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  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. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952
    A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
  3. The Art of the Possible
    A Handbook for Political Activism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  4. The bureaucracy remains
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The government may change, but the bureaucracy remains, continuing the same short-sighted policies.
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  8. A Capital Scandal
    Politics, Patronage and Payoffs -- Why Parliament Must be Reformed
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  9. 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.
  10. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  11. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  12. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  13. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  14. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  15. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  16. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  19. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  22. Critical Perspectives on the Constitution
    Volume 2
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    This collection includes essays on collective rights, resistance to patriation by First Nations chiefs, and Quebec education reform.
  23. The Deficit Made me do it
    Resource Type: Book
  24. Dual Power or Populist Theater? Mexico's Two Governments
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be the “legitimate president of Mexico.”He is now creating an alternative government, and says he will call a constituent assembly that will write a new constitution. What is happening here? Is this a radical fight for reforms? A potentially revolutionary movement? Or a spectacular piece of populist theater?
  25. Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
    The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
  26. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
    Into the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  27. Government in the Future
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension . . . of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."
  28. Government Limited
    THe Corporate Takeover of the Public Sector in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  29. GovernmentSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  30. The Great Power-Line Coverup
    How the Utilities and the Government are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazrd Posed by Electromagnetic Fields
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  31. 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."
  32. Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  33. 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.
  34. The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  35. A Painful Struggle for Renewal
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Twenty-one years after the Sandinista National Liberation Front's triumph of July 1979, and ten years since the FSLN government lost power in an electoral upset, Nicaragua's political and economic picture is generally bleak. Widespread corruption, natural disasters made more catastrophic by social and environmental mismanagement, and a debilitating political pact between the top levels of the Liberal government (PLC) and the FSLN have sucked much of the life from the once vibrant popular movements. At the base, these movements are struggling for a renewal and reorientation.
  36. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
  37. The Politics of Obedience
    The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1550   Published: 1997
  38. Power To Us All
    Constitution or Social Contract?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Woodcock calls for a true participatory democracy.
  39. Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
  40. Quelling The People
    The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
    The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
  41. Quotes about Government
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  42. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  43. The Secret Secret
    Of Wikileaks and Literacy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
  44. Seven Public Sector Myths
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Fact and fiction about the public sector.
  45. The Shape of the Suburbs
    Understanding Toronto's Sprawl
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water, and sewage systems, highways and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city. Also demonstrates the ways in which suburban political, economic, and cultural influences have impacted the older, central city, culminating in the forced Megacity amalgamation of 1998.
  46. Shell Shock
    The Secrets and Spin of an Oil Giant
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  47. Six True Things Politicians Can’t Say
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  48. The State in Capitalist Society 
    The Analysis of the Western System of Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Miliband argues that the pluralist-democratic view of society, of politics and of the state in regards to the countries of advanced capitalism, is in all essential wrong.
  49. Strange Empire
    Louis Riel and the Metis People
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  50. The Ursula Franklin Reader 
    Pacifism as a Map
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
  51. What's the Matter with the System?
    Against The Current vol. 137
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008

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  1. Fair Vote Canada
  2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  3. Organization of American States
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