- After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
A comparison between social democracy and economic democracy in terms of both social justice and economic efficiency. Malleson examines the main institutions of the economy -- workplaces, the market, and financial and investment industry -- looking at democratic possibilities in each.
- After the Crash
The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
Resource Type: Book
- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- America's Deadliest Export: Democracy
The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Since World War II, the world has believed that US foreign policy means well, and that America’s motives in spreading democracy are honorable, even noble. William Blum, a leading non-mainstream chronicler of American foreign policy, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.
- Another Successful American Propaganda Effort
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
American political figures like to talk about "American Democracy". The truth is, there is no "American Democracy", it is something that our rulers like to foist upon the World stage much like parents like to tell their children about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. It's fiction made in order to keep their "children" in line.
- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- 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.
- 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."
- Books for Burning
Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Bound By Power
Intended Consequences
Resource Type: Book
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
- Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- A Citizen Legislature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Arguing from the premise that the present electoral system is unrepresentative and promotes corruption, the authors propose going back to the Athenian system of choosing representatives: by lottery.
- 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.
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
- Community Economic Workshops
An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
- Confronting Injustice
Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
- The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
- The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
An Introduction to the Theory of the State in Marx, Engels, and Lenin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Democracy - Democratization: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- Democracy in the British Army
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1939
- Democracy was never intended for degenerates
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This is not a left vs right debate -- today, as a century ago, the anti-democratic impulse comes from both left and right, from both reactionaries and self-defined progressives.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Democratic Theory
Essays in Retrieval
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Demonology School of Journalism
Putin and the press
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- Deterring Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Drawing the Line
The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Goodman stresses that massive, uncentered governments and huge, sprawling communities alientate the individual and force people to conform to the status quo rather than to what they are or might become.
- Drawing the Line
A pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- Electoral reform will give us a voice
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it
as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
- The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
- Encyclopedia of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- Every Cook Can Govern
A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece: Its Meaning for Today
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
Modern parliamentary democracy elects representatives and these representatives constitute the government. Before the democracy came into power, the Greeks had been governed by various forms of government, including government by representatives. The democracy knew representative government and rejected it. It refused to believe that the ordinary citizen was not able to perform practically all the business of government.
- Fair Vote Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
Representing over 55,000 Canadians, Fair Vote Canada is a grassroots, multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting reform. We promote the introduction of an element of proportional representation into elections for all levels of government and throughout civil society.
In a democracy, every voter's voice should be heard in Parliament. The share of votes the electorate cast for a party's candidates should match the share of seats a party is awarded, so majority governments will have a mandate from a true majority of voters. Those are defining principles of Proportional Representation, and those are the principles Fair Vote Canada endorses.
- For Political Equality
All citizens vote on all policies: 20th Century Power Politics and their 21st Century electronic alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
This book aims to motivate people to set up post-parliamentary direct democracy (DD) enabling all citizens to propose-debate-vote on all issues of society. Every citizen - one vote - on every issue of society. This political equality abolishes Power - the role of deciding on behalf of others - the main cause of violence and corruption in society. "To be" is not merely "to exist" but to decide all issues of one's life. Denying citizens' right to decide all issues of society reduces them to mere political pawns. All citizens have the right to decide all policies.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
Into the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
- The Great Turning
From Empire to Earth Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Greece again Can Save the West
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The 'Greek crisis' is not about debt. Debt is the propaganda that the Empire is using to subdue sovereignty throughout the Western world.
- Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
Insights from Hal Draper
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
- Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
- The Human Rights Handbook
A Practical Guide To Monitoring Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
- Imagine
Living in a Socialist USA
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri di coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democracy. It features thirty-one essays by revolutionary thinkers and activists on various aspects of a new society and, crucially, on how to get from where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.
- Imagine Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
- In Defence of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
On Jacques Berlinerblau's book How to Be Secular.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Sarah Jaffe interviewed Maria Poblet. Maria Poblet has been working in base building and community organizing in the Bay Area for 18 years, building Causa Justa Just Cause, a democratically held grassroots organization where she is currently transitioning out of the role of executive director.
- 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."
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
- Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
- The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
- 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.
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
- Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
- A Marxist History of the World part 14: The Greek Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the radical participatory democracy which began in Athens between 510 and 506 BCE and spread to virtually every city-state in the Aegean.
- The Meaning of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
- Media Think
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Mercenary of Reaction
Lynton Crosby in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Lynton Crosby has a full schedule. He is the modern electoral PR hitman for parties in dire straits. He is hired to stir the pot of resentment and undermine hopes for change. His very existence suggests that democracies are shadows of their actual function, operating on traditional platforms of populism when required.
