1. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
2. Behind Closed Doors 
   How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1987
   A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
3. Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
4. Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy is the rule.
5. Canada's Great Divide
   The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
9. Connexions
   Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
10. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
11. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
12. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
13. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
14. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
15. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
19. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
21. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
22. Democracy for the Few 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
    
23. 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.
24. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
25. Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
    
26. Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
    Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
27. Falling Behind
    The State of Working Canada, 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
28. The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
29. The GST in... The Big Tax Picture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    When you start talking about the GST, you end up talking about the whole idea of taxation. And when you start talking about who pays more and who pays less, you're really talking about the kind of country you want to live in.
30. The History of Democracy 
    A Marxist Interpretation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
31. Inventing Tax Rage
    Misinformation in the National Post
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
32. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
33. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
34. Killing the Host 
    How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
35. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
    Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
36. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Tax Evasion
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
37. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
38. 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.
39. A People's History of the United States 
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
40. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
41. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
    
42. Progressive Frames for Taxes 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    As progressives, we do not believe that taxes are necessarily an affliction. Instead, we think of taxes as investments that give us dividends.
43. Rich Getting Richer Via Tax Policies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Marginal income tax rates plunged starting in the 1980s, hitting their modern-day lows under President George W. Bush. After rising modestly during the Obama Administration, they fell again under President Trump. Rate cuts generate only part of the current bonanza. Tax breaks passed by various Congresses account for the rest, hugely increasing the billions that flow to the haves.
44. The Socialist Register 1980
    Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
45. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
46. Tax Facts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    
47. Tax resistance
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The refusal to willingly pay a tax because of opposition to the institution that is imposing the tax, or to some of that institution's policies.
48. Taxation and the Arts
    A Practical Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
49. Taxes for Peace, Not War.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    
50. Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
51. The Trouble With Billionaires 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
52. Unfair Shares
    Corporations and Taxation in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
    A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
53. Unnecessary Debts
    Resource Type: Book
    
54. We all like to save on our taxes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    
55. We Can Save Social Programs 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
56. The Wealthy Banker's Wife 
    The Assault on Equality in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    

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