Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy

How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.

7 min

President Trump announced the U.S.’s intent to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement – what many said was the world’s best chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet. The first effects of climate change are already being felt, and projections show...

28 min

7 Reasons Trump's Corporate Tax Cuts Make No Sense

Donald Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. This would blow a massive hole in the federal budget while benefitting Trump's super-rich friends and business associates.

4 min

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

This collection of 123 documentaries is a map for navigating the 21st century. It is guided by the premise that we are facing a planetary emergency, and the primary role of schools today should be to prepare students to become active participants in designing the transition...

Films For Action

20 Supporters of Universal Basic Income Throughout History

The basic guaranteed income is one of those ideas, like land value taxation or the Tobin tax, that circles endlessly around. There are times when it’s obscure, and times when it’s being talked about again. It’s currently in the ascendant, and I suspect that it won’t be long...

Jeremy Williams

John Cleese Founds Church of JC Capitalist

Comedian John Cleese is taking advantage of the huge tax breaks given to churches by founding a new one - The Church of JC Capitalist. Praise be the almighty $.

2 min

Autogestió: Adventures Into the New Economies of Catalonia

Catalonia is at the forefront of new economic thinking. They are a region rich in social currencies and in projects and people creating functioning post-capitalist societies. In June 2015, while in the midst of arranging the launch of the Exeter Pound, a local currency for...

53 min

Stop the Greedy Clown!

We can't let huge corporations continue to underpay our friends and families! Today, May 23, is the day before their annual shareholder meeting-- where they make the key decisions that will impact workers across the nation for the next year. Make sure McDonald's hears you...

1 min

How Working Less Could Solve All Our Problems. Really.

Shorter workweeks could help reduce accidents, combat climate change, make the genders more equal, and more, contends historian and author Rutger Bregman.

Rutger Bregman

This Movie Shows The UK Transformed Into a Socialist Utopia After Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister

How did he do it? And what led to this incredible victory for humanity? It's a story for the ages... Intrigued? This clip is just an excerpt from the full movie. If you want to take things back to the very beginning, you can watch the full 30 minute movie here.

6 min

Basic Income Isn’t Just a Nice Idea. It's a Birthright

A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instill a sense of solidarity and even ease the anxieties that gave us Brexit and Trump

Jason Hickel

Why Karl Marx Has Never Been More Relevant Than Now

The British media recently castigated John McDonnell for admitting he had read Karl Marx. But there’s just one problem with that - he’s never been more relevant.

4 min

Noam Chomsky: "Every Word in the Phrase 'Free Trade Agreement' Is Just False"

Noam Chomsky talks to acTVism Munich about Free Trade Agreements such as TTIP; TPP and NAFTA.

5 min

'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Lawmakers Roll Out Plan to Expand Worker Ownership

'Giving workers a seat at the table and their fair share of the profits they help produce is one way to even up the playing field and give hardworking Americans a chance to create an economy that works for everyone'

Lauren McCauley

Kenya's Universal Basic Income Experiment

Give Directly, an NGO, has embarked on a pioneering economic experiment in rural Kenya. They are providing the residents of entire villages with a universal basic income through direct cash transfers.

11 min

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)

This fantastic and entertaining documentary (full of biting satirical commentary) imagines what would happen if decades of neoliberal austerity in the UK was reversed by the democratic socialist programs of Jeremy Corbyn, who in the not-too-distant future becomes the greatest...

33 min

How The Free Market Really Works

An example of how the Free Market functions, taken from the book titled 'The New Human Rights Movement,' written by Peter Joseph.

5 min

Real Value (2013)

Award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit; connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture, apparel, insurance, and biofuel, with the captivating science...

70 min

Limits to Growth: Policies to Steer the Economy Away from Disaster

If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around 15 times larger than it is now, in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). If the global...

Samuel Alexander

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of rules that I think such a community would have to follow. I hasten to say that I do not understand these rules as predictions; I am not interested in...

Wendell Berry

Transforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points

After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week trip to many sites and gatherings working on social, economic, and...

Otto Scharmer

Yanis Varoufakis - Why the Universal Basic Income Is a Necessity

In this video former finance minister of Greece, professor of economics, author and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), Yanis Varoufakis, argues why the Basic Income is a necessity today. His arguments take into account a macro socio-economic...

32 min

It’s Time for a National $15 Minimum Wage

It has been 10 long years since Congress passed legislation to raise the minimum wage. It’s time to raise it for all Americans.

Bernie Sanders and Patty Murray

Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries

New research shows that developing countries send trillions of dollars more to the west than the other way around. Why?

Jason Hickel

Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.

We can do so much better than this.

Tim Hjersted

You Can't Have Infinite Growth On A Finite Planet

"Our economy is based on a crazy idea - the crazy idea being that we're gonna have infinite growth on a finite planet." - Paul Guilding

6 min

If Workers Take Power

– Instead of the small class of capitalists controlling society, we can make our own decisions about work and social life.

Stephanie McMillan

Overworked? Underpaid?

We’re all feeling the squeeze. What can we do? ORGANIZE!

Workers Power

Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”

It has been said that we’re living through “The Age of Loneliness.” Loneliness is “epidemic” among young adults, and even more common among the elderly, with some reporting that the num

Planet Local

Distress, Status Wars and Immoral Behaviour: The Psychological Impacts of Inequality

It is well known that economic inequality is rising. In most industrialised nations the distribution of wealth and income is becoming increasingly concentrated. In the United States, the top 10% of earners make more than nine times as much on average as the remainder, and in...

Nick Haslam

How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Fairly

A universal basic income (UBI) – an idea in which the government replaces all other forms of monetary assistance (welfare, social security, etc.) with yearly stipend – has enormous potential to radically transform our current unsustainable consumer economy based on individual...

