1. Beyond the Veil
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. The latest controversies have erupted in Britain after a defendant in a criminal trial demanded the right to wear a niqab in court and a college attempted to proscribe it.
2. Civil Society
   Adventures of the Concept Before and After 1989
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1997
   A discussion of "Civil Society" pertaining to the Czech Republic, especially the definitions offered by Charter 77 and later by its most famous member, Vaclav Havel.
3. Civil Society and the Aid Industry
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1998
   
4. Civil Society in Question 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   Civil Society ranks as flavour of the month among community volunteers, academics and policy makers. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and for social justice and democracy. Is civil society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond recognition and usefulness?
5. Civility
   A Cultural History
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Through a historical, social, and psychological discussion of the civility practices in 3 nations - England, France and the United States, Davetian addresses major topics in public discourse today regarding the ideas and practices of civility and the possibility of a future civility ethic capable of inspiring cooperation across cultural and national boundaries.
6. Democracy Against Capitalism 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1995
   Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
7. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   
8. Ecology as Politics 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1980
   Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
9. Global Showdown
   How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
10. Gramsci's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
11. 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.
12. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
13. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
14. Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
    Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
16. A Paradise Built in Hell 
    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
17. Radical Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
18. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
    Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
19. Selections from the Prison Notebooks 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
20. The Socialist Register 1990
    Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
21. Unequal Freedoms
    The Global Market as an Ethical System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
    

Experts on Sociedad civil in the Sources Directory

1. Fair Vote Canada
2. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
3. International Monetary Fund
4. Organization of American States
5. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
6. United Nations
7. World Bank