1. Abandoning the Public Interest 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
   The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
2. Alien Invasion
   How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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.
3. Another world is possible if... 
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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.
4. Canadian Environmental Law Association
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Information on legal and policy aspects of environmental issues.
5. Class Warfare
   Interviews with David Barsamian
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   
6. Common Sense for Hard Times 
   The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1976
   Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
   
7. Council of Canadians
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
8. Democracy's Oxygen
   How Corporations Control the News
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   
9. The Enemy of Nature 
   The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
   We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem.
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. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
12. How Deregulation Destroyed Canada's Airlines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Skene links the deregulation of Canada's airline industry with layoffs, service disruptions, higher fares, privatization, and bankruptcies.
13. IMF World Bank More World Less Bank
    New Internationalist March 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and what they have done.
14. Inside Iran
    New Internationalist March 2007
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    A look at Iran from history to present. Discussion of women's rights and the youth of Iran.
15. International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
16. Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
    Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
17. Modern Capitalism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
    
18. Moscow Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
19. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
20. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
21. Pensions Under Attack
    What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
22. Privatization
    A global disease
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
23. Privatization and Health Care
    The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
    
24. Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
25. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
26. The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
27. Privatization The great privati$ation grab
    New Internationalist April 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    The effects of privatization on public services. Discusses who is responsible and why they are doing this.
28. Privatizing the Public Realm
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Public spaces are the arenas where the collective, common life which defines us as a society is acted out, and where we come into contact with those who are like and those who are different from ourselves. They are the places where we are all equal and where we are all "home." They are the places where our freedoms of speech and assembly are protected, where we can exercise the precious right of criticizing the government. In public spaces we are reminded of the most important civics lesson: We are all in this together. When private agendas of stratification and control are imposed on those places, the very heart of democratic principle is threatened.
29. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    Ulli Diemer's Notebook: events and comment from a left perspective.
    
30. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
31. The Real Expenses Scandal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry’s two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
32. Reclaiming the Commons
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
33. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
34. Shooting the Hippo 
    Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    An examination of how economic policy systematically favours the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
35. Slamming the World Bank and IMF
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
36. Ten Health Care Myths 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
37. The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
38. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
    New Internationalist December 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
39. The University of Nike
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    Nike is just a piece of the bigger puzzle of private donors in public universities, but it is a perfect example of why private money is helping to erode the positive goals of public education.
40. Unsafe Practices
    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
41. Wasting Away
    The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.
42. The Water Front
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    A documentary about water privatization. Residents of Highland Park, Michigan, known as the birthplace of the auto-industry, have received water bills as high as $10,000; they have had their water turned off, their homes foreclosed, and are struggling to keep water, a basic human right, from becoming privatized. The Water Front is the story of an American city in crisis but it is not just about water. The story touches on the very essence of our democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles.
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43. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    

Experts on Privatization in the Sources Directory

1. Bennett Jones LLP
2. Brock University
3. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
4. Canadian Union of Public Employees
5. Connexions Information Sharing Services
6. CorpWatch
7. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
8. Goodmans LLP
9. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
10. KPMG Management Services LP
11. National Union of Public and General Employees
12. Parliamentary Names & Numbers
13. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
14. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
15. Society of Energy Professionals