Complementary Materials
Here you will find a variety of material - some old and some new - that we highly recommend. Familiarising yourself with this material will help you better understand where Participatory Society - theory, vision and strategy - came from and how it fits into the broader struggles for social justice.
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy
Seymour Melman
Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility
Jo Littler
Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society
Bertell Ollman
Anarcho-Syndicalism
Rudolf Rocker
Capitalism VS. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom
Rob Larson
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Envisioning Real Utopias
Erik Olin Wright
European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power
Immanuel Wallerstein
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre
Bell Hooks
For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton
Maurice Brinton
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
David Graeber
Free to be Human: Intellectual Self-Defence in an Age of Illusions
David Edwards
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics
Jonathan Shockley
Government in the Future
Noam Chomsky
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King
Michael Eric Dyson
Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists
Danny Dorling
Managerialism: A Critique of an Ideology
Thomas Klilauer
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick
Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative
Daniel & Gabriel Cohen-Bendit
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Reality Denial: Steven Pinker's Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future
Murray Bookchin
Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
Bertrand Russell
Rules Without Rulers: The Possibility and Limits of Anarchism
Matthew Wilson
Rules for Life: On Social Justice & its Critics
Nathan J. Robinson
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Noam Chomsky
Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education
Martin Parker
Socialism
Bernard Crick
Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States
Charles Derber
Take the Rich Off Welfare
Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Alex Carey
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
The Care Collective
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Mark Achbar
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeder and David Wengrow
The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization
Fabian Scheidler
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Noam Chomsky
The Psychosis of Whiteness
Eugene Nulman
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
To Have or To Be?
Erich Fromm
Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage and Systemic Injustice in an Unequal World
Bob Pease
Untying the Knot: Feminism, Anarchism and Organisation
Jo Freeman / Cathy Levine
Utopia Britannica: British Utopian Experiments 1325-1945
Chris Coats
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Catherine Liu
What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
Norman G. Finkelstein
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Noam Chomsky
Woman's Consciousness, Men's World
Sheila Rowbotham
Women, Race and Class
Angela Davis
Workers' Councils
Anton Pannekoek
Workers' Councils: And The Economics of Self-Managed Society
Cornelius Castoriadis