- The Activists' Handbook
A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A guide to grassroots activism.
- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Co-ops, Communes and Collectives: Experiments In Social Change in the 1960's and 1970's
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Contains case studies of alternative organizations and articles addressing issues relevant to how such organizations function. Particularly good is Jane J. Mansbridge's paper, "The Agony of Inequality." Also recommended: "Conditions for Democracy: Making Participatory Organizations Work" Joyce Rothschild-Whitt.
- Democracy is in the Streets
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
- Direct Action for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
- 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.
- Imagine Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
- "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.
- The New Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.
- 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.
- 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.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Sharing as our common cause
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
- Total Self-Management
Chapter 3 of Raoul Vaneigem's book From Wildcat Strike to Total Self-Management
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Vaneigem's book is one of the few texts that seriously consider the problems and possibilities of a postrevolutionary society.
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