- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939 Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement Resource Type: Article Published: 1983 Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- Building Social Change Communities
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Skills for creating and maintaining a collective or cooperative group, especially living communities. Excellent, concise chapters on consensus decision making, facilitation and conflict resolution.
- Clearness
Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making Resource Type: Book Published: 1976
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Collective farming
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
- Collectives in Spain
Resource Type: Article Published: 1945 A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
- Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 An account of the collectives set up in Spain during the struggle against Franco.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- The Conquest of Bread
Resource Type: Article Published: 1906 A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
- Continuous Excursions
Politics and Personal Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 Colman looks at the idea that 'the personal is political'. He looks at personal life in pre-capitalist societies, the nature of politics and social relations, patriarchy and sexual relations, intimacy and personal life, indviduality and public life.
- Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
- Meeting Collectively
Resource Type: Article Published: 1983 The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
- 1978 Directory of International Communities, Cooperatives, Collectives and Communes
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- No Bosses Here: A Manual On Working Collectively
Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 An overview of how to organize and operate a working collective. Includes discussions of decision making, meetings, common interpersonal problems as well as practical concerns such as finances and bookkeeping. Written in a personal, friendly style and draws on the experience of many collective members.
- No Bosses Here!
A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 1986 Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- 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.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- What a Way to Run a Railroad
An Analysis of Radical Failure Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 How can the high failure rate of radical projects, in the media and elsewhere, be understood? This book analyses the reasons why many of the key organisations and projects in this sector, which grew up during the 1970s boom in cultural politics, either collapsed or moved into a state of permanent crisis. In attempting to come to terms with this 'history of failure' the key concepts of this movement -- collectivity, internal democracy, participation -- are critically re-examined, and an argument is presented as to how and why radical projects also need to redefine their priorities and take on board questions of efficiency, financial control and marketing if they are to survive.
- What is Consensus?
Resource Type: Article Published: 1984 Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
- Worker Cooperatives in America
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
- Working Collectively
Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
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