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• Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti, of the Holy Father Francis, on Fraternity and Social Friendship (in multiple languages; 2020), by Pope Francis (HTML at the Vatican)
• Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Insecurity (c2014), ed. by Thanh-Dam Truong, D. Gasper, Jeff Handmaker, and Sylvia I. Bergh (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Backfire Manual: Tactics Against Injustice (Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2012), by Brian Martin (PDF with commentary in Australia)
• Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire (prepublication version, 2007), by Brian Martin (PDF in Australia)
• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Sasha Costanza-Chock (illustrated HTML with commentary at pubpub.org)
• Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Carmen Martinez-Vargas (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• I am a Man of Peace: Writings Inspired by the Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Collection (Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020), ed. by Helen Fallon (PDF with commentary in Ireland)
• Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters (Punctum Books, c2019), ed. by Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Rose Reed (PDF at oapen.org)
• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2017), by Ingrid Robeyns (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Arguing About Justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs (Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, c2011), ed. by Axel Gosseries and Yannick Vanderborght (PDF with commentary at UC Louvain)
• Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2022), by Hannah Noel (PDF at OAPEN)
• The Love That Does Justice: Spiritual Activism in Dialogue with Social Science (2008), ed. by Michael A. Edwards and Stephen G. Post (PDF at unlimitedloveinstitute.org)
• What's the Matter with Liberalism? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Ronald Beiner (HTML at UC Press)
• Never Again: Ending War, Democide, and Famine Through Democratic Freedom, by R. J. Rummel (PDF at Hawaii)
• Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Addams (HTML at Brock)

• Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Judith Sierra-Rivera (PDF at Ohio State)

• Building the Kingdom: Mary Mackillop and Social Justice (ACSJC occasional paper #22; North Blackburn, Vic.: Collins Dove, 1995), by Geoffrey Hull (PDF in Australia)

• Comprehending and Confronting Antisemitism: A Multi-Faceted Approach (An End to Antisemitism v1; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2019), ed. by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Journal of Radical Librarianship (2015-) (full serial archives)

• I am a Man of Peace: Writings Inspired by the Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Collection (Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020), ed. by Helen Fallon (PDF with commentary in Ireland)

• Behind the Dictators (third printing; New York: Agora Pub. Co., 1945), by L. H. Lehmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judge Rutherford Uncovers Fifth Column (Brooklyn: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1940), by J. F. Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Social Justice Review (partial serial archives)
• Central-Blatt and Social Justice (in German and English) (partial serial archives)

• Droits et Voix: Rights and Voices (with articles in French and English; c2010), ed. by Véronique Strimelle and Françoise Vanhamme (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory (open access edition, c2021), ed. by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists (revised edition, 2020), by Spencer Sunshine (PDF files with commentary at spencersunshine.com)

• The State You See: How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Aaron J. Rosenthal (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism (London and New York: Verso Books, 2023), by Arun Kundnani (Epub at OAPEN)
• Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters (Punctum Books, c2019), ed. by Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Rose Reed (PDF at oapen.org)
• Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), ed. by Olivia R. Lucas and Laura Moore Pruett (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter, by Jonathan Horng Hsy (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2022), by Eugene M. Avrutin (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Markets and Justice (Nomos XXXI; New York and London: New York University Press, 1989), ed. by John W. Chapman and J. Roland Pennock (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003), by Michael Albert (HTML with commentary at zcomm.org)
• Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (illustrated HTML at zcomm.org)
• The Political Economy of Participatory Economics, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (HTML at zcomm.org)

• Fairness and Freedom: The Final Report of the Equalities Review (2007), by Great Britain Equalities Review (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Katrina Smith Korfmacher (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• International Claims: Their Preparation and Presentation (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1962), by Richard B. Lillich and Gordon A. Christenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (2006), by Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (PDF with commentary at Brown)

• Plunder and Restitution: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims' Assets: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, and Staff Report (2000), by United States Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at unt.edu

• Ambiguous Relations: The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1999), by Shlomo Shafir (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Tolerable Inequality: Understanding Public Policy and LGBTQ+ Politics (London and New York: Routledge, c2025), by Christopher L. Pepin-Neff (PDF at OAPEN)
• The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Mary R. Jackman (HTML at UC Press)
• Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters (Punctum Books, c2019), ed. by Felice Blake, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Rose Reed (PDF at oapen.org)
• Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism (Cham: SpringerOpen, c2018), by Amitai Etzioni, contrib. by Oren Etzioni (PDF and Epub with commentary at springer.com)
• Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, 2018), by Robin Truth Goodman (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Lever Press)
• From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (2008), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)
• A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by G. D. H. Cole (HTML at Wikisource)
• A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (John Adams's copy, with his handwritten annotations; London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, contrib. by John Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Gutenberg text)
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (New York: Holt and Williams, 1873), by James Fitzjames Stephen
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1873), by James Fitzjames Stephen (HTML at terrenceberres.com)
• The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images)

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