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  1. Alex in Wonderland
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In Harperism: How Stephen Har­per and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada (James Lorimer & Company Ltd.), Gutstein makes the case that neoliberalism is far more sinister than simply having a desire for smaller government. A central tenet of his new book is that Harper is undermining democracy by marshalling the power of government to create and enforce markets where they’ve never existed before.
  5. 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.
  6. The Billionaires' Tea Party 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2010
    Both a journey through a unique moment in American history and a thoroughly researched piece of investigative journalism. Through an examination of astroturfing and disinformation, we see how citizen democracy has been captured by powerful corporate interests that threatens not only the heath of American democracy, but that of its citizens and the planet as a whole.
  7. Bleeding the Patient: The Debt/Deficit Hoax Exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    An edited transcript of a four-hour discussion held by nine progressive political economists. Discusses the hysteria around the government debt-deficit issue and the difficulty in developing counter-arguments.
  8. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  9. The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
  10. Conservative Frank Luntz Has Set a Trap for Progressives -- Here's How to Outsmart Him and Boost the Occupy Movement
    Progressives' basic morality needs to be talked about over and over again, in every corner of the country.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Luntz doesn't want progressives pointing out that corporations govern our lives far more than any government does - and for their profit, not ours. He doesn't want any discussion of corporate waste, or military waste, which is huge.
  11. Conservatives have perfected the trick of defending power by attacking it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The UK Cameron government is atempting to use a tried-and-proven trick: defending the elite by pretending to attack it.
  12. Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
  13. The Deciders
    The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In May 2003, in the wake of the Iraq War and the ousting of Saddam Hussein, events took place that set the stage for the current chaos in the Middle East. Yet even most well-informed Americans are unaware of how policies implemented by mid-level bureaucrats during the Bush administration unwittingly unleashed forces that would ultimately lead to the juggernaut of the Islamic State.
  14. The Deficit is No Accident
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The deficit and national debt were created intentionally by politicians of both parties, to destroy social programs which give working people some protection against unrestrained corporate power
  15. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  16. Flatly Outrageous
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
  17. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
  18. The Great Unravelling
    From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  19. Harper: the Grim Reaper of Canadian politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Harper as Prime Minister would be a disaster for Canada.
  20. History is a Weapon
    Lockdown America in 22 Minutes
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2001
    A talk by Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police And Prisons in the Age of Crisis, about the thirty year explosion in prisons in the United States, at the Stop The ACA(American Correctional Association) conference.
  21. How should we remember Ralph Klein?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Ralph Klein was one of Canada's most aggressive neo-liberals. Klein's true legacy is a string of anti-social policies and programs.
  22. Madness and Ruin
    Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
  23. The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  24. The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
    Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
  25. Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
    Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
  26. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  27. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social 
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
  28. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  29. Parcel of Rogues
    Resource Type: Article
    A review of the book 'Parcel of Rogues.'
  30. The Poor Must Die
    Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    For more than 30 years, the world-dominating Anglo-American alliance has been under the sway of factions which, for all their internal squabbling and hair-splitting, are strongly united in their steadfast, unshakeable adherence to the perpetuation -- and expansion -- of elite power and privilege. They have shown themselves willing -- eager -- to degrade their own societies (and destroy many others) in the service of this brutal, barbaric, inhuman faith. The poor have no place in this system.
  31. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
  32. The Profits of War: Planning to Bomb Iran
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    It is no longer a secret that the Bush administration has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
  33. 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.
  34. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
  35. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  36. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
  37. Reform Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The 'new Canada' that Reform Party leader Preston Manning is proposing is a mean-minded society based on the survival of the fittest. It simply ignores the fact that the majority of Canadians do not play on a level playing field. It is a select few who have the power and the influence.
  38. School Reform and the Attack on Public Education 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
  39. 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.
  40. Slumming It At the Rodeo
    The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
  41. 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.
  42. Trust Me
    A Handbook of Tory Contortions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2011
    Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
  43. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
  44. Will the real Stephen Harper please stand up?
    Resource Type: Article
    A citizen's guide to comparing election campaign promises to deeply held beliefs.
  45. Working Class Experience 
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
    From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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