What economic system designs, out of all conceivable ones, might be among the best at helping us meet real needs?

John Boik, PhD

Abby Martin Interviews President Correa on His Legacy & Critics

After 10 years and three terms, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa's time in office has ended. Under his administration Ecuador made far-reaching economic and social gains, despite having inherited a country on the brink of collapse. In one of his last interviews before...

19 min

Runaway Inequality Elected Trump. Here's How It Can Help Defeat Him

One of the best forms of resistance will be our demand for a more equitable and humane economy

Les Leopold

Redneck Revolt's Response to the Alt-Right

Last week, a video statement made by self-proclaimed members of the "Alt-Right" was shared by Milo Yiannopoulos and has since spread across the Internet.

7 min

How Gift Economies Align With Our Natural Desires

All living beings share one thing in common. Each man, woman, child, bird, bee, and dog – all have just one life. For every living being, life begins and ends. We are all here for a very short time. Most of us live a life preoccupied by work, earning a living, being on time...

Chris Agnos

Something Better to Offer Trump Voters Tired of Waiting for Their Turn

A world free of extremes of wealth and poverty in which no one needs to stand in line for a chance at a secure and fulfilling life.

David Korten

What Is a Gift Economy? - Alex Gendler

What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week with a better gift? Or to vote for her in the town election?

4 min

Union Co-Operatives: What They Are and Why We Need Them

Neoliberal policies contribute to alienation, disempowerment and non-unionised jobs, but a new model for unions could break the vicious circle, argues Simon Taylor.

Simon Taylor

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Bracing for Trump's Anti-Worker, Corporate Agenda

Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are...

Colin Jenkins

Capitalism Is the Problem

Over the last century, capitalism has repeatedly revealed its worst tendencies: instability and inequality. Instances of instability include the Great Depression (1929-1941) and the Great Recession since 2008, plus eleven "downturns" in the US between those two global...

Richard D. Wolff

Brace for the Financial Crash of 2018

80% of the world’s oil has already peaked, and the resulting oil crunch will flatten the economy

Nafeez Ahmed

The Age of Anxiety

I began to experience the crippling power of anxiety in my third year of university. The panic attacks were one thing, but the most horrifying thing about anxiety, the thing that sustains it, is the insomnia. I would wake up in the middle of the night, heart racing, and...

Grace Blakeley

The Inevitable Future of Human Connection

A new socioeconomic order is inevitably taking shape. The future is human connection.

4 min

Our Obsession With the Economy Is Destroying Democracy

The words 'the economy' weren't mentioned in a winning British election manifesto before 1950. But today, says Catriona Watson of Rethinking Economics, politicians put it front and centre of their politics. This is undemocratic, she argues, when it is discussed in terms most...

2 min

The Great Deceleration

In 2015, a major study of 24 indicators of human activity and environmental decline titled ‘The Great Acceleration’ concluded that, “The last 60 years have without doubt seen the most profound transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of...

Alex Jensen

Upcoming Event Trailer with Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahill, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Paul Jay, Richard Wolff & Srećko Horvat (trailer)

EVENT VIDEO TRAILER: Edward Snowden, Jeremy Scahill, Jürgen Todenhöfer, Paul Jay, Richard Wolff & Srećko Horvat On the 15th of January 2017, acTVism Munich is hosting an event called “Freedom & Democracy – Global Issues in Context” at the Muffatwerk in Munich. The video...

2 min

The Hopeful Thing About Our Ugly, Painful Polarization

Look to Norway and Sweden, where cooperative, socially democratic countries emerged after a frightening period of extreme polarization and social fracturing.

George Lakey

Why the Changing Nature of Work Means We Need a Universal Basic Income

We have a crisis of work. The secure, well-paid jobs of the past — many of them in manufacturing — are disappearing. What is replacing them is insecurity and uncertainty. Low-paid, part-time, temporary and seasonal work. The “feast or famine” of self-employment. The so-called...

Frances Coppola

We Can't Battle the Bigotry Stoked by Trump without a Strategy to Alleviate the Chronic Misery Behind It

My relatives in Maine are deplorables. I cannot write on their behalf. I can write in their defense.

