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The Chomsky Sessions: A five part series of video interviews with Noam Chomsky conducted by Michael Albert in 2010
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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

Art by Jessica Perlstein

Kinship

Art by Heather Collier

Community

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Polity

Art by Beth Walrond

Economy

Art by Elise Vandeplancke
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Getting Organized

Understanding Strategy

Art by Jessica Kamman

Chomsky Reassessed?

One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a

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Real Utopia is an international network of activists that can be described as a “think and do” tank. It is a laboratory for experimentation and a community of people committed to participatory organizing and advocacy.

RU welcomes anyone who wants to learn about and advance participatory theory, vision, & strategy, and aims to network and support organizers.

We invite you to consider the 20 Theses for Liberationa living document to engage with in a participatory process, promoting unifying vision and strategy for building collective power. Become a signatory, share, and organize!

The Greek Internationalist Art & Research Centre for Post Capitalist Studies, Mέta, works to break with a dystopian present to imagine the world anew.

ParticipatoryEconomy.org provides information, resources, and a discussion forum on how a modern economy of millions of people can be organised around cooperation and solidarity instead of competition and greed. 

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