1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war # not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
   
2. Adventures in Marxism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
   
3. Africa in Crisis
   The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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.
5. The Age of Permanent Revolution
   A Trotsky Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   
6. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
   The Experience of Modernity
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
   
7. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1952
   
8. Anarchism
   A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1978
   Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
10. The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
    Documents of revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
11. Beyond a Boundary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, politics, and the realities of colonial oppression.
12. The Blackest Streets
    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
13. Das Capital, Volume 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
14. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
    
15. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
16. Central American Women Speak for Themselves
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
17. The Children's Crusade
    The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
18. The Civil War in France
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1871
    Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
    
19. Common Sense
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1776
    Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
20. 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.
    
21. The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    
22. The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    
23. Declaration of Independence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1776
    The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
24. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1789
    Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
    
25. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
26. Do It
    Scenarioes of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
27. Einfuhrungen in "Das Kapital" von Karl Marx
    Resource Type: Book
    
28. The Enemy
    Notes on Imperliasm and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
29. The Enemy of Nature
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
30. The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    
31. Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A discussion of the concepts at the root of Marxism: the theory of value and commodity fetishism.
32. Essential Works of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    
33. Everyday Life in the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
34. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
    
35. The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
    
36. France Spring 1968
    Masses in motion Ideas in free flow
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
37. Free Association
    Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
38. From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    
39. From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Parliaments are becoming increasingly empty trappings: the parties are collapsing, destroying one another, and losing their political credibility: the trade unions are changing into ruins. The breakdown of this organisational and political system all along the line is inevitable.
40. The Future in the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
41. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    
42. History and Revolution
    A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1971
    Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism'.
43. History and Revolution
    A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
44. Hungary 1956
    Resource Type: Book
    
45. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
46. Hungary 56
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
47. In Defence of October
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1932
    
48. In Defense of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    
49. Introduction to Social Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
50. 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.
    
51. Inventing the People
    The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
    Resource Type: Book
    
52. The Joy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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."
53. Karl and Rosa
    November 1918: A German Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
54. Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
55. Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
    Resource Type: Book
    
56. 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.
57. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
58. 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.
    
59. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
60. Latin America Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
61. Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1936 - 1939
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
62. Living in a Dark Age
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
63. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    
64. Rosa Luxemburg
    A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
65. Made in America
    An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    
66. Manifesto of the Communist Party
    Resource Type: Book
    
67. Manifesto of the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1871
    Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
    
68. Manifestos, Programs, Visions
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
69. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
70. Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
    Toward a Permanent Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
71. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
72. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
73. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
74. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
75. 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.
76. Nonviolence
    Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
77. The Old Mole
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1917
    The question of peace is in reality bound up with the unimpeded, radical development of the Russian Revolution. But the latter is in turn bound up with the parallel revolutionary struggles for peace on the part of the French, English, Italian and, especially, the German proletariat.
78. Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1926
    In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
79. Our Program and the Political Situation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
    
80. The Paris Commune told in pictures
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1934
    An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
    
81. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
82. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
83. Philosophy and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
84. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
85. Politische Schriften 1
    Resource Type: Book
    
86. Politische Schriften 2
    Resource Type: Book
    
87. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    Book offers a clear analysis of events in Portugal 1974-1975.
88. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    
89. Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    
90. The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1971
    For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
    Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
91. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
92. Reason and Revolution
    Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
93. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
94. Redefining Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
95. 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 effet for 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.
    
96. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1896
    
97. The Revolution in Russia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1905
    
98. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
99. Revolution Re-Assessed
    Politics of Human Liberation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
100. The Rights of Man
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1792
     Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
101. Rosa Luxemburg
     Selected Political Writings
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1972
     A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
     
102. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1982
     Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
103. Russia in Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1967
     
104. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1973
     Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
105. Sex-Pol
     Essays 1929-1934
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1972
     Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
106. Slumming It At the Rodeo
     The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1998
     Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
     
107. Social Reform or Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1908
     Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism.
108. 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.
109. Socialist Humanism
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1966
     An international symposium whose contributors explore the humanist essence of socialism. Among the contributors are Herbert Marcuse, Maximilien Rubel, Norman Thomas, T.B. Bottomore, Raya Dunayevskaya, Ernst Bloch, and Bertrand Russell.
110. The State and Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1917
     
111. State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism or Philosophy and Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     
112. State Capitalism and World Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1986
     
113. Student Protest
     The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1968
     
114. Studies in Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     
115. Thank God for the Revolution
     A Journey through Central America
     Resource Type: Book
     Coxsedge compares daily life in Nicaragua after the revolution with El Salvador at that time, warning of the dangers to the region of US policies.
116. Theses on the Paris Commune
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1962
     
117. Trotsky
     A Documentary
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1972
     An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.
118. Uncovering the Sixties
     Life and Times of the Undergound Press
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1985
     A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
119. Venceremos
     The Speeches and Writings of Che Guevara
     Resource Type: Book
     
120. A Very Ordinary Life
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
121. Voice of the American Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1975
     
122. Weatherman
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     A history of the Weatherman organization.
123. What is Libertarian Socialism?
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     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.
124. What Kind of Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     
125. When in Doubt, Do Both
     The Times of My Life
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1994
     Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
126. Women, Resistance and Revolution
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
127. Writings on the Paris Commune
     Resource Type: Book
     Hal Draper's compilation of all the writings by Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune of 1871, when a working-class-led revolution took power and established a new type of state for the first time in the history of the world - temporarily, in one city.
     

Experts on Revolution in the Sources Directory

1. Center for Socialist History