1. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
2. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
   The Experience of Modernity
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
   Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
   
3. Another world is possible
   New Internationalist January/February 2002
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 2002
   Takes a look at the current global system and possible ways to change it for the better.
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
5. Das Capital, Volume 1 
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
6. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
   Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1967   Published: 1969
   The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
7. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1987
   
8. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1988
   
9. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
   A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
10. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
11. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
13. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
14. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
15. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
17. 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.
18. The Creation of World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1983
    Hayter challenges the assumption that the West is 'helping' the rest of the world to develop. Far from rescuing the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their supposed backwardness, the rich countries have accumulated vast wealth at their expense.
19. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
20. 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)."
21. Dying for Growth
    Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. Facing the Facts
    A Guide to the GATS debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    
23. The Facts on Free Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A thorough examination of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement's impact on Canada looks at a wide spectrum of questions.
24. The Facts on Free Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
25. 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.
    
26. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
27. Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
28. Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
29. Free Trade and Economic Imperialism
    Economic Progress Toward Ecological Suicide
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Looming global environmental catastrophe renders the last several hundred years of Western economic theory dubious, if not outright suicidal. Economic ‘progress’ that increases dependence on unsustainable economic practices produces catastrophe in increasing proportion to the benefits that even proponents claim will result.
30. 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.
31. The free trade disaster: round two
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Standards are being pulled down to the lowest common denominator, allowing the transnational corporations to play countries and their workforces off against each other. Already, workers in Canada are being warned that if they don't pull their wages and other demands down, workers in Mexico will be only too glad to take their jobs.
32. Free Trade for British Columbia
    Is It A Bargain at the Price?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    
33. Free Trade: The Full Story
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    A history and analysis of the Free Trade Agreement of 1988.
34. The Free Trade Game
    New Internationalist December 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at free trade and and the effects of NAFTA. Discussion of the opposition to free trade and alternatives.
35. "Free Trade" Is Today's Imperialism by the 1 Percent
    Building alternatives to free trade must become an essential component of a more progressive US foreign policy.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Principles of "free" trade allow global North corporations to continue the colonial policies that made them their wealth. Alternatives to free trade need to shift power and wealth to the global South to create fairness and progress.
36. "Free Trade:" Look at the Contents, Not Just the Label
    Response to comments in Green Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    I do not accept the idea that there should be no restrictions on trade or the market. If a particular economic activity is environmentally or socially harmful, why shouldn't we restrict it? If the so-called "free market" (i.e. an economic system where nothing is allowed to interfere with the freedom to make profits) results in economic activity that destroys the environment, or dumps people on the streets, then why shouldn't society be able to intervene?
37. Free Trade of Self-Reliance
    Report of the Ecumenical Conference on Free Trade, Self-Reliance and Economic Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    
38. The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
39. Global Showdown
    How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
40. The Great Transformation 
    The political and economic origins of our time
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1944   Published: 1968
    Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
41. How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
    U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would lead, indeed by design, to the immiseration and mass displacement of rural peoples, especially Indigenous and Afro-Colombian. The article explores the displacement of indigenous peoples in the last year.
42. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Website
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
43. Jobs said lost under free trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    
44. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
45. Latin America The Liberation of Latin America
    New Internationalist May 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at the issues which have surrounded Latin America and what is changing.
46. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
47. 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.
48. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
49. Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
50. Mothers' milk threatened by trade pact
    Resource Type: Article
    
51. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
52. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
53. On the Question of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1847   Published: 1888
    
54. 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article
    
55. 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    
56. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1988
    'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
57. Our Generation
    Volume 18 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
58. 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.
59. Poisoning the Democratic Well
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Opponents of so-called free trade deals have always struggled with the question of why these international treaties don't generate more alarm and vocal opposition from Canadians. These treaties, after all, trump all other Canadian authority to make laws -- provincial legislatures, Parliament, the courts and even the Constitution.
60. The Post MFA Era and the Rise of China, Part 1
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing expired in 2005, ending 30 years of a quota system under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). Ending the Agreement signalled the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) promotion of free trade in this sector; but phasing in free trade here has proved to be far from frictionless.
61. The Price of A Bargain
    The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Describes a world where the economy's collateral damage includes oil spills and the poisoning of developing nations' working poor; the low wages and illegal labour practices of corporations leading to the ultimate collapse of a system based on minimizing costs, high volume sales and low profit margins; and a world where debt is the cornerstone of the economy.
62. 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.
    
63. 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.
64. 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.
65. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
66. 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.
67. Review falsifies history
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
68. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
    
69. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
70. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
71. Silent Surrender
    The multinational corporation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Levitt examines the historical background of foreign investment in Canada, its acceleration since the Second World War, and the nature of the intrusion into a sovereign state of the multinational corporation. she argues that recolonization by U.S. international corporations is rapidly transforming Canada into the world's richest under-developed country.
72. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
73. Socialist Register 1997
    Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1997
    
74. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    
75. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press - June 1977
    Volume V Number 6
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
76. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
    Volume VI Number 8
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
    November 1978 issue.
77. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism 
    Manifesto 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
78. TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
79. Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
80. Tories to Negotiate with Mexico/U.S.
    Resource Type: Article
    Free trade is on the agenda when the Canadian government meets Mexico and the U.S. in 1992.
81. Trading Freedom
    How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
82. TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. "Free trade" is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use law suits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
83. 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    
84. Unions and Free Trade
    Solidarity vs. Competition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
85. The Unmaking of Canada
    The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    This book searches for the roots of the many-sided crisis faced by Canada in the 1990s, and finds them in the post-war history of the country. In the authors' view, the hidden theme in Canadian history in the post-World War II decades has been the "unmaking" of Canada.
86. U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
87. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Rick Salutin's account of the pivotal 1988 "free trade" election. Waiting for Democracy makes a strong case that our political system is anything but democratic, though it offers little hope of changing it.
88. 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.
89. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
90. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
91. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
92. The World Trade Organization
    A Citizen's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.

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