1. After the Crash
   The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. 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.
3. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1952
   
4. Another World is Possible
   Globalization and anti-capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   A polemical call-to-arms for all progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
5. Beyond the Fragments
   Feminism and the Making of Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
   
6. Blocking Progress
   Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1983
   Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
   
7. Books for Burning
   Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   
8. Bound By Power
   Intended Consequences
   Resource Type: Book
   These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
9. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
10. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
11. Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
12. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
13. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
14. A Citizen Legislature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
15. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
16. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
17. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
18. Community Economic Workshops
    An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
19. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
20. Counter-Rhetoric
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
21. The Crisis of Color and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments used by America's national leaders to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
22. The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    
23. 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.
    
24. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
25. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
26. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
27. Drawing the Line
    The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
28. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
    
29. The Encyclopedia of Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
30. Encyclopedia of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    
31. 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.
32. Every Cook Can Govern
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
    
33. The Great Turning
    From Empire to Earth Community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
34. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    
35. Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
36. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
37. The Human Rights Handbook
    A Practical Guide To Monitoring Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
38. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
39. 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.
40. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
41. 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."
42. 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.
43. 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.
44. 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.
    
45. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
46. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
47. The lessons we have learned
    Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2002
    A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
48. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
49. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
50. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
51. Looking for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
52. 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.
53. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
54. Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
55. Marxism and Freedom
    From 1776 to Today
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
56. The Meaning of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
57. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
58. The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
59. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
    Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
60. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
61. 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.
62. 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.
63. No platform or no democracy?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
    
64. "Objectivity" and democracy are not compatible (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1998
    
65. One Vote for Democracy
    Consensus vs. democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
66. 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.
67. The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
    Resistance in Practice
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    
68. Politics Past
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
69. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
70. Pragmatics Of Community Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization
71. Pretensions to Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
72. The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
    
73. Quelling The People
    The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
    
74. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
75. The Real World of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
76. 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.
77. Renewing Socialism
    Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
78. 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.
79. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
80. 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.
    
81. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
    The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
    
82. Ruling Canada
    Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    
83. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
    
84. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
85. The Silent Takeover
    Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
    
86. 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.
    
87. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Demovracy
    Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
88. Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
    
89. The Spectre of Capitalism
    The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
90. The Struggle for Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
91. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
92. Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
93. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
    Manifesto 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
94. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
95. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
96. The Two Souls of Socialism
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of Socialism and Democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory which sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being, in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
97. The Tyranny of Structurelessness
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren't very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of 'just talking' and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
    
98. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
99. Unreliable Sources
    A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
100. Untying the Knot
     Resource Type: Book
     
101. Urbanization Without Cities
     The Rise and Decline of Citizenship
     Resource Type: Book
     The author argues that there should be participatory democracy so there could be balance ecologically between city and country.
102. Waiting for Democracy
     A Citizen's Journal
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1989
     Rick Salutin's of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
     
103. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     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.
104. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1993
     Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
105. Who do we try to rescue today?
     Canada under corporate rule
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2000
     A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
106. Worker Co-operatives
     Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1984
     
107. Workplace Democracy
     A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiements in the US and Europe
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1978
     
108. Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     The one-party system of Zimbabwe.

Experts on Democracy in the Sources Directory

1. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
2. Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
3. Central American Integration System
4. Commonwealth Secretariat
5. Connexions Information Sharing Services
6. Council of Europe
7. La Francophonie
8. International Development Law Organization
9. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
10. Organization of American States
11. Radical Digressions
12. Southern African Development Community
13. United Nations
14. United Nations Human Rights Council