- The Abandonment of Agricultural Land in Gaspe, Quebec
The Causes and the Impacts on Land Use
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Aboriginal Ontario
Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
- An Acre of Time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Phil Jenkins tells the life story of a single acre on Le Breton Flats, in Ottawa, Canada.
- After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
Resource Type: Article
Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Commercial Pressures on Land
Resource Type: Website
A portal created by the International Land Coalition informing evidence based debate on large scale land-based investments and their alternatives.
- Common land
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights.
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Empire of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
- Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
- The Harrowsmith Reader
An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Articles on land, country careers, shelter, gardening, husbandry, food, trees, and rural life.
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
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.
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Land concentration, land grabbing and people's struggles in Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land. How these land elites have been actively supported by a huge injection of public funds -- at a time when all other public funding is being subjected to massive cuts.
- Landowner refuses to surrender property for Energy East pipeline
A landowner fights a big corporation for his forest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Rick Verge was shocked when a TransCanada land agent knocked on his door in Titusville, N.B., last year and offered him $1000 to conduct a land survey in exchange for his signature. He refused. He said the land agent showed him a photo in a brochure of what his land would look like after TransCanada was finished with construction.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874
Resource Type: Book
Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question.
- A Marxist History of the World part 55: The Making of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The development of capitalism entails two complementary processes. The first, explored in MHW 54, is competitive capital accumulation. The second, explored here, is the making – and continual re-making – of the working class.
- "Não Nos Representam!" A Left Beyond the Workers Party?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Larrabure identifies why the participatory budgeting strategy of Brazil's Worker's Party and the city's government failed to decentralize unequality in land ownership and the economy, resulting in mass protests and demonstrations by the public.
- No Land No Food No Life
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2013
A film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call for an end to corporate global land grabs. This feature length documentary gives voice to those directly affected by combining personal stories, and vérite footage of communities fighting to retain control of their land.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- The Socialist Register 1971
Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1971
- Tragedy of the commons
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone's long term interest for this to happen.
- Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
Where tribes own the land
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
- You Can't Give it Away: Donating Land for Conservation Can be a Taxing Experience
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
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