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. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
3. 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.
   
4. Beyond Voting
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000   Published: 2016
   By all means vote if you feel like it. But don't stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
   
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Changing The Cogs
   Activists and the Politics of Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979
   What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
8. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
9. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
11. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
12. The Death of the State in Marx and Engels 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
    
13. Dual power
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A concept first articulated in an article by Lenin, "The Dual Power," (dvoevlastie) which described a situation in the wake of the February Revolution in which two powers, the workers councils (or Soviets, particularly the Petrograd Soviet) and the official state apparatus of the Provisional Government coexisted with each other and competed for legitimacy.
14. 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.
    
15. Electric Empire: The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro
    The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Electric Empire is a close-up look at Ontario Hydro, the second-largest public-owned utility in North America, a giant enterprise presiding over 30,000 employees, 80 generating stations, and 32,000 kilometers of transmission lines serving over eight million people.
16. Energy: The Fleecing of California
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    The root of the electrical power “crisis” in California lies in the 1996 deregulation of the industry by the state government, approved unanimously by both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature and signed by Republican then-governor Pete Wilson.
17. 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.
18. Father Jimmy
    The Life and Times of JImmy Tompkins
    Resource Type: Book
    
19. Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
20. Four Hours in My Lai
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
21. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
    
22. 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.
23. Hegemony How-To
    A Roadmap for Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions of power, leadership, and strategy.
24. "Hegemony How-To": Rethinking Activism and Embracing Power
    A review of Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals, by Jonathan Smucker
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    "How many times, I wondered, had I favored a particular action or tactic because I really thought it was likely to change a decision-maker’s position or win over key allies, as opposed to gravitating toward an action because it expressed my activist identity and self-conception? How concerned were we really, in our practice, with political outcomes?"
25. How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species.
26. 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.
27. Human Rights: in a time of terror
    New Internationalist January/February 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at human rights in various countries including women's and sex rights.
28. IMF World Bank More World Less Bank
    New Internationalist March 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and what they have done.
29. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
30. Inventing the People
    The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
31. 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.
32. Man for Himself
    An Inguiry into the Psychology of Ethics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Fromm reaffirms the validity of humanistic ethics, to show that our knowledge of human nature does not lead to ethical relativism but, on the contrary, to the conviction that the sources of norms for ethical conduct are to found found in human nature itself.
33. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
    
34. Marx, theoretician of anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
35. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
36. Mastering the Machine
    Poverty, Aid and Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
37. 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.
38. Men's Work
    How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Helps men understand the spectrum of male violence and contains helpful exercises so they can make alternatives to violence.
39. Morality Policing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power.
40. More Unequal
    Aspects of Class in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
41. The Myth of Male Power
    Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Farrell's blunt manner breaks through the sterotypical white middle-class conventions of victim-obsessed sentimentality that has paralyzed mainstream feminism. He forces us to see our everyday world from a fresh perspective. Farrell feels the political agenda of the feminist movement has been hijacked by a quarter century of "male bashing". He calls for an end to the blame game and a new stress on on personal responsibility, social maturity and self enlightenment. He is one of the voices urging a critique and reform of current feminism in order to strengthen it for the 21st century.
42. Nature, science & power
    Questions need to be asked...
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2014
    Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
43. 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.
44. Oil Pipelines Pipeline cowboys
    New Internationalist October 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at the world's dependence on oil and how Costa Rica has taken strides to break their dependence on the industry. Discussion on the oil industry's effects on different parts of the world.
45. On Describing the Other
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    My criticism is not primarily about Judith Butler’s style; it is principally about the substance of her arguments and, more broadly, of poststructuralist arguments. I am not opposed to ‘difficult’ writing. There are many philosophers with whom it repays to work through the difficulties, the obscurities and the obtuseness; Hegel, for instance, even Heidegger in parts. Butler, in my eyes at least, is not such a philosopher.
46. 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.
47. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
    Corruption
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
49. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
    Secrecy and Power
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
50. Our Generation
    Volume 23 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
51. 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.
52. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
53. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
54. Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory — an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and others — has generally dominated most fields in the humanities and some in the social sciences. But the economic meltdown in 2008 and the subsequent chronic crisis in capitalism have dealt a fatal theoretical blow to the varied and nearly ineffable assemblage of perspectives that are often grouped under the rubric of “postmodernism.” postmodernism was indeed tragedy. It was tragedy for the massive amounts of “cultural capital” that it wasted; it was tragedy for the defrauding of intellectual integrity that it represented; it was tragedy for the abandonment of reality that it recommended. Further, like the financial fiasco, it was criminal.
55. 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.
56. Power
    Resource Type: Book
    
57. Power: Building it Without Taking it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    
58. Power and Terror
    Post 9-11 talks and interviews
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an underground network of Muslim extremists or the most powerful state in the world, Chomsky, in stark and uncompromising terms, challenges the United States to apply to itself the moral standards it demands of others.
    
59. Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    This updated and revised edition explores the dynamics of power relationships and international negotiations, and the use of terror between the Western countries and the nations of the Middle East in the post-9/11 era. Chomsky looks back to patterns since the Second World War to show how acts of terrorism today cannot be understood outside the context of Western power and state terror throughout the world, especially in the Middle East. This new edition offers the best opportunity to follow Chomsky’s analysis in its development during the ten years since 9/11.
60. 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.
61. Putting Power in its Place
    Create Community Control!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
62. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
63. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology
    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
64. 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.
65. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1994
    "Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle.
66. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
67. State of Power 2014
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A report with iinfographics and essays that expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
68. Supremacy, oppression, and power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
69. Three Things Young People Should Know to Save the World
    Know Your Rights!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Old people should know these things too. Energy seems better invested in trying to teach them to young people who have less to unlearn in the process.
70. Toronto Collective Statement
    Autonomy and Power Relations Within the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A statement written in June 1976 by some members of the former Struggle Against Work Collective.
71. 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.
72. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
73. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    
74. 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.
75. Wealth, Income, and Power 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we can use these two distributions as power indicators.
76. When Corporations Rule the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2001
    Kortens' book is an examination of the growth of corporate power from its beginnings in the 17th and 18th to its entrenchment in American society in the 19th.

Experts on Pouvoir in the Sources Directory

1. African Development Bank
2. Economic Cooperation Organization
3. Marxists Internet Archive