1. The Abolition of the State
   Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
2. After the Crash
   The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. 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.
4. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
5. AlterNet
   Resource Type: Website
   Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
6. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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.
7. America's Deadliest Export: Democracy 
   The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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.
8. Another Successful American Propaganda Effort
   Resource Type: Article
   First 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.
9. Another world is possible
   New Internationalist January/February 2002
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2002
   Takes a look at the current global system and possible ways to change it for the better.
10. 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.
11. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
12. Arundhati Roy on Obama's Wars, India and Why Democracy Is "The Biggest Scam in the World"
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2010
    Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy on President Obama, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, India and Kashmir and much more. Roy also talks about her journey deep into the forests of central India to report on the Maoist insurgency.
13. The Battle for Democracy in Mexico
    Against The Current vol. 117
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The Mexican people won a battle for democracy this past spring when massive demonstrations — the largest in Mexico’s tumultuous history — prevented President Vicente Fox from making Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador ineligible to run for president in 2006. The defeat of Fox on this issue was a victory for the Mayor, but above all for the Mexican people, who defended their right to vote for a candidate of their choice in the coming national elections.
14. Beyond the Fragments 
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
    
15. Blocking Progress 
    Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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."
    
16. Books for Burning
    Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    
17. 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.
18. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
19. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
20. 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
    First 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.
21. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
22. Center for Democracy and Technology
    Resource Type: Website
    Addresses issues of Internet censorhip and privacy.
23. Chomsky on Democracy and Education
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
    Education stands at the intersection of Noam Chomsky's two lives as scholar and social critic: As a linguist he is keenly interested in how children acquire language, and as a political activist he views the education system as an important lever of social change.This book gathers for the first time his impressive range of writings on these subjects, spanning issues of language, power, policy and method.
24. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
25. A Citizen Legislature 
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
26. Citizens for Local Democracy Newsletter 20, November 1997
    Periodical profile published 1992
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1997
    Fighting for democracy and against the Harris government.
27. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
28. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
29. 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.
30. Community Economic Workshops
    An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
31. Confronting Injustice 
    Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014   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.
32. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
33. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
34. 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.
35. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
36. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
37. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
38. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
39. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
40. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
41. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
42. Consensus decision-making 
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
43. Corporate influence Inside business How corporations make the rules
    New Internationalist July 2002
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    A look into how corporate democracy works and facts regarding corporate influence. Also looks into a short history of corporations.
44. Counter-Rhetoric 
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
45. The Crisis of Color and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
46. The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
    An Introduction to the Theory of the State in Marx, Engels, and Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957   Published: 1969
    
47. The Death of Democracy
    Israel's Flood of Anti-Democratic Laws
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Democracy is dying in both Israel and the United States, and much of the world is turning away in revulsion.
48. The Decline of the Democratic Ideal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Noam Chomsky contemplates the disappearance of democratic ideals by examining the American reactions to the outcome of the 1990 elections in Nicaragua.
49. Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987   Published: 2002
    Arblaster finds the core of the idea of democracy in the notion of popular power. He explores the meaning of this and the problems it involves.
50. Democracy Against Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
51. 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.
52. Democracy for the Few 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   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.
    
53. Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
    Doctrines and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
54. Democracy in the British Army
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1939
    
55. Democracy in the Unites States? Fugetaboutit!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We who want a more equal and democratic society are the vast majority. There is no reason for us to feel hesitant about speaking our minds and talking revolution to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers, and even people we meet in the course of shopping and so forth. When millions of Americans feel that they are not alone in wanting a revolution, that's when things will start to change. That's when people will start to think creatively and concretely about how to make it happen. Until then, we'll remain on a treadmill to nowhere, with everybody feeling that they are just one lonely person who "can't fight city hall."
56. Democracy Is that it?
    New Internationalist June 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    Democracy has become commonplace and its original meaning -- "rule by the people" -- has got lost. Real democracy depends on active citizenship, something that's missing from contemporary culture. Articles cover democracy in Canada and the developing world, economics in relation to democracy and politics in Pakistan.
57. Democracy was never intended for degenerates
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
58. Democracy's Oxygen 
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
59. Democratic Theory
    Essays in Retrieval
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
60. The Demonology School of Journalism
    Putin and the press
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
61. The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship
    From Democracy Against Capitalism, Chapter 7
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    
62. Destroying the Commons 
    How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
63. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
64. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
65. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
66. A Different Sort of Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    We do not want to suggest that the democracy of ancient Greece was perfect or that it can be easily be copied in the modern world. Greece was burdened by the dual crimes of slavery and the inferior status of women, as were all ancient societies in the Mediterranean basin and in Asia. What distinguished ancient Athens was that, in that society, human beings began to break out to produce new forms of self-government. That they could not solve all the evils of that time should not be surprising.
67. The Disconnect in US Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Noam Chomsky describes how the American people are excluded from political participation, claiming that action must also come before and after elections and not only once every four years.
68. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
69. 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.
70. Drawing the Line
    A pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1962
    
71. 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.
    
72. Electoral reform will give us a voice
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
73. The Encyclopedia of Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
74. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   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.
75. Every Cook Can Govern 
    A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece: Its Meaning for Today
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
76. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
77. For Political Equality 
    All citizens vote on all policies: 20th Century Power Politics and their 21st Century electronic alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
78. Funeral Oration for the Athenian War Dead
    Resource Type: Article
    Speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
79. Get Up, Stand Up 
    Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
80. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
    
81. Global Showdown
    How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
82. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
    Into the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    
83. Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
84. The Great Turning
    From Empire to Earth Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
85. Greece again Can Save the West
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
86. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
87. Hatred of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
    Rancière defends the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression. He argues that the West can no longer simply extol the virtues of democracy by contrasting it with the horrors of totalitarianism.
88. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
89. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   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.
90. The History of Democracy 
    A Marxist Interpretation
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
91. How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
92. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
93. Imagine
    Living in a Socialist USA
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
94. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
95. In Defence of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    On Jacques Berlinerblau's book How to Be Secular.
96. Inside Iran
    New Internationalist March 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at Iran from history to present. Discussion of women's rights and the youth of Iran.
97. Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood 
    Democracy & Capitalism: Friends or Foes?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Postmodernist pluralism, just like the old variety, obscures the realities of power in capitalist societies. It also disarms and disintegrates the opposition to capitalism. Postmodernism brings us back to the old and uncritical forms of capitalist ideology, which leave the system fundamentally unchallenged. Marxism -- historical materialism -- is the best foundation for an understanding of the society in which we live and therefore also the best guide in our search for a better one.
98. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
99. It's Time for the Left to Ask "What Are We For?"
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
100. The Joy of Revolution 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1997   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."
101. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
     Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
102. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
     Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
103. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
     Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
104. Keep raising the issue of democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1989
     Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
105. Keeping the Rabble in Line
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
106. Kenya's Opposition Party
     Against The Current vol. 133
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     That the elections in Kenya were rigged is no longer in question. And for most people that the culprit is the sitting president, sworn in so quickly that the ceremony has been jokingly likened to a lightning wedding, is no longer a question.
107. The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
108. The lessons we have learned
     Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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."
109. 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.
110. Letters from Lexington
     Reflections on Propaganda
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     
111. Life after Communism West goes East
     New Internationalist April 2004
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2004
     A look at the effects of communist rule in the former Soviet Union and the post-communism transition.
112. Life, Money & Illusion
     Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
113. Looking for Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
     
114. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
     Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 1649   Published: 2016
     A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
115. Manufacturing Consent 
     The Political Economy of the Mass Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
116. Marx on Democratic Forms of Government 
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
117. Marxism and Freedom 
     From 1776 to Today
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1958   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.
118. A Marxist History of the World part 14: The Greek Democratic Revolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
119. The Meaning of Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
120. Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
     An interview with Robert McChesney
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
121. Media Think
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
122. The MegaCity Saga
     Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000
     
123. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
     Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
124. Necessary Illusions 
     Thought Control in Democratic Societies
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1989   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."
125. The New Challenge of Direct Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1996
     Direct democracy involves citizens in discussion and decisions about what the government is to do, rather than leaving this to officials or parliaments. It thus challenges the restrictions placed by representative democracies such as Britain and the United States on political consultation and popular participation. Why should responsible adults not take public decisions as well as making their own individual choices?
126. New Democracy Internet site
     Resource Type: Website
     Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
127. 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.
128. 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.
129. No platform or no democracy?
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
     
130. On Democracy As A Good
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
131. On Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1963   Published: 1968
     Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
132. 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.
133. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
     Elections
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First 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.
134. Our Generation
     Volume 5 Number 3
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1967
     
135. Our Generation
     Volume 6 Number 3
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1969
     
136. Our Generation
     Volume 6 Number 4
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1969
     
137. Our Generation
     Volume 7 Number 3
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1970
     
138. Our Generation
     Volume 8 number 3 part 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     
139. Our Generation
     Volume 9 number 1
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1973
     
140. Our Generation
     Volume 19 Number 1
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1987
     
141. Our Generation
     Volume 19 number 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1988
     
142. Our Generation
     Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1991
     
143. Outbreaks of Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
144. Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The notion of religious-ethnocentric entitlement and exclusivity for one people at the expense of another has been rejected the world over. Palestinians reject it and we assert that we are human beings worthy of the same human rights accorded to the rest of humanity; that we are worthy of our homes and farms, our heritage, our churches and mosques, and our history; and that we should not be expected to negotiate with our oppressors for such basic dignities. The two-state solution was and remains an instrument to circumvent the basic human rights of Palestinians in order to accommodate Israel's desire to be Jewish. Polls show that Palestinians refuse to be the enemies of our Jewish brothers and sisters anywhere, just as we refuse to be oppressed by them.
145. Palestinian Democracy
     Against The Current vol. 121
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Few elections throughout the world have been perceived by the local population, as well as international observers, as democratic and transparent as the Palestinian ones. At first glance, Palestine seems to be the perfect example of the “democratization of the Middle East” that President George W. Bush and his administration are fighting for.
146. Parliament vs. the People
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     
147. Participatory Democracy
     Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Twenty or more arguments for participatory democracy written contributors including Goerge Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Gerry Hunnius, Colin Ward, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Don Calhoun.
148. Peasant, Citizen and Slave 
     The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
149. A People's History of the World 
     From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
150. 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
     First 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.
151. The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
     Resistance in Practice
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     
152. 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.
153. Politics Past
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1958   Published: 1970
     A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
154. Politics Without Politicians
     Resource Type: Article
     Citizens can - without representatives - run society by voting directly for policies rather than for politicians.
155. Powers and Prospects
     Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1996
     
156. Pragmatics of Community Organization
     First Edition
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
157. Press for Conversion #43
     December 2000
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2000
     
158. Press for Conversion #59
     September 2006
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First 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.
159. Press for Conversion #60
     March 2007
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First 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.
160. Press for Conversion #61
     September 2007
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First 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.
161. Pretensions to Empire
     Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2006
     Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
162. The Privatization Putsch
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
     
163. Quelling The People
     The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
     The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
     
164. Quotes about Democracy
     Resource Type: Unclassified
     
165. Radical Democracy 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1997
     Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
166. Radical Digressions 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
     Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
     
167. Radical Digressions 2
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
     
168. Radical Digressions 5
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2008
     
169. Radical Digressions 6
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     
170. The Real World of Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1965
     Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
171. Red Emma Speaks
     Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972
     A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
172. 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.
     
173. Reinventing power: People take control
     New Internationalist September 2003
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2003
     A look at democracy and power in countries including Mexico, South Africa and Thailand.
174. Renewing Socialism 
     Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     
175. Revolution Re-Assessed 
     Politics of Human Liberation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1980
     The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
176. Rights and Liberties
     Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
177. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #7
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1978
     Articles on the class situation in Spain, authority and democracy in the United States, Marxism and Anarchism.
178. Rosa Luxemburg
     Abridged Edition
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
     A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
     
179. Rosa Luxemburg 
     Selected Political Writings
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972
     A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
180. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
181. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
     The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
     
