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  1. 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.
  2. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
    A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A Canadian pamphlet with English translations of three articles originating with the Italian autonomist Marxist organization Lotta Continua.
  3. Bordiga, Amadeo - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings by Amadeo Bordiga (1889-1970).
  4. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
  5. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  6. Council communism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of social democracy and Leninist Communism, is that democratic workers' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural form of working class organisation and governmental power.
  7. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  8. Facing Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
  9. Gramsci's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  10. 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.
  11. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
  12. Interactive map of workers' councils (1917-1927)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    This article charts the spread of the workers' council movement in the ten-year period after the 1917 revolution in Russia.
  13. Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers' and soldiers' councils
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Rose reviews and discusses two important books about the German Revolution, "Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement", and "The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents".
  14. A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  15. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  16. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
  17. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  18. 1905
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
  19. On Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
  20. Pannekoek, Anton - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960).
  21. Real Utopia
    Participatory Society for the twenty-first century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
  22. 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.
  23. Revolution Re-Assessed
    Politics of Human Liberation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
  24. Situationist International Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
  25. Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
    A Reply to the International Socialist Organization

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
  26. Syndicalism
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  27. 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.
  28. Workers' Council
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  29. Workers' self-management
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A form of workplace in which workers themselves make the decisions.

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