1. Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2003
   
2. Autonomy zone on Wall Street?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   Prefigurationists argue that they can create self-contained, self-governing societies as pockets of autonomy within the capitalist system. While the goal of creating a democratic decision-making process and remaining independent of the mainstream political system is necessary to create a movement that challenges the entrenched power of Wall Street and the corporate elite, the goal of constituting an autonomous authority within capitalism is impossible and can lead to some dangerous illusions.
3. Beyond the Fragments
   Feminism and the Making of Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
   
4. The City in History
   Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1961
   Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
5. The End of Food: The coming Crisis in the World Food Industry
   Resource Type: Book
   Paul Robert's in his book The End of Food scrutinizes the food industry, documenting our eating patterns, the global economy which supports it and the ethics behind it. He maintains that the quanttity and quallity of food that we take for granted in the West can't last much longer. The dream of plenty is in fact a nithmare as it denies the nature of food as seasonal, squashable and unpredictable and in the long run unsustainable and destructive. He advances the theory that food production is run by monopolistic companies interested in the suppression of individuality and free choice.
6. Foreword to the Anthology: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1905
   Luxemburg argues that "the proletariat the Poland can and must fight for the defense of national identity as a cultural legacy, that has its own right to exist and flourish." But she maintains that "our national identity cannot be defended by national separatism; it can only be secured through the struggle to overthrow despotism" throughout the entire country [i.e. Russia, of which Poland was a part].
7. Land and Community
   Crisis in Canada's Countryside
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
8. The National Question
   Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1976
   In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
9. The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1908
   Rosa Luxemburg on the national question, federalism, autonomy, and the right of nations to self-determination.
10. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
11. The Socialist Register 1980
    Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
12. The Socialist Register 1981
    Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
13. Toronto Collective Statement
    Autonomy and Power Relations Within the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A statement written in June 1976 by some members of the former Struggle Against Work Collective.
14. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    

Experts on Autonomy in the Sources Directory

1. Economic Community of Central African States