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  1. Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
    Towards a New Practice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
  2. Another world is possible if...
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  3. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
    A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  4. Behind Closed Doors
    How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  5. Das Capital, Vol. 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
  6. Das Capital, Vol. 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
  7. Das Capital, Vol. 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  8. Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  9. Capitalism for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
  10. Capitalism is Icky!
    Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
    Published: 1977
  11. Centre for Social Justice
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Research and education for the movement for social justice.
  12. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  13. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  14. The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  15. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  16. The Corporate Consensus
    A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2000
    A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
  17. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
  18. The Corporation
    The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
    Resource Type: Book
  19. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1967
    Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
  20. The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
  21. The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
    Resource Type: Book
  22. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
  23. Europe's Green Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
  24. The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
  25. The Great Unravelling
    From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  26. The Grundrisse
    Resource Type: Book
  27. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
  28. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
  29. Introduction to Social Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
  30. The Joy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I’m afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
  31. Key Problems of the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
  32. Left Business Observer Home Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Left Business Observer is a newsletter on economics and politics. This site collects some sample articles and background information.
  33. Marx on Economics
    Resource Type: Book
  34. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  35. Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1982
  36. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
  37. Modern Capitalism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  38. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  39. Moscow Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
  40. Murdered by Capitalism
    A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  41. The Myth of the Market
    Promises and Illusions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Advocates expelling the market from all those spaces it has inappropriately invaded.
  42. 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.
  43. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  44. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  45. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  46. The Ontogenesis of the Interest in Money
    Resource Type: Book
  47. The Perspective of the World
    Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  48. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  49. The 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.
  50. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  51. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
  52. Reading Capital Politically
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  53. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  54. Reform and Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1968
    An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
  55. The Roaring Nineties
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  56. Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
    The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Luxemburg’s discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in “all its hideous nakedness.” This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
  57. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
  58. 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.
  59. Socialism or Barbarism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
  60. Society of the Spectacle
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  61. The Sociology of Marx
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  62. The Spectacle
    A Skeleton Key
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1981
    An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
  63. The Spectre of Capitalism
    The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  64. The State in Capitalist Society
    The Analysis of the Western System of Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  65. Strategy for Labour
    A Radical Proposal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  66. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2005
  67. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  68. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  69. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993

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