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- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- Clearness
Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Collective farming
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
- Collectives in Spain
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- The Conquest of Bread
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1906
A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
- Historical Survey of Communities in Toronto
New Communities and the Institutional Church
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
A review of the phenomenon of community in the city in the sixties and seventies.
- Meeting Collectively
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
- 1978 Directory of International Communities, Cooperatives, Collectives and Communes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- No Bosses Here!
A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- 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.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1970
Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren't very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of 'just talking' and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
- Untying the Knot
Resource Type: Book
- What is Consensus?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1984
Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
- Worker Cooperatives in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
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