1. Asian American Activism Stirring
   Against The Current vol. 91
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2001
   For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
2. A Blueprint for a New Party
   With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in working class
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   A proposal for a national political organization that would have chapters at the state and local levels, a binding program, a leadership accountable to its members, and electoral candidates nominated at all levels throughout the country.
3. Canada: Activists Face the Future
   Against The Current vol. 91
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2001
   Electoral politics present challenging problems for labor movements all over the world. In the absence of strong working class parties, labor activists are often compelled to support parties that implement anti-worker legislation simply because they represent a lesser evil. While reforms are certainly necessary, the investment of activist energy and resources into the electoral process can often distract union and social justice organizations, preventing them from undertaking the important task of generating solidarity within more impoverished segments of the working class.
4. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
5. Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Stephen Harper, who won by an uncomfortably small margin in the last election, has passed laws designed to keep voters who oppose him from the polls.
6. The Caribbean Left's Legacy
   Against The Current vol. 112
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2004
   Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana of The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana. The WPA continued to organize and build its ranks through a democratic socialist multi racial agenda, but has continuously been marginalized by the two party system, wining only one or two seats in each election.
7. A Citizen Legislature 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1985
   Arguing from the premise that the present electoral system is unrepresentative and promotes corruption, the authors propose going back to the Athenian system of choosing representatives: by lottery.
8. Electoral Reform: Do the right thing
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   The Chartist goal of a representative parliament and majority govermment is still sadly unrealised.
9. Electoral reform will give us a voice
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1998
   The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it
   as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
10. Fair Vote Canada - Home
    Resource Type: Website
    A multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting system reform. Canadians from all points on the political spectrum, all regions and all walks of life are joining FVC to demand a fair voting system - a fundamental requirement for healthy representative democracy and government accountability.
11. The History of Democracy 
    A Marxist Interpretation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
12. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
13. Kenya's Opposition Party
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    That the elections in Kenya were rigged is no longer in question. And for most people that the culprit is the sitting president, sworn in so quickly that the ceremony has been jokingly likened to a lightning wedding, is no longer a question.
14. Korea: The Elections and Sexual Violence
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In the April 13 South Korean parliamentary elections, the closest the Democratic Labor Party came to victory was in the Hyundai company town of Ulsan. Their candidate was defeated by a small margin (43% to 41.8%) by the Grand National Party, the traditional party of the military dictatorship, anticommunism, and Kyongsang chauvinism (Ulsan is in South Kyongsang Province). The combination of money, regionalism and boss politics still exerts influence in the working class.
15. The Left and the Elections
    Against The Current vol. 110
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Two electoral paths will be taken by those left of center this year, and all the spilled ink in the world won't affect the choices.
16. Nader, Greens and Socialists
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other wing. Nevertheless, the Democrats, their liberal satellite organizations, and the corporate media are playing the blame game for all it is worth.
17. The Next Step
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1910
    A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
    
18. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism 
    Hobbes to Locke
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A fundamental reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke which emphasizes the role of liberal political theory in justifying the appropriation of property to private ownership.
19. Proportional Representation: The Urgency of Real Reform
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The introduction of an electoral system based on proportional representation would allow the left to be represented in government, because it allows for representation without requiring a majority vote.
20. Suffrage (Voting Rights)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right.
21. Thieving Sons of Bushes
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
22. Towards 21st Century Democracy
    Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    
23. 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.
24. 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.

Experts on R‚forme lectorale in the Sources Directory

1. Fair Vote Canada
2. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance