Leftist News & Views

01/31/2025

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Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of sites you never heard of!

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.

11/12/2024

Hot off the presses. Quick, easy read. Very important.

A short primer unravelling the Israel–Palestine conflic…

10/29/2024

Job posting.

ABOUT US The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is Canada’s leading progressive research institute dedicated to developing and promoting public policies that advance social, economic, and environmental justice. With a strong commitment to evidence-based research and advocacy, the CCPA ...

10/10/2024

Join Octopus Books and Monia Mazigh to celebrate the launch of the English translation of her novel, Farida. Monia will be joined in conversation by Adrian Harewood.

Wednesday October 9th, 6pm - 8pm
Haven Café, 43 Seneca St, Ottawa

This is a novel of modern Tunisia told through the lives of its women. Details and RSVP: https://octopusbooks.ca/events/42210

10/10/2024

In stock and 40% off! As relevant today as it was when it was first published in 2010, Reel Power by Matthew Alford examines how Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals, but it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US corporate and political forces. Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down are constructed with Defence Department assistance as explicit cheerleaders for the US military, but Matthew Alford also emphasises how so-called ‘radical’ films like Three Kings, Hotel Rwanda and Avatar present watered-down alternative visions of American politics that serve a similar function.

Reel Power is the first book to examine the internal workings of contemporary Hollywood as a politicised industry as well as scores of films across all genres. No matter what the progressive impulses of some celebrities and artists, Alford shows how they are part of a system that is hard-wired to encourage American global supremacy and frequently the use of state violence.

10/10/2024

Everything's fine.

10/04/2024

Help contribute to research on q***r, disabled individuals’ reflections of their experiences of s*x education in the context of hetero-normativity and compulsory able-bodiedness. This is led by a q***r, disabled researcher.

Participant Criteria:
- identify as part of the 2SLGBTQ+ community
- self-identify as physically disabled and/or chronically ill
- Engaged in s*x education in Ontario’s public school system
- 18-22 years of age

What will you do?
One approximately 1-hour long audio-recorded interview over Zoom (participant can be located anywhere in Ontario)

If interested, please email [email protected]

10/04/2024

Every year, politicians and police chiefs speak about the importance of reconciliation. But these words stand in stark contrast to the lack of progress on the Calls to Action, a lack of progress that has deadly consequences.
https://canadians.org/analysis/truth-reconciliation-and-the-violence-that-never-stopped/

10/01/2024

Pretty fu***ng simple. Dismantle the Israeli terror state.

09/26/2024

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/494-books-are-for-everyone-a-banned-books-week-reading-list

Banned Books Week—September 22nd to 28th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2024, Haymarket is highlighting the unjust censorshop of political books which impacts countless incarcerated r...