Degrowth Is the Radical Post-Brexit Future the UK Needs

As the Brexit negotiations wrap up and Theresa May’s deal is lambasted by Remainers and Leavers alike, it’s still far from clear what the future holds for the United Kingdom. On March 29 2019, it is due to leave the European Union.

Joe Herbert, Newcastle University

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Our food system is linked to an economic system that is fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C

An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency

Richard Smith

Yoga, Inc. (2007)

Yoga has transformed from an ancient spiritual practice into a competitive, commercialized, multi-million dollar industry. And for a practice rooted in renunciation, yoga is making some people very rich. YOGA INC. poses this question: Can yoga survive the war between the...

58 min

Capitalism Is Killing Patients... and Their Physicians

Physician burnout, depression, and suicide increasingly invade discussions within the medical field. Depression and suicide are more common among male and female physicians, with suicide rates 1.41 and 2.27 times greater than that of the general male and female populations...

Dr. Michael Pappas

The Journey of Compassion (2018) | Homelessness Short Film

Arthur McNeil is a formerly homeless long distance runner who raises money for shelters on cross-country runs. This film attempts to capture Arthur's story and warm character in a short documentary film. This documentary focuses on themes of homelessness, gentrification, and...

7 min

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism

Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism.

Chris Hedges

Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism

"Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis.” The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new -- both...

Colin Jenkins

Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)

A sequel to Ancient Futures, giving examples of Local Futures' systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. The 23-minute film challenges the commonly-held belief that globalization is inevitable or "evolutionary" and argues that we need to reduce the distance...

23 min

Love And Revolution (2018)

July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...

85 min

Time to Wake Up: the Neoliberal Order Is Dying

In my recent essay, I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives – supporting what we might loosely term our current “neoliberal order” – rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political and media classes, who are of course deeply...

Jonathan Cook

Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Cannot See the System Destroying Us

I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.

Jonathan Cook

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern Universities has concluded. The report, entitled Testing Theories of American...

Zachary Davies Boren

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2018)

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secret jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and...

79 min

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She...

Silvia Federici

The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone

When kings went out of style, that impulse didn’t leave with them; it simply found a different way of manifesting.

7 min

How a New Aristocracy's Segregation Puts Stress on Society

Growing class division is destabilizing our society, argues author and philosopher Matthew Stewart in a provocative Atlantic magazine cover story. He says there's a group in between the top 0.1 percent and bottom 90 percent that plays an important role in running the economy...

8 min

This Restaurant Takeout Service Swaps Styrofoam for Sustainable

After big cities like San Francisco banned businesses from using styrofoam containers, a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who was fed up with the plastic trash began her own crusade. When her efforts toward passing a local ban failed, she decided to focus on small-scale...

5 min

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.

7 min

All the Financial Advice You’ll Ever Need Fits On a Single Index Card

At first glance, fiscal planning can seem more complex and time-consuming than it’s worth. But according to Professor Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago, you can fit all the financial advice you’ll ever really need on a single index card. Economics correspondent Paul...

8 min

Inequality - How Wealth Becomes Power (2018)

Germany is one of the world’s richest countries, but inequality is on the rise. The wealthy are pulling ahead, while the poor are falling behind. [Online until: 17 September 2018]

42 min

Our Un-Soulful Economy

Soul is often defined as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal. This definition is not without its critics, as it arbitrarily stops at animals. What about plants and trees? Do they have souls? Indeed, it could be argued that plants and trees have some...

Terry Sexton

How Aristocracies Rule

The American fairytale is far from enchanted. Power and wealth are concentrated in an anxious aristocracy, comprised of 10% of the population, that reigns by dividing the lower classes and pitting them against each other so that the poor turn against the poor. It’s how most...

4 min

Africa is a Creditor to the World

Capital flight from Africa, especially the illicit kind, is a far larger drain on the countries of the continent than previously thought and exceeds foreign loans and investment flows. PERI’s Leonce Ndikumana discusses his research findings.

14 min

Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works - designing products that can be 'made to be made again' and powering the system with...

4 min

Green Growth Explained

Green Growth is the big plan to deal with environmental damage while still growing the global economy. Can we trust it? DIY Fact Check >> #PostGrowth

4 min

Is It Time for a Post-Growth Economy?

The growth-driven economic model we have adopted is killing our planet.

Jason Hickel

Ceos Vs. Workers

“People in a sense are disposable. We work somebody to the point of no return, and we get rid of them and get somebody else in. It’s not a culture where people are respected, are nourished. We have to ask ourselves if that’s the kind of economic culture we are comfortable...

Meagan Day

A Broken Idea of Sex Is Flourishing. Blame Capitalism.

In this world, women are marketed as toys and trophies. Are we surprised when some men take things literally?

