1. The ABCs of the Economic Crisis 
   What Working People Need to Know
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
2. The Activist Cookbook 
   A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
   Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
3. Advocates Argue Free Transit Benefits Us All
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Pablo analyzes the economic, environmental, and social benefits that a fareless public transportation system would provide Canadian cities.
4. After the Crash
   The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. Agenda for a New Economy
   From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth - Second Edition
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Korten offers in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on locally owned, community oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.
6. Alternate Societies
   A brief survey on intentional community in European history
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1993
   A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
7. Alternative Americas
   An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   A history of decentralist and co-operative alternatives in the United States, centering especially on the work of Ralph Borsodi.
8. An Alternative Federal Budget
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1992
   
9. An Alternative for SYRIZA 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   In order to regain sovereignty, a country has to exit not only the EZ, if a member, but the EU itself. Liberated from the noose of the EU treaties and regulations, Greek people will have the freedom to follow a sovereign monetary and fiscal policy and form trade and international alliances to the best of their interests.
10. Alternative Press Center
    Resource Type: Organization
    Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
11. The Anarchist Collectives
    Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
12. Another world is possible if... 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
13. Barter Networks: Lessons from Argentina for Greece
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    "How did Argentina survive their economic crisis?"; "Are they doing better now?"; "What happened to the factory takeovers?"; "Did millions of people really participate in the barter network? Did they actually invent new money?" These are some of the many questions I have been asked by Greeks, especially over the past few weeks, related to their economic crisis and the potential for self-organization and survival.
14. Beyond Poverty and Affluence
    Towards a Canadian Economy of Care
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    By studying societal realities such as poverty, pollution, environmental degradation and losses from quality and quantity of work, Goudzwaad and de Lange believe that a new economic practice is needed for Canadian economic recovery.
15. Beyond the Profits System
    Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Shutt offers an analysis of the collapse of the capitalist system by determining factors inhibiting its revival and goes on to offering an alternative to the current system.
16. A Bibliography on Material Pertinent to the Informal Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    
17. Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.
18. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
19. Bookchin on Technology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    Murray Bookchin's arguments for a liberatory technology.
20. The Breakdown of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957
    Kohr maintains that throughout history, people who have lived in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang.
21. Brexit: Establishment Freak Out
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The "masters of the universe" are shocked and displeased. Increasing numbers of voters are registering their anger, most recently by voting for Brexit in Great Britain. But many who voted for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump during the recent US primary season were motivated by similar frustrations. And before that, there was Occupy Wall Street, los Indignados in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and other massive protests elsewhere in Europe as well. The reason is simple.
22. Build It Now
    Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
23. Building a progressive majority
    Left strategy after the Brexit vote
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    After the EU referendum we are seeing both horror at anti-migrant sentiment and pandering to it -- but only a radical economic offer can carve a way through.
24. Building Economic Alternatives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
25. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
    Resource Type: Website
    Many articles, fact sheets and background papers and analyses, on Canadian and international issues, from the CCPA, which promotes research from a progressive point of view.
26. 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.
27. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
28. Capitalism is a Waste of Time
    Godwin, Malthus & the Ideology of "No Alternative"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The "no alternative" of permanent scarcity is both the all too familiar essence of our daily politics as well as the ideology at the heart of the discipline of economics, defined in the most widely used economics textbook of the 20th century as "the study of how men and society choose to employ scarce resources."
29. Capital's War on the People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    It is time to change the parameters of the debate, from “when or by how much social spending should be cut?” to “why should the people pay for something they are not responsible for?”
30. A Carbon-Free Future
    An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
31. 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.
32. Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
    While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
33. Christians in the Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    Describes the urgent need for Christians to respond to the socio-economic and political crises of our time.
34. The Closing Circle 
    Man, Technology & the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Commoner argues that economic life must be structured to conform to the principles of ecology, as opposed to the goal of unlimited growth that underpins capitalist economies.
35. Collective Courage
    A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality.
36. Collectives in Spain
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1945
    A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
37. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    An account of the collectives set up in Spain during the struggle against Franco.
38. Community Dreams 
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
39. 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.
40. Community Economic Development in Rural Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    
41. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
42. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
43. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
44. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
45. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
46. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
47. 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.
48. 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.
    
