1. After the Crash
   The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
3. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   
4. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. Alternatives Information
   Resource Type: Website
   Online social change library.
6. Another World is Possible 
   Globalization and Anti-capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
   A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
7. Beyond Voting
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000   Published: 2016
   By all means vote if you feel like it. But don't stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
   
8. 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.
9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Pilot Copy, February 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1976
   The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
12. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
13. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
14. Changing The Cogs
    Activists and the Politics of Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
15. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
16. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
17. A Coal Miner's Call for Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    I invite you to join with me in dedicating a portion of our lives to the task of bringing about political revolution. In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones: Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.
18. Coming Back to Life 
    Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
19. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
20. Community Switchboard
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Weekly newsletter offering a forum for those interested in social change. The newsletter was put together by the Communications Collective. Community Switchboard maintained an office in Toronto to provide research facilities to the public.
21. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
22. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
23. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
24. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
25. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
26. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
27. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
28. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
29. The Connexions Annual 1989: A Social Change Sourcebook
    Information and Ideas About Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    The 1989 edition of the Canadian directory of grassroots groups working for social and environmental alternatives.
30. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
    
31. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
32. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   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.
33. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
34. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
35. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
36. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
37. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
38. Counter Power 
    Making Change Happen
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
39. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
40. Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
41. Deep Ecology
    Living as if Nature Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    
42. Defiant Publics
    The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Drache says that the new communications technologies of the contemporary information revolution are permitting new forms of transnational communication that are creating global consciousness and global citizenship.
43. Democracy and Social Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1966
    Gray maintains that liberal democracy places power in only a few hands and calls for a radical democratization of power within the framework of an economy owned, controlled, and responsible to the public.
44. Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
45. Directory of Progressive Organizations
    Resource Type: Website
    A list of activist organizations which are members of IGC.
46. Doom and Gloom 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
47. Drawing the Line 
    The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   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.
48. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
49. European Social failure?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The sixth European Social Forum in Istanbul left something to be desired
50. Everyday Life in the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
    Everyday life is non-philosophical in relation to philosophy and represents reality in relation to ideality.
51. The Extraordinary Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
52. Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
53. The fight for a different world
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    For some, Genoa will become synonymous with violence - and this is certainly the line that many mainstream newspapers adopted. Unfortunately, so have some nongovernmental organizations. But there are two separate questions here. The first has to do with the violence of the state directed against the movement; the other is a question of how the movement deals with a small minority of self-selected individuals who choose to engage in a set of tactics that are detrimental to the movement as a whole. The presence of the black bloc (or of agent provocateurs posing as black bloc members) should not be allowed to hide the real purveyors of violence in Genoa.
54. 'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.'
55. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
56. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
    
57. The Global Gang Thang
    A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
58. The Great Transformation 
    The political and economic origins of our time
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1944   Published: 1968
    Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
59. Helping you reach the media 
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
60. How Social Movements Can Win More Victories Like Same-Sex Marriage 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The rapidly expanding victory around same-sex marriage defies many of our common ideas about how social change happens. This was not a win that came in measured doses, but rather a situation in which the floodgates of progress were opened after years of half-steps and seemingly devastating reversals. It came about through the efforts of a broad-based movement, pushing for increased acceptance of LGBT rights within a wide range of constituencies.
61. How the Left has Won
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Capitalism was the unintended consequence of bourgeois revolutions, whereas socialism has been the avowed purpose, or at least a crucial component, of every revolution since 1911. This difference has become so important that when we think about the transition from capitalism to socialism, we take the short view: we look for ideological extremes, social movements, vanguard parties, self-conscious revolutionaries, radical dissenters, armed struggles, extra-legal methods, political convulsions – as if the coming of socialism requires the abolition of capitalism by cataclysm, by insurgent, militant mass movements dedicated to that purpose.
62. How to Change Everything 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
63. Idealist
    Resource Type: Website
    International directory, organized by country, of thousands of non-profit activist organizations, designed to help people "think globally and act locally". Features an events calendar of mostly US events.
    
64. In the Tiger's Mouth
    An empowerment guide for social action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1994
    Information for ordinary people to become activists for social change.
65. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
66. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
67. Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    
68. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
69. Land and Community 
    Crisis in Canada's Countryside
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
70. Laura Flanders talks to Gar Alperovitz about What Then Must We Do?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Alperovitz says we may be witnessing the prehistory of the next American Revolution.
71. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
72. Liberation, Then What?
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
73. Macrocosm USA
    Possibilities for a New Progressive Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    An environmental, political and social solutions handbook and directory.
74. Manifestations And Declarations
    Of the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
75. A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
76. A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
77. A Marxist History of the World part 54: What is Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In this critical chapter of his world history, Neil Faulkner explores capitalism and what it means from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.
78. A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
79. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
80. Media for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    
81. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
82. The Modern Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    
83. A Modest Proposal for How the Bad Old Days Will End
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    A brief explanation of capitalism and an optimistic manifesto for stateless communism.
84. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
85. Needed: 5% Participation to Overthrow Crony Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Erica Chenoweth, author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, explains how to overthrow U.S. crony capitalism: “In raw numbers, movements generally achieve systematic change (i.e., in the +80% likelihood category) when they mobilize over 5 percent of the population. The Iranian Revolution, among the largest popular uprisings, achieved about 10 percent mobilization. In the US with 311 million people, this would mean between 15.5 million and 31.1 million people.”
86. New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
    Wikipedia article - Spanish
    Resource Type: Article
    
87. The new socialist revolution
    An introduction to its theory and strategy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Chapter 6 - Strategy and Tactics. The first task of the revolutionary movement, its most important task within the next few years, is to destroy bourgeois hegemony and develop a radical consciousness among each of the potential constituencies for revolutionary action.
88. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
89. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
90. One Fine Day
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
91. One Vote for Democracy 
    Consensus vs. democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
92. Ordinary People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    When we talk about revolution, we aren't talking about pie in the sky or something that's never existed. We're talking about reshaping the world with the very best values that we practice now, today, in our families, with our friends and co-workers, with our students and patients. We believe that the smallest acts of kindness and the most public, collective acts of revolution are on a continuum of struggle to make the world the way we believe it should be.
93. Organize! Organizing for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2001
    A guide to community organizing with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
94. Our Generation
    Volume 2 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1963
    
95. Our Generation
    Volume 2 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1963
    
96. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1964
    
97. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1965
    Special Issue on Unilateralism
98. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
99. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
100. Our Generation
     Volume 7 Number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1970
     
101. Our Generation
     Volume 8 Number 4
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1972
     
102. Our Generation
     Volume 9 Number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1973
     
103. Our Generation
     Volume 15 Number 3 & 4
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     
104. Our Generation
     Volume 17 Number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     
105. Our Generation
     Volume 18 Number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1987
     
106. Our Generation
     Volume 19 number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1988
     
107. Our Generation
     Volume 20 Number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1989
     
108. Our Generation
     Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1991
     
109. Our Generation
     Volume 23 Number 1
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1992
     
110. Our Generation
     Volume 23 Number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1992
     
111. Our Generation
     Volume 24 Number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1994
     
112. People, Get Ready
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2002
     There is nothing more necessary for the success of popular struggle in the coming years than a worthy revolutionary alternative to aim for. This alternative must inspire confidence that we can create a truly democratic, humanly fulfilling, successfully functioning new society.
113. People Power
     Applying Nonviolence Theory
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
114. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
115. The Press and the Class Struggle
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Early on the morning of August 19, 1997, the U.S. labor movement experienced something it had rarely known in recent years: a victory on a national scale. After two weeks out on strike, over 185,000 members of the Teamsters Union had reached a contract settlement with shipping giant United Parcel Service. It was hard to paint it as anything other than a win for the union. On almost every major issue, the Teamsters were able to force UPS to agree to their demands.
116. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
117. Race, Class & the Apartheid State
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     The rise of mass political opposition has put in question all the major issues of social change-relationship of race and class, challenges to apartheid in the economy and the nature of the state.
118. Radical Newspapers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
119. The Red Menace 
     A libertarian socialist newsletter
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1975   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.
     
