1. Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Leading digital rights champion and author Cory Doctorow has rejoined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to battle the pervasive use of dangerous digital rights management (DRM) technologies that threaten users' security and privacy.
2. Democracy for the Few
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
   
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. John Locke Against Freedom
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   John Locke's classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
7. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
   Elections
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 2015
   Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
8. Robot Cops Are Racist, Too
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   As an institution, the police is racist through and through -- irrespective of whether or not particular cops harbor racist views. This is because, among other reasons, as an institution the police is an appendage of the larger institution of property. And property, in the US at the very least, is inextricable from racist dispossessions, and reproductions, of wealth. That is, in addition to manifesting other aspects of domination, property is racist.
9. Socialism.ca
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2016
   A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
10. The World Turned Upside Down
    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    Hill looks at radical groups such as the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters, and others, whose ideas threatened to overturn the established order in the mid-seventeenth century.

Experts on Property Rights vs. Democracy in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive