1. After the Crash
   The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
3. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
4. BB BG or DD
   Who Should Shape Society: World Power Politics of the 20th Century - and their lessons
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. Bypassing Dystopia
   Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2018
   Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
6. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2000
   Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
7. The Case for Grassroots Archives
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
8. Debating how to change the world
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   A review of Wobblies and Zapatistas, by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
9. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   
10. Focus and determination required: A call to all progressive organizations to unite under one big umbrella
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    We need a movement powerful enough to pressure corporate media owners into providing equal coverage, and with access to enough financing to support the development of alternative, independent media. If the progressive movement is to be successful in improving society, it is hugely important for it to be able to reach the general public with its information creating a balanced view of important issues in Canada.
11. For Political Equality
    All citizens vote on all policies: 20th Century Power Politics and their 21st Century electronic alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    This book aims to motivate people to set up post-parliamentary direct democracy (DD) enabling all citizens to propose-debate-vote on all issues of society. Every citizen - one vote - on every issue of society. This political equality abolishes Power - the role of deciding on behalf of others - the main cause of violence and corruption in society. "To be" is not merely "to exist" but to decide all issues of one's life. Denying citizens' right to decide all issues of society reduces them to mere political pawns. All citizens have the right to decide all policies.
12. Free public transport: from social experiement to political alternative? - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A book review of M. Giovannangeli and J. L. Sagot-Duvauroux's "Voyageurs sans ticket. Liberté, égalité, gratuité : une expérience sociale à Aubagne".
13. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
14. Getting your story into the media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
    For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
15. Helping you reach the media
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
16. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1864
    Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
17. Introduction to the Red Menace
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    An introduction to, and the mission statement of, the libertarian socialist publication, The Red Menace.
18. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
19. Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Moser reviews Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
20. Left parties
    Introduction to the November 11, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    "There is no alternative." That is capitalism's message in the neo-liberal era. The rich keep getting richer and richer, millions of people are unemployed, millions more are trying to survive on precarious, marginal, and part-time work, hundreds of millions are without health care, housing, education, or clean water. Environmental collapse is increasingly likely, masses of people are fleeing wars and economic disasters, nuclear war is a real danger. And all that the corporate elite, the corporate media, and the mainstream political parties have to offer is their insistence that there is nothing we can do about it: there is no alternative.
21. Looking at the Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
22. Manifestos, Programs, Visions
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
23. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
24. A Movement Without Demands?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
25. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
26. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
27. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
28. Occupy Movement a valuable partner
    'Idea' to build a united Canadian progressive
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The progressive community must learn it has to confront power with power – something we don’t do well in Canada. It seems enough to most Canadians to simply point out that something is wrong, and leave it to someone else to shoulder. This doesn’t cut it any more. We need to stop being nice, and start fighting harder!
29. On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1934
    
30. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
    Left Parties
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
31. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    The socialist perspective, as we see it, implies a total critique of human society as it is presently constituted. Socialism means a total transformation of life and social institutions - a project of collective self-transformation.
    
32. Politics Without Politicians
    Resource Type: Article
    Citizens can - without representatives - run society by voting directly for policies rather than for politicians.
33. A progressive dialogue on the future: Six questions for leftists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively, and try out some solutions, we would be far more successful. Here are six from my list of the most important questions, as well as my answers, which by their very incompleteness and inadequacy should suggest that more people should work on them.
34. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
    
35. Reform and Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1968
    An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
36. Socialism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
37. Socialist Register 1996
    Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1996
    
38. Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
39. Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
40. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
41. The Unknown Dimension
    European Marxism Since Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
42. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1969
    The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
43. The Welfare State of America
    A manifesto on building social democracy in the age of austerity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A movement to expand the welfare state has the potential to foster a new majoritarian Left coalition. Republicans know this -- that’s why they manipulate the way welfare is perceived at every turn. The reality is that 96 percent of Americans have benefited from government programs, but the Right works hard to hide that fact.
44. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
45. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Environmentalist activism as radical practice.

Experts on Political Alternatives in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive