1. Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
   Malicious Government Prosecution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy..
2. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
   His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
3. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
   They Can't Stop the Movement
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
4. Abandoning the Public Interest 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
   The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
5. Accumulation by Dispossession
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
6. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
7. Alien Invasion
   How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
8. Another world is possible if... 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
9. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003
   An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
10. Assaulting Public Education in Canada: Privatization Plague Spreads
    Against The Current vol. 82
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    For the past six years right-wing provincial governments across Canada have embraced the neoliberal agenda of “educational reform.” Four provinces in particular, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have led the charge in dismantling public education in favor of market-driven alternatives.
11. At the crossroads between 'Green Economy' and rights of nature
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Under the rhetoric of "green economy", capitalists are actually attempting to use nature as capital, proposing unconvincingly that the only way to preserve natural elements such as water and forests is through private investment.
12. Beyond Banksters
    Resisting the New Feudalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastructure Bank, from BlackRock to crappy trade deals to Bilderberg, Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Icelanders resisted. Nelson says Canada must too.
13. Blue Gold 
    The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
    International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
14. Blue Gold: World Water Wars 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2008
    A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
15. Canada After Harper
    His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
16. Canadian Environmental Law Association
    Resource Type: Website
    Information on legal and policy aspects of environmental issues.
17. Carbon trading: privatising the world's forests 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
18. Charter Schools Increase Fraud, Corruption, Chaos, and Anarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Charter schools, which barely make up seven percent of U.S. schools, are often accused of taking all the antisocial, antipublic, and antipeople practices of medieval autocrats and opportunuties to new extremes. Shawgi Tell looks into the issue of privatization of education that will intensify in the months ahead.
19. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
20. The Cochabamba Water War of 2000 in 2014
    Today's Betrayers Will Not Erase Our Memory
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Today's betrayers will not erase our memory: Fourteen years ago we won, today it seems like we lost, but we have to rise again to win, and we already know how to do it. From April 4 to 14 in the year 2000 the so-called "Final Battle" was waged in Cochabamba, Bolivia to prevent the privatization of our water. It was part of a strategy designed by the people of Cochabamba in the "Water War" that started on November 12, 1999. Today, after fourteen years of this historic struggle, the people's demands are still the same: democracy, transparency, participation and an economic model that allows us all to enjoy the riches that our Mother Earth generously provides for the benefit of all.
21. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
22. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
24. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
25. Council of Canadians
    Resource Type: Website
    Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
26. Culture Inc.
    The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
27. Democracy's Oxygen 
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
28. Derailing Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Haines-Doran examines the British transit workers' stike against rail privitization with its lack of concern for safety, unions, and workers' rights.
29. Digital Disconnect
    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    The author argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems and massive indirect subsidies and other policies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism.
30. Domestic Work and Rights in China
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    When China adopted the “open door” policy in 1978, south China, especially the Pearl River Delta area, was the first industrial area created to attract foreign investment, particularly from Hong Kong. In the late 1990s, China accelerated this policy, opening consumer markets to foreign investment. Since 1999, the average annual gross domestic product grew 10%, far ahead of other developing countries.
31. Earth into Property
    Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.
    Part Two of The Bowl with One Spoon.
32. EducationSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
33. The End of Politics
    Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    From the events of privatization, economic globalization, spread of violence and gun culture, and the end of the cold war, Boggs explores the depoliticization process in the United States.
34. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
35. False God
    How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
    
36. FLOW 
    For Love of Water
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2008
    A critical expose of the privatization of water infrastructure. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
37. For the Reconstitution of the Movements from Below: Autonomy and Independence
    A Reflection almost Ten Years After the Water War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Within the grassroots there are mixed feelings of dissatisfaction, sadness and anger. The demand of re-appropriating the commons and natural resources like gas, petrol, minerals and water has fundamentally not been met. Transnational corporations continue to exploit and extract these resources, and the government manages them in a private, sectarian, inefficient and in many cases corrupt manner.
38. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
    
39. The Great Reversal
    The Privatization of China
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    In these essays Hinton argues that Deng XiaoPing and his privatization reforms destroyed the achievements of the Maoist Revolution of 1949.
40. The Great Seed Piracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations -- which are becoming fewer and larger through mergers -- but also individuals like Bill Gates, the "richest man in the world". When the Green Revolution was pushed in India and Mexico, farmers' seeds were "rounded-up" and locked in international institutions, which used these seeds to breed green revolution varieties which responded to chemical inputs.
41. How Deregulation Destroyed Canada's Airlines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Skene links the deregulation of Canada's airline industry with layoffs, service disruptions, higher fares, privatization, and bankruptcies.
42. How Not To Fund Infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that "asset recycling" would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, not many eyebrows were raised. They should have been. Asset recycling is an obscure code word for selling our public goods for private profit. It's privatization by another name.
    Don't have the taxes to pay for new buses? It's okay, you can sell your electricity utility to pay for them instead. In fact, this is precisely what the Ontario Liberal government is doing. Already 30 per cent of the profitable Hydro One have been sold and another 30 per cent will be sold before 2018. A public Hydro One could more directly fight climate change, lower energy costs for the poor or work with First Nations on whose lands generation often happens. A private Hydro becomes an instrument for profit first with other goals secondary.
    What the Liberals have started in Ontario will soon be rolled out across Canada. Here are the problems with these schemes.
43. How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform.
44. How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
    Lobbying for Lock-Up
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny. Yet few people realize that this is happening on an enormous scale in the United States.
45. How to Rig an Election
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
46. Ill Fares The Land
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    
47. IMF World Bank More World Less Bank
    New Internationalist March 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and what they have done.
48. In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
49. Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February 8, tensions erupted and led to the occupation of the municipality building of Lanquín by over 200 members of the communities near the tourist attraction. Community members demanded the recuperation of the site. Since that day, residents have maintained management of the park.
50. Inside Iran
    New Internationalist March 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at Iran from history to present. Discussion of women's rights and the youth of Iran.
51. International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
52. Louisiana's For-Profit Prisons
    How Long Jail Sentences for Trivial Offences Enrich Local Sheriffs' and Police Departments
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In Louisiana, writing a cheque that bounces still carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and the minimum sentence for a repeat burglary offender is 24 years without parole.
53. Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
54. A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
55. Medicare Myths and Realities 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
56. Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
    Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
57. Modern Capitalism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
58. Moscow Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
59. Museums, Art and the Rackets
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
60. Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
61. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Website
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
62. The Other Mexico
    The North American Triangle Completed
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    
63. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
    Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
64. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
    Their Interent or Ours?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
65. Outsourcing racism: Bill C-31, Prison Expansion, and the Detention of Immigrants
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, CBSA may arrest and detain a foreign national or permanent resident they deem a threat to public safety, a potential flight risk, unable to substantiate their identity, or a threat to “national security.” Despite the regular invocation of migrants as potentially dangerous and as “criminal,” in reality the overwhelming majority of detainees (94.2%) are held for reasons entirely unrelated to questions of security. Indeed, entire families, including young children, are currently imprisoned in Canadian detention centers.
66. A Paradise Built in Hell 
    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
67. Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
68. Pensions Under Attack
    What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
69. Private guards block public street
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    
70. Privatise Child Protection Services, Department for Education Proposes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Experts sound alarm over UK proposal to outsource children's services to private firms.
71. Privatising the Oceans
    Fished out in our Lifetimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
72. Privatization
    A global disease
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
73. Privatization and Health Care
    The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
    
74. Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
75. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    
76. Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
77. The privatization of rivers in Chile
    Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The Chilean government has continued with the mercantile treatment of common goods, putting several rivers in the Bio Bio Region up for auction, despite ongoing social unrest.
78. The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
    
79. Privatization The great privati$ation grab
    New Internationalist April 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    The effects of privatization on public services. Discusses who is responsible and why they are doing this.
80. Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarted by the small matter of the stock market bust that wiped out $8 trillion of market value, and caused a 60% drop in the NASDAQ over the first two years of Bush's first term.
81. Privatizing the Public Realm
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Public spaces are the arenas where the collective, common life which defines us as a society is acted out, and where we come into contact with those who are like and those who are different from ourselves. They are the places where we are all equal and where we are all "home." They are the places where our freedoms of speech and assembly are protected, where we can exercise the precious right of criticizing the government. In public spaces we are reminded of the most important civics lesson: We are all in this together. When private agendas of stratification and control are imposed on those places, the very heart of democratic principle is threatened.
82. Privatizing Water, The New World War
    Against The Current vol. 108
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Capitalism and corporate science have colluded to bring us the latest, most insidious crisis. According to the United Nations research, 1.3 billion people in the world today lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sewage and sanitation. The human suffering and environmental damage that those figures represent is unspeakable.
83. Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law enforcement agencies, the airwaves are filled with both propaganda and venom. Today the airwaves, stripped of commons rules, feed hatred.
84. Public Universities in Peril
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    It's hare to imagine that only a year ago the privatization of a public university would emerge as a major political issue in Bloomington, Indiana. That is not to say the topic took the community by surprise. As early as 1994, the Indiana University’s Board of Trustees formed various tasks forces to evaluate the university’s potential for privatization.
85. Puerto Rico, The Oldest U.S. Colony
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    When I was a high school senior, my history teacher promised the class that the Americans “would land” in Puerto Rico by the New Year. What he meant to tell us was that, different from most Puerto Rican history courses, our class would spend considerable time studying more recent historical events, and therefore the most controversial period of Puerto Rican history — the American Century. He kept his promise and many of us, including me, left the class with a deep sense of uneasiness against Puerto Rico’s colonial condition under the United States.
86. Puerto Rico's La Huelga del Pueblo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    AFTER FORTY DAYS on strike, several paros (one-day stoppages) in various government agencies and a two-day general strike, Puerto Rico's telephone workers have returned to work without attaining their objective: forcing the government to break its agreement to sell the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to a group of investors led by GTE.
87. The Quick and The Dead
    Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
88. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
    
89. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
90. The Real Expenses Scandal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry's two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
91. Reclaiming the Commons
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
92. Recolonization or Liberation
    The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, structural adjustment is the goal of the economic and social programs which they impose upon indebted Third World governments. This booklet examines Structural Adjustment Programs from the perspective of those who are made to bear the burden of 'adjustment' in countries around the world. It shows how not only nations of the Third World, but also Canada and Eastern Europe, are being subjected to structural adjustment.
93. Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
    
94. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
95. Shooting the Hippo 
    Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
96. Slamming the World Bank and IMF
    Resource Type: Article
    Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
97. Social Networking and the Death of the Internet 
    How Do You "Like" That?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook — a group of linked pages on a giant website — is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and that’s not a whole lot of “using”. But there is a comfort in having one’s options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
98. Social Security--Why It's Under Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    A CHILD BORN in a middle-class family in Europe or America today has a fair chance of living to 85. In one way his/her life will be divided into three periods: First, twenty to twenty-four years growing up and getting educated. Second, about forty years making a living. Third, after 65, come twenty years of retirement.
99. The Socialist Register 1969
    Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
100. The Socialist Register 1987
     Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     
101. Socialist Register 1991
     Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1991
     
102. Socialist Register 1992
     Volume 28: New World Order?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1992
     
103. Stephen Harper opens door to prison privatization
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2007
     Whatever Harper has in mind for the prison system, one thing is for sure: There's little chance he'll unveil any plans for privatizing prisons before the next federal election. Unless Harper wins a majority, it seems suicidal for him to take a chance on such a controversial idea.
104. Targeting Iran
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
105. Ten Health Care Myths
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1995
     Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
106. Their Internet or Ours?
     Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
107. The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1991
     Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
108. A Time to Stand Together...A Time for Social Solidarity
     A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     
109. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
     New Internationalist December 2001
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2001
     A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
110. Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
111. The University of Nike
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1997
     Nike is just a piece of the bigger puzzle of private donors in public universities, but it is a perfect example of why private money is helping to erode the positive goals of public education.
112. Unsafe Practices
     Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2000
     Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
113. Wasting Away
     The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1993
     Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.
114. The Water Front
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2007
     Follows the heated struggle between residents, water workers and corporate managers in Highland Park, Michigan to spotlight what many of us take for granted - the right to affordable water.
115. Water War in Bolivia
     Against The Current vol. 117
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     ¡Cochabamba! is a window on the potential for liberation, and on the strategic challenges, of our times. Oscar Olivera, one of the key leaders of the struggle, and Tom Lewis, a member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review (U.S.), have done a tremendous service in writing this book. Although some basics of the Cochabamba story and considerations on strategy are recounted here, you can only get the Full Monty by reading the book.
116. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2003
     Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
     
117. What is Neoliberalism?
     A Brief Definition for Activists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1996
     Neo-liberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.
118. When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
     The Agony of Detroit
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.
119. Whose Health Care?
     Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     

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