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  1. Capital, Vol. 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
  2. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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)."
  6. Facing the Facts
    A Guide to the GATS debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  7. 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.
  8. Fight for Canada
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  9. Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
  10. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
  11. The free trade disaster: round two
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
  12. 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.
  13. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  14. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  15. 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.
  16. Mothers’ milk threatened by trade pact
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  17. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  18. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  19. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  20. 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  21. One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  22. Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  23. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  24. Review falsifies history
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  25. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
  26. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  27. 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.
  28. Trading Freedom
    How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  29. 20 Things You Can Do To Defeat Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
  30. Unmaking of Canada
    The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
    Resource Type: Book
  31. Waiting for Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  32. Waiting For Democracy
    A Citizen's Journal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  33. 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.
  34. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  35. World Trade Organization
    A Citizen's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999

Experts on Free Trade in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Labour Congress
  2. Congress of Union Retirees of Canada
  3. Livingston International Inc.
  4. National Farmers Union
  5. Joseph L. Rotman School of Management

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