1. 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.
2. BB BG or DD
   Who Should Shape Society: World Power Politics of the 20th Century - and their lessons
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. 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.
4. Catalyst
   Organization profile published 2007
   Resource Type: Organization
   A campaigning think tank for the labour movement and the left, committed to developing and promoting practical policies for the redistribution wealth, power, and opportunity.
5. Confronting Injustice 
   Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2014   Published: 2016
   Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
6. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
7. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1988
   
8. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
   A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
9. 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.
10. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
11. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
12. 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.
13. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
14. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
15. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
16. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
17. The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative in their politics than lower paid workers. They point to the example of mostly white New York City construction workers ("hardhats") attacking antiwar demonstrators in the Spring of 1970; and contrast them with the militancy and progressive politics of some of the recent "Justice for Janitors" campaigns.
18. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
19. 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.
20. Marx on Democratic Forms of Government 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
21. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
22. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Website
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
23. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
24. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
25. Participatory Democracy
    Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Twenty or more arguments for participatory democracy written contributors including Goerge Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Gerry Hunnius, Colin Ward, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Don Calhoun.
26. 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.
    
27. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
    
28. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
29. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
30. The Russian Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1961
    The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
31. Social Democracy or Revolutionary Democracy: Syriza and Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Lebowitz discusses the construction of Syriza, its Thessaloniki Programme, and the potential for revolutionary democracy in Greece.
32. 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.
33. Socialism.ca 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2016
    A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
34. A Socialist Alternative For Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A discussion on the future of the sociliast left in Canada and its relationship to the New Democratic Party.
35. The Socialist Register 1966
    Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1966
    
36. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
37. Socialist Register 1995
    Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1995
    
38. Socialist Register 2018
    Volume 54: Rethinking Democracy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    We have conceived this 54th volume of the Socialist Register on Rethinking Democracy as a companion volume to the 2017 volume on Rethinking Revolution. As we put it in the preface to that volume: ‘The "political event" of gaining state power, whether by taking parliament or in a collapse of the existing political regime, has proven time and again to be less crucial than the social revolution of building capacities for self-government and the democratization and socialization of institutional resources … The "event", in itself, … will never be a sufficient condition for the exploited and oppressed to build their own capacities for establishing collective, rather than competitive, ways of living through developing socialist democracy.'
39. SOS Alternatives to Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
40. SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts and discussions on the concept of an alternative economy and society – with Richard Swift.
41. The Two Souls of Socialism 
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1960   Published: 1970
    It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
42. 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.
43. Why Marx Was Right 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
44. The workers' government
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The biggest far left organisations in Italy to emerge from the great wave of struggle from 1968 to 1975 changed their strategy to one of focussing on the formation of a ‘left’ government within the existing parliamentary set-up.

Experts on Socialismo Democr tico in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions
2. Ulli Diemer
3. Marxists Internet Archive