1. Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1901
   A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future.
   
2. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1910
   Anarchsim: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
   
3. The Arusha Declaration
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1967
   Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
   
4. As We Don't See It 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A clarification of Solidarity London's 1968 pamphlet, "As We See It." Distinction is placed between real socialism and the "exploitative privileged minorities" who controll(ed) the USSR and China, as well as the importance of controlling the means of production.
5. A Better World: Programme of the Worker-communist Party of Iran 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   The actual lives and actions of people themselves reveal a deep-seated belief in the possibility and even the certainty of a better future.
6. Common Sense 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1776
   Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
7. The Communist Manifesto 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1848
   Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
   
8. Critique of the Gotha Programme 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1875
   Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
9. A Decentralist Manifesto
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1958
   No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
   
10. Declaration of Independence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1776
    The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
11. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1789
    Approved by the National Assemby of France August 26, 1789.
    
12. For a Socialist Ontario in an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resolutions prepared for the Ontario New Democratic Party Convention, October, 1970 by the Ontario Waffle Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
13. For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence
    A Reflection almost Ten Years After the Water War
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamentally not been met. Transnational corporations continue to exploit and extract these resources, and the government manages them in a private, sectarian, inefficient and in many cases corrupt manner.
14. The Freedom Charter
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1955
    Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
    
15. The Green Book
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
16. Humanism and its Aspiration
    Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.
17. Humanist Manifesto I
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1933
    Outlines affirmations on cosmology, biological and cultural evolution, human nature, epistemology, ethics, religion, self-fulfillment, and the quest for freedom and social justice.
18. Humanist Manifesto II
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.
19. Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1864
    Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
20. The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1864
    Rules of the First International, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
21. Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1922
    Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the ‘General Introduction’ to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx’s shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory.
    
22. The Joy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997   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."
23. The Left Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Unger writes a manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? In his analysis, Unger examines the major debates in the world today and he rallies for alternative forms of change.
24. Letter to Bracke
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1875
    Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
25. Manifeste de l’Anarchie
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1850
    Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l’autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu’ils fassent ce qu’ils veulent.
26. Manifesto of Surrealism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1924
    Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
27. Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
    
28. The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
29. Manifesto of the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1871
    Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
    
30. The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998   Published: 1999
    We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
31. Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
    
32. Manifesto of the Sixteen
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War.
33. The Manifesto of The Socialist League
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1885
    Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
    
34. Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1910
    Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
35. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
36. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
37. Manifiesto de Cartagena
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1812
    
38. May 1968 Graffiti
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1968
    "Don’t consume Marx, live him."
39. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
40. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
41. The Organisational Structure of the Communist Parties, the Methods and Content of Their Work: Theses
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1921
    Adopted at the Third Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921.
    
42. Our Program and the Political Situation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
43. The Paris Commune of 1871 
    The View from the Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    For the Left, the Paris Commune of 1871 stands as the first example of the exercise of political power by a working class. Socialists, Communists and Anarchists have all looked to this 72-day revolution for lessons - often conflicting - in the development of approaches to state power, democratic processes and a vanguard party in socialist revolutions. This volume gives the English reader direct access to a substantial collection of documents from the time of the Commune - most of which have remained unpublished even in France. These are writings in which some Communards themselves express the view that the Commune was an egalitarian social revolution committed to the ultimate abolition of classes.
44. The People's Charter
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1839
    The Chartists' Peoples Charter of 1839.
    
45. The People's Petition
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1838
    The Chartist Petition of 1838.
    
46. Perspective for Conscious Change in Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961
    Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
47. Platform
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1926
    
48. The Platform of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1919
    Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International, March 1919.
    
49. A Political Statement of the Libertarian Socialist Collective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
50. The Port Huron Statement 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
51. Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1960
    Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
52. The Program of the Minority
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946
    Statement of the minority in the (U.S.) Workers Party.
    
53. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
54. The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
    
55. Reimagining Society 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An online collection of visions, proposals and strategies for social transformation.
56. Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1957
    Founding manifesto of the Situationist International.
57. Revolution Re-Assessed 
    Politics of Human Liberation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
58. The Rights of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1792
    Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
59. Russell-Einstein Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1955
    We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
60. The Socialist League and the Struggle for a Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    The Socialist League is a democratic centralist organization which views its main tasks as gathering cadres for the future mass revolutionary party.
61. Solidarity As We See It 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
    Ten Points on Solidarity's Socialist position - the compromised nature of the "Bolsheviks" and trade unions, the need to "build from below," the desire to see themselves as "merely an instrument of working class action."
62. Solidarity (US) Founding Statement 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    Adopted at the founding national convention of SOLIDARITY in the Spring of 1986.
    
63. Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1890
    Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."
64. Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1964
    Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
65. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
    Manifesto 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
66. Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1920
    Adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International, August 1920.
    
67. The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1938
    Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
    
68. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1792
    Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern and sought to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body.
69. The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
    The founding statement of the Waffle group within the New Democratic Party.
70. Walking: We Ask Questions 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    An essay from the book We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere Collective.
71. We Can Change the World 
    The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
    
72. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
73. William Morris
    From Romantic to Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1977
    A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
74. Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
75. Workers Opposition
    Solidarity London Pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1921   Published: 1968
    Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.

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