- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- 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.
- Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- 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.
- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Capitalism: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- 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.
- Dying for Growth
Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
Resource Type: Book
- Facing the Facts
A Guide to the GATS debate
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- The Facts on Free Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A thorough examination of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement's impact on Canada looks at a wide spectrum of questions.
- 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.
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
- Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Free Trade and Economic Imperialism
Economic Progress Toward Ecological Suicide
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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 free trade disaster: round two
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Free Trade for British Columbia
Is It A Bargain at the Price?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- Free Trade: The Full Story
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
A history and analysis of the Free Trade Agreement of 1988.
- Free Trade is a Christmas Grinch!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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!
- Free trade is fine in a world of equals
Developing countries should be wary of liberalisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
A discussion of how the theory behind free trade is not real-world viable and in fact penalizes the developing countries.
- "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
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.
- "Free Trade:" Look at the Contents, Not Just the Label
Response to comments in Green Revolution
Resource Type: Article
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?
- Free Trade of Self-Reliance
Report of the Ecumenical Conference on Free Trade, Self-Reliance and Economic Justice
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- 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.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
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".
- How the Colombia Trade Agreement Accelerates Human Rights Abuses
U.S.-Colombia Mass Displacement Policy Succeeding
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Jobs said lost under free trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- 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.
- Livingston International Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book
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.
- A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Mothers' milk threatened by trade pact
Resource Type: Article
- The Myth of Free Trade
A Plan For America's Economic Revival
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- 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?
- 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.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- On Guard for Thee
An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
- 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
- One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Our Generation
Volume 18 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- 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 of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Poisoning the Democratic Well
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- 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 2
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2000
- 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.
- Retreat From Governance
Canada and the Continental-International Challenge
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Review falsifies history
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Science for Peace objects to Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
- 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.
- The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- 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.
- Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1997
- Society of Citizens of the World
Resource Type: Book
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The State We're In
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- 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.
- TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
Resource Type: Article
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.
- 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.
- Trading Freedom
How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- 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.
- 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
- 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.
- The Unmaking of Canada
The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
Resource Type: Book
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.
- U.S.-Mexico free trade talks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Waiting for Democracy
A Citizen's Journal
Resource Type: Book
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- 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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