- After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 A comparison between social democracy and economic democracy in terms of both social justice and economic efficiency. Malleson examines the main institutions of the economy -- workplaces, the market, and financial and investment industry -- looking at democratic possibilities in each.
- 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.
- 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.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Barcelona's Experiment in Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Issues that Barcelona en Comu is tackling come up against limitations set by Catalan and Spanish law. The city lacks authority to regulate housing, although the city has created new affordable housing, and has successfully limited the reach of Airbnb.
- BB BG or DD
Who Should Shape Society: World Power Politics of the 20th Century - and their lessons Resource Type: Book
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
- Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
- 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 Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Democracy - Democratization: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018
- 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.
- Democratic Struggle: What Role for Marxism?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 Exploring what Marxist approaches to democracy have offered to contemporary discussions.
- Democratizing Public Institutions: Juries for the selection of public officials
Resource Type: Article Published: 1997
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Direct democracy
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A form of democracy wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- Electing for Democracy
Proportional Representation and the Left Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 An argument for proportional representation in the United Kingdom.
- Electoral reform will give us a voice
Resource Type: Article Published: 1998 The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
- Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- An Experiment in Democracy - Book Review
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 359 pages. Hardback: $55, paperback $19.95.
- The Fifth Modernization
China's Spirit of Democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 Wei Jingsheng, a 28-year-old electrician, posted this on the Democracy Wall in Beijing in 1978.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Great Class War
1914-1918 Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 In this critical, revisionist account, historian Jacques Pauwels shows how the First World War was rooted in class strife that begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and continued long past the war itself. As Pauwels sees it, war seemed to offer major benefits to the European upper classes of the early twentieth century, who felt threatened by the seemingly irresistible process of democratization or, as they saw it, the "rise of the masses." War was expected to serve as an antidote to social revolution, causing workers to abandon socialism's focus on overthrowing the established order via internaitonal worker solidarity in favour of nationalism and militarism.
- Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
Insights from Hal Draper Resource Type: Article Published: 1990 A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
- 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.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article Published: 1990 Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- The Invading Socialist Society
Resource Type: Book Published: 1947 History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
- The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 There's just one pathway to happiness in which this deep, human need for power is given pride of place: democracy. By this I mean democracy as a living practice that enables us to have a real say in every dimension of our public lives, from school to workplace and beyond.
- Latin America
Peace, Democratization and Economic Crisis Resource Type: Book Wars between countries in Latin and Central America may be rare, but peace in the region is a fragile hostage both to economic crisis and repressive regimes, and Cold War conflicts and U.S. intervention. This book, which represents the views of leading Latin American scholars, explores the links between economic, military, and human rights issues and poses the question of possible solutions.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
- 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.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 Marxs critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article Published: 1974 Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
- A Marxist History of the World part 14: The Greek Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Neil Faulkner looks at the radical participatory democracy which began in Athens between 510 and 506 BCE and spread to virtually every city-state in the Aegean.
- 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. Peoples 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.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
- The North-South Institute
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2014 The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
- Politics Without Politicians
Resource Type: Article Citizens can - without representatives - run society by voting directly for policies rather than for politicians.
- Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 In this book, leading African and Caribbean scholars examine the forms of popular alliance being forged, the demands for 'a second independence', and what they may presage for the future of the Continent. Theoretical questions concerning the nature of the state in Africa - the context of local class formations and the global pressures of capitalism - are explored in essays by Harry Goulbourne, Abdelali Doumou, and Samir Amin.
- Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website Published: 2000
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- 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.
- Reveille for Radicals
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
- Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2018 On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
- The Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1961 The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
- 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.
- Socialism.ca
Resource Type: Website Published: 2016 A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
- Socialist Register 2018
Volume 54: Rethinking Democracy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 We have conceived this 54th volume of the Socialist Register on Rethinking Democracy as a companion volume to the 2017 volume on Rethinking Revolution. As we put it in the preface to that volume: The "political event" of gaining state power, whether by taking parliament or in a collapse of the existing political regime, has proven time and again to be less crucial than the social revolution of building capacities for self-government and the democratization and socialization of institutional resources
The "event", in itself,
will never be a sufficient condition for the exploited and oppressed to build their own capacities for establishing collective, rather than competitive, ways of living through developing socialist democracy.'
- 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.
- Street Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 A wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change and grapple with the politics of everyday life.
- The Struggle for Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 A sweeping illustrated survey of the growth of democracy, its heroes and heroines, its enemies, its failures and successes.
- The Struggle for Ecological Democracy
Environmental Justice Movements in the United States Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Explores the ecosocialist perspective on the goals, strategies, and accomplishments of environmental justice. Faber also identifies the emerging principles of ecological democracy in the quest for a solution to America's social and ecological crisis.
- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- 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.
- Towards 21st Century Democracy
Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist Resource Type: Article Published: 1996
- We must win back democracy, even if it takes Hedges' revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 While the banks, elites, and the super-rich have been scrambling to try to hold onto their billions following the UK's shocking vote to exit from the European Union, the anger expressed by the leave side was another emotional cry to end the control that corporations and the elite have over everyday people in many Western countries.
- 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.
- Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
Resource Type: Article The one-party system of Zimbabwe.
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