1. The Activist Cookbook
   A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
   Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
2. After the Crash
   The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. Agenda for a New Economy
   From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth - Second Edition
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Korten offers in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on locally owned, community oriented “living enterprises” whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet.
4. Alternative Americas
   An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   
5. Alternative Press Center
   Resource Type: Website
   Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
6. The Anarchist Collectives
   Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
7. 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.
8. Beyond Poverty and Affluence
   Towards a Canadian Economy of Care
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1995
   By studying societal realities such as poverty, pollution, environmental degradation and losses from quality and quantity of work, Goudzwaad and de Lange believe that a new economic practice is needed for Canadian economic recovery.
9. A Bibliography on Material Pertinent to the Informal Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   
10. Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.
11. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
12. Bookchin on Technology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    Murray Bookchin#s arguments for a liberatory technology.
13. The Breakdown of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1957
    Kohr maintains that throughout history, people who have lived in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang.
14. Build It Now
    Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
15. Building Sustainable Communities
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1989
    The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking.
16. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
    Resource Type: Website
    Many articles, fact sheets and background papers and analyses, on Canadian and international issues, from the CCPA, which promotes research from a progressive point of view.
17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
18. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
19. Capitalism is a Waste of Time
    Godwin, Malthus & the Ideology of #No Alternative#
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The #no alternative# of permanent scarcity is both the all too familiar essence of our daily politics as well as the ideology at the heart of the discipline of economics, defined in the most widely used economics textbook of the 20th century as #the study of how men and society choose to employ scarce resources#
20. Capital's War on the People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    It is time to change the parameters of the debate, from “when or by how much social spending should be cut?” to “why should the people pay for something they are not responsible for?”
21. A Carbon-Free Future
    An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
22. The Case for Grassroots Archives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
23. Christians in the Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    Describes the urgent need for Christians to respond to the socio-economic and political crises of our time.
24. The Closing Circle 
    Man, Technology & the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Commoner argues that economic life must be structured to conform to the principles of ecology, as opposed to the goal of unlimited growth that underpins capitalist economies.
25. Collectives in Spain
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1945
    A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
26. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    
27. Community Dreams 
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
28. Community Economic Workshops
    An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
29. Community Economic Development in Rural Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    
30. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
31. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
32. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
33. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
34. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
35. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
36. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
37. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
    
38. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    
39. Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
40. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
41. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
42. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
43. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
44. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
45. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
46. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
47. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
48. The Conquest of Bread
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1906
    A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
49. Consumer Hell
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The problem with gross domestic product is that there are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.
50. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives.
51. The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    
52. Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
    
53. Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing! 
    Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
54. Ecology as Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
55. E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
    Communications in the public interest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
56. The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates.
57. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
58. Envisioning Economic Justice
    Against The Current vol. 130
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The organizers of the U.S. Social Forum must be commended for making possible this political happening with its 900 workshops. The USSF has succeeded in bringing together activists from many diverse sectors working for global justice — thereby contributing to the strengthening of the entire movement.
59. An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
60. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
61. First Person Plural
    A Community Development Approach to Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Smith provides an account of his experiences and addresses the ways of building an effective and democratic orgranization to bring about social transformation. Useful for those interested in adult education, community development and political action.
62. Flying Without A Net
    The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
    
63. For a Worker's Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
64. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
65. From the Roots Up
    Economic Development as if Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    
66. From The Roots Up: Economic Development As If Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
67. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
68. Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies
    An Interview with Beverly Bell
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
69. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
70. Green Political Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
71. A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
    Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    
72. Gute Argumente: Verkehr
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
73. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
74. How Change Happens: A Three-Fold Strategy
    To build a new economy, we must work on three fronts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The power of authentic culture stories gives civil society the ultimate advantage in the contest for the human future. Stories alone will not, of course, bring down the institutions of Empire. Nor should we welcome the inevitable chaos that the collapse of Empire will bring if we have not first laid a foundation of the new rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy.
75. Iceberg Economies and Shadow Selves
    Further Adventures in the Territories of Hope
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Capitalism is only kept going by this army of anti-capitalists, who constantly exert their powers to clean up after it, and at least partially compensate for its destructiveness. Behind the system we all know, in other words, is a shadow system of kindness, the other invisible hand. Much of its work now lies in simply undoing the depredations of the official system.
76. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
77. Imagine a Stadium
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A plea for organization.
78. In the Tiger's Mouth
    An empowerment guide for social action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Information for ordinary people to become activists for social change.
79. Institute For New Economics
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    
80. Is Capitalism Sustainable?
    Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
81. Land trust
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    There are two distinct definitions of a land trust: 1) a private, nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements Land Trust Alliance website, and 2) an agreement whereby one party (the trustee) agrees to hold ownership of a piece of real property for the benefit of another party (the beneficiary.
82. Left Business Observer
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Left Business Observer is a newsletter on economics and politics.
83. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
84. The Living Economy
    A New Economics in the Making
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    An attempt to summarize the "new economics" for a wider audience. The new economics can be briefly described as that body of work, beginning with E.F. Schumacher, Herman Daly, and Hazel Henderson, which is critical of tradiational economic theory and seeks alternatives to the devastating impact of our current economic system on communities, individuals and the biosphere.
85. LIVING IN THE U.X.A.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn#t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history.
86. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
87. Major Universal Problems of Living
    A New Approach to Information
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1936
    
88. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
89. The Meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 113
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A feature of revolutions is that they keep coming around in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Who would have dared predict the eruption that was Seattle in November 1999, when the powers behind neoliberal globalization seemed completely incontestable?
90. Meme Wars
    The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Meme Wars presents a new way of looking at our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model. The book is image-heavy and full-color throughout,
91. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
92. The Microfinance Delusion
    Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
93. Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business#a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
94. Natural Causes
    Essays in Ecological Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    O'Connor provides an ecological Marxist analysis and suggests new political strategies.
95. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
    
96. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
97. New Age Business
    Community Corporations That Work
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
98. A New and Better Canada
    Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
    Hurtig calls for a new political party committed to sweeping political reform and plans to put Canadians back to work.
99. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
100. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2001
     Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
101. The Organizer's Manual
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
102. Parecon & Participatory Society
     An Interview with Michael Albert
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to workers and consumers self managed say over their economic lives, a condition of solidarity with others, equitable incomes for their labors, diverse opportunities and options, and ecological balance.
103. Passionate Declarations
     Essays on War and Justice
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990   Published: 2003
     Essays looking at American political ideology.
104. People First Economics
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty. How can we rein in these beasts unleashed by the free market economy?
105. People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1968
     
106. The People's Classifieds
     The Alternative Directory for Metro Toronto
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1984
     A directory of progressive/alternative businesses, professionals, services, groups, and individuals in Toronto.
     
107. The People's Report
     A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1985
     
108. The Philosophy of Social Ecology
     Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
109. The Policy of Abstention
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1887
     Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
     
110. Post Scarcity Anarchism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1971
     Modern radicals, says Bookchin, have ignored the real revolutionary possibilities of modern technology and the counterculture. Unless they start building a movement which looks to the future, they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
111. The Poverty of Power
     Energy and the Economic Crisis
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1976
     Commoner argues that the environmental, energy, and economic crises are interconnected. The industries that use the most energy have the highest negative impact on the environment; the focus on non-renewable resources as sources of energy means those resources are growing scarce, thus pushing up the price of energy and hurting the economy. These problems can ultimately be addressed only by replacing capitalism with socialism.
112. Prefigurative politics
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     The concept of building a new world in the shell of the old.
113. Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?
     Against The Current vol. 114
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarted by the small matter of the stock market bust that wiped out $8 trillion of market value, and caused a 60% drop in the NASDAQ over the first two years of Bush's first term.
114. Radical Simplicity And The Middle Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     A description of what a life of radical simplicity might look like suggesting radical simplicity is appealing, provided that the transition was anticipated and widely negotiated.
115. Real Utopia 
     Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
116. Reclaiming the Canadian economy
     A Sweddish approach through functional Socialism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1970
     
117. The Red and the Black
     Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     In this essay, I start from the common socialist assumption that capitalism’s central defects arise from the conflict between the pursuit of private profit and the satisfaction of human needs. Then I sketch some of the considerations that would have to be taken into account in any attempt to remedy those defects.
118. Red Bologna
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     
119. Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident - that even at its best and certainly at its worst capitalism is a decrepit monstrosity of a system. As a proposed replacement for capitalism, Parecon rejects: Private ownership, Authoritarian decision-making, Remuneration for property, power, or output, Corporate divisions of labor, and, Markets and central planning.
120. Small is Beautiful
     A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
121. Spirit of the Wolf
     The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     
122. Strategy for Labour
     A Radical Proposal
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1964   Published: 1967
     
123. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
     Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
     Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
124. The Town That Food Saved
     How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     An account of how cooperative agricultural enterprises are revitalizing the economy of a town in Vermont.
125. 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.
126. 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     "We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
127. 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
     Against The Current vol. 121
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
128. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
     Resource Type: Article
     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.
129. Whole Life Economics
     Revaluing Daily Life
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1995
     
130. Why Do Communities Fail?
     Resource Type: Article
     The strains that take their toll on community groups.
131. Why The Language of the Commons Matters
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Our very language for identifying problems and imagining solutions has been compromised. We may have many unattractive human traits fueled by individual fears and ego, but we are also creatures entirely capable of self-organization, cooperation, a concern for fairness and social justice, and sacrifice for the larger good and future generations.
132. Within and Against the Market
     Resource Type: Article
     Radical initiatives which take subversive action from within the system.
133. Worker Co-operatives
     An Introduction
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1985
     
134. Worker Co-operatives
     Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     An introduction to the principles and practical considerations of forming worker co-operatives.
135. Worker Cooperatives in America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984
     A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
136. Workers' Self-Management in the United States
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1984
     
137. Workplace Democracy
     A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiements in the US and Europe
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     

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