam Chomsky), reviewed by G. W. Baylor

Volume 7, No. 2

EDITORIALS

The Quebec Elections, what happened?
The Caribbean and Canada: Crop time in Trinidad

ARTICLES

The New Left in British Columbia by James Harding
Towards a Revolutionary Youth Movement by Dimitri Roussopoulos
The Second Indochinese War by Peggy Duff
The Coup d'Etat in Cambodia by Malcolm Caldwell

REPORTS

The Women are Coming by Helen Levine
Greenpeace and the Amchitka Nuclear Tests by J.C. Bohlen

BOOK REVIEWS

Student Power (Cockburn and Blackburn eds.), reviewed by Robin Derricourt
CBW: Chemical and Biological Warfare (Rose) and Chemical and Biological Warfare (Hersh), reviewed by Fred H. Knelman
Power and Consciousness (O'Brien and Vanech), reviewed by Fred Caloren
The Anatomy of a Party: The National CCF 1932-61 (Young), reviewed by Koula Mellos
Partners in Development (Lester B. Pearson), reviewed by Martin Loney
The Third World in World Economy (Jalee), reviewed by Keith Buchanan

Volume 8, No. 4

ARTICLES

The Fiscal Crisis and the Public Employee by Rick Deaton
The Flowers of Power: LIP and OFY Programmes by Lorne Huston
The National Farmers' Union Takes on KRAFTCO- Canadian University Press
The Modern State: Liberator or Exploiter? by B. Roy Lemoine

BOOK REVIEWS

The State in Capitalist Society (Milliband), reviewed by Vincent DiNorcia
The Participatory Economy and The General Theory of Labor-Managed Economies (Vanek), reviewed by Henry Bass
The Shouting Sign Painters (Reid) and La Barre du jour (parti pris), reviewed by Patrick Coleman

Volume 8, No. 3 Part 2

ARTICLES

Democracy and Parliamentary Politics by Gerry Hunnius
May 1972: Quebec's General Strike by the Montreal editors
Murray Bookchin's Post-Scarcity Anarchism, reviewed by Calvin Normore

Volume 9, No. 3

ARTICLES

Education and Control by James Hilborn
De-Schooling the Self by David Harvey
The Critical Standpoint by Vincent DiNorcia

BOOK REVIEWS

Herbert Read (Woodcock), reviewed by Ted Whittaker
The Decolonization of Quebec (Milner and Milner), reviewed by Arnold Bennett
Letters from inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser (Macciocchi), reviewed by Henry Veltmeyer
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire), reviewed by Vincent DiNorcia

Volume 10, No. 4

ARTICLES

Canada's International Commercial Expansion to 1914 by R.T. Naylor
City Politics: Some Possibilities by Henry Milner
The Economics of Misery by Fred Caloren
Poetry: Chilean Elegies 1 and 2 by Tom and Alexander Wayman

BOOK REVIEWS

The Power Broker (Caro), reviewed by Walter Johnson
Anarchy in Action (Ward), reviewed by George Woodcock

Volume 11, No. 4

ARTICLES

The November 15 Elections and Quebec an editorial statement
Canadian Society: Social Justice or Social Control? By Bert Young
Bakunin's Theory of Revolution by Frank Harrison
Rank and File Insurgency: The State and the Unions by Seymour Faber
Ste. Therese en Greve by Walter Johnson
The Food Industry in Canada by Jack Warnock

SPECIAL

McCarthyism in Canada: Our Response

Volume 12, No. 2

ARTICLES

The Colonization of the Urban Economy: Montreal by Abe Limonchik
The P.Q.: Year One by Jacques Dofny
The Marxist-Leninist Left in Quebec by Henry Milner
From Bolshevism to Bureaucracy by Cornelius Castoriadis
Socialisme ou Barbarie: A Radical Critique of Bureaucracy by Andre Liebich

BOOK REVIEWS

Strike by Walter Stewart and The Education of Everett Richardson by Silver Donald Cameron,
reviewed by Walter Johnson
Energy and Equity by Ivan Illich, reviewed by Robert Silverman

