1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   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. Blocking Progress
   Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1983
   Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
   
3. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
4. Bureau of Public Secrets
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles from a Situationist perspective.
5. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2000
   Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
6. Center for Democracy and Technology
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Addresses issues of Internet censorhip and privacy.
7. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
8. A Citizen Legislature
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   
9. Citizens for Local Democracy Newsletter 20, November 1997
   Periodical profile published 1992
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1997
   Fighting for democracy and against the Harris government.
10. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
11. Community Economic Workshops
    An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
12. 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.
13. The Crisis of Color and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
14. The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    
15. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
16. Democracy Is that it?
    New Internationalist June 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2000
    Democracy has become commonplace and its original meaning -- "rule by the people" -- has got lost. Real democracy depends on active citizenship, something that's missing from contemporary culture. Articles cover democracy in Canada and the developing world, economics in relation to democracy and politics in Pakistan.
17. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
18. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
19. Diemer.ca
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A left-wing perspective with articles and the Radical Digressions blog.
    
20. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
21. Drawing the Line
    The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
22. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
    
23. Every Cook Can Govern
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
    
24. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
25. Funeral Oration for the Athenian War Dead
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: -430
    Speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
26. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    
27. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
28. Imagine Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
29. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
30. The Joy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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."
31. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
32. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    
33. Looking for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    
34. Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1974
    Marx’s socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government – democratization in the state – was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
    
35. The Meaning of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
36. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
37. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
38. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
39. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
40. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    
41. One Vote for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
42. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
43. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
    
44. The Real World of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    
45. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
    
46. Revolution Re-Assessed
    Politics of Human Liberation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
47. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
48. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
    The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Luxemburg’s discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in “all its hideous nakedness.” This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
    
49. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
    
50. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
51. The Silent Takeover
    Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
    
52. The Struggle for Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
53. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
54. Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
55. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2005
    
56. The Two Souls of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below.
57. The Tyranny of Structurelessness
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    
58. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
59. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Rick Salutin's of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
    
60. 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.
61. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
62. Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    

Experts on Democracy in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Information Sharing Services
2. Diemer.ca