49. 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.
50. Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
51. 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.
52. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
53. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
54. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
55. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
56. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
57. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
58. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
59. The Conquest of Bread
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1906
    A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
60. Consumer Hell
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The problem with gross domestic product is that there are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.
61. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
62. The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    
63. Creating an Ecological Society 
    Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
64. Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
    
65. Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing! 
    Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
66. Ecology as Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
67. E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
    Communications in the public interest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
68. The Economic Revolution
    Towards a Sustainable Future By Freeing The Economy From Money-Making
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Money making grows at the cost of destroying our social fabirc and resource base and proposes a new economic remedy.
69. Economics As If Future Generations Mattered
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    We have turned a corner on climate change-- a wrong turn-- and it is happening more rapidly than we have predicted. Climate change is already disrupting society, ecosystems, and national economies. We have altered so much of our Earth that we now threaten our own survival.
70. The Economics of Happiness
    Building Genuine Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Anielski's premise is quite simple: how can we go beyond mere material wealth to achieve veritable wealth-good health, meaningful relationships, spirituality, a clean environment, peace, justice and happiness. He believes that economic systems should orient us to what we really want.
    
71. The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates.
72. 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.
73. Envisioning Economic Justice
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The organizers of the U.S. Social Forum must be commended for making possible this political happening with its 900 workshops. The USSF has succeeded in bringing together activists from many diverse sectors working for global justice — thereby contributing to the strengthening of the entire movement.
74. An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
75. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
76. First Person Plural
    A Community Development Approach to Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Smith provides an account of his experiences and addresses the ways of building an effective and democratic orgranization to bring about social transformation. Useful for those interested in adult education, community development and political action.
77. Flying Without A Net
    The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
    
78. For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
79. For Workers' Climate Action
    Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
80. A Fossil Fuel Exit Program 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A complete transition away from fossil fuels is necessary within a few decades. The question is how to construct an exit strategy that will accomplish this. James Hansen has provided a starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy.
81. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
82. A Freedom Budget for All Americans
    Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race. It favored production for social use instead of profit; social ownership; and democratic control over major economic decisions.
83. From the Roots Up
    Economic Development as if Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    
84. From The Roots Up: Economic Development As If Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
85. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
86. Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If we’re going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
87. Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies 
    An Interview with Beverly Bell
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
88. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
89. Green Political Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
90. A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
    Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    This extensive guide to cooperative alternatives in the city of Toronto provides information about cooperative and collective ventures in areas such as education, housing, food, work and finance.
91. Gute Argumente: Verkehr
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
92. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
93. How Change Happens: A Three-Fold Strategy
    To build a new economy, we must work on three fronts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The power of authentic culture stories gives civil society the ultimate advantage in the contest for the human future. Stories alone will not, of course, bring down the institutions of Empire. Nor should we welcome the inevitable chaos that the collapse of Empire will bring if we have not first laid a foundation of the new rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy.
94. How to create an ecological society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the book "Creating an Ecological Society: Towards A Revolutionary Transformation" by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, which addresses different aspects of the debate on the politics of the environment.
95. How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap 
    A Superfund for Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
96. Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves 
    Further Adventures in the Territories of Hope
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Capitalism is only kept going by this army of anti-capitalists, who constantly exert their powers to clean up after it, and at least partially compensate for its destructiveness. Behind the system we all know, in other words, is a shadow system of kindness, the other invisible hand. Much of its work now lies in simply undoing the depredations of the official system.
97. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
98. Imagine a Stadium
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A plea for organization.
99. Institute For New Economics
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    
100. Is Capitalism Sustainable?
     Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1994
     The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
101. J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2017
     Michael Hudson's new book covers contemporary terms that are misleading or poorly understood as well as many important concepts that have been abandoned -- many on purpose -- from the long history of political economy.
102. James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Hansen has provided the starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy aimed at keeping the increase in global average temperatures below 2°C (3.6° F), an amount that constitutes the planetary tipping point with respect to climate change.
103. Land trust
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     There are two distinct definitions of a land trust: 1) a private, nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements Land Trust Alliance website, and 2) an agreement whereby one party (the trustee) agrees to hold ownership of a piece of real property for the benefit of another party (the beneficiary.
104. The Lichen Factor
     The Quest for Community Development in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     
105. 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.
106. The Living Economy
     A New Economics in the Making
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986
     An attempt to summarize the "new economics" for a wider audience. The new economics can be briefly described as that body of work, beginning with E.F. Schumacher, Herman Daly, and Hazel Henderson, which is critical of tradiational economic theory and seeks alternatives to the devastating impact of our current economic system on communities, individuals and the biosphere.
107. LIVING IN THE U.X.A.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn't working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.
108. Living with the Land
     Communities Restoring the Earth
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992
     A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
109. The long ecological revolution 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Up until the rise of the ecological movement in the late twentieth century, the conquest of nature was a universal trope, often equated with progress under capitalism (and sometimes socialism). To be sure, the notion, as utilized in science, was a complex one. As Francis Bacon, the idea's leading early proponent, put it, "nature is only overcome by obeying her." Only by following nature's laws, therefore, was it possible to conquer her.
110. Major Universal Problems of Living
     A New Approach to Information
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1936   Published: 1967
     