Volume 13, No. 2

ARTICLES

John Sewell and the New Urban Reformers Come to Power by Bill Freeman
Corporate Censorship by Noam Chomsky
The Political Potential of trade Unionism by Max Nemni
Red-Baiting: Trade-Union Style: Cold War Factionalism in the Canadian Trade Union Movement by Arnold Bennett
Prisons in Canada, A Book Review Essay: Cruel and Unusual by Gerald McNeil and Sharon Vance, reviewed by Claire Culhane

BOOK REVIEWS

Creator Spirit Come by Paul Goodman; Drawing the Line by Paul Goodman and Nature Heals by Paul Goodman, reviewed by Will Petry
When Workers Fight by Bruno Ramirez, reviewed James Rinehart
In Our Own House: Social Perspectives in Canadian Literature by Paul Cappon, reviewed by George Woodcock

Volume 16, Nos. 3 & 4

ARTICLES

Theses on Libertarian Municipalism by Murray Bookchin
The Greens: Nationalism or Anti-Nationalism? By Chris Southcott and Jorgen Pedersen
Culture and Coercion by J. Frank Harrison
Paul Goodman: The Anarchist as Conservator by George Woodcock
The Fate of Marxism by Cornelius Castoriadis

BOOK REVIEWS

Prisoners of Isolation by Michael Jackson, reviewed by Claire Culhane
Socialism in Theory and Practice by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel, reviewed by Jeremy Brecher
Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life by Alice Wexler, reviewed by George Woodcock
William Godwin by Peter H. Marshall and The Haymarket Tragedy by Paul Avrich, reviewed by George Woodcock

Volume 17, No. 1

ARTICLES

The Manufacture of Consent by Noam Chomsky
The Poverty of Autonomy: the failure of Wolff's Defence of Anarchism by Graham Baugh
Democratizing Utopia: Environmentalism, Anarchism, Feminism by Thomas W. Simin
Emma Goldman and Women by Alice Wexler
Emma Goldman: The Case of Anarcho-Feminism by Marsha Hewitt

BOOK REVIEWS

William Godwin by Peter H. Marshall, reviewed by John P. Clark
Anarchism by David Miller, reviewed by Robert Graham
The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, politics, and culture by Stanley Aronowitz and Working Class Hero: A New Strategy for Labor, reviewed by Jeremy Brecher
George Orwell: The Lost Writings by W.J. West, reviewed by George Woodcock

Volume 17, No. 2

ARTICLES
The Limits of the Peace Movement by Brian Martin
From Proudhon to Bakunin by Daniel Gu‚rin
The Haymarket Affair and Lucy Parsons: 100th Anniversary by Arlene Meyers
The Soviet Union versus Socialism by Noam Chomsky
Looking Back at Spain by Murray Bookchin
On Gustav Landauer by Russell Berman and Tim Luke
 
BOOK REVIEWS
The Search for Community: From Utopia to a Co-operative Society by George Melnyk, reviewed by George Woodcock
The Making of the Second Cold War by Fred Halliday and The Polish Revolution: Solidarity 1980-82 by Timothy Garton Ash, reviewed by E.P. Thompson

Volume 18, No. 1

ARTICLES
The Greens by Carl Boggs
The Anarchist as Elitist by William O. Reichert
The Anarchist Critique of the State and the CNT by Gary Prevost
Ambivalence Towards the State by Juan G•mez Casas
 
BOOK REVIEWS
The Olive Field, by Ralph Bates; For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway; Man's Hope, by Andr‚ Malraux; Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell; Seven Red Days, by Ramon Sender; Birth of Our Power, by Victor Serge, all reviewed by George Woodcock
The Power of the Powerless, by Vaclav Havel, reviewed by Zdena Tomin

Volume 18, No. 2

ARTICLES
Thinking Ecologically: A Dialectical Approach by Murray Bookchin
The Scandals of 1986 by Noam Chomsky
North American Free Trade: The Last Decade by Gary Teeple
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Anarchism: A Theoretical Analysis, by Alan Ritter, reviewed by Frank Harrison
News From Somewhere: Connected Health and Freedom in the Workplace, by Gary A. Lewis, reviewed by George Woodcock
Haymarket Scrapbook, edited by Dave Roediger and Franklin Rosemont, reviewed by George Woodcock
The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod, reviewed by C. George Benello