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
- Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
- No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
- "Objectivity" and democracy are not compatible (book review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
- On Democracy As A Good
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Our Generation
Volume 5 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Our Generation
Volume 8 number 3 part 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Our Generation
Volume 9 number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 19 Number 1
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- Our Generation
Volume 19 number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Our Generation
Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Outbreaks of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
For most of its history, democracy was seen as a degenerate mode of politics, much feared for its reliance on a populace seen as foolish and volatile. Yet since the adoption of representation in the eighteenth century, and the provision of an institutional place for democracy at the level of the state, we have laid to rest those dangerous images of noisy and volatile mobs, constant mass assemblies and endless inefficient talk. With the people being ruled by proxy, and periodically consenting to elite rule in elections, we have found a way to combine legitimacy with decency and viability.
- Parliament vs. the People
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Peasant, Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Wood argues that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labour. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- 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 Philosophy of Antonio Negri
Resistance in Practice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- Politics Past
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
- Politics Without Politicians
Resource Type: Article
Citizens can - without representatives - run society by voting directly for policies rather than for politicians.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Pragmatics of Community Organization
First Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
- Press for Conversion #43
December 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2000
- Press for Conversion #59
September 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2006
A phony democracy – dominated by warlords, drug barons, oil industry representatives and World Bank administrators – has now been successfully imposed upon Afghanistan by the world's major military and economic powers, including Canada.
- Press for Conversion #60
March 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2007
This issue of the magazine exposes ten ways in which Canada's Liberal government was complicit in aiding and abetting the 2004 coup d'état that ousted President Aristide's democratically-elected government and supporting the illegal, coup-installed regime that was responsible for two-year human rights catastrophe that followed.
- Press for Conversion #61
September 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2007
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped overthrow the democratically-elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In the years prior to this US-led regime change, although Aristide and his Lavalas government were extremely popular among the country's poor citizens, CIDA drastically cut bilateral aid. CIDA then poured millions into extremely partisan Haitian groups that represented the interests of Haiti's corporate elite.
- Pretensions to Empire
Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
- The Privatization Putsch
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
- Quelling The People
The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
- Quotes about Democracy
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2000
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
- The Real World of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- 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.
- Renewing Socialism
Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #7
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
Articles on the class situation in Spain, authority and democracy in the United States, Marxism and Anarchism.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
- Ruling Canada
Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- The Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
- The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- The Silent Takeover
Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
- The Simulation of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Socialism Democracy and Self-Management
Political Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Essays by a long-time leader of the Trotskyist Fourth International on topics such as direct democracy and self-management.
- Socialism in Crisis?
Canadian Perspectives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
Essays addressing questions such as What is the nature of socialism? How do gender and activism determine the socialist agenda? What is the essence of democracy under socialism?
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- The Socialist Register 1974
Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- The Socialist Register 1990
Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
- Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
- Socialist Register 1995
Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1995
- Socialist Register 2018
Volume 54: Rethinking Democracy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
We have conceived this 54th volume of the Socialist Register on Rethinking Democracy as a companion volume to the 2017 volume on Rethinking Revolution. As we put it in the preface to that volume: ‘The "political event" of gaining state power, whether by taking parliament or in a collapse of the existing political regime, has proven time and again to be less crucial than the social revolution of building capacities for self-government and the democratization and socialization of institutional resources … The "event", in itself, … will never be a sufficient condition for the exploited and oppressed to build their own capacities for establishing collective, rather than competitive, ways of living through developing socialist democracy.'
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
- The Spectre of Capitalism
The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
More than 72 people including children were killed, and more than 200 injured, in a suicide bombing in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Bagh.
- Street Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
A wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change and grapple with the politics of everyday life.
- The Struggle for Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A sweeping illustrated survey of the growth of democracy, its heroes and heroines, its enemies, its failures and successes.
- Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
- Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- 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.
- The Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
- 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.
- Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
- Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Urbanization Without Cities
The Rise and Decline of Citizenship
Resource Type: Book
The author argues that there should be participatory democracy so there could be balance ecologically between city and country.
- Waiting for Democracy
A Citizen's Journal
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Rick Salutin's account of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
- The War on Democracy
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2007
This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
- The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
- We need popular participation, not populism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.
- 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.
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
- Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
- Who Will Tell The People
The Betrayal Of American Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An exploration of the undermining of U.S. democracy, starting with the basic issues of who gets heard, who gets ignored, and why.
- Worker Co-operatives
Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
An introduction to the principles and practical considerations of forming worker co-operatives.
- 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.
- Workplace Democracy
A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the US and Europe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
Resource Type: Article
The one-party system of Zimbabwe.
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