- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book Published: 1913 Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- Alter-globalization
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A social movement that supports global cooperation and interaction, but which opposes the negative effects of economic globalization.
- Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement
Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 Barbara Epstein analyzes the influence of anarchism on the history of American social protest, and its role in the anti-globalization resistance movement of the present day.
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book 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.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Anti-globalization movement
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Critical of the globalization of capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization.
- Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the so-called 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
- Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
- Beyond Sovereignty
Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition) Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Building a Community-Controlled Economy
The Evangeline Co-operative Experience Resource Type: Book The authors use the Evangeline co-operatives as a model for community economic development.
- Canadian Federation of University Women
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Case Against the Global Economy
And for a turn towards the local Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- Chinese Workers' Resistance
Against The Current vol. 111 Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Civil Society in Question
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Civil Society ranks as flavour of the month among community volunteers, academics and policy makers. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and for social justice and democracy. Is civil society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond recognition and usefulness?
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1 Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2 Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburgs most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Countercurrents
Resource Type: Website An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
- The Destruction of the Soviet Union
A Study in Globalization Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Empire of Capital
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them Apart
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Unification of Europe has brought about radical new divisions within Europe. The most significant split is between the people and their political leaders.
- From Oligarchy to the New Challenge of Global Politics
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Most analysts and citizens of Western society suppose that we live in a democracy. But is it really democracy a system where the people rule and its representatives carry out the popular will? Or, do we live in an oligarchy disguised as democracy? Oligarchy: in others words, a system where a small, inner circle, makes the decisions they feel necessary.
- 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.
- Get a Life!
How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
- The Global Gang Thang
A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community) Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- Media Advisory: Global Issues and Local Solutions: Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Jeff Rubin is joining a stellar line-up of business leaders, visionaries and HR experts at the BC Human Resources Management Association#s (BC HRMA) 48th Annual Conference: New World#New Ideas # People, Passion, Profit. Rubin, the best-selling author
- Globalisation
A Systematic Marxian Account Resource Type: Book
- Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
Into the Twenty-First Century Resource Type: Book Published: 1995
- Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- The Holy Spirit of Resistance
Catholic Social Vision Resource Type: Article Published: 1998 Catholics all over the world are now becoming aware of their counter-cultural social vision. They are increasingly recognizing the call of God to active citizenship in building the Reign of God rather than accepting the hopeless parameters of a New World Order of exclusion and passivity so powerfully promoted by massive corporations.
- Imagine Democracy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
- Indian Journalist Offers Harsh Critique of Globalization
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014
- JohnPilger.com
Resource Type: Website The journalism of John Pilger.
- 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 101: The Long Recession
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
- A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
- Migration
Changing the World Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- 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?
- National Union of Public and General Employees
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The New Imperialism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalisation
Resource Type: Book
- NoNonsense Globalization
Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Explains and examines globalization from all angles - and explores strategies for redesigning the global economy in the common interest.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Boggs 100th birthday.
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- Press for Conversion #45
July 2001 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2001 This issue looks at the origins of corporate globalization and contains many informative articles that explore the important links between war, militarism, big business and the increasing power that corporations wield over governments around the world.
- 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.
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Resisting Neoliberalism
Introduction to the April 9, 2015 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Neoliberalism is a fraud. The so-called free markets and free trade which it pretends to promote are in fact controlled by giant corporations, and massively subsidized by workers and ordinary citizens.
- 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.
- Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1994
- Socialist Register 1995
Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1995
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1997
- 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.
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Towards a Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1995
- Towers Perrin
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Unequal Freedoms
The Global Market as an Ethical System Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
- US Military Globalization
Interlocking Spheres of Influence Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Americans are implicated in deceit and denial, purchasing their comforts and self-righteousness at the expense of the collective human privation their military and paramilitary forces, their CIA operatives and private contractors, their support of repressive regimes and death squads have brought to much of the worlds population.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- What If America's Leaders Actually Want Catastrophic Climate Change?
Thinking the Unthinkable Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Our leaders, political and corporate, may be puerile, egocentric greed-heads, but they are not stupid. They surely for the most part recognize that the Earth is heating up and heading at full speed towards ecological, social and political disaster. How else to explain, then, their astonishing unwillingness to take action?
- When Corporations Rule the World
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Kortens' book is an examination of the growth of corporate power from its beginnings in the 17th and 18th to its entrenchment in American society in the 19th.
- 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.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- Workers in a lean world: unions in the international economy
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 In a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of contemporary labour relations on a global scale.
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