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  1. The Accumulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    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
    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. Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Das Capital, Volume 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  5. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  6. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  7. The Creation of World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  8. Dying for Growth
    Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor

    Resource Type: Book
  9. Facing the Facts
    A Guide to the GATS debate

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  10. False God
    How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  11. The Fight for Canada
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  12. Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
  13. Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
  14. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  15. The free trade disaster: round two
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  16. Free Trade for British Columbia
    Is It A Bargain at the Price?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
  17. Free Trade is a Christmas Grinch!
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The IAM says NAFTA is a joke after Electrolux annoucies it will move its Montreal plant to
    Tennessee because of $632 million in incentives plus free land for a new plant!
  18. The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
  19. Jobs said lost under free trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
  20. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  21. Livingston International Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  22. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  23. Mothers# milk threatened by trade pact
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  24. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    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?
  25. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  26. 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  27. 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
  28. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  29. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  30. The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  31. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  32. The Quick and The Dead
    Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  33. Recolonization or Liberation
    The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    According to the International Monetary Fund (IMP) 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.
  34. Retreat From Governance
    Canada and the Continental-International Challenge

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  35. Review falsifies history
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  36. Science for Peace objects to Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Science for Peace is appalled that the Liberals dropped their objections on human rights grounds to the Canada-Colombia FTA. The USA, Norway, and Belgium have delayed approval of trade agreements because of Colombia's egregious human rights record.
  37. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
  38. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
  39. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  40. Silent Surrender
    The multinational corporation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  41. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
  42. Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
  43. The State We're In
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  44. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
    Manifesto 2007

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  45. Tories to Negotiate with Mexico/U.S.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Free trade is on the agenda when the Canadian government meets Mexico and the U.S. in 1992.
  46. Trading Freedom
    How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  47. 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
  48. U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
  49. Unions and Free Trade
    Solidarity vs. Competition

    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  50. The Unmaking of Canada
    The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945

    Resource Type: Book
  51. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Rick Salutin's 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.
  52. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  53. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  54. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
  55. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  56. The World Trade Organization
    A Citizen's Guide

    Resource Type: Book
    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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