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We Really, Really Need to Talk About Money
We Really, Really Need to Talk About Money
Dora Meade on finding out how money is really created and why we prefer not to talk about it
Dora Meade
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today
How to Be an Anticapitalist Today
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
Erik Olin Wright
How to Get Rid of Your Landlord and Socialize Housing, in 3 Easy Steps
How to Get Rid of Your Landlord and Socialize Housing, in 3 Easy Steps
Homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and the housing bubble are all rooted in privatized housing.
Jesse A. Myerson
This Speech by Fred Hampton Shows Why The Establishment Found The Black Panther Party So Threatening
This Speech by Fred Hampton Shows Why The Establishment Found The Black Panther Party So Threatening
Fred Hampton participatied in a mock people’s trial, where he articulates why the Black Panther Party, and he as a leader within the party, was being viciously targeted by the US government.
The HI Blog
On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don't Agree
On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don't Agree
Within conversations on the left, many of us use the term "capitalism," but we aren't all using it to mean the same thing. Among both its champions and opponents, capitalism acquired too many different meanings over the 200 to 300 years of its global ascendancy. I am...
Richard D. Wolff
How The World Bank Helps Global Corporations Rob The World
How The World Bank Helps Global Corporations Rob The World
Right now, millions of people are being thrown off their land because large corporations are being given special rights. The World Bank is driving this trend with its Doing Business rankings.  Get involved, take action: http://ourlandourbusiness.org/
2 min
Epic Poem About Money by Benjamin Zephaniah
Epic Poem About Money by Benjamin Zephaniah
The 'Love' of money is the root of much evil. So go on then. Get rich or try sharing.
3 min
What's a Rigged Economy?
What's a Rigged Economy?
Income inequality is rising and working Americans feel like they aren't getting ahead. Welcome to the rigged economy. Here's how it works.
3 min
I Live in Real Poverty, and It's Not What You Think
I Live in Real Poverty, and It's Not What You Think
Kathleen Kerridge's family food budget is £40 per week - to feed five people. She says there is a big gap between the public perception of poverty and what it means for people like her.
2 min
Inequality Is the Biggest Threat to the World
Inequality Is the Biggest Threat to the World
People often think that a certain level of inequality is normal in our societies, says the social geographer Danny Dorling. But the gap between the superrich and the rest of us has widened dramatically in the past 12 months. The author of a number of books including...
Danny Dorling
My (Apparently) Obligatory Response To 'Formation': In List Form
My (Apparently) Obligatory Response To 'Formation': In List Form
1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé's new song and video. I don't think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person I have, in the last week, been expected--and, at moments, obligated--to respond to them is...
Benji Hart
Identity Politics and the Struggle Against Oppression
Identity Politics and the Struggle Against Oppression
In the search for a way to fight against discrimination and oppression, many young people in particular embrace identity politics. It can be an important first step towards the development of socialist consciousness – if it leads on to an understanding of the class nature of...
Hannah Sell
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and collaboration.  It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that the globalized capitalist economy is...
3 min
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Voting
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Voting
Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal. 
14 min
After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here's Why.
After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here's Why.
A crash course in social democracy.
Ann Jones
"Meritocracy" as Propaganda Lie and False Assumption
"Meritocracy" as Propaganda Lie and False Assumption
I witnessed this bumper sticker, decked out in bright red, white, and blue lettering, attached to the post holding my neighbors’ mailbox this week as I walked my dogs during unseasonably high temperatures. For my neighbors to display this placard proudly in their front yard...
Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld
Beyonce and the Politics of Cultural Dominance
Beyonce and the Politics of Cultural Dominance
I confess, I am a culturally alienated, old, disconnected 1960s and ‘70s radical trying to live and struggle for revolutionary change in a world that might have passed me by, because I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black...
Ajamu Baraka
Varoufakis Leads European Left to Reclaim Democracy From "Authoritarian Technocrats"
Varoufakis Leads European Left to Reclaim Democracy From "Authoritarian Technocrats"
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 seeks to find 'common solutions to common problems,' says former Greek finance minister
Nadia Prupis
Dark Money: How Billionaires Are Buying Elections
Dark Money: How Billionaires Are Buying Elections
Billionaires have found a shady way to secretly finance candidates. They use nonprofits as vats of cash to funnel cash to candidates that will advance their interests. 
3 min
The Great Global Slowdown: What’s Next?
The Great Global Slowdown: What’s Next?
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
Paul Mason
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally
Davos and the Dangers to Democracy
Davos and the Dangers to Democracy
It’s an all-too-easy event to mock. It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty,  inequality and climate change. US comedian Jon Stewart has...
