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Albert:
Why Dissent and With What Logic?
This is Revolution Interview
Vision for 21st Cent Leftism
Socialism vs Capitalism – Destiny Debate
Parecon 101: Part One
Parecon 101: Part Two
On Markets
Real News Int: One/Two/Three
Conference: Crisis of the Nation-State, Anarchist Answers
Global Forum on Democratizing Work 2021: No Bosses Panel Discussion
Radical Reviewer:
Build a Better Economy, a review of No Bosses
Varoufakis:
Varoufakis & Albert | DiEM25
Chomsky, Pettifor, Varoufakis: Visionary realism | A green future
Kostakis & Varoufakis: What Comes After Capitalism?
Hahnel:
Firestorm Coop Interview
Parecon Series – After Oligarchy
Participatory Planning
Climate Disaster
Chowdhury:
Reproductive Labor in a Parsoc
Shalom:
Democracy and Nested Councils
Self-Governance
Hickel:
Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
Hickel, Varoufakis , & Martinez: A Vision For The Future
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Participatory Vision & Strategy:
Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, Chris Spannos
No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World, Michael Albert
Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society, Michael Albert
Democratic Economic Planning, Robin Hahnel
Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis, Robin Hahnel
Parecomic, Sean Michael Wilson & Carl Thompson
Liberating Theory, Michael Albert, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Mel King, Lydia Sargent, Holly Sklar
Women & Revolution, Edited by Lydia Sargent
Next American Revolution, Michael Albert
Vision & Strategy Essentials:
Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
Workers Councils, Pannekoek
Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism, Bertrand Russell
Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, Murray Bookchin
Anarcho-Syndicalism, Rudolf Rocker
Workers’ Councils: And The Economics of Self-Managed Society, Cornelius Castoriadis
For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton
On Anarchism, Noam Chomsky
Government in the Future, Noam Chomsky
As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence, The Care Collective
Fundamentals
Radical Participatory Theory
Kinship
Community
Polity
Economy
Getting Organized
Understanding Strategy
Four Elderly Activists Face Charges for Antiwar Civil Disobedience in Northampton, Massachusetts
Courtrooms create great theater. We recognize the dramatic tension between static, formal systems of protocol that protect vested interests, and
Activist Diary #7: David and Goliath – Northampton Activists Want Munitions Icon, L3 Harris, to Leave Town
You might survive a nuclear strike, but I won’t. I live on the Sharpie X that some foreign general scratched
The Proof is in the Pudding: A Few Comments on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
Anyone interested in socialism in the twenty-first century must take into account what is happening in China seriously. It’s future
Managing Water Differently: Algeria Facing Hydrological Extremes
What if, in Algeria, water were no longer seen solely as a scarce resource to exploit or a threat to
Chomsky Reassessed?
One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a
After COP30, Indigenous Narratives Are More Important Than Ever
As last month’s COP30 climate negotiations unfolded in Belém, Brazil, activists converged on the city to advocate for keeping fossil
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