- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
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.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The Creation of World Poverty
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Decolonization and Empire
Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
- Development debacle
The World Bank in the Philippines
Resource Type: Book
Reveals the bureaucratic blunders and misguided assumptions behind the World Bank's model for third world development, a model that serves the interests of the US and the multinational corporations.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank's Broken Promise to the Poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The World Bank pledges to "do no harm." But over the past decade it has regularly failed to protect the world's most vulnerable people.
- 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
Enough
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
A European and Third World Perspective
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation has found.
- 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.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- The North-South Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Notebook: Toward a Second Haitian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A historical review of economic policy in Haiti since its independence, and the impact of its smallholder's disposession by US policies that sought to 'liberalize' the economy. The author advocates investment in subsistence farming rather than spending foreign aid on foreign imports in the wake of the earthquake.
- Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
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.
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
- Recolonization or Liberation
The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
- Slamming the World Bank and IMF
Resource Type: Article
Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
- Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
Manifesto 2007
Resource Type: Article
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.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- World Bank claims 'sovereign immunity' to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In arguing against the World Bank's attempt to declare itself a sovereign state that is above the law, Dolack brings attention to the large-scale crimes the World Bank has committed or been involved in over many decades.
- The World Bank Group's Uncounted
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
- World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank -- the planet's oldest and most powerful development lender -- has left a trail of misery.
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
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