182. Ruling Canada
     Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     
183. Ruling the Void
     The Hollowing of Western Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Analyzes democratic trends over the last few decades in Europe and America.
184. The Russian Revolution 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1918   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.
185. Saddam's Iraq
     Revolution or Reaction?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     
186. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
     
187. A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense 
     Find Your Inner Chomsky
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
     What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
188. The Silent Revolution
     Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     
189. The Silent Revolution in Africa
     Debt, Development and Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     Cheru ascribes the crisis in Africa to its origins as export-led development rather than the natural factors such as drought and famine. He praises the evolution of ordinary Africans opting out of the formal market and the IMF.
190. The Silent Takeover
     Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
     
191. The Simulation of Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The global capitalist ruling classes have been stuck with "democracy" ever since, or, more accurately, with the simulation of democracy.
192. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
     Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1967
     
193. Socialism Democracy and Self-Management
     Political Essays
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1980
     Essays by a long-time leader of the Trotskyist Fourth International on topics such as direct democracy and self-management.
194. 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?
195. Socialism.ca 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2016
     A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
196. The Socialist Register 1967
     Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1967
     
197. The Socialist Register 1974
     Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1974
     
198. The Socialist Register 1982
     Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1982
     
199. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
     Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     
200. The Socialist Register 1990
     Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1990
     Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
201. Socialist Register 1994
     Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1994
     
202. Socialist Register 1995
     Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1995
     
203. Socialist Register 2006:
     Volume 42: Telling the Truth
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
204. Socialist Register 2018
     Volume 54: Rethinking Democracy
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First 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.'
205. The Spectre of Capitalism
     The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     
206. Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
207. Street Level Democracy
     Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
208. The Struggle for Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     A sweeping illustrated survey of the growth of democracy, its heroes and heroines, its enemies, its failures and successes.
209. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy 
     Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1995   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.
210. Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     
211. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism 
     Manifesto 2007
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
212. Three Brothers In Blood
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2006
     
213. The Throes of Democracy
     Brazil since 1989
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     
214. The Trouble With Billionaires 
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
215. The Two Souls of Socialism 
     Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1960   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.
216. The Tyranny of Structurelessness 
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
217. The unbearable lightness of Greek democracy
     Greeks have abandoned all hope that their political leaders have the skills to rescue the nations economy.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The only certain thing is that a government will be formed by a grand alliance whose only mission will be to implement the most painful, humiliating measures ever attempted by a democratically elected body. This, alas, is the unbearable lightness of Greek democracy.
218. Uncivil Obedience
     The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     How to push for social change without breaking the law.
219. Unreliable Sources
     A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
220. Untying the Knot
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     
221. 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.
222. The Venezuelan Revolution
     New Internationalist June 2006
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2006
     A look inside the Venezuelan Revolution and facts and history of the country.
223. Waiting for Democracy
     A Citizen's Journal
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
224. The War on Democracy 
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First 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.
225. The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
     Resource Type: Article
     First 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.
226. 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.
227. We need popular participation, not populism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.
228. West Papua "Will we ever be free"
     New Internationalist April 2002
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2002
     Discusses the effects of the oil industry on West Papua and the people's struggle for freedom and a new form of governemnt after a long history of betrayal. Also looks at West Papuan culture from a tourist's perspective.
229. 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.
230. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
231. Who do we try to rescue today?
     Canada under corporate rule
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000
     A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
232. Who Will Tell The People
     The Betrayal Of American Democracy
     Resource Type: Book
     First 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.
233. Why Marx Was Right 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2011
     Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
234. Worker Co-operatives
     Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     An introduction to the principles and practical considerations of forming worker co-operatives.
235. Worker Cooperatives in America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
236. Workplace Democracy
     A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the US and Europe
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     
237. Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
     Resource Type: Article
     The one-party system of Zimbabwe.

Experts on Demokratie in the Sources Directory

1. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
2. Central American Integration System
3. Commonwealth Secretariat
4. Connexions
5. Council of Europe
6. Ulli Diemer
7. Fair Vote Canada
8. La Francophonie
9. International Development Law Organization
10. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
11. Marxists Internet Archive
12. Organization of American States
13. Southern African Development Community
14. United Nations
15. United Nations Human Rights Council