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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. The Accumulation of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1913
    Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
  2. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   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.
  3. Another world is possible
    New Internationalist January/February 2002

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    Takes a look at the current global system and possible ways to change it for the better.
  4. Das Capital, Volume 1 
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1867   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.
  5. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  6. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   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.
  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. The Creation of World Poverty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1983
  9. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
  10. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  11. Dying for Growth
    Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor

    Resource Type: Book
  12. Facing the Facts
    A Guide to the GATS debate

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
  13. 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.
  14. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  15. Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
  16. Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
  17. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  18. The free trade disaster: round two
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   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.
  19. Free Trade for British Columbia
    Is It A Bargain at the Price?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987
  20. The Free Trade Game
    New Internationalist December 2004

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at free trade and and the effects of NAFTA. Discussion of the opposition to free trade and alternatives.
  21. The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
  22. Global Showdown
    How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
  23. 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.
  24. Jobs said lost under free trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
  25. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  26. Latin America The Liberation of Latin America
    New Internationalist May 2003

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at the issues which have surrounded Latin America and what is changing.
  27. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  28. 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.
  29. Mothers’ milk threatened by trade pact
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  30. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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?
  31. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  32. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  33. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  34. On the Question of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1847   Published: 1888
  35. 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  36. 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
  37. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
  38. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  39. The Price of A Bargain
    The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Describes a world where the economy's collateral damage includes oil spills and the poisoning of developing nations' working poor; the low wages and illegal labour practices of corporations leading to the ultimate collapse of a system based on minimizing costs, high volume sales and low profit margins; and a world where debt is the cornerstone of the economy.
  40. 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.
  41. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  42. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  43. Review falsifies history
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
  44. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
  45. Sign Crimes/Road Kill
    From Mediascape to Landscape

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
  46. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  47. Silent Surrender
    The multinational corporation in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  48. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
  49. Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
    Manifesto 2007

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  50. Tories to Negotiate with Mexico/U.S.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Free trade is on the agenda when the Canadian government meets Mexico and the U.S. in 1992.
  51. Trading Freedom
    How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  52. 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1993
  53. The Unmaking of Canada
    The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945

    Resource Type: Book
  54. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Rick Salutin's 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.
  55. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
  56. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  57. Who do we try to rescue today?
    Canada under corporate rule

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
  58. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  59. The World Trade Organization
    A Citizen's Guide

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.

Experts on Free Trade in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
  2. Commonwealth of Independent States
  3. Community of Sahelo-Saharan States
  4. Connexions Library
  5. Inter-American Development Bank
  6. International Forum on Globalization
  7. International Labour Organization
  8. Livingston International Inc.
  9. Marxists Internet Archive
  10. Southern African Development Community
  11. Union of South American Nations



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