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Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive...
Steven Gorelick
'What we want today is for this movement to spread,' says unionist.
Andrea Germanos
Here’s an amazing fact: It’s 2016 and humanity is collectively moving toward a future that nobody wants. We are literally going somewhere that will hurt every single one of us.
Mass extinctions are terrible things. Impoverished societies create the conditions for radical...
Joe Brewer
I know it hurts — but what you are feeling (alongside millions of others) is the natural consequence of late-stage capitalism.
Joe Brewer
As an Economic Hit Man (EHM) in the 1970s I spent a great deal of time in Panama. I hate to admit it, but I helped forge the system that has now been exposed in the Panama Papers. It is a system of legalized crimes. How else can we describe it?
John Perkins
20 min
The following video explores the influence billionaires have had through massive public relations campaigns, fake "grass roots" movements like the Tea Party, and funding of right-libertarian organizations like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity. Featuring: Noam...
Death can be very painful and confusing. This is true for economic systems just as it is for personal loved ones. Moving on is just a hard thing to do.
It’s really tough to work through all the difficult feelings we have about loss. Will I see my grandmother again? What am I...
Joe Brewer
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.
George Monbiot
17 min
Cathy Newman's full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America's foremost intellectuals presents his views on who rules the world today.
Hillary Clinton wants American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world
Robert Parry
2 min
How can we create participatory workplaces that make decision making more democratic and compensation and job assignments more equitable? In this new animation from the Next System Project, building off Robin Hahnel's paper for our New Systems series, we explore the answer...
Anonymous whistleblower says "Panama Papers are, if nothing else, a glaring symptom of our society's progressively diseased and decaying moral fabric."
Deirdre Fulton
41 min
Our mission is to enlighten and educate the general population about the grassroots issues of poverty and homelessness in Chicago, the US and abroad, and tell the story from the inside out.
“How do we grow the economy?” is an obsolete question. Local initiatives across the world are looking for maturity instead as they rebuild caring, place-based communities and economies.
David Korten
Capitalism is having a laugh at our expense. Surely that is the only reasonable explanation for the current shamelessness of Britain’s corporate elite. Having survived the financial crisis without the public, armed with pitchforks, hammering on their doors, perhaps they now...
Owen Jones
I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends recently — in private where they felt comfortable letting their guard down — about the dirty little secret no one is supposed to talk about.
The shame people feel when they can’t find a job…
…or pay their bills.
…or go to the...
Joe Brewer
Britain is still a society deeply divided by class. The same schools, established church and universities dominate public life, but under the façade of immobility, changes are afoot.
Danny Dorling
7 min
While everyone's in a flap over the Panama Papers, we're way more pissed off about the legal and more-or-less out-in-the-open ways that multinational corporations avoid paying tax in the countries from which they generate staggering profits.
Sometimes when you are living within a system of oppression it is difficult to even see that the system exists, let alone imagine alternative ways of living and organising. Thankfully the system of capitalism, and its coke-fuelled cousin neoliberalism, that dominates the...
Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by design by a global elite.
Joe Brewer
3 min
We should all be able to afford a home in an area we want to live. But for many of us in the UK, with prices spiralling way beyond incomes, this isn’t a reality.
Instead, finding somewhere to live can often feel like a game.
Why is this? And who are we actually playing...
British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth
Nafeez Ahmed
Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.
George Monbiot
18 min
Credit reports play a surprisingly large role in our lives, but even more surprising is how often they contain critical mistakes. John Oliver helps credit agencies see why this is a problem.
Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there, we...
Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk
35 min
Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world's most influential thinkers...
Outrage abounds these days, but the biggest story of all is hardly getting any attention
Joe Brewer
21 min
Lawmakers have to raise money to keep their jobs, but a surprising amount of their job now consists of raising money. John Oliver sits down with Congressman Steve Israel to discuss the costs of political spending.
When maximizing profits isn’t the only goal, companies can actually work better.
Michelle Chen
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is slated for an up-or-down vote in Congress. Proponents say it’s about free trade. But it looks more like corporate colonization.
David Korten
22 min
Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals...
16 min
A short film discussing the nature of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and its impact on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the treaty representing the bicultural relationship in Aotearoa New Zealand. Jane Kelsey, Hone Harawira, Marama Davidson and Margaret Mutu provide their...
Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.”
Sarah van Gelder
“Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing.
Bill Bigelow
2 min
If the population of the world was only 100 people, what would society look like? How many people would have shelter? Clean water? Education? Watch this video and find out.
“We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras” is the way Jan Rotmans from the University Rotterdam describes the structural changes impacting our societies. This is also the phrase Michel Bauwens chose to open his latest book yet to be published in English...
Commons Transition
Dora Meade on finding out how money is really created and why we prefer not to talk about it
Dora Meade
Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative.
Erik Olin Wright
Homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and the housing bubble are all rooted in privatized housing.
Jesse A. Myerson
Fred Hampton participated 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.
Hampton Institute
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
2 min
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/
3 min
The 'Love' of money is the root of much evil. So go on then. Get rich or try sharing.
3 min
Income inequality is rising and working Americans feel like they aren't getting ahead. Welcome to the rigged economy. Here's how it works.
2 min
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.
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
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
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
3 min
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...
14 min
Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal.
A crash course in social democracy.
Ann Jones
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
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
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 seeks to find 'common solutions to common problems,' says former Greek finance minister
Nadia Prupis
3 min
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.
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
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally
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
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 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
65 min
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.
85 min
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?
49 min
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?
Under the plan receiving support by 70 percent of the country, every adults would receive a monthly allotment of €800
Jon Queally
5 min
Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Where do markets belong and where do they undermine values worth caring about?
54 min
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”.
11 min
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...
“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
The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.
George Monbiot
2 min
What happens when a rigged game of Monopoly makes some players really rich?
(Created in collaboration with AJ+.)
Socialists, Communists, and Left Bloc unite in 'unprecedented' coalition to end years of punishing cuts
Lauren McCauley
Many people think money makes the world go around, or the global economy at least. They consider it in a s
Steve Rushton
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
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
'President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,' says Friends of the Earth
Deirdre Fulton
16 min
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...
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
560 min
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
6 min
WOW! We knew the system was bad, but this is just twisted beyond comprehension! Thank you Represent.Us for making this. More info:
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
When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles.
Noam Chomsky
9 min
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...
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
1 min
The UK is having a flash sale - everything must go, including our sovereignty!
The European Commission’s ruling is the result of years of sustained activism from anti-austerity groups like UK Uncut.
Steven Johnson
2 min
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.
3 min
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...
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
The fetishization of work feeds the politics of resentment. It’s time to instead embrace the language of economic and social rights.
Peter Frase
4 min
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.
Buried in the minutes of an obscure new quango is evidence of vast corporate capture of the UK government.
Christine Berry
Brilliant satirical comic imagines what policy would look like if the UN focused on eliminating extreme wealth.
Liv Strömquist
6 min
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...
17 min
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.
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
3 min
The simplest most effective solution to poverty.
31 min
Chris Spannos speaks with the acclaimed public intellectual about the shift in US policy toward Cuba and what it signals.
In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September 2015, US President Barack Obama said that ‘for 50 years, the United States pursued...
There can be no doubt that the job market has been more resilient since the financial crisis than many imagined. Unemployment did not rise as far as was feared and the recovery in employment to pre-recession levels has been quicker than forecast by even the most optimistic...
Stephen Bevan
2 min
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest--and worst--trade deal you've never heard of and Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to "fast track" its passage.
Capitalism is a coercive economic system that creates persistent patterns of economic deprivation.
Matt Bruenig