Chris Hedges

The Deep History Behind Trump's Rise

How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics

George Monbiot

Living Through the Death of Capitalism

Now is the time to hold strong to our humanity. The world is changing quickly and much is at stake. It is even possible that our entire global civilization will collapse in our lifetime. This is a very difficult concept to sit with — yet sit with it we must, for now is a...

Joe Brewer

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

In the 1990s an unusual encounter took place in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In plant rituals, shamans of the Achuar, a tribe living in pristine forest that had never been in touch with Western civilization, received the warning that the “white man” would try to invade their lands...

Martin Winiecki

Move Your Money from Banks to Credit Unions

Join Matthew Cooke and Susan Sarandon by pledging to withdraw your money from these big banks until they agree to: 1. Divest from Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of the Dakota Access Pipeline. 2. Pressure President Obama to halt construction and put a stop to...

2 min

The American Way: Socialism for the Rich, Free Enterprise for the Rest

While it's not entirely clear who coined the phrase "socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the rest," its ability to provoke — and, more importantly, to describe — is beyond question.

Jake Johnson

Donald Trump Is the Mirror and Hillary Clinton Is the Mask

Disclaimer: I do not support Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton for president. I think the scope of the political debate is far too narrow for the kinds of actions that need to take place to prevent the extinction of most of the life on earth, including human beings. Stepping...

Sustainable Human

Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save Our Lives

“Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away,” Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi wrote in a personal blog post over a decade ago. “Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house... Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise... Being poor is six dollars short on the...

Matt Stannard

Native Liberation: the Way Forward

These were the concluding remarks to the first annual Native Liberation 2016 Conference convened at the Larry Casuse Center in Albuquerque, NM on Aug. 13, 2016. Nick Estes is a co-founder of The Red Nation and a member of the Leadership Council.

Nick Estes

Debt, Inequality and the Logic of Financial Violence

Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.

David Graeber

What Is Universal Basic Income?

What is Universal Basic Income? Everyone’s talking about a ‘citizen’s income’ or ‘basic income’, but what on earth is it?! It sounds like a Utopian dream, but support for a flat, government-sponsored annual income is growing across the world. Exponents argue that it would...

2 min

The Parasitic Logic of Profit-Making

What does it mean to earn a profit in an extractive economy? Simply put, it means to behave like a parasite. All you need do is attach yourself to a nutrient-rich host and suck the value out of it. When the host dies, move on to the next “market opportunity” and never look...

Joe Brewer

Clean Energy Won't Save Us - Only a New Economic System Can

It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion

Jason Hickel

Ash and Oil: Tar Sands and The Costliest Natural Disaster in Canadian History

Fort McMurray residents were forced to flee a huge wildfire that destroyed much of their city in Canada's Alberta province in May 2016. About 88,000 residents were evacuated from the oil-rich region during the fire, the costliest natural disaster in Canada's history.

9 min

What People Miss About the Gender Wage Gap

It's more complex than women earning 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. When there is talk about the gender wage gap, often the statistic heard is, “Women earn 79 cents for every dollar a man makes.” While this is factually correct, it does not encompass the nuances of...

5 min

Basic Income and the Future of Work

There is no such thing as the dignity of work. It is not the right to employment but a guaranteed material existence that gives dignity to human life.

Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark

Banking Nature (2015)

Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets. This involves species banking, where investors buy up vast swathes of land, full of endangered species, to enable them to sell “nature credits.” Companies whose actions destroy...

87 min

Goodbye Democracy and Capitalism

Shifting to new paradigms to replace dysfunctional ones.

Floris Koot

Important Free Lesson in Economics from Cambridge University Professor

Ha-Joon Chang is a professor of economics at Cambridge University and a best-selling international author. Author and journalist Owen Jones asked him to provide an argument against much of today's prevailing economic thought. Isn't austerity necessary? Do we have capitalism...

14 min

Let's Stop the Wealth Hoarders

They mindlessly consume wealth — and destroy the planet.

Joe Brewer

Paul Mason on Postcapitalism and What The Future Might Hold

A new way of living is in the process of formation. Capitalism as we know it has reached the limits of its ability to adapt. A networked Alternative is already in the works- You can see it in the cooperative businesses on the rise and the tough time traditional parties are...

11 min

Capitalism Has a Metaphor - It's a Cancer

My mother died of cancer five years ago. While most of the cells in her body grew and reproduced at a rate that merely kept her alive, there were a few rogue cells that mutated and changed — reprogramming themselves as greedy individuals who cared about nothing except rapid...

Joe Brewer

The Battle Over Trump's Taj Mahal Is a Battle for Us All

What those striking are now bravely confronting in Atlantic City should resonate deeply with American workers, their unions, and beyond

Adolph Reed Jr.

Auto Lending: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Auto lenders can steer vulnerable people into crushing debt. Keegan-Michael Key and Bob Balaban help John Oliver show exactly how.

18 min

How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison

How can a traffic offense get you a ticket to prison?

David C. Couper

Money Can't Buy Life

The Economic Enigma of Money vs Life: [A Social Value Disorder]

Craig Bridges

Pope Francis: Capitalism Is 'Terrorism Against All of Humanity'

Pope Francis argues that modern economy's worship of 'god of money' leads to disenfranchisement and extremism

Nika Knight

Solidarity Is About What You Do - Not Who You Are.

I am Black. I capitalize Black and leave white lowercased. Sure, it’s the accepted spelling, but really I do it because it feels good. My family lived in Missouri, but my mother crossed state lines to birth me in Kansas. Missouri was a slave state. Kansas was free, and she...

R.L. Stephens

Withdraw Your Support from The Present System: Put Your Money Into a Black Bank or Credit Union

This is something everyone can do to take some of the power from the present system and put it into the people's hands. Find a bank near you: blackoutcoalition.org/black-u-s-banks/

3 min

How to Overcome The Forty-Year-Old Economic Story That Has Dominated Our Lives

It may seem hard, but it's not impossible.

6 min

7 Solutions We Can Support Right Now to Transition to a Resource Based Economy

One of the downsides of presenting such a visionary solution to our global crisis is that it's hard to know where to begin, beyond raising awareness. The gap between where we are now, and where we'd like to go appears so great that it is not at all obvious how the transition...

Tim Hjersted

RSA ANIMATE: Economics Is for Everyone!

‘Economics is for everyone’, argues legendary economist Ha-Joon Chang in our latest mind-blowing RSA Animate. This is the video economists don’t want you to see! Chang explains why every single person can and SHOULD get their head around basic economics. He pulls back the...

12 min

How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live

How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to empower the transformation of a now-gentrifying neighborhood gripped in poverty in his...

15 min

This Is What Global Wealth Inequality Looked Like in 2013. It's Only Gotten More Extreme.

In 2013, the richest 300 people in the world were more wealthy than the poorest 3 billion combined. Since then, the disparity has continued to grow because every year rich countries take over 10 times more money from poor countries than they give in aid.

4 min

Post-Brexit, The Far Right Could Easily Ascend to Power, But There's One Way We Can Prevent That

Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them from default. Most governments, including ours, will probably comply.

Chris Hedges

Expropriation or Bust: on the Illegitimacy of Wealth and Why It Must Be Recuperated

Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect on deeper issues. For those of us who spend a large portion of our lives thinking, writing...

Colin Jenkins

After Brexit: We Must Unite the Working Class Across Europe to Defeat Neoliberalism and the Far Rght

The following is a statement by the Left Unity Executive Committee following the outcome of the referendum vote in the UK:

Left Unity

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era is a book edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, which consists of over 50 entries covering various themes related to degrowth.

4 min

How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They 'Deserve' More?

The natural tendency toward discrimination and inequality

Yanis Varoufakis

Distorting Fascism to Sanitize Capitalism

The facile and indiscriminate use of the term fascism has led to a widespread misunderstanding and misuse of its meaning. Asked to define fascism, most people would respond in terms such as dictatorship, anti-Semitism, mass hysteria, efficient propaganda machine, mesmerizing...

Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Brexit

Britain could soon vote to leave the European Union. John Oliver enlists a barbershop quartet to propose a smarter option.

16 min

World's Banks Driving Climate Chaos With Hundreds of Billions in Extreme Energy Financing

Wall Street continues to back the most polluting fossil fuel industries "at the expense of some of the most vulnerable communities on the planet," states new report

Lauren McCauley

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