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The emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.
- Karl Marx, Founding document of the First International, 1864
The future will only contain what we put into it now.
- Graffiti, May 1968
Revolution is never practical until the roar of revolution strikes. Then it alone is practical, and all the efforts of the conservatives and compromisers become the most futile and visionary of human language.
- James Connolly
We need to make a real issue of democracy, to challenge our society to take seriously its oft-proclaimed commitment to democratic ideals. We have to make an issue of the fact that what currently passes for democracy is at best a two-dimensional shadow of what a democratic society ought to be. We should refuse to settle for a version of democracy which has us trooping to the polls every few years to choose our governors from among a set of politically similar candidates, with most of the winners heading off to be parliamentary back-benchers, while the crucial decisions are made elsewhere, beyond the reach of even token parliamentary control.
In its place, we should be offering the model of a radically democratic society, in which power is taken away from corporations, governments, bureaucracies, and experts, and dispersed widely. Such a society is possible only to the extent that we do away with inequalities of wealth and power. It means a real commitment to popular control of social life, including workers' control in the workplace and community control in our towns and neighbourhoods. At the same time, institutions and activities, including the economy, must be democratically accountable to society as a whole and to its environmental, economic, and social needs.
- What Do We Do Now? 1989Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.
- Karl Marx, Letter to Bracke, 1867
This is a selection of progressive political manifestos, statements, programs and visions dating from 1776 to the present day. For related articles and books, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as activism/radicalism, manifestos, marxism, political alternatives, political programs, radicalism, revolutionary politics, and socialism.
Common Sense - Thomas Paine's call for and justification of revolution. (1776).
Declaration
of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - Approved by the National
Assemby of France. (1789).
The
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution.
(1792)
The People's Petition - Chartists. (Great Britian, 1838).
The People's Charter - Chartists. (Great Britain, 1839).
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels. (1848).
Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association - Karl Marx’s speech to the founding congress of the First International (1864).
International Workingmen's General Rules - Rules of the First International, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
Manifesto of the Paris Commune - (France, 1871).
Critique of the Gotha Programme - Karl Marx's critique of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875. See also Marx's Letter to Bracke.
Manifesto of the Socialist League - William Morris & E Belfort Bax. (Great Britain, 1885).
Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society - William Morris. (Great Britain, 1890).
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal - Peter Kropotkin. (1901).
Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - (1910).
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For - Emma Goldman. (1910).
Our Program and the Political Situation - Text of Rosa Luxemburg's speech to the founding conference of the Communist Party of Germany. (1918).
Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World - Written by Leon Trotsky. Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern). (March 1919).
The Platform of the Communist International - Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International. (March 1919).
Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International - (August 1920).
Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International - (August 1920).
The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses - Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International. (1921).
The Workers Opposition - Alexandra Kollonati. (Soviet Union, 1921).
Manifesto of Surrealism - Andre Breton. (France, 1924).
Platform - Nestor Makno. (1926).
The Regina Manifesto - Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme (Canada, 1933).
The Transitional Programme - “The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International.” (Leon Trotsky, 1938).
The Program of the Minority - Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party, by C.L.R. James (J.R. Johnson), Raya Dunayevsksa (F. Forrest), et al. (USA, May 1946).
The Freedom Charter - Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress. (June, 1955).
Winnipeg Declaration of Principles - Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Canada, 1956).
Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program - (France, 1960).
Perspective for Conscious Change in Everyday Life - Guy Debord. (France, 1961).
The Port Huron Statement - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). (USA, 1962).
The Arusha Declaration - Written by Julius Nyerere for the Tanganyika African National Union. (February 1967).
As We See It - Solidarity London. (Great Britain, 1967).
May 1968 Graffiti - (France, 1968).
The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada (Canada, 1969).
Socialist League Founding Statement (Canada, 1974).
A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective (Canada, 1979).
The Green Book - Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee. (1979).
Revolution Re-assessed - Libertarian Socialist Organisation (Australia, 1980).
We Can Change the World - David Stratman. (USA 1991).
Solidarity (US) Founding Statement - (USA, 1986).
What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade - Connexions (Canada, 1989).
A Better World: Program of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (1994-1997).
The Joy of Revolution Ken Knabb (USA, 1997).
Walking We Ask Questions - Notes from Nowhere Collective. From the book We Are Everywhere (USA, 2008).
Manifesto of the Third Camp Against U.S. Militarism and Islamic Terrorism (2006).
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives 2006 - 2007 - News & Letters (USA, 2006).
Related Topics in the Connexions Library
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