111. Marxists Internet Archive 
     Resource Type: Website
     Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
112. The Meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
     Against The Current vol. 113
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     A feature of revolutions is that they keep coming around in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Who would have dared predict the eruption that was Seattle in November 1999, when the powers behind neoliberal globalization seemed completely incontestable?
113. Meme Wars
     The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     Meme Wars presents a new way of looking at our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model. The book is image-heavy and full-color throughout,
114. 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.
115. The Microfinance Delusion
     Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
116. Mondragon Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business - a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
117. Natural Causes 
     Essays in Ecological Marxism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     O'Connor provides an ecological Marxist analysis and suggests new political strategies.
118. Nature of Economies
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
     Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
119. The Need for Alternative Employment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1989
     An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
120. New Age Business
     Community Corporations That Work
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986
     
121. A New and Better Canada
     Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
     Hurtig calls for a new political party committed to sweeping political reform and plans to put Canadians back to work.
122. A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
123. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2001
     Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
124. The Organizer's Manual
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
125. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
     Killings by Police
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
126. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
     The Commons
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
127. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
     Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
128. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
     Voter Suppression
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
129. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
     Climate Change and Social Change
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
130. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
     Utopia
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
131. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
     Sports and Politics
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
132. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
     Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
133. Parecon and the nature of reformism
     A review of Robin Hahnel (2005). Economic Justice and Democracy; From Competition to Cooperation. NY
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     The concept of participatory economics, as developed by Hahnel and Albert, is worth exploring. They are inspired by the tradition of libertarian, councilist, socialism. They share the values of revolutionary class struggle anarchism. Even in disagreeing with them, there is much to be learned from reading their work, since they are t houghtful people who are dealing with important issues. Yet they demonstrate, in spite of themselves, that it is not enough to attempt to not be reformist. It is necessary to be revolutionary.
134. Parecon & Participatory Society
     An Interview with Michael Albert
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to workers and consumers self managed say over their economic lives, a condition of solidarity with others, equitable incomes for their labors, diverse opportunities and options, and ecological balance.
135. Passionate Declarations
     Essays on War and Justice
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990   Published: 2003
     Essays looking at American political ideology.
136. People First Economics
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty. How can we rein in these beasts unleashed by the free market economy?
137. People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1968
     Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
138. The People's Classifieds
     The Alternative Directory for Metro Toronto
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1984
     A directory of progressive/alternative businesses, professionals, services, groups, and individuals in Toronto.
     
139. The People's Report
     A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1985
     
140. The Philosophy of Social Ecology
     Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
141. The Policy of Abstention
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1887
     Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
     
142. Post Scarcity Anarchism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     Modern radicals, says Bookchin, have ignored the real revolutionary possibilities of modern technology and the counterculture. Unless they start building a movement which looks to the future, they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
143. The Poverty of Power
     Energy and the Economic Crisis
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1976
     Commoner argues that the environmental, energy, and economic crises are interconnected. The industries that use the most energy have the highest negative impact on the environment; the focus on non-renewable resources as sources of energy means those resources are growing scarce, thus pushing up the price of energy and hurting the economy. These problems can ultimately be addressed only by replacing capitalism with socialism.
144. Prefigurative politics
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     The concept of building a new world in the shell of the old.
145. Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?
     Against The Current vol. 114
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarted by the small matter of the stock market bust that wiped out $8 trillion of market value, and caused a 60% drop in the NASDAQ over the first two years of Bush's first term.
146. Radical Simplicity And The Middle Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     A description of what a life of radical simplicity might look like suggesting radical simplicity is appealing, provided that the transition was anticipated and widely negotiated.
147. A Radical Vision for Victory
     A Freedom Budget for All Americans
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     This remarkable book brings back into view a radical vision for victory within the mainstream, armed with the kind of expectation glimpsed briefly in the 2008 election race but this time without the support of a grassroots movement long since vanished.
148. Real Utopia 
     Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
149. Reclaiming the Canadian economy
     A Sweddish approach through functional Socialism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970
     