Volume 19, No. 1

ARTICLES
Gorbachev and Glasnost by Frank Harrison
The Source of the Nile: A Search for the Origins of Male Domination by Rossella Di Leo
Terrains of Protest: Striking City Women by Martha A. Ackelsberg and Myrna Margulies Brietbart
Edward C. Carpenter's Socialism in Retrospect by William O. Reichert
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Rise of French Republican Socialism by K. Steven Vincent, reviewed by Alan Ritter
The Problem of Political Obligation: A Critique of Liberal Theory by Carole Pateman, reviewed by Graham Baugh
Homage to the Spanish Exiles: Voices from the Spanish Civil War by Nancy Macdonald, reviewed by George Woodcock
Montr‚al After Drapeau by Jean-Fran‡ L‚onard and Jacques L‚veill‚e, reviewed by Henri-Lustiger-Thaler

Volume 19, No. 2

ARTICLES
Anarchism, Existentialism, Feminism, and Ambiguity by L. Susan Brown
Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Unresolvable Conflict? by Janet Biehl
Toward a Participatory Culture: Creating Democracy by Democratising Creativity by Ron Sakolsky
John Stuart Mill and Liberty: A Libertarian Critique by William R. McKercher
 
BOOK REVIEWS
State Theories: From Liberalism to the Challenge of Feminism by Murray Knuttila, reviewed by William R. McKercher
State Theories: From Liberalism to the Challenge of Feminism by Murray Knuttila, reviewed by Frank Harrison
Nonviolent Revolution in India by Geoffrey Ostergaard, reviewed by Robert Graham

Volume 20, No. 1

ARTICLES
Unhinging All Governments by Thomas S. Martin
Toward a New Politics :The Vermont and New Hampshire Greens
Elis‚e Reclus by Marie Fleming
Rights and Reality by Karl Hess
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Truth or Dare by Starhawk, reviewed by Janet Biehl
Our Common Future: The Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, reviewed by John Bacher
Understanding Technological Change by Chris DeBresson, reviewed by Art Davis and Bruce Allen
The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States by Michael Goldstein; Workers' Struggles, Past and Present edited by James Green; and Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy by Frank Fischer and Carmen Sirianni, reviewed by Mark Leier

Volume 20, No. 2

ARTICLES
Kropotkin's The Great French Revolution by George Woodcock
Neo-Conservatism and Social Ecology: 1960s-1980s by Raymond B. Wrabley
East Germany: The Times They Are A-Changing by Bruce Allen
Science and Anarchism: From Bakunin to Bookchin by Frank Harrison
Anarchism by Peter Kropotkin
 
BOOK REVIEWS
F‚lix F‚n‚on by Joan Undersma Halperin, reviewed by George Woodcock
Bakunin and the Italians by T.R. Ravindranathan, reviewed by Frank Harrison

Volume 21, No. 1

ARTICLES
Beijing Spring 1989: The People's Democracy Movement Documents from Participants at Tiananmen Square
Libertarian Movements Within the French Revolution by Brian Morris
Poland's New Generation of Oppositionists by Bruce Allen
The Crisis of Soviet Statism by Frank Harrison
Beyond Feminism: Anarchism and Human Freedom by L. Susan Brown
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Partners in Enterprise: The Worker Ownership Phenomenon edited by Jack Quarter and George Melnyk; Unions in Politics by Gary Marks, reviewed by Mark Leier

