1. Alternative America
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
   
2. Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
   
3. Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   
4. Alternative Movement, Press, and Literature of West Germany
   An Introduction with Lists of Alternative Serials, Publishers, Distributors, and Selection Tools
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
5. The Alternative Movement, Press, and Literature of West Germany
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
6. Alternative Research
   Organization profile published 1977
   Resource Type: Organization
   Published: 1977
   
7. Alternatives
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1977
   A poster, brochure, and information on jail, chaplaincies and the corrections system.
8. Alternatives Home Page
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Library of online text files (articles, documents, interviews) indexed by topic. Some files accessible only to members.
9. Alternatives Information
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Online social change library.
10. Alternatives Vorlesungsverzeichnis Nr. 5
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
11. Another world is possible if...
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
12. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
13. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Many articles, fact sheets and background papers and analyses, on Canadian and international issues, from the CCPA, which promotes research from a progressive point of view.
14. Canadian Dimension Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    We are a magazine which shows there is an alternative to the corporate agenda and the dictates of the global market; that the dream of a better society is still alive. It provides a forum for debate, where red meets green, feminists take on socialists, socialists take on social democrats, whites hear from aboriginals, activists report from all corners of Canada, trade unionists report from the front lines, campaigns make connections, and the latest books, films, web sites, CDs, and videos are radically reviewed.
15. Citizen Legislature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
16. Communist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
    
17. Communist Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    
18. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
19. The Connexions Annual 1989: A Social Change Sourcebook
    Information and Ideas About Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The 1989 edition of the Canadian directory of grassroots groups working for social and environmental alternatives.
    
20. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
    
21. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    
22. 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.
23. Connexions Directory of Canadian Organizations for Social Justice 1987
    Volume 10, Number 2-3 - Winter 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
24. Critique of the Gotha Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1875
    Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
25. Diemer.ca
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A left-wing perspective with articles and the Radical Digressions blog.
    
26. For Our Common Future
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
27. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
28. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
29. Idealist
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    International directory, organized by country, of thousands of non-profit activist organizations, designed to help people "think globally and act locally".
30. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1864
    
31. Information Clearing House
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Described as an independent media source and as "one person's effort to correct the distorted perceptions provided by commercial media", this extensive site provides a mixed bag of news, articles, audio and video clips, ranging from the soberly analytical to off-the-wall conspiracy theories.
32. Intentional Communities
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for intentional Communities including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.
33. International Blacklist 1983
    An Anti-Authoritarian Directory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    An International directory of anti-authoritarian groups and publications. P. 123 has a list of documentation centres on anarchism. P. 139 has publishing houses and disributors.
    
34. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
35. Macrocosm USA
    Possibilities for a New Progressive Era
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    An environmental, political and social solutions handbook and directory.
36. Marginal Distribution
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Book distributor.
37. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
38. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
39. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    
40. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
41. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
42. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    
43. The Preservation Institute
    The Natural Environment : The Social Environment
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Today, most people recognize that modernization and growth can harm the natural environment. The Preservation Institute believes that modernization also damages the social environment - that many of our social problems are side-effects of modernization and economic growth. To preserve the natural environment and the social environment, we must modernize selectively. Factory mass production is an efficient way of producing most goods that used to be made by hand. But we are in danger of using the same centralized, standardized methods for every aspect of life, from housing to retail shopping to child care.
44. Red Menace
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 1980
    A libertarian socialist newsletter.
45. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
46. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
47. Toolkit for a New Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
    
48. Voyages To Utopia
    From MOnastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
    
49. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    
50. Web Networks
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web Networks is the online home of many non-profit and social change groups in Canada.
51. 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.
52. 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.
53. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.

Experts on Alternatives in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Information Sharing Services
2. Diemer.ca