Welcome to Marinaleda: The Spanish Anti-Capitalist Town With Equal Wage Full Employment and $19 Housing

With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative.

Jade Small

The Queen's Speech - Addressing The Poor From A Golden Chair?

My reaction to the spectacle of The Queen's Speech that opened the Conservative government following the UK general election.

9 min

Marx Was Right

Karl Marx exposed the peculiar dynamics of capitalism, or what he called “the bourgeois mode of production.” He foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own destruction. He knew that reigning ideologies—think neoliberalism—were created to serve the...

Chris Hedges

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

Within modern life exists a paradox: we celebrate democracy as a political system, but not as an economic system, even though our workplaces have a far greater impact on our day to day lives. It's fair to say that most workplaces under capitalist management are organized in...

59 min

The Abolition of Work

No one should ever work.

Bob Black

How Equal Do We Want the World to Be? You'd Be surprised

The news of society's growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies ... then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.

9 min

How Worker Co-ops Are Moving Beyond Capitalism

The explosion of worker cooperatives in recent years has social justice organizers talking. Transitioning to a people-powered economy will require the work of many different social movements and worker co-ops have come to the center of the conversation due to their ability to...

David Morgan

This Hedge Fund Billionaire Takes from the Poor to Give to the Rich

Paul Tudor Jones THINKS he's Robin Hood -but he is the opposite!

3 min

From Graduation to Garbage Job (literally): One Twentysomething's struggle

Jackie Roche

Why you don`t need to worry about $18 Trillion US Debt

Congratulations to the United States Govt. for just accumulating $18 Trillion in debt! But no worries let's look at some of the biggest reasons why YOU don't need to worry about it.

2 min

Proof That Corruption Is Legal in America

According to a Princeton University study, public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. One thing that does have an influence? Money. Nearly every issue we face as a nation is caught in the grip of corruption. From taxation to national debt, education to the...

6 min

The Oceans Are Not Worth $24 trillion

Some things are beyond measure and beyond price. No amount of money is enough to compensate for the loss of the sacred.

Charles Eisenstein

The Asshole Factory

What are modern workplaces doing to people? Umair Haque suggests they are turning them into assholes.

Umair Haque

Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Could a New Economic Approach Save the Planet?

To avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, the world needs to move beyond the standard choices of capitalism or socialism. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday by US think tank Capital Institute.

Jo Confino

Neoliberalism Is Not an Institution, But Rather a Paranormal Activity (Completely Normalized and Legally Ratified)

Believe you me, neoliberalism is not an institution, but rather a paranormal activity (completely normalized and legally ratified) which operates both in and outside ourselves. This is how it directs our behaviors, those we impose upon ourselves and those we project onto...

Leónidas Martín

The Battle to Control the 3D Printing Revolution: DIY or CIA?

Scientific and technological innovations have the power to fundamentally transform human civilization as new possibilities previously deemed impossible are made realities. However, it is not the technologies themselves that dictate the nature of the political, economic or...

Eric Draitser

What's Happening In Baltimore Didn't Just Start With Freddie Gray

This week's chaos on the streets of Baltimore has been decades in the making.

Simon McCormack

What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? These Denver Cabbies Are Making It Happen

Workers at app-driven companies like Uber don’t have the rights of full employees. But with the help of traditional unions, some are banding together into worker-owned cooperatives. Wolde Gebremariam is one of more than 160,000 people nationwide who drive their own cars for...

Mary Hansen

On the Lam with Bank Robber Enric Duran

Being underground is not a condition Enric Duran

Nathan Schneider

Watch a Giant Suction Tube Gobble Up The Earth In This Brilliant Video about Our Economy

Modern production is based on extraction from the planet, and modern finance is based on extraction from the many for the benefit of the very few. What would a new economy look like and how can we rethink our relationship to resources, work and culture? Those are some of the...

7 min

Better, Not More

As we assess the current state of our world and consider together the elements that are essential to a ‘just transition’, and ultimately, a just economy, we are called to consider four goals: to decommodify nature, reimagine work, liberate knowledge and democratize wealth...