150. The Red and the Black 
     Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     In this essay, I start from the common socialist assumption that capitalism’s central defects arise from the conflict between the pursuit of private profit and the satisfaction of human needs. Then I sketch some of the considerations that would have to be taken into account in any attempt to remedy those defects.
151. Red Bologna
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
152. Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident - that even at its best and certainly at its worst capitalism is a decrepit monstrosity of a system. As a proposed replacement for capitalism, Parecon rejects: Private ownership, Authoritarian decision-making, Remuneration for property, power, or output, Corporate divisions of labor, and, Markets and central planning.
153. Sharing as our common cause
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
154. Small is Beautiful
     A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
155. Socialist Register 2013
     Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2013
     This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
156. Solidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism
     An Interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Capitalism is based on the philosophy that man is inherently evil and selfish. But solidarity economies suggest something different: that we are human, we cooperate with one another, we love, we struggle for the love of humanity, and that the future of our planet, our life, is based on our having a culture of brotherhood, sisterhood, collaboration, cooperation. It is an economy of love.
157. Spirit of the Wolf
     The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     
158. Strategy for Labour
     A Radical Proposal
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1964   Published: 1967
     
159. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
     Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
     Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
160. This Changes Everything 
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2015
     Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
161. A Time to Stand Together...A Time for Social Solidarity
     A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     
162. Towards a Canadian Economy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1986   Published: 1995
     
163. Towards a Decentralist Commonwealth
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     Could the basic structural concept of common ownership of society's resources for the benefit of all ever be achieved, institutionally, in ways which fostered and sustained, rather than eroded and destroyed, a cooperative democratic society?
164. Towards Workers' Climate Action
     Book review
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
165. The Town That Food Saved 
     How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     An account of how cooperative agricultural enterprises are revitalizing the economy of a town in Vermont.
166. Transforming Power
     From the Personal to the Political
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
167. 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     "We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
168. 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
     Against The Current vol. 121
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
169. The Village Against The World
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2013
     Hancox recounts the fascinating story of Marinaleda villagers who expropriated the land owned by wealthy aristocrats and have, since the 1980s, made it the foundation of a cooperative way of life.
170. Voluntary Simplicity And The Steady-State Economy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Voluntary simplicity is most basically characterized by the practices of mindfulness and material sufficiency. Through bringing mindfulness to our daily lives, we seek the maximum of well-being achievable through the minimum of material consumption. Well-being applies to all life forms on Earth, not just people.
171. 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.
172. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism 
     A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2011
     A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
173. Whole Life Economics
     Revaluing Daily Life
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1995
     
174. Why Cooperative Businesses Are Not the Answer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The problem with the worker-owned cooperative business economic model is that this model retains one of the most important defining characteristics of the capitalist model with which we are so familiar today: production of commodities to be sold for a profit in the market place.
175. Why Do Communities Fail?
     Resource Type: Article
     The strains that take their toll on community groups.
176. Why Sharing is a Common Cause that Unites Us All
     The Common Cause
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The demand for sharing wealth, power and resources is at the heart of visions for a better world. In fact, the principle of sharing is often central to efforts for progressive change in almost every field of endeavour. But this basic concern is generally understood and couched in tacit terms, without acknowledging the versatility and wide applicability of sharing as a solution to the world’s problems.
177. Why The Language of the Commons Matters
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Our very language for identifying problems and imagining solutions has been compromised. We may have many unattractive human traits fueled by individual fears and ego, but we are also creatures entirely capable of self-organization, cooperation, a concern for fairness and social justice, and sacrifice for the larger good and future generations.
178. Within and Against the Market
     Resource Type: Article
     Radical initiatives which take subversive action from within the system.
179. Worker Co-operatives
     An Introduction
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1985
     
180. 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.
181. 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.
182. Workers' Self-Management in the United States
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     
183. Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
     Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2015
     Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
184. Workplace Democracy
     A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the US and Europe
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     

Experts on Wirtschaftliche Alternativen in the Sources Directory

1. Common Ground Magazine
2. Connexions
3. International Forum on Globalization
4. Marxists Internet Archive
5. The Preservation Institute