- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique
The Accumulation of Capital, or What the Epigones Have Made of Marx's Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1921
Rosa Luxemburg's reply to the critics of her book The Accumulation of Capital. Originally written in 1915 while Luxemburg was interned in the women’s prison, Barnimstrasse, Berlin, and published after her death.
- Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- Alienation, Marx's theory of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
As expressed in the writings of the young Karl Marx, refers to the separation of things that naturally belong together, or to put antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. In the concept's most important use, it refers to the social alienation of people from aspects of their "human nature". He believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism.
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
- Another World is Possible
Globalization and anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A polemical call-to-arms for all progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
- Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1966
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Book
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?
- Behind Closed Doors
How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
- Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
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.
- The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Capitalism for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
- Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1997
The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
- 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.
- Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
- The Corporation
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
- The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- The Crisis of Modern Society
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1967
Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
- The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
Resource Type: Book
- The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
Resource Type: Book
- Decolonization and Empire
Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Der Deutsche Kapitalismus
Resource Type: Book
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Do It
Scenarioes of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing!
Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Ecology as Politics
Resource Type: Book
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.
- The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
- Economics for Everyone
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- Einfuhrungen in "Das Kapital" von Karl Marx
Resource Type: Book
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- The Enemy
Notes on Imperliasm and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Ernest Mandel#s Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1972
- Europe's Green Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
The authors propose a continent of autonomous regions that are economically decentralized, feminist and underpinned by nonviolent social structures.
- Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Faltering Economy
The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
- Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
- Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
- For a Worker's Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book
- For the Common Good
Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
- The Freudian Left
Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
- The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A biography of George Orwell.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
- Green on Red
Evolving Ecological Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Essays exploring alternative economic and political strategies within an ecological context.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
- Highrise and Superprofits
An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- A History of Canadian Wealth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
- Insurgent Notes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
A journal of communist theory and practice.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Introduction to Capital
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1932
Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth.
- An Introduction to Capitalism
Four lectures on Marxian Economies
Resource Type: Book
- Introduction to Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
This book is aimed to guide the first time reader through a difficult and intricate text. Harvey makes CAPITAL relevant to the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
- Introduction to Social Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1976
A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- The Invention of the White Race
Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
- Ireland and the Irish Question
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
- 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."
- Just Around the Corner
The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Aronowitz details how U.S. capitalism has achieved higher profits at the expense of the quality and quantity of jobs, and contradicts the ideological justifications that seek to justify deteriorating jobs, showing how they are neither a mark of efficiency nor a merely temporary problem.
- Das Kapital I
Der Produktionsprozess des Kapitals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Das Kapital II
Der Zirkulationsprozess des Kapitals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Das Kapital III
Der Gesamtprozess der kapitalistischen Produktion
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Karl Marx: Essential Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Long Way From Home
The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
Toward a Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Marx on Economics
Resource Type: Book
- Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1982
- The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
- Modern Capitalism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
- The Modern Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Moscow Gangsters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1992
A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
- Naming the Moment
Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
- The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
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.
- One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- The Ontogenesis of the Interest in Money
Resource Type: Book
- Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The Political Economy of Growth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
- The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- The Post- Industrial Utopians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
Resource Type: Book
- Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1859
Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.
- The Privatization Putsch
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Radical Perspectives in the Arts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
- Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Reading Capital Politically
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- 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.
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- 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.
- The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
- Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
- Silent Surrender
The multinational corporation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- 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.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Socialism or Barbarism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1969
The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
- The Socialist Register 1979
A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
- Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
- The Sociology of Marx
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- The Spectacle
A Skeleton Key
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1981
An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
- The State in Capitalist Society
The Analysis of the Western System of Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Strategy for Labour
A Radical Proposal
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
Manifesto 2007
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- Telling the Truth
Socialist Register 2006
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
- Theories of Surplus-Value
Part I
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
- The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
A Symposium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Value, Price and Profit
Speech by Marx to the International Working Men's Association, June 1865
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1898
- Violence Today
Actually Existing Barbarism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today#s actually-existing barbarism.
- Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
- 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.
- Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
- Working Lives
Vancouver 1886-1986
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
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