120. Reimaging America
     The Arts of Social Change
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     More than 40 artist-contributors using video as their medium describe and analize how they create art as part or their struggle to alter mass culture and to reconnect with the communities which inspire their work.
121. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
     A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977   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.
122. Resources For Radicals
     An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1997
     An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
123. Review: Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Review of Staughton Lynd's "Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change", a book that by and large uses a story-based pedagogy rather than an analysis-based one. It walks through struggles that Lynd and his wife Alice have been involved in directly.
124. Review: Riding the Bus to Freedom
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The 1961 Freedom Rides challenged a racially segregated society by openly defying its customs, riding in interracial groups on interstate buses going South and desegregating the stations’ facilities. Asserting their constitutional right to travel, participants employed direct action in the face of intimidation, violence and police complicity with the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens’ Councils.
125. The Revolution Game
     The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970
     A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
126. The Revolution of Hope
     Toward a Humanized Technology
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1968
     Froom argues for the urgent necessity of shfiting our priorities from things and death to the priorities of life and human beings.
127. Roots of Empathy 
     Changing the World Child by Child
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
128. Rules for Radicals 
     A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
129. The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong echoes in colonial countries. Between 1918 and 1921 union membership and days lost in strikes everywhere reached new heights, while the ranks of the revolutionary wing of the socialist movement swelled.
130. Saving the Countryside
     Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1995
     An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
     
131. Seven News
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1970
     Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
     Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
132. Seventeen Problems of Man and Society
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1968
     Ralph Borsodi's magnum opus, outlining his philosophy of society and the practical implications that flow from it.
133. Social Movements/Social Change
     The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
134. Socialism and Revolution 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
     Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
135. Socialism and the New Life
     The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     
136. Socialism in Crisis?
     Canadian Perspectives
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First 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?
137. A Socialist Alternative For Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     A discussion on the future of the sociliast left in Canada and its relationship to the New Democratic Party.
138. The Socialist Register 1978
     Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1978
     
139. The Socialist Register 1983
     Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1983
     
140. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
     Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     
141. Socialist Register 1993
     Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1993
     
142. The Spectre of Capitalism
     The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     
143. Tide Turning in Latin America?
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     NACLA’s first volume in its new series, Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism, reported on an array of popular initiatives and left-leaning regimes across the continent. The second volume, Latin America After Neoliberalism, is also a collection of essays; but this one is organized by themes and more academic, though still accessible. The book is a useful guide for activists wanting a better understanding of the profound transformations underway in the region.
144. Toolkit for a New Canada
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
     
145. Toward Unity Among Environmentalists
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992
     
146. Transforming Apathy and Denial
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1990
     Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
147. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
     An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1999
     Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
148. Transition Initiatives Primer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
149. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
     Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
150. The Wandering of Humanity
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
     Humans are subjugated by Capital. The logic of production removes decision-making from human control. Capital is anthropomorphized. Technology has no borders or limits. Nature is ravaged as humanity wanders.
151. Ways and Means
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1983
     Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
152. We Make the Road By Walking 
     Conversations on education and social change
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking book.
153. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
154. What Then Must We Do? 
     Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2013
     Gar Alperovitzexplains why that the time is right for a revolutionary new economy movement, what it means to democratize the ownership of wealth, what it will take to build a new system to replace the decaying one — and how to strengthen our communities through cooperatives, worker-owned companies, neighborhood corporations, small and medium-size independent businesses, and publicly owned enterprises.
155. When the UAW Was Young
     Against The Current vol. 131
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     An interview with Erwin and Estar Baur.
156. Whom Should We Support in Iran?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The people we should support in Iran are those who are trying to make Iran more equal, more democratic and more friendly to the principle of solidarity--concern for one another. Since we want the world to move in this direction, we should support those who are pushing it in that direction. The people doing this are working class Iranians.
157. Workers Hold the Keys
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
158. The Working Class and Social Change
     Four Essays on the Working Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1975
     A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
159. Working Harder Isn't Working
     A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
160. Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century
     A User's Guide for the 21st Century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A User's Guide to the 21st Century is a compendium of everything a generation of environmental activists has to offer.
161. You Got to Move
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 1985
     Follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change.
162. A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.

Experts on Sozialer Wandel in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions
2. Ulli Diemer
3. Marxists Internet Archive
4. The Preservation Institute