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. BB BG or DD
   Who Should Shape Society: World Power Politics of the 20th Century - and their lessons
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
   Socialism and the struggle for global justice
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
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
   First Published: 2000
   Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
6. 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?
   
7. Communication for and Against Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   
8. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1989   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.
9. Democracy Against Capitalism 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1995
   Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
   For a review, see http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198.
10. Democracy and Social Change
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1966
    Gray maintains that liberal democracy places power in only a few hands and calls for a radical democratization of power within the framework of an economy owned, controlled, and responsible to the public.
11. Democracy is in the Streets 
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
    
12. Democracy Is that it?
    New Internationalist June 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
13. Direct democracy
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A form of democracy wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate.
14. Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
15. Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
    People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
16. Faces of global resistance
    New Internationalist September 2001 - #338
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    Discussion of corporate globalization and how some are organizing themselves to resists.
17. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
18. Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
    Insights from Hal Draper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
19. Hatred of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2009
    Rancière defends the principle of democracy against neoconservative repression. He argues that the West can no longer simply extol the virtues of democracy by contrasting it with the horrors of totalitarianism.
20. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
21. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
22. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
23. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
    
24. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
    New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    An in-depth into the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Discusses modern myths which have further fuelled the conflict, possible paths to peace, and the role of the United States in the issue.
25. 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."
26. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
27. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
    
28. Keep raising the issue of democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
29. 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.
30. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
31. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
32. The Long Haul
    An autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for over sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
33. Looking for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
    
34. 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.
35. Marx on Democratic Forms of Government 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
36. 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.
37. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
38. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
39. 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.
40. Overcoming Zionism 
    Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
41. Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The notion of religious-ethnocentric entitlement and exclusivity for one people at the expense of another has been rejected the world over. Palestinians reject it and we assert that we are human beings worthy of the same human rights accorded to the rest of humanity; that we are worthy of our homes and farms, our heritage, our churches and mosques, and our history; and that we should not be expected to negotiate with our oppressors for such basic dignities. The two-state solution was and remains an instrument to circumvent the basic human rights of Palestinians in order to accommodate Israel’s desire to be Jewish. Polls show that Palestinians refuse to be the enemies of our Jewish brothers and sisters anywhere, just as we refuse to be oppressed by them.
42. Participatory Democracy
    Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Twenty or more arguments for participatory democracy written contributors including Goerge Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Gerry Hunnius, Colin Ward, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Don Calhoun.
43. Radical Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
44. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
45. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
46. Reveille for Radicals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
47. Ruling the Void
    The Hollowing of Western Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Analyzes democratic trends over the last few decades in Europe and America.
48. 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.
    
49. Street Level Democracy
    Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
    Resource Type: Book
    
50. The Struggle for Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
51. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
52. 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.
53. Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The one-party system of Zimbabwe.

Experts on Democratization in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Information Sharing Services
2. Connexions Library
3. International Forum on Globalization
4. Marxists Internet Archive
5. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
6. Radical Digressions