Nick Buxton
62 People Have More Wealth Than Half the World, Top 1% Have More Than All of Us
62 People Have More Wealth Than Half the World, Top 1% Have More Than All of Us
Just 62 individuals now hold the same amount of wealth as 3.6 billion people, the bottom half of the entire planet — a shocking statistic made even more alarming when considering as recently as 2010, that same half of all wealth was held by 388 people. Now, 80 billionaires...
Claire Bernish
The Illusion of Freedom - Why Corporate Systems of Power Must Be Destroyed
The Illusion of Freedom - Why Corporate Systems of Power Must Be Destroyed
The seizure of political and economic power by corporations is unassailable. Who funds and manages our elections? Who writes our legislation and laws? Who determines our defense policies and vast military expenditures? Who is in charge of the Department of the Interior? The...
Chris Hedges
#ThisIsACoup - How The EU Destroyed the First Radical Left Gov in Modern History
#ThisIsACoup - How The EU Destroyed the First Radical Left Gov in Modern History (2015)
Director Theopi Skarlatos and producer Paul Mason present #ThisIsACoup, a four part documentary series telling the story of how the European Union destroyed the first radical left government in modern history. Directed by Theopi Skarlatos. Produced by Paul Mason.
65 min
Global Capitalism: December 2015 Monthly Update
Global Capitalism: December 2015 Monthly Update
Global Capitalism: December 2015 Monthly Economic Update Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7:30pm "Saving Capitalism from Itself or Saving Us from It? 
85 min
A Basic Income for All!
A Basic Income for All!
There is enough wealth for all of us.  What if we decided that every human being has a right to income security?  How could a basic income change our lives? Could this relieve our society from the stress and anger that comes with the rising inequality?
49 min
To Lift Quality of Life and Economy, Finland Champions Universal Basic Income
To Lift Quality of Life and Economy, Finland Champions Universal Basic Income
Under the plan receiving support by 70 percent of the country, every adults would receive a monthly allotment of €800
Jon Queally
The Numbers - Challenging A Society Where Everything Is Up For Sale
The Numbers - Challenging A Society Where Everything Is Up For Sale
Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Where do markets belong and where do they undermine values worth caring about?
5 min
Reykjavik Rising
Reykjavik Rising (2015)
In October 2008 Iceland was hit with one of the biggest financial disasters any nation in the world had experienced. In response, citizens took to the streets creating what is now known as the “Pots and Pans Revolution”.
54 min
Confessions of a Walmart Hitman
Confessions of a Walmart Hitman
Former Walmart executive recounts how he would watch Associates sit in the break room during their lunch hour without eating because they couldn't afford food. Walmart banned management from offering Associates any money to buy lunch. Walmart's corporate philosophy is to "do...
11 min
How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt
How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half” —Jay Gould Metanoia Films has released a new documentary, Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule). It’s the first entry of a multi-part series directed by filmmaker Scott Noble. The movie assembles a...
Bill Blunden
Endless Economic Growth is Fundamentally Unsustainable
Endless Economic Growth is Fundamentally Unsustainable
The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.
George Monbiot
Does Money Make You Mean? Monopoly May Hold The Answer
Does Money Make You Mean? Monopoly May Hold The Answer
What happens when a rigged game of Monopoly makes some players really rich?  (Created in collaboration with AJ+.)
2 min
Portugal Rejoices as Anti-Austerity Left Coalition Forms to Oust Right Wing
Portugal Rejoices as Anti-Austerity Left Coalition Forms to Oust Right Wing
Socialists, Communists, and Left Bloc unite in 'unprecedented' coalition to end years of punishing cuts
Lauren McCauley
Another Money Is Possible: Will the Scotpound Succeed as a Parallel Currency?
Another Money Is Possible: Will the Scotpound Succeed as a Parallel Currency?
Many people think money makes the world go around, or the global economy at least. They consider it in a
Steve Rushton
6 Artists Illustrate What Debt Means to Them
6 Artists Illustrate What Debt Means to Them
For our Debt Issue, we explored ways we could turn the tables on the bankers, rethink the soul-crushing nature of debt, and find routes to get out of it. Because the shame and powerlessness of debt can overwhelm our senses and perceptions, we decided to ask our favorite...
Yes! Magazine
This Map Should Change the Way You Think About Foreign Aid
This Map Should Change the Way You Think About Foreign Aid
Critics of foreign aid often argue that it's ineffective at generating sustainable economic development or truly helping the world's poor. But as this great map from the cost information website HowMuch.net reveals, one reason for that is that promoting development and...
