1. The ABC of Communism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1920
   Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
2. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1901
   A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
   
3. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1910
   Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
   
4. 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.
5. The Arusha Declaration
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1967
   Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
   
6. A Better World: Programme of the Worker-communist Party of Iran 
   Resource Type: Article
   The actual lives and actions of people themselves reveal a deep-seated belief in the possibility and even the certainty of a better future.
7. 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.
8. Common Sense 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1776
   Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
9. The Communist Manifesto 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1848
   Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
   
10. The Communist Manifesto in Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2012
    Eric Hobsbawm’s opening address to the international conference organised by Espaces Marx on the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto.
11. Critique of the Gotha Programme 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1875
    Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
12. A Decentralist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1958
    No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
    
13. Declaration of Independence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1776
    The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
14. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1789
    Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
    
15. The Freedom Charter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1955
    Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
    
16. Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly Solidarity Platform
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    
17. The Green Book
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
18. History is Knocking
    Resource Type: Article
    Popular Resistance's manifesto against the destructive aspects of U.S. foreign and domestic policy.
19. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1864
    Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
20. The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1864
    Rules of the First International Workingmen's Association, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
21. Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1922
    Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
    
22. The Leap Manifesto
    A Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
23. The Left Alternative 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Unger writes a manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? In his analysis, Unger examines the major debates in the world today and he rallies for alternative forms of change.
24. Letter to Bracke
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1875
    Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
25. Manifesto
    10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve Ukrainian's lives. Instead, the Left Opposition Collective, a group of social and union activists, is proposing ten basic conditions for overcoming the economic crisis and ensuring Ukraine’s future growth.
26. Manifesto of Surrealism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1924
    Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
27. Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
    
28. The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
29. Manifesto of the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1871
    Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
    
30. The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998   Published: 1999
    We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
31. Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
    
32. Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1910
    Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
33. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
34. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2016
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
35. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 24
    Marx and Engels 1874 - 1883
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes the Critique of the Gotha Programme, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
36. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
37. May 1968 Graffiti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    "Don't consume Marx, live him."
38. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
39. On the Spartacus Programme 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1918
    For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
    
40. The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1921
    Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
    
41. Our Program and the Political Situation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1918
    Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
    
42. The People's Charter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1839
    The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
    
43. A People's Manifesto: Let's Roll Back Austerity and Claim Real Democracy! 
    Urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the peoples of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social policies. Rising inequalities endanger social cohesion. Ecological destruction is worsening while acute humanitarian crises devastate the most affected countries.
44. The People's Petition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1838
    The Chartist Petition of 1838.
    
45. Perspectives for Conscious Change in Everyday Life 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1961
    Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
46. Platform
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1926
    
47. The Platform of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
    
48. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
    
49. Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1960
    Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
50. The Program of the Minority
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1946
    Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
    
51. The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1880
    This document was drawn up in May 1880, when French workers' leader Jules Guesde came to visit Marx in London. The Preamble was dictated by Marx, while the other two parts of minimum political and economic demands were formulated by Marx and Guesde, with assistance from Engels and Paul Lafargue, who with Guesde was to become a leading figure in the Marxist wing of French socialism.
52. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
53. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article
    Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
    
54. Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Perspectives for socialist renewal in the 21st century.
55. Reimagining Society 
    Resource Type: Website
    An online collection of visions, proposals and strategies for social transformation.
56. Revolution Re-Assessed 
    Politics of Human Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
57. A Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto
    An open letter to the Party
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964
    
58. The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
59. Socialist Thought
    A Documentary History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964
    An anthology of important documents in the history of European socialist thought, from pre-revolutionary France to the 1950s.
60. Solidarity As We See It 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967
    Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
61. Solidarity (US) Founding Statement 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
    
62. Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1890
    Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."
63. Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1964
    Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
64. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism 
    Manifesto 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
65. Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
    
66. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1938
    Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
    
67. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
68. We Can Change the World 
    The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
69. 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.
70. Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
    Resource Type: Article
    The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
71. Workers Opposition
    Solidarity London Pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1921   Published: 1968
    Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
72. The World We Wish To See 
    Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political organization seriously. Amin offers provocative analysis of contemporary resistance to neoliberalism,while boldly calling for a new global movement, "an internationalism of peoples," to challenge the current order and fashion a better world.

Experts on Programmes, Strat‚gies, Manifestes in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive