Revolupedia:Sourcing
Access to a wide range of high quality information and sources is important.
Books & text resources
Books and writing have always been a key aspects of all parts of the revolutionary communist movement. Because of the proliferation of the internet, it has never been easier to have access to books from all over the world and often for free.
Public domain
Books written by authors who are probably long dead are under the public domain and can be shared freely by anyone. These are compiled in many different places online but with varying quality.
| Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Project Gutenburg | www.gutenberg.org/ | Large collection of free e-Books with a focus on literature. |
| Wikisource | en.wikisource.org/ | A project focusing on providing high quality versions of source texts and translations. |
| Marxists Internet Archive | www.marxists.org/ | Large collection of writing by Marxist writers and other socialists. However, please be aware of the anti-Stalinist stances of its maintainers, particularly in original content such as their encyclopedia. |
| Marx to Mao | www.marx2mao.com/ | A collection of books and other writings which are more Marxist–Leninist orientated (focused on Lenin, Stalin, etc.). Appears to be HTTP-only. |
Questionable sources
There are many websites online that provide collections of more recent e-books and texts of books which may be in violation of capitalist intellectual property. The largest of these is the Z-Library project which contains over 10,000,000 books and over 80,000,000 articles.[1] Use at your own discretion.
Several newspapers have a good online version for free and have resources relevant to socialist politics and organizing.
| Name | URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | A general left-wing news source with a focus on activism in the United States. Often serves as an excellent resource for anti-fascists as well. |
| Workers World | workers.org | |
| Politsturm | us.politsturm.com | Marxist–Leninist news source. Often has great coverage of many topics, but can also have horrible takes on certain issues (i.e. Palestine) |
| In Defense of | idcommunism.com | Generally good Marxist–Leninist blog. Has an extensive archive of Stalin's (et al.) works. |
| Black Agenda Report | blackagendareport.com | News source with a focus on the Black American left. |