- Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
Resource Type: Article Published: 1901 A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
- Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
Resource Type: Article Published: 1910 Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
- The Arusha Declaration
Resource Type: Article Published: 1967 Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
- As We Don't See It
Resource Type: Article A clarification of Solidarity London's 1968 pamphlet, "As We See It." Distinction is placed between real socialism and the "exploitative privileged minorities" who controll(ed) the USSR and China, as well as the importance of controlling the means of production.
- A Better World: Programme of the Worker-communist Party of Iran
Resource Type: Article The actual lives and actions of people themselves reveal a deep-seated belief in the possibility and even the certainty of a better future.
- Canadian Socialism
Essays on the CCF and the NDP Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- Climate justice movement shakes Canada's New Democratic Party
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention, argues Richard Fidler, opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
- Common Sense
Resource Type: Book Published: 1776 Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
- The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book Published: 1848 Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
- The Communist Manifesto in Perspective
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Eric Hobsbawms opening address to the international conference organised by Espaces Marx on the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto.
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article Published: 1875 Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- A Decentralist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article Published: 1958 No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
- Declaration of Independence
Resource Type: Article Published: 1776 The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Resource Type: Article Published: 1789 Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
- For a Socialist Ontario in an Independent Socialist Canada
Resolutions prepared for the Ontario New Democratic Party Convention, October, 1970 by the Ontario Waffle Movement Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- The Freedom Charter
Resource Type: Article Published: 1955 Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
- Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
- The Green Book
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
- Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article Published: 1864 Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
- The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
Resource Type: Article Published: 1864 Rules of the First International Workingmen's Association, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
- Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article Published: 1922 Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
- The Leap Manifesto
A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
- A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada's version of the burst of Left and socialist energies that have come with the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic Party in the U.S. and the Jeremy Corbyn leadership win in the Labour Party in Britain. As with these, the explosion of popular interest reflects general disquiet about the limits of recent protests demanding changes from the state but having no strategy to transform it, on the one hand; and disappointments with electoral politics and social democratic parties that only seem to reinforce neoliberalism, on the other.
- Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article Published: 1875 Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
- Manifestations And Declarations
Of the Twentieth Century Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
- Manifesto of Surrealism
Resource Type: Article Published: 1924 Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
- Manifesto of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968
- Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article Published: 1919 Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Book
- The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
- Manifesto of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article Published: 1871 Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
- The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
- Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
Resource Type: Article Published: 1920 Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
- The Manifesto of The Socialist League
Resource Type: Article Published: 1885 Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
- Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
Resource Type: Article Published: 1910 Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
- Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs Resource Type: Website Published: 2016 A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- May 1968 Graffiti
Resource Type: Article Published: 1968 "Don't consume Marx, live him."
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
Resource Type: Article Published: 1921 Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest". In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article Published: 1918 Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
- The People's Charter
Resource Type: Article Published: 1839 The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
- A People's Manifesto: Let's Roll Back Austerity and Claim Real Democracy!
Urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the peoples of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social policies. Rising inequalities endanger social cohesion. Ecological destruction is worsening while acute humanitarian crises devastate the most affected countries.
- The People's Petition
Resource Type: Article Published: 1838 The Chartist Petition of 1838.
- Perspectives for Conscious Change in Everyday Life
Resource Type: Article Published: 1961 Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
- The Platform of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article Published: 1919 Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
- A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
- The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article Published: 1962 A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
- Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
Resource Type: Article Published: 1960 Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
- Principles of Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 A defining document for the grassroots movement for environmental justice.
- The Program of the Minority
Resource Type: Article Published: 1946 Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
- Radical Political Theory
Resources in the Connexions Library Resource Type: Website Books and articles on radical political thought in the Connexions Library.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980 Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
Resource Type: Article Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation Resource Type: Article Published: 1980 The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- The Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book Published: 1792 Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
- The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article Published: 1974 The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
- Socialist Thought
A Documentary History Resource Type: Book Published: 1964 An anthology of important documents in the history of European socialist thought, from pre-revolutionary France to the 1950s.
- Solidarity As We See It
Resource Type: Article Published: 1967 Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
- Solidarity (US) Founding Statement
Resource Type: Article Published: 1986 Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
- Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
Resource Type: Article Published: 1890 Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."
- Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
Resource Type: Article Published: 1964 Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
- Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 At the dawn of the twentieth century, there were workers who were ready to die with the Communist Manifesto. At the dawn of the twenty-first, there may be even more who are ready to live with it.
- Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
Manifesto 2007 Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
- Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
Resource Type: Article Published: 1920 Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
- Through Pluripolarity to Socialism
A Manifesto Resource Type: Article Published: 2021 Our Manifesto appears in this moment of danger from deep and wide discussions among activists of all continents representing many socialist traditions. Its historical and theoretical assessment of the present conjuncture seeks to advance class and national struggles for socialism.
- The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
Resource Type: Book Published: 1938 Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
- The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article Published: 1969 The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
- Walking: We Ask Questions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
- We Can Change the World
The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- William Morris
From Romantic to Revolutionary Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
- Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
Resource Type: Article The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
- Workers Opposition
Solidarity London Pamphlet Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
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