- All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
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- Anatomy of Big Business
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- 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.
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
- The Big Nickel
Inco at home and abroad Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 An account of the economic power of the world's largest producer of nickel, how it operates in Canada and the Third World, and its human consequences. The Big Nickel also looks at the resistance to the corporation, and the union-busting, attacks by company goons, and successful organizing drives.
- Blocking Public Participation
The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Examines the different types of litigation and causes of action that frequently form the basis of SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation), and how these lawsuits transform political disputes into legal cases, thereby blocking political engagement.
- Bound By Power
Intended Consequences Resource Type: Book These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
- Building Economic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article Published: 1992 Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- The Canadian Corporate Elite
An Analysis of Economic Power Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 An exhaustive study of the concentration and perpetuation of economic power in Canada.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- 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.
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- Chile Versus the Corporations
A Call for Canadian Support Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 This booklet sketches corporate (including Canadian) involvement in Chile, the attempts of the Allende government to reverse this domination and the massive repression against Chile instituted by the capitalist countries. Useful both as a brief guide to the Chilean situation, and for the philosophy it adheres to: "The position of Christ was in no way ambiguous: his was an option for the poor and against anyone or any system that stood in the way of man's liberation. The present international economic system is a situation of sin, and as such it must be rejected."
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Class Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
- Corporate Crime
Introduction to the April 9, 2016 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. All too often corporations break the law and engage in criminal acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
- Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
- The Corporate State and Manufactured Dependence
Sure, It Can Get Worse...It's Happening Right Before Our Eyes Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The 'resistance is futile' mindset that supports plutocrats and the global corporations they own assumes the existing order is the only possible order and the costs of resistance are too great because 'they' have state power and unlimited economic resources on their side.
- The Corporation
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
- The Corporation
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2004 The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time.
- Corporation Nation
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Derber writes that undemocratic corporations, not governments, are controlling society.
- The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
- CorpWatch Announces Version 2.0 of the CrocTail Corporate Subsidiaries Database and Open API
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 CorpWatch announces the release of a second version of the CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API. CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their many foreign an
- Creating the Corporate Soul
The Rise of Public Relations and Corporte Imagery in American Big Business Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News Resource Type: Book 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.
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- Farmers Confront Industrialism
Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement Resource Type: Book Published: 1975
- The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Article 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.
- GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 See also CX2933.
- The Higher Circles
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate weirding, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
- Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
- Inland Terminals threaten Small Towns
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 The threat of American multinationals to Canadian farming system.
- International Directory of Company Histories
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- Invisible Giant
Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 A far-reaching analysis of a global food company that now has 800 locations in over 60 countries and more than 50 lines of business.
- Is the Corporation Obsolete?
Corporate irresponsibility? Predatory behavior? Blame the charter--and rewrite it Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 The more pervasive the corporation becomes, the less we seem to notice. It's just the way things are, the new normal, and rapidly it is becoming the norm for the entire world.
- It's tough at the top
So THAT's Why They Can't Afford a Decent Wage Increase... Resource Type: Article Top CEOs struggle to get by.
- Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
- 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.
- Kicking Out Corporations
Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 Rural areas revoke corporate "personhood" in order to reclaim self-rule.
- Killing the Competition
How the new monopolies are destroying open markets Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Barry Lynn discusses how today's markets have moved away from the openess they are supposed to represent.
- Letter to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 A letter rasing critical questions about the commission.
- The Making of Corporate Empire
Book Review Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An analysis of American capitalism.
- Monsanto vs. Vernon Bowman's Farm
The Fiction of Intellectual Property Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Monsantos entire case against Vernon Bowman as with Percy Schmeiser is that their profits will be negatively affected if theye not empowered to dictate what Vernon Bowman does on his own land and with his own stuff. The relief theyre requesting is that the state should therefore so empower them.
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business Resource Type: Book 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.
- NAFTA's Chapter 11 Makes Canada Most-Sued Country Under Free Trade Tribunals
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 According to a new study, Canada is the most-sued country under the North American Free Trade Agreement and a majority of the disputes involve investors challenging the country's environmental laws.
- 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?
- News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News Resource Type: Article Published: 1997 Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
- OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
- On the Take
Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years Resource Type: Book Published: 1994
- One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- The Organization Man
Resource Type: Book Published: 1957
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2014 Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
The Commons Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2014 From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2016
Corporate Crime Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. Yet all too often corporations break the law and engage in criminals acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business. There are movements demanding that corporations be held accountable for their crimes in a serious way, and, specifically, that corporate executives should face jail time when the corporation they are in charge of engage in behaviour that causes death, injury, and illness. Our topic of the week for this issue of Other Voices is Corporate Crime, and a number articles, as well as a book, a film, and a website, explore aspects of the problem.
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1974
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- 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.
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
- Researching Canadian Corporations
Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A resource for people and organizations who find themselves victims of some corporation's malice or indifference, and want to do something about it.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex Resource Type: Book Published: 2007
- Ruling Canada
Corporate Cohesion and Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Ruling Canada critically examines Canada's "economic elite" -- a collection of the country's richest and most powerful individuals, many of whom preside over Canada's largest corporations. Brownlee argues that this corporate elite is increasingly unified and class conscious. As a direct result, a broad array of state policies and programs have been cut and/or implemented which serve the interests of this elite minority at the expense of most Canadian citizens.
- 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.
- Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
- Silent Surrender
The multinational corporation in Canada Resource Type: Book 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.
- The Silent Takeover
Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
- The Socialist Register 1981
Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Starting today, journalists, activists, and corporate researchers will be able to use the Internet site SpiesForHire.org to track the nation#s most important intelligence contractors.
- State of Power 2014
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A report with iinfographics and essays that expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
- Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Resource Type: Book
- Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
- 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.
- Too Big to Jail
Not Too Big to Resist Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 US rich evade punishment while the poor are criminalized in the two-tier justice system.
- Top 5 Reasons Eaters should be Worried about Obama's New Trade Deal
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a wide-ranging deal that would expand corporate rights across member states to the detriment of worker rights, the environment, and public health.
- Trading Up
How Cargill, the World's Largest Grain Company, Is Changing Canadian Agriculture Resource Type: Book Trading Up illuminates the struggle in Canadian agriculture: social control and the principle of equity vs. corporate control and the principle of profit.
- Trafigura
Wikipedia Article Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Trafigura is a Swiss-based multinational company founded in 1993 trading in base metals and energy, including oil, which has been named or involved in several scandals, especially in Africa.
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- TTIP: the Corporate Empowerment Act
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
- When Corporations Rule the World
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Kortens' book is an examination of the growth of corporate power from its beginnings in the 17th and 18th to its entrenchment in American society in the 19th.
- 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.
- 'Worse Than We Thought': TPP A Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 On issues ranging from climate change to food safety, from open Internet to access to medicines, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) is a disaster.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
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