5 min

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Patents

For inventors, patents are an essential protection against theft. But when patent trolls abuse the system by stockpiling patents and threatening lawsuits, businesses are forced to shell out tons of money.

11 min

Evicted and Abandoned: Exposing The World Bank (trailer)

Evicted and Abandoned is a global investigation that reveals how the World Bank Group, the powerful development lender committed to ending poverty, has regularly failed to follow its own rules for protecting vulnerable populations.

1 min

The Anthropocene Myth: Blaming All Of Humanity for Climate Change Lets Capitalism Off The Hook

Last year was the hottest year ever recorded. And yet, the latest figures show that in 2013 the source that provided the most new energy to the world economy wasn’t solar, wind power, or even natural gas or oil, but coal.

Andreas Malm

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The IRS

Nobody likes the IRS. But recent budget and staff cuts have made it increasingly difficult for the department to do its very important job. Don't take our word for it. Ask Michael Bolton.

18 min

The Emperor's New Clothes (Trailer)

The Emperor's New Clothes trailer - a film by Michael Winterbottom with Russell Brand. Milton Friedman once said that every crisis was an opportunity.

3 min

Rap News 31: The EuroDiVision Contest

We've all heard of EuroVision. But there's another song that’s being sung across Europe - the peoples' chants of protest against Europe's austerity measures. Today we'll hear some of the leading and loudest voices in this competition, such as Greece, Spain and Ireland, who...

6 min

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality. Tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the...

73 min

A Rogue Reporter Takes on the Masters of the Universe

The media would have you believe that it’s simply an accident that 85 people now own more than half the world’s wealth. It’s time to blow their cover. This essay is excerpted from Matt Kennard’s new book, The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. t

Matt Kennard

Emperor's New Clothes Remix

Cassetteboy is back with another Conservative rap, this time with a special guest appearances from George Osborne and UKIP's Nigel Farage. This is a promo for The Emperor's New Clothes, a new feature documentary from Russell Brand and Michael Winterbottom.

3 min

The Emperor's New Clothes (trailer)

British comedian and activist Russell Brand joins forces with acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom on a polemical documentary about the financial crisis and gross inequality we currently face. Starting with the genesis of today’s economic policies, with the arrival of...

2 min

Wealth Vs. Money

“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” The words are those of Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, speaking to Edward R. Murrow in 1955, as quoted recently in an essay by Paul Buchheit on Common Dreams. What was he thinking? Six decades later, the words...

Robert C. Koehler

Poverty, Inc. (trailer)

“I see multiple colonial governors,” says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. “We are held captive by the donor community.”

2 min

Comic Relief Is a Bad Joke - Make Charity history!

There are many institutions in our culture and society that, for me, highlight the depth of our dysfunctionality and despair. Such institutions express the shocking degree to which a social system of artificially-created human misery has been so successfully naturalised that...

Joel Lazarus

The 3 Biggest Myths Blinding Us to Economic Truth

Robert Reich breaks down the 3 biggest economic myths.

2 min

#ImUnloading: Campaign To Divest From The Gun Industry

More than 51 million Americans are likely invested in guns, and don't even realize it. Talk to your financial advisor about how to divest your retirement savings from the gun industry. In the 15 years since the Columbine shooting, more than 1.4 million Americans have been...

2 min

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything (excerpt)

This is an edited excerpt the feature length documentary This Changes Everything.

10 min

The Overnighters (2014)

A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow...

101 min

These Neighbors Got Together to Buy Vacant Buildings. Now They're Renting to Bakers and Brewers

The intersection of Central and Lowry Avenues in northeast Minneapolis is bustling. On the northwest corner is a trifecta of local businesses: A bike shop, a cooperative brewery, and a bakery, in buildings with eye-catching exteriors of rough-hewn wood and silvery porcelain...

Olivia LaVecchia

Confronting Industrialism: If You Can't Clean It Up, Don't Make it!

Modern industrial capitalism is based on a simple premise, writes Derrick Jensen: our mother Earth is a great store of raw materials for us to pillage, and a vast trashcan for our endless volumes of waste, no matter how long-lived and deadly. How can this be changed? First we...

Derrick Jensen

The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week

To save the world—or really to even just make our personal lives better—we will need to work less.

