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. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
3. 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.
4. Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1969   Published: 1972
   An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
   
5. 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.
6. The Caracas Commitment
   Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, 2009, Caracas, Venezuela
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   We have gathered with the aim of unifying criteria and giving concrete answers that allow us to defend our sovereignty, our social victories, and the freedom of our peoples in the face of the generalized crisis of the world capitalist system and the new threats spreading over our region and the whole world.
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. 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.
   
9. 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.
10. A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1891
    
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. Erfurt Program
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD congress at Erfurt in 1891.
13. The Erfurt Program
    Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1891
    Program of Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands.
14. 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.
15. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
16. The Left's Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    It was indicative of the left's sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
25. 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.
26. 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.
    
27. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
    SYRIZA
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
28. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
29. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
    Left Parties
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
30. 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.
    
31. 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.
32. 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.
    
33. 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.
34. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article
    Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
    
35. 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.
36. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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."
40. SYRIZA's 40-point program
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Here is the official program of the Greek coalition of the radical left, SYRIZA, which won the elections of January 2015.
41. 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.
42. Theses for Discussion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Programmatic points.
43. Thoughts on a Timely Narrative for the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    "Without a story every battle is lost”, formulated the authors of the Wu Ming group, whose name demonstrators in Rome had on their shields which protected them from the police clubs. With the naming of great authors and narratives of world literature on their book shields they were indicating that power does not shy back from violently attacking even intellect and beauty.
44. Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
45. 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.
    
46. A Vision from the Heartland
    Socialism for the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    La Botz argues that to solve the problems of our economy and the environment, and to end America‘s wars abroad, we must begin to create a socialist society. A socialist society is one where the working people collectively own and democratically plan and manage the major industries and enterprises. I call for the abolition of the corporations and of capitalism in order to create a society of plenty for all. I believe that such a society can only be created by building a powerful movement for democracy and for working class power.
47. 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.
48. 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.
49. What Does the Spartacus League Want?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1918
    The proletarian revolution requires no terror for its aims; it hates and despises killing. It does not need these weapons because it does not combat individuals but institutions, because it does not enter the arena with naive illusions whose disappointment it would seek to revenge. It is not the desperate attempt of a minority to mold the world forcibly according to its ideal, but the action of the great massive millions of the people, destined to fulfill a historic mission and to transform historical necessity into reality.
    
50. What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
    Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
51. Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
    Resource Type: Article
    The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

Experts on Programmes Politiques in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive