sources

Sources to Explore

Top-level places worth exploring on your own: the archives, libraries, publishers, podcast shows, and video channels the school draws on. Think of this as a map of where the material comes from — a good starting point for a facilitator building a session, or for anyone who wants to wander.

This is different from All resources, which lists the specific items (a single text, episode, or film) used across the themes. A source here is the whole library or show; an item there is one thing inside it.

This table is generated automatically from _sources.yaml. Do not edit it by hand — edit that file and run npm run resources (or just let the automation do it).

_46 sources — archives, libraries, shows, and channels to browse on your own. For the specific items drawn from them, see all resources. Generated from content/resources/sources.yaml.

Archives & libraries

Source	Access	What you’ll find
Internet Archive	Free to borrow	Millions of books to borrow free (one-hour renewable loans), plus films, audio, and web history.
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation (Cornell ILR)	Free	Labor oral histories, campaign records, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire collection.
libcom.org library	Free	Free library of libertarian-communist and working-class history, theory, and organizing texts.
Library of Congress Digital Collections	Free	Public-domain primary sources, including the WPA slave narratives and extensive labor history.
Marxists Internet Archive	Free	The largest free archive of Marxist writing; most theory readings link here. Has study guides and a glossary.
Studs Terkel Radio Archive (WFMT)	Free	2,000+ streamable interviews on work, class, and ordinary life — a cornerstone oral-history archive.
The Anarchist Library	Free	A vast free library of anarchist texts, from classics to contemporary pamphlets.

Study guides & reading plans

Source	Access	What you’ll find
Beginner’s Guide to Marxism (Marxists Internet Archive)	Free	The MIA’s guided starting path through Marx and Engels for new students.
From Marx to Mao	Free	A structured reading guide moving from Marx and Engels through Lenin to Mao.
Marxism-Leninism Study Guide	Free	A structured study guide through the Marxist-Leninist canon.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course	Free	A structured introductory course in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, from Foreign Languages Press.
Marxist-Leninist Reading Hub	Free	Curated reading lists and study-group resources in the Marxist-Leninist tradition.
Massline.info	Free	An archive and study site on the mass line and Maoist theory and practice.
Revolutionary Communists of America — reading guides	Free	Reading guides for selected classic texts.

Courses

Source	Access	What you’ll find
Introduction to Mao Zedong Thought (TsinghuaX)	Free	A university MOOC on Mao Zedong Thought; free to audit on edX.
Socialism 101	Free	A self-paced introduction to socialist ideas and history.

Publishers & imprints

Source	Access	What you’ll find
Haymarket Books	Paywalled	Radical publisher with frequent free e-book giveaways and an active events series.
Monthly Review Press	Paywalled	Long-running socialist magazine and book publisher; the magazine archive has decades of essays.
Pluto Press	Paywalled	Left academic and movement publisher; source of many widely assigned study-group texts.
Verso Books	Paywalled	The largest independent radical publisher; regular blog essays and discounted e-books.

Podcasts & audio

Source	Access	What you’ll find
5-4	Free	How the U.S. Supreme Court is broken, from a left legal perspective.
Chapo Trap House	Free	Irreverent leftist politics and culture.
Economic Update (Democracy at Work)	Free	Richard Wolff’s weekly show connecting wages, debt, and profit to how capitalism is structured.
Guerrilla History	Free	History as a tool for the anti-imperialist and revolutionary left.
If Books Could Kill	Free	Debunks the pop-nonfiction bestsellers that shaped mainstream conventional wisdom.
Kill James Bond	Free	A leftist, feminist film podcast working through the Bond franchise and action cinema.
Labor Jawn	Free	Labor history and the contemporary labor movement, rooted in Philadelphia.
Marx Madness	Free	A reading-group podcast working through Marxist texts.
QAnon Anonymous	Free	Investigates conspiracy theories and the far right from a left perspective.
Red Library	Free	Discussions of revolutionary theory, history, and culture.
Red Menace	Free	Explains and applies revolutionary theory texts; a companion to Revolutionary Left Radio.
Revolutionary Left Radio	Free	Interviews on Marxist theory, history, and organizing.
Revolutions	Free	Mike Duncan’s narrative history of the great political revolutions.
Socialism for All	Free	Introductory socialist concepts for newcomers.
The Dig	Free	Long-form Jacobin interviews on political economy, history, and movements.
Theory and Philosophy	Free	Accessible walkthroughs of critical theory and continental philosophy.
Upstream	Free	Documentary-style audio on post-capitalist economics, cooperatives, and just transition.
What’s Left of Philosophy	Free	Four philosophers read Marxist and continental philosophy closely.
Why Theory	Free	Psychoanalysis and Hegelian-Marxist theory applied to culture.
Working People	Free	First-person interviews with rank-and-file workers about their jobs and organizing.

Video channels

Source	Access	What you’ll find
Andrewism	Free	Solarpunk-anarchist video essays on ecology, the commons, and building alternatives.
Second Thought	Free	Accessible socialist explainers on class, wealth, and alternatives to capitalism.
The Gravel Institute	Free	Short, shareable left explainers built as a counter to right-wing edutainment.

Projects & networks

Source	Access	What you’ll find
Autonomous Tenants Union Network	Free	Tenant-union organizing guides and toolkits, in English and Spanish.
Labor Notes	Free	Rank-and-file organizing network; free handbooks, handouts, and a trainer’s guide.
Zinn Education Project	Free	Free people’s-history teaching materials, primary-source readings, and dramatic readings.

A note on access

Most of what is listed here is free to browse. Publishers are marked paywalled because their catalogs are for sale, but nearly all of them run free e-book giveaways, blogs, or magazine archives worth following. For books behind a paywall, the archives and libraries above (especially the Internet Archive) are the first place to look.

Status

This list is curated by hand and grows as the school draws on new sources. To add one, edit _sources.yaml. Contributions welcome via pull request.