Rebecca Solnit

We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life?

Every day, we are told that global economic growth will save us. But think about it: How is it possible to have infinite growth on a finite planet? #GrowthOrLife

3 min

Bulldoze the Business School

Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or “surplus”) – as...

Martin Parker

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? How...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

7 Reasons Why We Should Have Open Borders

Let’s be honest, most people are already in favour of free movement – at least for themselves. Aisha Dodwell explains why we should extend it to everyone

Aisha Dodwell

The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over

Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...

6 min

Jeremy Rifkin on the Fall of Capitalism and the Internet of Things

Economic theorist and author Jeremy Rifkin explains his concept of The Internet of Things. Rifkin's latest book is The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (http://goo.gl/4estV2).

10 min

Capitalism 2.0 Will Include a Healthy Dose of Socialism - Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein: I get asked a lot about the state of capitalism and I think that for those members of society of a certain age we think of capitalism as being locked in an ideological battle with socialism perhaps or even communism.But we never really saw that capitalism...

12 min

Into The Open Economy - The Complete Video Series with Colin R. Turner

Colin R. Turner's informal walk-through on the topics discussed in his book Into The Open Economy. The complete four-part mini-series: I. The Problems; II. The Solution; III. The Practicalities; IV. The Transition; Please add comments and questions below.

75 min

The Political Economy of Marijuana | Interview with Prof. Richard D. Wolff

In this video we talk to Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, about the history & political economy behind the legalisation of marijuana.

10 min

Beyond Trump: How the US Went off the Rails

Trump is a big problem. But he's not the cause of our problems.

John Atcheson

The Coming Collapse

It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.

Chris Hedges

Dollar General Is Putting Local Grocery Stores Out Of Business

Retailers around the country are shuttering stores — a list that ranges from Toys R Us, which just announced it’s closing or selling all its U.S. locations, to brands including Footlocker, J. Crew and Macy’s that are shrinking their brick-and-mortar operations. But one...

7 min

Why we will not stop climate change. Capitalism's inability to decarbonize.

The steps needed to rapidly decarbonize our economy (the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change) will never be taken in a capitalist system.

29 min

Five Ways to Transform Our Economies

We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.

Sam Cossar-Gilbert

Do We Have the Right to Financial Rebellion? a Conversation With Enric Duran

We need to practice economic disobedience so that radical alternatives can flourish.

Niki Seth-Smith

Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump's Retrograde Economic Vision

Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic vision that would “make America great again,” by restoring waning coal and...

Sarah Aziza

Deaths of Despair: How Inequality Kills

Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by “greedy” elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist...

Alan Nasser

I Don't Give a Damn About the First (Insert Identity Here) CEO or President

Do you know what literally repulses me these days? Hearing about the first so and so to get accepted into the exclusive club of the aristocracy. Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the latest first black president or first woman CEO. Who cares! I don’t know how we have arrived...

Teodrose Fikre

Trump Tweeting US to War in Syria

History is repeating itself! Trump wants to go to war with Syria without proof the Syrian gov is actually responsible for gas attacks! Meanwhile, Trump is watching Star Wars...no joke Support independent media! https://www.patreon.com/Orf

5 min

Let's Talk About Socialism - Prof. R.Wolff

Prof. Richard D. Wolff talks about socialism. Whether you love the word or hate it, this presentation is very educational.

113 min

Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory

Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.

23 min

Decrying System That Favors 'War and the Wealthy,' Poor People's Campaign Unveils Agenda to Combat Poverty, Racism, and Militarism

"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."

Jake Johnson

The New Human Rights Movement - Peter Joseph (2017)

Peter Joseph speaks at The University of Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 8th 2017, about the themes from his new book: The New Human Rights Movement.

120 min

Economic Democracy: An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable

This paper by David Schweickart, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in...

David Schweickart

MLK’s Anti-War & Economic Radicalism Got Him Killed

On the 50th Anniversary of his death, many of MLK’s economic and radical messages are written out of history.

17 min

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives

SoFA Coop Circle

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

Fifty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, the Left struggles to speak with the kind of moral clarity King exemplified — but that shouldn't stop us from trying.

Robert Greene II

The End of the "End of History"

In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.

Eli Friedman and Andi Kao

The Oligarchs’ ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’ Scam

Beware the architects of our neofeudalism calling on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income

Chris Hedges

Martin Luther King Jr Supported a Guaranteed Basic Income

(The following is an excerpt from King’s book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” — Part 5 of chapter 5 titled “Where Do We Go”) There is only one general proposal that I would like to examine here, because it deals with the abolition of poverty within this nation...

Matt Orfalea

A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide a $12,000 Annual Stipend to Every American Household

Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income

Paul Buchheit

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