Volume 21, No. 2

ARTICLES
Radical Politics in an Era of Advanced Capitalism by Murray Bookchin
Decriminalization of the Prison System by Claire Culhane
Anarcho-Feminism and Louise Michel by Marian Leighton
The Bitter Fruits of Hungarian Dissent by Bruce Allen
From the USSR: Not People for Socialism, But Socialism for People by Stephen Dankowich
Monopoly Capitalism and the Rise of Syndicalism by Mark Leier
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catherine A. MacKinnon, reviewed by L. Susan Brown
Tiananmen Square by Scott Simmie and Bob Nixon, reviewed by George Woodcock
Cooperation Under Anarchy edited by Kenneth A. Oye, reviewed by Robert Mayo
Workers, Capital, and the State in British Columbia edited by R. Warburton and D. Coburn, reviewed by Mark Leier
Smashing the Iron Rice Pot by Leung Wing-yue, reviewed by Bruce Allen

Volume 22, No. 1 & 2

ARTICLES
Noam Chomsky's Anarchism by Paul Marshall
Interviews on The New World Order and the origins of his scepticism with Noam Chomsky
Socialism and Ecology by James O'Connor
The Meaning of Confederalism by Murray Bookchin
Anarchy, Organization, and Scale by Frank Harrison
Democracy, Heretical and Radical by George Woodcock
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Language and Politics by Noam Chomsky, edited by C.P. Otero, reviewed by Shaun Harbord
Green Cities: Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space edited by David Gordon, reviewed by Mark Luccarelli
Montr‚al: A Citizen's Guide to Politics edited by Jean-Hugues Roy and Brendan Weston, reviewed by Henri Lustiger-Thaler
Welfare and Worker Participation: Eight Case Studies by Patrick Kerans, Glenn Drover, and David Williams, reviewed by Carl Hodge

Volume 23, No. 1

ARTICLES
Ecological Exhaustion and the Global Crisis of Capitalism by Michael Clow
Ecological Economics and Socialist Economics by Juan Martinez-Alier
Making History: An Interview with E.P. Thompson
North American Greens Come of Age: Statism vs. Municipalism by Howard Hawkins
What is Social Ecology? by John Clark
The Pitfalls of Promiscuity: Soviet Politics Today by Frank Harrison
 
BOOK REVIEWS
The Sexual Contract and The Disorder of Women by Carole Pateman, reviewed by Graham Baugh

Volume 23, No. 2

ARTICLES
Cities Against Centralization by Greg Bryant
The Convergence of Anarchism, Feminism & Ecology by Thomas S. Martin
Appropriate Power by Mark Anderlik
Fanatics of Freedom by Amedeo Bertolo
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men by Lynne Segal, reviewed by Nat Klym
The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City by Paul Gilje reviewed by George Salzman
Against Fragmentation: The Origins of Marxism by Alvin Gouldner, reviewed by Graham Baugh
A History of Marxian Economics by M.C. Howard & J.E. King, reviewed by Florian Bail

Volume 24, No. 1

ARTICLES
Strategies of Western Aid to Russia by J. Frank Harrison
Anarchism, Feminism, Liberalism and Individualism by L. Susan Brown
Yugoslavia: What Was, What Is, and What's Next by Frank Lindenfeld
Assailing the Ivory Tower: Student Struggles and the Entrepreneurialization of the University by Robert Ovetz
 
BOOK REVIEWS
The Culture of Capitalism by Alan Macfarlane, reviewed by John Clarke
Ethics and Technology by Nef, Vanderkop, and Wiseman, reviewed by Pat Murtagh
Beyond the Vote: Canadian Women and Politics, reviewed by Martha Acklesberg
Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Policies by Robert Paehlke, reviewed by Michael Clow

Volume 24, No. 2

ARTICLES
Progeny and Progress: Reflections on the Legacy of the New Left by Andrea Levy
The Legacy of the New Left by Anthony Hyde
They Loved the Revolution So Very Much Interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, with Alain Geismar and with Jacques Sauvageot
Fugitive Radicals
Green Political and Social Change by Syracuse/Onondaga County Greens
The Disintegration of the State by J. Frank Harrison
Anarchistic Technology by Ken Spice
 
BOOK REVIEWS
One Woman Army: The Life of Claire Culhane by Mick Lowe, reviewed by Amy Friedman
The Disintegration of the Monolith by Boris Kagarlitsky, translated by Renfrey Clarke, reviewed by J. Frank Harrison

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