- Addresbuch Alternativer Projekte
Resource Type: Book
Over 500 pages (5" x 7 1/2), written mostly in German. An extensive European resource guide to alternative projects. Contains several indices including an index of the alternative press.
- Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
- Alternative America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
- Alternative Americas
An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A history of decentralist and co-operative alternatives in the United States, centering especially on the work of Ralph Borsodi.
- Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
- Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Alternative Materials in Libraries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Handbook with extensive bibliographies. What, where, how and why to buy Alternative and small press publications for libraries - also useful for individuals and bookstore.
- Alternative Media
Introduction to the November 27, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
It's no wonder that the mainstream media are widely distrusted, and even held in contempt, by many people. They are seen, rightly, as part of the neoliberal system people are increasingly rejecting. On the other hand, the Internet has made it possible to launch a vast number of alternative media projects.
- The Alternative Movement, Press, and Literature of West Germany
An Introduction with Lists of Alternative Serials, Publishers, Distributors, and Selection Tools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Alternatives: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
- Begin at Start
Some Thoughts on Personal Liberation and World Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Sue Negrin talks about her experiences in the hip, free school, mysticism, New Left, feminist and gay movements; how she sees them shedding old skins and coming together in a new way.
- Breaking the Bonds
The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An examination of the lives of (American) people involved in socially and/or sexually open relationships.
- Building Economic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- 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.
- A Citizen Legislature
Resource Type: Book
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.
- The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1848
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Directory of Canadian Organizations for Social Justice 1987
Volume 10, Number 2-3 - Winter 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- For Our Common Future
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
- Four Futures
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Capitalism will end. Maybe not soon, but probably before too long; humanity has never before managed to craft an eternal social system, after all, and capitalism is a notably more precarious and volatile order than most of those that preceded it. The question, then, is what will come next.
- Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
- Goodman, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- The Green Alternative
Creating an Ecological Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Group Marriage
A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
- 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.
- International Blacklist 1983
An Anti-Authoritarian Directory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
An International directory of anti-authoritarian groups and publications. P. 123 has a list of documentation centres on anarchism. P. 139 has publishing houses and disributors.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Overview of libertarian socialism.
- 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.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- My politics in brief
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- The Need for Alternative Employment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- 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.
- Prefigurative politics
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The concept of building a new world in the shell of the old.
- The Psychic Grid
How We Create the World We Know
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
- Radical Digressions 1
Resource Type: Website
Published: 1979
- 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.
- The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
Resource Type: Article
Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- Semiotext[e]
Resource Type: Book
- Shunpiking
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The term shunpiking comes from the word shun, meaning "to avoid", and pike, a term referring to turnpikes, which were roads which required payment of a toll to travel on them. People who often avoid toll roads sometimes call themselves shunpikers. Shunpiking has also come to mean an avoidance of major highways (regardless of tolls) in preference for bucolic and scenic interludes along lightly traveled country roads. For some, practice of shunpiking involved a form of boycott of tolls (rather than just avoidance of them for financial reasons) by taking another route, perhaps slower, longer, or under poorer road conditions.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Social Change & Alternatives Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to alternatives and social change in the Sources directory for the media.
- 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.
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1996
- SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
- SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Steal This Book
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
- The Temporary Autonomous Zone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only possible in our time but also existent. All my research and speculation has crystallized around the concept of the TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (hereafter abbreviated TAZ).
- Thoughts on a Timely Narrative for the Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
"Without a story every battle is lost”, formulated the authors of the Wu Ming group, whose name demonstrators in Rome had on their shields which protected them from the police clubs. With the naming of great authors and narratives of world literature on their book shields they were indicating that power does not shy back from violently attacking even intellect and beauty.
- Thunder on the Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The paradox of the present situation is that capital is weak—but the radical left is much weaker. Alternatively, capital is economically weak, but much stronger politically, less because of mass ideological commitment to the system than because of the weakness of credible anti-capitalist alternatives.The present moment — a protracted crisis of the capitalist system — should offer a more favourable terrain for the anti-capitalist left to put forward alternative perspectives.
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Towards a Decentralist Commonwealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
Could the basic structural concept of common ownership of society's resources for the benefit of all ever be achieved, institutionally, in ways which fostered and sustained, rather than eroded and destroyed, a cooperative democratic society?
- Utopias
Introduction to the December 19, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical.
- Visionaries
People and Ideas to Change Your Life
Resource Type: Book
- Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
- 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.
- 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.
- What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
- Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article
The strains that take their toll on community groups.
- Yes, There is an Alternative!
A review of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, by Peter Hudis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Peter Hudis has written a valuable analysis of what Marx said on a critical issue. In this sense it reminds me of Hal Draper’s volumes on Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution. Hudis’s subject matter differs from Draper’s in that it deals with what comes after the revolution, rather than with how we get there. It also differs in method: While Draper was centrally concerned with Marx’s politics, Hudis, writing in what’s called the Marxist-Humanist tradition, sees engagement with Hegel’s dialectic as an essential part of creating a Marxism adequate to ever-changing times.
|
AlterLinks
© 2021.
|