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- Alex in Wonderland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Alien Invasion
How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
Resource Type: Book
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.
- 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.
- Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Behind Closed Doors
How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
- The Billionaires' Tea Party
Resource Type: Film/Video
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.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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
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.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- The Deciders
The disastrous Iraq policies that led to ISIS were not President Bush's
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Deficit is No Accident
Resource Type: Article
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
- Flatly Outrageous
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
- For the Sake of Argument
Essays and Minority Reports
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- 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.
- The Great Unravelling
From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Harper: the Grim Reaper of Canadian politics
Resource Type: Article
Harper as Prime Minister would be a disaster for Canada.
- How should we remember Ralph Klein?
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Listeria Outbreak Alarms Walkerton Survivors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Governments should have learned from the mistakes that led to the tragedy in Walkerton. Food security and public safety should never be placed on the chopping block in the name of cost cutting.
- Madness and Ruin
Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Resource Type: Book
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.
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- 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.
- The Myths of Reaganomics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
How well did Reagan succeed in cutting government spending, surely a critical ingredient in any plan to reduce the role of government in everyone's life? In 1980, the last year of free-spending Jimmy Carter the federal government spent $591 billion. In 1986, the last recorded year of the Reagan administration, the federal government spent $990 billion, an increase of 68%. Whatever this is, it is emphatically not reducing government expenditures.
- 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
Published: 2005
The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
- On Guard for Thee
An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Our Generation
Volume 20 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Parcel of Rogues
Resource Type: Article
A review of the book 'Parcel of Rogues.'
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- 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 3
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2006
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Reform Party
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Revolution at Queen's Park
Essays on Governing Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- School Reform and the Attack on Public Education
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Slumming It At the Rodeo
The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
Resource Type: Book
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.
- The State We're In
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Trust Me
A Handbook of Tory Contortions
Resource Type: Article
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.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Will the real Stephen Harper please stand up?
Resource Type: Article
A citizen's guide to comparing election campaign promises to deeply held beliefs.
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
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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