Michael J. Coren

The Economics of Climate Change

Shifting away from an emphasis on global economic growth toward local economies provides a means to increase meaningful employment, shrink the gap between rich and poor, and tackle climate change.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Why I Have Resigned from the Telegraph

The coverage of HSBC in Britain's Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in peril.

Peter Oborne

Why We Need a New Social settlement

How do we live together and relate to one another? How can we make sure that everyone has an equal chance to lead a fulfilling and secure life? What’s the best way to help each other when things go wrong that we cannot cope with alone? These are just some of the...

Anna Coote

What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy

Would it be easier to practice workplace democracy if our media gave us as many visions of collaboration as they do of competition?

22 min

Karl Marx on Alienation

Karl Marx believed that work, at its best, is what makes us human. It allows us to live, be creative and flourish. But under capitalism he saw workers alienated from each other and the product of their labour. Narrated by Gillian Anderson. Scripted by Nigel Warburton.

2 min

Our Shitty situation

In this sedition we look at the economic clusterfuck enveloping the globe, the mega drop in oil prices and the political party that has the left screaming like Justin Beaver fans.

18 min

The Breaking HSBC Scandal Reveals UK Govt Is Chief Henchman Of The Mafia Banking System

An international collaboration of media outlets have leaked HSBC files which prove the Bank has actively sought to undermine domestic tax laws by hiding more than $100bn in Swiss bank accounts – but what is truly remarkable, it the complicity of the UK government in helping...

Kerry-anne Mendoza

Holistic Eco-Nomics

A short film about the interconnected issues of money, growth, poverty and climate change.

11 min

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Marketing to Doctors

Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues with that.

17 min

The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money

The motto of Dauphin, Manitoba, a small farming town in the middle of Canada, is “everything you deserve.” What a citizen deserves, and what effects those deserts have, was a question at the heart of a 40-year-old experiment that has lately become a focal point in a debate...

Whitney Mallett

How the Rich Keep Us Poor

Ever wondered how they do it? Guinea, and many other African countries, will never rise out of poverty if this continues to happen...

3 min

Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Funny Intro to Participatory Economics

This is a short animated introduction to Participatory Economics. It's made about 10 times more hilarious and enjoyable to watch thanks to the laugh track and frequent jokes.

7 min

An Anti-Capitalist Woman Invented Monopoly and a Man Got All the Credit

The surprising origins of a beloved board game In March of 1903, a single woman in her late thirties walked into the U.S. Patent Office to secure her claim to a board game she had been diligently designing in the hours she stole from her day job as a stenographer. Lizzie...

Jen Doll

Another Economic Crash Is Coming. How Did This Happen?

David Cameron says a second financial crash is imminent. If he's right, it's because politicians bailed out the wrong industry, argues Renegade Economist Ross Ashcroft. He says the last recession was brought on by too much debt. Today private debt is at the greatest level in...

4 min

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

How many of us have a sneaking suspicion that something pretty fundamental is going wrong in the world? We keep hearing about the potentially devastating consequences of climate change but we are pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every single year. We are forced...

6 min

What I Learnt about Inequality after Spending Time with Some of the Richest People in the world

So what are the super-rich: are they bastards? Are they, as Hemingway put it, just like us, but with "more money”? Are they going to save us? Destroy us? Are they corporate psychopaths who've channelled their murderous impulses into making money, not serial killing? Or are...

Jacques Peretti

The Worst Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, now headed to Congress, is a product of big corporations and Wall Street, seeking to circumvent regulations protecting workers, consumers, and the environment. Watch this video, and say "no" to fast-tracking this bad deal for the vast majority...

2 min

Greece: The End of Austerity? (2015)

Syriza had 22 days to make history. This is how they did it. We followed Syriza's activists, candidates and leadership from the waterfront, to remote mountain villages, to the nail biting final days.

15 min

Dangerous Delusions - 7 Interactive Infographics Challenging the Myths of the Elites

Every year world leaders and business executives meet at Davos to discuss how they want to run our economy - in their own best interests. We're led to believe that without their entrepreneurial talent that we would all be worse off than we are now. The myths of this elite...

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