1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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.
2. Beyond the Fragments 
   Feminism and the Making of Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
   A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
   
3. Beyond Voting
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   By all means vote if you feel like it. But don’t stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
   
4. 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.
5. Changing The Cogs
   Activists and the Politics of Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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?
   
6. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
7. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
8. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
   From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
   Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
9. The Death of the State in Marx and Engels 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1970
   Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the “dying-away” of the state in socialist (communist) society.
   
10. Dual power
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A concept first articulated in an article by Lenin, "The Dual Power," (dvoevlastie) which described a situation in the wake of the February Revolution in which two powers, the workers councils (or Soviets, particularly the Petrograd Soviet) and the official state apparatus of the Provisional Government coexisted with each other and competed for legitimacy.
11. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
12. Electric Empire: The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro
    The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
13. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
14. Father Jimmy
    The Life and Times of JImmy Tompkins
    Resource Type: Book
    
15. Four Hours in My Lai
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
16. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
17. Human Development Council
    Organization profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1981
    
18. Human Rights: in a time of terror
    New Internationalist January/February 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at human rights in various countries including women's and sex rights.
19. IMF World Bank More World Less Bank
    New Internationalist March 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and what they have done.
20. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
21. Inventing the People
    The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
23. Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotksyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
    
24. Marx, theoretician of anarchism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
25. 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.
26. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
27. More Unequal
    Aspects of Class in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
28. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
29. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
30. Oil Pipelines Pipeline cowboys
    New Internationalist October 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at the world's dependence on oil and how Costa Rica has taken strides to break their dependence on the industry. Discussion on the oil industry's effects on different parts of the world.
31. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
32. The Poverty of Power
    Energy and the Economic Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
33. Power
    Resource Type: Book
    
34. Power and Terror
    Post 9-11 talks and interviews
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an underground network of Muslim extremists or the most powerful state in the world, Chomsky, in stark and uncompromising terms, challenges the United States to apply to itself the moral standards it demands of others.
    
35. Power: Building it Without Taking it
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    
36. Pragmatics Of Community Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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
37. Putting Power in its Place
    Create Community Control!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
38. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
39. Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology
    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
40. Reinventing power: People take control
    New Internationalist September 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at democracy and power in countries including Mexico, South Africa and Thailand. Briefly mentions key concepts, including feminism and Foucault.
41. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   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.
    
42. Transforming Power
    From the Personal to the Political
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
43. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America’s imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
44. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    
45. When Corporations Rule the World
    Resource Type: Book
    

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