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Black Bloc
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People who engage in protests wearing black clothing and masks and engaging in property damage. The tactic was developed in the 1980s by anti-nuclear activist autonomists, and was subsequently adopted by some anarchists, as well as some right-wing groups such as the autonomous nationalists of Europe. Black blocs lend themselves to infiltration by police and agents provocateurs, and it has often been alleged that their primary function, whether intentional or not, is to provide a pretext for police repression.
Black Panther Party
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African-American organization established to promote Black Power.
Chartism
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A movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century between 1838 and 1850 which takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838.
Chipko movement
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Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
Conservation movement
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A political and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
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A Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction. In 1944, it became the government of Saskatchewan under T.C. Douglas, and in 1961, it became the New Democratic Party.
Counterculture of the 1960s
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A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservatism and social repression of the 1950s.
Doukhobors
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A sect of Russian dissenters, many of whom came to Western Canada.
Dutch resistance
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Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
Folkways Records
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A record label that documents folk and world music.
Gay rights movement
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexuality and gender minorities.
Grameen Bank
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A microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit" to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
Indian independence movement
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Encompasses a wide spectrum of political organizations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending British colonial authority in South Asia.
Industrial Workers of the World
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The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
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An international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
Jewish Combat Organization
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A World War II resistance movement which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
League for Social Reconstruction
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A circle of Canadian socialist intellectuals formed in 1931 by academics advocating radical social and economic reforms and political education.
Liberation News Service
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A leftist alternative news service in the USA from 1967 to 1981.
Mattachine Society
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One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
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A religious movement, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers.
Second International
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Organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889.
Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
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Polish trade union.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
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Student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.
Surrealism
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A cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.
Third International (Comintern)
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An international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919, and disbanded in 1943.
Underground Press Syndicate
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A network of countercultural newspapers and magazines formed in 1967 .
Weather Underground Organization
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An American radical left organization.
Workers Film and Photo League
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A loosely knit alliance of local organizations that provided independent visual media to people in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world.
Zapatistas
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Revolutionary group based in Chiapas, the southernmost, and one of the poorest, states of Mexico.