Chris Agnos

Cultural Evolution in the Anthropocene

Where humanity is going, there are no roadmaps. The terrain is unlike anything we’ve seen before. The changes sweeping the Earth right now are literally planetary in scale and so filled with complexity that few among us even have a semblance of knowing what is actually...

Joe Brewer

Circle of Life - How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything

By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.

George Monbiot

A “Political” Program for Anarchists

Many anarchists oppose in principle such use of the political process for anarchist ends. It is unethical, they say, for anarchists to participate in the political process. Voting entails selecting a representative to exercise coercive force in our name; and appealing to such...

Kevin Carson

Infographic Explains Why It's More Expensive to Be Poor

It defies logic, right? That the poor would pay more for basic life items, essentially ensuring that they stay in the cycle of poverty forever. But people can forget that if you are living paycheck to paycheck, then it often becomes impossible to afford buying more than one...

Hazel Garcia

To Attain Freedom, We Must Name The True Root of Our Problems

A letter to the white working class

Redneck Revolt

This Nike Ad Takes on a Disturbing New Meaning When You Watch It The Second Time

This Nike ad was supposed to be inspirational. But the real meaning shows through when the ad plays the second time, with the same audio and different visuals, added by Matt Orfalea.

2 min

Angela Glover Blackwell Explains the Importance of Striving for Equity

By making sure that everyone can participate, everyone benefits.

3 min

Surviving Economic War in Venezuela - People Are Doing It For Themselves

Rebel Diaz went to Venezuela last month, where U.S. corporate interests are waging a devastating economic war on the Venezuelan people. In the face of hyperinflation and food shortages, groups of young people are coming together to create collective alternatives for survival,

5 min

Explaining NAFTA - The Trade Deal With Hard Core Corn

According to President Trump, Mexico is a country that sends us its criminals and rapists, and beats us on trade. In reality, they send us Coronas and TVs, and get beat by American agriculture. Why NAFTA is much more complicado than Trump thinks.

12 min

The Employment - A Surreal Short Film About the Drudgery of Work

An anonymous man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a world where the utilisation of people as objects in an everyday thing.

6 min

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

By redistributing economic and political power from corporate monopolies to millions of small businesses, localization has the power to revitalize the democratic process, re-rooting political power in community.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

MP Says Government is Intentionally Making People Destitute to Prevent Organised Opposition

Mhairi Black says the Tories' system of benefit sanctions is designed to victimise the most vulnerable in society. The SNP MP says the regime costs more to administer than it saves, makes those using it more likely to fall into hardship - and shifts blame from those who...

2 min

From the Politics of Division to the Politics of Humanity

We must not give up on revolutionary optimism. It may get us some important concessions from neo-liberalism—and possibly much, much more.

Willy Mutunga

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

For the majority of the past century, a battle has been waged between two dominant ideologies – capitalism and communism. Both competing economic systems focus on how best to allocate goods and services to the population. Capitalism uses democracy and “free markets” to...

Chris Agnos

Ending the Empathy Gap

Our aim is a society where people are guaranteed the necessities of life not because they’re sympathetic, but because they’re human beings.

Clio Chang

Will the Poor Always Be With Us?

Poverty as we know it is not and has never been the fate of humanity.

Jim Tull

A Last Chance for Resistance

The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip service to liberty and justice while obliterating the institutions and laws that make them...

Chris Hedges

"Morally Obscene" Trump Budget Proposal Stands to Make America Cruel Again

Environment, public education, worker protections, and cultural institutions all stand to lose under Trump's "cruel" budget blueprint

Deirdre Fulton

George Monbiot on Neoliberalism: "A Self-Serving Racket"

An interview covering neoliberalism, migration, Brexit, Trump, community-building, climate change, democracy, power, globalization, and lots more.

2 min

Richard Wolff Explains How & Why Bankers Want You to Stay Indebted Forever

In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff talks about bankruptcy protection, debt jubilee, students debt and the function that a credit system serves in our society today.

14 min

How 90% of American Households Lost an Average of $17,000 in Wealth to the Plutocrats in 2016

America has always been great for the richest 1%, and it's rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-2016 Credit Suisse

Paul Buchheit

The Wizard of Oz Could Be A Subversive Critique of Capitalism

In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is it possible that this much-loved...

5 min

Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss

"So much in society we are bombarded with a competitive approach and it is about reimagining that and reworking it!" A glimpse into the working lives of people from the Leeds Bread Co-op who can't imagine having a boss and are bringing the values of democracy, equality and...

3 min

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

I ran into my friend Rick the other day in a small town near our homes in northern Vermont. He was just coming out of the bookstore, holding a pink plastic bag that, I would soon learn, contained a dozen eggs from his flock of free range hens. After a bit of small talk, Rick...

Steven Gorelick

Globalization Makes No Sense

When I lived in San Francisco, I often would marvel at the movement of goods through the ports across the bay in Oakland. Full container ships would enter the bay one after another and unload their cargo, which ultimately would be making its way to the many big box stores...

Chris Agnos

The London Anarchist Group Squatting Mansions to Fight Homelessness

London squatting activists ANAL (Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians) are squatting empty multi-million pound buildings and opening them up to the homeless.

6 min

Where the Term "Redneck" Came From

If you don't know this story, you'll never look at the word the same again. This is just a window into the sometimes shocking, subversive and untold history of the United States, from the film Plutocracy by Scott Noble. Watch the full documentary online here (free).

15 min

Redneck Revolt Presents: A Message to the Patriot Movement

Over the past few weeks, Redneck Revolt has been communicating with a former member of a III% Patriot Militia based out of Ohio. Peter made contact with our organization after questioning the basis for an upcoming operation that his local militia group was asked to be...

6 min

An Economy of Meaning - or Bust

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

John Boik, PhD

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