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  1. Another world is possible if... 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
  2. Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1972
    An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The Erfurt Program
    Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1891
    Program of Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands.
  7. Erfurt Program
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD congress at Erfurt in 1891.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1880
    This document was drawn up in May 1880, when French workers' leader Jules Guesde came to visit Marx in London. The Preamble was dictated by Marx, while the other two parts of minimum political and economic demands were formulated by Marx and Guesde, with assistance from Engels and Paul Lafargue, who with Guesde was to become a leading figure in the Marxist wing of French socialism.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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."
  25. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
    Manifesto 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. Winnipeg Declaration of Principles
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

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