1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article
   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. Allow the Water
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
3. Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements.
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2014
   Dixon examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. He presents the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.
4. The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
   Hope, History, and Unpredictability
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
5. The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   The story of how C.P. Ellis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an African American civil rights activist, overcame racial divisions to forge a strong friendship.
6. Coming Back to Life 
   Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1998
   A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
7. Connexions Digest
   Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   
8. Creating an Ecological Society 
   Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2017
   Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
9. Elements of a Concept of Socialist Transformation
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The concept of transformation, with the elements developed up to now, could be capable of advancing the process of creating a left that is up to the challenge of the great crisis of financial-market capitalism and today’s civilisation. Just like the Zapatistas, we will progress while learning - with the objective of overthrowing the total mode of production and life, of power and property relations, in order to go toward a solidary, socialist society, which puts an end to the exploitation of human beings and nature. The transformation of our very way of thinking is part of this progress.
10. The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
    Yes! Magazine Summer 2006
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
11. How Labour's Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The basic techniques of convincing people on the doorstep are not different to those of convincing friends or workmates. However, election canvassers have typically gone door-to-door telling voters what the party's policies are. The British Labour Party's new approach, developed by Momentum, emphasized listening to people and identifying their key issues.
12. How to Re-Imagine the World
    A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    A conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.
13. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
    Utopia
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
    Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
16. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
    Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
    
17. The Phenomenology of Mind 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
18. 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.
    
19. The Socialist Register 1978
    Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
20. Transforming Apathy and Denial
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
21. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
22. We Make the Road By Walking 
    Conversations on education and social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking book.

Experts on Transformation in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive