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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAll That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons  Walljasper, Jay Book 2010 All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons is a wake-up call that will inspire you to see the world in a new way. As soon as you realize that some things belong to everyone—water, for instance, o... The Charter of the Forest Article 1217 A complementary document to the Magna Carta of 1215, defining the rights of vassals, freemen, and serfs, reducing penalties, and restoring common land taken by the Crown. Common land: Connexipedia Article Article Land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights. The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising Linebaugh, Peter Article 2016 A hundred years ago today in Dublin the Easter Rebellion commenced. This was an urban insurrection, in the revolutionary tradition. Not more than a thousand participated. It lasted five days, before t... Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta Chomsky, Noam Article 2012 Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack. For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence: A Reflection almost Ten Years After the Water War Olivera, Oscar Article 2009 Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamen... India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons Achanta, Pushpa Article 2015 India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal... The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Pearce, Fred Book 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. Liberties and Commons for All: Preface to the Korean Edition of Magna Carta Manifesto Linebaugh, Peter Article 2012 Liberties and Commons for All expresses two aspects of the ancient English Charters of Liberty; first is the restraint on political power of the King, second is the protection of subsistence in the co... The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All Linebaugh, Peter Book 2008 Linebaugh shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny -- and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture -- are being abridged. In providin... Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism Hudis, Peter Book 2013 In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx ... A Movement Without Demands? Deseriis, Marco; Dean, Jodi Article 2012 We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that ... Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Commons Daly, Herman Article 2013 “Open borders” refers to a policy of unlimited or free immigration. I argue here that it is a bad policy. If you are poor and your country provides no social safety net, you move to one that does. If ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014: The Commons Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2014 From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anythi... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015: Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issue... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015: Corruption Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015: Climate Change and Social Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a produ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016: Forests and trees Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-makin... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018: What are we eating? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la... Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled Morris, David Article 2010 Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law e... Reclaiming the Commons in Appalachia: Property is Theft Mincy, Grant Article 2014 The extractive resource industry has a firm hold on the wild, wonderful, but wounded Appalachians. The use of eminent domain and compulsory pooling has robbed communities of their cultural and natural... Sharing as our common cause Article 2014 A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely pro... Socialism.ca Website 2016 A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions. Solidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism: An Interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo Bell, Beverly; Hsu, Jessica Article 2014 Capitalism is based on the philosophy that man is inherently evil and selfish. But solidarity economies suggest something different: that we are human, we cooperate with one another, we love, we strug... Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance Linebaugh, Peter Book 2014 A collection of fifteen chapters on many different aspects of the commons, mostly from a historical perspective. Tragedy of the anticommons: Connexipedia Article Article A coordination breakdown where the existence of numerous rights holders frustrates achieving a socially desirable outcome. Tragedy of the commons: Connexipedia Article Article A dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest will ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that i... 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012 Walljasper, Jay Article 2012 "We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends. Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System McMurtry, John Book 1998 McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful o... Why The Language of the Commons Matters Bollier, David Article 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 entire... Winstanley & The Diggers: The Spirtual and Political Story of a Seventeenth Century Communist Movement Spritzler, John Article Spritzler sets out to show that the resistance to the Hobbesian ideas that rule our lives today is as old as those ideas themselves. Hobbes' basic assumption is that men are necessarily locked into a ... Winstanley’s Ecology Johnson, Daniel Article 2014 Largely forgotten for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the communist thought of Winstanley was rediscovered by German and Russian Marxists in the late nineteenth century. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution Hill, Christopher Book 1984 Hill looks at radical groups such as the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters, and others, whose ideas threatened to overturn the established order in the mid-seventeenth century. Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesCapitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology CNS is a journal of ecosocialism. We welcome submissions on red-green politics and the anti-globalization movement; environmental history; workplace labor struggles; land/community struggles; politica... Socialism.ca A hub featuring links to selected resources about socialism, as well as other progressive sites of interest to socialists and activists. Sources Library |