Matthew Yglesias
'Worse Than We Thought': TPP a Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
'Worse Than We Thought': TPP a Total Corporate Power Grab Nightmare
'President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,' says Friends of the Earth
Deirdre Fulton
Chris Hedges on What It Takes to Be a Rebel in Modern Times
Chris Hedges on What It Takes to Be a Rebel in Modern Times
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges sits down with Ben Makuch at the Toronto VICE office to discuss what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Hedges discusses his new book Wages of Rebellion, an investigation of the social and psychological factors...
16 min
Beyond Dystopian Visions in the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
Beyond Dystopian Visions in the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society casts a dark shadow over the United States. As American society has moved from a welfare to a warfare state, the institutions that were once meant to further justice and limit human suffering and misfortune and...
Henry A. Giroux
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A.
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
560 min
Corruption Is Legal in America-And It Goes Like This:
Corruption Is Legal in America-And It Goes Like This:
WOW! We knew the system was bad, but this is just twisted beyond comprehension! Thank you Represent.Us for making this. More info:
6 min
Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More
Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More
Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only the wealthy have access to leisure, aesthetic pleasure, self-actualization…?
Josh Jones
The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
The Soviet Union Versus Socialism
When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles.
Noam Chomsky
Chris Hedges Talks About Capitalism With Michael Moore
Chris Hedges Talks About Capitalism With Michael Moore
Michael Moore interviews NY Times Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges for the special features section of his documentary 'Capitalism A Love Story'. Hedges explains how capitalism is consuming and destroying everything on the planet, including the planet itself, and a sort of...
9 min
"One Very Simple, but Radical, Idea: to Democratise Europe." an Interview With Yanis Varoufakis
"One Very Simple, but Radical, Idea: to Democratise Europe." an Interview With Yanis Varoufakis
As he prepares to launch a new, pan-European movement for change, Yanis Varoufakis sits down with Can Europe make it? to discuss democracy in Europe, Brexit, and the other part of Plan X.
Alex Sakalis
The UK Flash Sale - Everything Must Go!
The UK Flash Sale - Everything Must Go!
The UK is having a flash sale - everything must go, including our sovereignty!
1 min
CEOs Panic: Europe Rules Corporate Tax Loopholes Are "Illegal"
CEOs Panic: Europe Rules Corporate Tax Loopholes Are "Illegal"
The European Commission’s ruling is the result of years of sustained activism from anti-austerity groups like UK Uncut.
Steven Johnson
Jesse Ventura: How About a Maximum Wage?
Jesse Ventura: How About a Maximum Wage?
How much income is too much? The former Minnesota governor rallies for the living wage and against the greed at the core of income inequality.
2 min
Sam & Margot's Music Video "Burn It Down" Is a Not-So-Subtle Nod to the Corruption on Wall St
Sam & Margot's Music Video "Burn It Down" Is a Not-So-Subtle Nod to the Corruption on Wall St
Sam & Margot hope to ignite a debate about capitalism and inequality with their new music video, aptly titled "Burn It Down," which recently premiered at The Milwaukee Film Festival. It certainly provides a nice theme song for the aspirations of the 99%. Yes, burn down this...
3 min
Poverty Goals? No, It's Extreme Wealth We Should Be Targeting
Poverty Goals? No, It's Extreme Wealth We Should Be Targeting
If we had focused on the real causes of poverty over the past 30 years we probably wouldn’t need the United Nations’ sustainable development goals now
Zoe Williams
Resenting Hipsters
Resenting Hipsters
The fetishization of work feeds the politics of resentment. It’s time to instead embrace the language of economic and social rights.
Peter Frase
Who The Real Job Creators Are
Who The Real Job Creators Are
This is a clip from Inequality For All, a documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he works to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.
4 min
The Next VW Scandal
The Next VW Scandal
Buried in the minutes of an obscure new quango is evidence of vast corporate capture of the UK government.
Christine Berry
Swedish Band 'The Knife' Nail Central Flaw of The UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Swedish Band 'The Knife' Nail Central Flaw of The UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Brilliant satirical comic imagines what policy would look like if the UN focused on eliminating extreme wealth.
Liv Strömquist
A New World Order Is on the Horizon - Lee Camp on TPP
A New World Order Is on the Horizon - Lee Camp on TPP
The Trans Pacific Partnership has been approved and this secret agreement between the government and corporations will herald in the New World Order! Get set to pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of Walmart, or whichever corporation is running your country...
6 min
Money Puzzles - A Film About Money and Debt
Money Puzzles - A Film About Money and Debt
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even university economics departments.
17 min
Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots
Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots
According to world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the rising use of automated machines may mean the end of human rights – not just jobs. But he’s not talking about robots with artificial intelligence taking over the world, he’s talking about the current capitalist...
Dylan Sevett
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income
The simplest most effective solution to poverty.
3 min