# Top-level SOURCES — archives, libraries, publishers, podcast shows, and # channels worth exploring on their own, as opposed to the specific items # (single texts, episodes, films) that live in theme lens files. # # This is a curated "where to go dig" list. It is hand-maintained here (not # inferred from theme files), because sources span every theme. The generator # renders it into sources.md. The filename starts with "_" so Quartz does not # publish this raw file as a page. # # Fields: # name: required. The source's name. # type: archive | library | study-guide | course | publisher | podcast | channel | project | network # url: required. Where to explore it. # access: free | borrow | paywalled | print (optional; defaults to blank) # note: one line on what you'll find there. sources: # --- Archives & libraries --- - name: "Marxists Internet Archive" type: archive url: "https://www.marxists.org" access: free note: "The largest free archive of Marxist writing; most theory readings link here. Has study guides and a glossary." - name: "The Anarchist Library" type: library url: "https://theanarchistlibrary.org" access: free note: "A vast free library of anarchist texts, from classics to contemporary pamphlets." - name: "libcom.org library" type: library url: "https://libcom.org/library" access: free note: "Free library of libertarian-communist and working-class history, theory, and organizing texts." - name: "Socialist Stories" type: library url: "http://www.socialiststories.com/" access: free note: "A multilingual library of socialist texts in English, Arabic, and Italian, built by and for comrades doing their own revolutionary education. Worth digging through for material the English-language archives do not carry. Rights status is mixed, so check before assigning." - name: "Internet Archive" type: archive url: "https://archive.org" access: borrow note: "Millions of books to borrow free (one-hour renewable loans), plus films, audio, and web history." - name: "Library of Congress Digital Collections" type: archive url: "https://www.loc.gov/collections/" access: free note: "Public-domain primary sources, including the WPA slave narratives and extensive labor history." - name: "Studs Terkel Radio Archive (WFMT)" type: archive url: "https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/" access: free note: "2,000+ streamable interviews on work, class, and ordinary life — a cornerstone oral-history archive." - name: "Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation (Cornell ILR)" type: archive url: "https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/kheel/" access: free note: "Labor oral histories, campaign records, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire collection." # --- Publishers & imprints --- - name: "Monthly Review Press" type: publisher url: "https://monthlyreview.org" access: paywalled note: "Long-running socialist magazine and book publisher; the magazine archive has decades of essays." - name: "Haymarket Books" type: publisher url: "https://www.haymarketbooks.org" access: paywalled note: "Radical publisher with frequent free e-book giveaways and an active events series." - name: "Verso Books" type: publisher url: "https://www.versobooks.com" access: paywalled note: "The largest independent radical publisher; regular blog essays and discounted e-books." - name: "Pluto Press" type: publisher url: "https://www.plutobooks.com" access: paywalled note: "Left academic and movement publisher; source of many widely assigned study-group texts." # --- Podcasts & audio --- - name: "Making Gay History" type: podcast url: "https://makinggayhistory.org/" access: free note: "Eric Marcus's archive of the interviews he recorded himself from the late 1980s on, so queer elders speak in their own voices rather than being summarized. Every episode is free with a full transcript, which makes them assignable as readings. Deep on Rivera, Johnson, and the people the movement's official history left out." - name: "Upstream" type: podcast url: "https://www.upstreampodcast.org/" access: free note: "Documentary-style audio on post-capitalist economics, cooperatives, and just transition." - name: "Working People" type: podcast url: "https://inthesetimes.com/podcasts/working-people" access: free note: "First-person interviews with rank-and-file workers about their jobs and organizing." - name: "Economic Update (Democracy at Work)" type: podcast url: "https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate" access: free note: "Richard Wolff's weekly show connecting wages, debt, and profit to how capitalism is structured." - name: "The Dig" type: podcast url: "https://thedigradio.com/" access: free note: "Long-form Jacobin interviews on political economy, history, and movements." # --- Video channels --- - name: "The Gravel Institute" type: channel url: "https://www.youtube.com/@GravelInstitute" access: free note: "Short, shareable left explainers built as a counter to right-wing edutainment." - name: "Second Thought" type: channel url: "https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought" access: free note: "Accessible socialist explainers on class, wealth, and alternatives to capitalism." - name: "Andrewism" type: channel url: "https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism" access: free note: "Solarpunk-anarchist video essays on ecology, the commons, and building alternatives." # --- Projects & networks --- - name: "Zinn Education Project" type: project url: "https://www.zinnedproject.org" access: free note: "Free people's-history teaching materials, primary-source readings, and dramatic readings." - name: "Labor Notes" type: network url: "https://labornotes.org" access: free note: "Rank-and-file organizing network; free handbooks, handouts, and a trainer's guide." - name: "Autonomous Tenants Union Network" type: network url: "https://atun-rsia.org" access: free note: "Tenant-union organizing guides and toolkits, in English and Spanish." # --- Study guides & reading plans --- - name: "Beginner's Guide to Marxism (Marxists Internet Archive)" type: study-guide url: "https://www.marxists.org/subject/students/index.htm" access: free note: "The MIA's guided starting path through Marx and Engels for new students." - name: "From Marx to Mao" type: study-guide url: "http://marx2mao.com/RG.html" access: free note: "A structured reading guide moving from Marx and Engels through Lenin to Mao." - name: "Marxist-Leninist Reading Hub" type: study-guide url: "https://www.mlreadinghub.org/" access: free note: "Curated reading lists and study-group resources in the Marxist-Leninist tradition." - name: "Marxism-Leninism Study Guide" type: study-guide url: "https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/study-guide/" access: free note: "A structured study guide through the Marxist-Leninist canon." - name: "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course" type: study-guide url: "https://foreignlanguages.press/colorful-classics/marxism-leninism-maoism-basic-course-english/" access: free note: "A structured introductory course in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, from Foreign Languages Press." - name: "Massline.info" type: study-guide url: "http://www.massline.info" access: free note: "An archive and study site on the mass line and Maoist theory and practice." - name: "Revolutionary Communists of America — reading guides" type: study-guide url: "https://communistusa.org/marxist-theory/reading-guides/" access: free note: "Reading guides for selected classic texts." # --- Courses --- - name: "Socialism 101" type: course url: "https://www.socialism101.com/" access: free note: "A self-paced introduction to socialist ideas and history." - name: "Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought (TsinghuaX)" type: course url: "https://www.edx.org/learn/communist-china/tsinghua-university-introduction-to-mao-zedong-thought-mao-ze-dong-si-xiang-gai-lun" access: free note: "A university MOOC on Mao Zedong Thought; free to audit on edX." # --- Podcasts (contributed via the chapter resource list) --- - name: "5-4" type: podcast url: "https://www.fivefourpod.com/" access: free note: "How the U.S. Supreme Court is broken, from a left legal perspective." - name: "Chapo Trap House" type: podcast url: "https://www.chapotraphouse.com/" access: free note: "Irreverent leftist politics and culture." - name: "Guerrilla History" type: podcast url: "https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "History as a tool for the anti-imperialist and revolutionary left." - name: "If Books Could Kill" type: podcast url: "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897" access: free note: "Debunks the pop-nonfiction bestsellers that shaped mainstream conventional wisdom." - name: "Kill James Bond" type: podcast url: "https://killjamesbond.com/" access: free note: "A leftist, feminist film podcast working through the Bond franchise and action cinema." - name: "Labor Jawn" type: podcast url: "https://www.laborjawn.com/" access: free note: "Labor history and the contemporary labor movement, rooted in Philadelphia." - name: "Marx Madness" type: podcast url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/7fMDBjIjMdrU5PYm3zXP25" access: free note: "A reading-group podcast working through Marxist texts." - name: "QAnon Anonymous" type: podcast url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/6qAmVJsQW0k51ZJ9bDZyZd" access: free note: "Investigates conspiracy theories and the far right from a left perspective." - name: "Red Library" type: podcast url: "https://redlibrary.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "Discussions of revolutionary theory, history, and culture." - name: "Red Menace" type: podcast url: "https://redmenace.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "Explains and applies revolutionary theory texts; a companion to Revolutionary Left Radio." - name: "Revolutionary Left Radio" type: podcast url: "https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/" access: free note: "Interviews on Marxist theory, history, and organizing." - name: "Revolutions" type: podcast url: "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772" access: free note: "Mike Duncan's narrative history of the great political revolutions." - name: "Socialism for All" type: podcast url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/3byqQVsdTzhE2dOsnAUmK5" access: free note: "Introductory socialist concepts for newcomers." - name: "Theory and Philosophy" type: podcast url: "https://theoretician.podbean.com/" access: free note: "Accessible walkthroughs of critical theory and continental philosophy." - name: "What's Left of Philosophy" type: podcast url: "https://www.leftofphilosophy.com/" access: free note: "Four philosophers read Marxist and continental philosophy closely." - name: "Why Theory" type: podcast url: "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834" access: free note: "Psychoanalysis and Hegelian-Marxist theory applied to culture."