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 Pakistan's Election
   Against The Current vol. 133
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   Throughout Pakistan the massive anti-Musharraf vote on 18 February, 2008 spoke volumes: We do not like the military dictatorship; we want Musharraf out.
3. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
4. The Balance of Probabilities
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
5. Burma: Ripe for change
   New Internationalist May 2008
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2008
   A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
6. Burying the Typewriter
   Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2012
   Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
8. Chile Report
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1975
   Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
9. Connexions
   Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1980
   
10. Corruption: Can the rot be stopped?
    New Internationalist December 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look at the people standing up to challenge corruption and make a difference.
11. Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution: A Reply to Malik Miah
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    IN ATC 75 Malik Miah presents an analysis of events surrounding the fall of Indonesian President Suharto (“Indonesia's Democratic Revolution”). As a descriptive report of what has been happening in that country his effort is valuable to activists. However, as an analytical assessment of what is at stake the article falls short.
12. The 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' in Marx and Engels
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    What did the phrase 'dictatorship of the proletariat' mean to Marx and to his contemporaneous readers?
13. Easily Led
    A History of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
14. Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Fisk joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak's regime.
15. 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.
16. 40 years ago: the grandeur and the limits of the Portuguese Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Portuguese Revolution plunged its roots in the crisis of the Salazar regime. A fascist dictatorship based on a reactionary ideology which would serve as inspiration for the Vichy regime, the Estado novo (“New State”) presents original features in comparison with the fascist regimes of Mussolini and Hitler, features that help to explain both its longevity and its weakness at the moment of its crisis in the early 1970s.
17. From Dictatorship to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2010
    A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
18. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
19. Human Development Council
    Organization profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1981
    The St. John Human Development Council is an effort at social planning and coordination that is non-governmental and broadly based in the community.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
24. A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
25. The Nazi Seizure of Power 
    The Experience of a Single German Town
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
26. 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.
27. Notes from a Revolution Dying
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
28. Odious Debts
    Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
29. 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.
30. Our Generation
    Volume 5 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
    
31. Peddling miracles and amnesia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
32. Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
33. The Politics of Obedience
    The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1550   Published: 1997
    
34. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
35. 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.
36. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
    Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967
    
37. The Socialist Register 1979
    Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
38. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
39. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
40. State Capitalism and Dictatorship
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1936
    One can raise the question : is not state capitalism the only 'way out' for the bourgeoisie ? Obviously state capitalism would be feasible, if only the whole productive process could be managed and planned centrally from above in order to meet the needs of the population and eliminate crises. If such conditions were brought about, the bourgeoisie would then cease being a real bourgeoisie.
41. Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
42. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
43. A Turkey Divided by Erdogan Will Become Prey to Its Enemies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    What critics claim is the openly fraudulent Turkish referendum ends parliamentary democracy in the country and gives President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dictatorial powers. The most unexpected aspect of the poll on Sunday was not the declared outcome, but that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) allegedly found it necessary to fix the vote quite so blatantly.
44. Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
45. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
46. Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This is a transcript of John Pilger's contribution to a special edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Today' program, guest-edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey.

Experts on Dictature in the Sources Directory

1. Central American Integration System