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Why instead of a more complicated understanding of identity, we need a more profound understanding of exploitation
Walter Benn Michaels · 7,900 views · 4.5 stars
A victory for OXI (No) would not just help restore a sense of dignity to Greece; it would strengthen the ground for anti-austerity struggles across Europe.
Jerome Roos · 3,983 views · 5 stars
Does the US live up to the standards it sets for the rest of the world? Is the United States really the torchbearer for global democracy that most Americans think it is? – Second Thought
16 min · 8,215 views · 4 stars
Looting is the word of the day, on the lips of every newscaster, the president, and elected officials across the country. And, indeed, looting is a major problem in America.
Thom Hartmann · 2,974 views · unrated
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling. Most, including many of those at the heart of the American empire, recognize that every promise made by the proponents of...
Chris Hedges · 3,103 views · 4.8 stars
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months...
Rajesh Makwana ·
5,238 views · 5 stars
As businesses increasingly embrace a not-for-profit culture, an end to overconsumption on a finite planet could finally be in sight. But given the huge lobbying power of vested interests, it will remain impossible to create a truly sustainable world until the illegitimate...
Rajesh Makwana · 10,853 views · 5 stars
Over the last century, capitalism has repeatedly revealed its worst tendencies: instability and inequality. Instances of instability include the Great Depression (1929-1941) and the Great Recession since 2008, plus eleven "downturns" in the US between those two global...
Richard D. Wolff · 10,267 views · 4 stars
Noam Chomsky talks to acTVism Munich about Free Trade Agreements such as TTIP; TPP and NAFTA.
5 min · 5,288 views · 4 stars
We must organize to replace existing structures of power with ones capable of coping with the crisis before us.
Chris Hedges · 4,128 views · 5 stars
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 · 7,313 views · 5 stars
The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.
Chris Hedges · 887 views · unrated
In a world of competing narratives serving competing interests, there’s always a temptation to gravitate to the political centre ground, the would-be midpoint between two apparent extremes, with its aura of moderation, reasonableness and realism. After all, isn’t the truth...
Raoul Martinez · 484 views · unrated
Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a different sort of egalitarian alternative to a class politics but is a class politics itself: the politics of a strain of the professional-managerial class whose worldview...
Adolph Reed, Jr. · 998 views · 5 stars
PRINCETON, N.J.—Tariq Ali is part of the royalty of the left. His more than 20 books on politics and history, his seven novels, his screenplays and plays and his journalism in the Black Dwarf newspaper, the New Left Review and other publications have made him one of the...
Chris Hedges · 1,473 views · unrated
What now for the radical left in Labour and beyond?
Paul Mason · 31,824 views · 4.8 stars
"We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive."
Henry A. Giroux · 1,528 views · unrated
Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?
Jeremy Lent · 20,800 views · unrated
This pandemic health crisis exposes the injustices of the global economic order. It must be a turning point towards creating the systems, structures and policies that can always protect those who are marginalised and allow everyone to live with dignity.
TNI · 1,288 views · unrated
I began to experience the crippling power of anxiety in my third year of university.
The panic attacks were one thing, but the most horrifying thing about anxiety, the thing that sustains it, is the insomnia. I would wake up in the middle of the night, heart racing, and...
Grace Blakeley ·
96,219 views · 4.8 stars
Progressive renewal lies in a deep recognition that we are not choosing our current lives.
Ronan Harrington · 6,672 views · unrated
In the wake of the Charlottesville incident, we must understand that the kind of work that needs to happen now, in order for racial healing to take place, will not be held by the combative punditry of CNN or be championed by the White House and the mass culture of occlusion...
Adebayo Akomolafe ·
581 views · 5 stars
Today America celebrates its liberation from the shackles of the British Crown and the beginning of its transition into corporatist oligarchy, which is a lot like celebrating your lateral promotion from housekeeping to laundry staff. Fireworks will be set off, hot dogs will...
Caitlin Johnstone · 3,992 views · unrated
Strike for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people
FFA Staff · 2,194 views · unrated
“It is extremely important for our democracy to function that ordinary citizens understand the key issues and basic theories of economics.” – Ha-Joon Chang
385 min · 11,482 views · 5 stars
Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek “leftwing” government into a pawn of Germany’s banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into oblivion.
Paul Craig Roberts · 5,766 views · unrated
The director Spike Lee endorsed the Vermont senator on Tuesday. He’s the latest in a series of black intellectuals to recognise Sanders’ superiority over Clinton
Steven W Thrasher · 6,205 views · 4.5 stars
The reckoning is here for progressives and the Democratic Party now that the unthinkable has happened. Most of America, shell-shocked, is asking how Hillary Clinton and the entire Democratic establishment could lose to a woman-bashing, Mexican-deporting, Muslim-hating...
Arun Gupta · 5,049 views · 5 stars
The Trump victory is devastating. Devastating for communities of color, immigrants, women, Muslims and queer communities. Devastating for us.
Trump has given new voice to deeply rooted white supremacy, gender violence, xenophobia and hatred. Hatred of everything that we are...
Dawn Phillips · 3,914 views · 3 stars
Why should plagues of mental illness surprise us, in a world being ripped apart?
George Monbiot · 12,619 views · 4.8 stars
Can voter identification, registration, and protection efforts help not only defeat Trump, but build a mass movement for democratic socialism?
Jesse A. Myerson · 4,997 views · 5 stars
Ten people were killed and seven wounded recently in a mass shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. Such shootings are more than another tragic expression of unchecked violence in the United States, they are symptomatic of a society engulfed in fear, militarism...
Henry A. Giroux · 1,348 views · unrated
Why Questioning the Rationality of Capitalist Nationalism is Essential for Humanity's Continued Evolution (and Existence)
Michael Emero ·
4,337 views · 4 stars
If progressives fail to seize the populist moment, the authoritarian right will fill the void. The insurgent Bernie Sanders campaign was a big step forward in building the progressive populist political alignment we need. Now that Hillary Clinton is the Democratic Party...
Jonathan Smucker · 12,650 views · 5 stars
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 · 38,323 views · 5 stars
This is not a post I ever wanted to write but it’s time to tie up loose ends before starting the new year. I’ve left DiEM25 and I’d like to explain to you why that is and what I hope DiEM will do differently in the future if it is to realise its tremendous potential to be a...
Aral Balkan · 1,363 views · 4.5 stars
We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.
Nathan Heller · 5,077 views · 4 stars
As a conspiracy theory, the term New World Order or NWO refers to the emergence of a totalitarian one-world government.
various writers · 9,551 views · unrated
While millions of people are spellbound by falsehoods, actual threats go unheeded and unchecked.
Jeremy Lent · 8,017 views · 3.9 stars
The pandemic, economic collapse and the government’s response to them are going to not only determine the 2020 election but define the future for this decade and beyond. People are seeing the failure of the US healthcare nonsystem and the economy. The government was able to...
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers · 4,493 views · unrated
Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrow’s struggles for a post-capitalist world?
Max Haiven · 5,984 views · unrated
Regulated private capitalism. State capitalism. Socialism. These three systems are entirely different from each other. We need to understand the differences between them to move beyond today's dysfunctional economies. With confidence waning in whether modern private...
Richard D. Wolff · 2,623 views · 4 stars
Corbyn has survived the latest challenge to his leadership. Paul Mason on why they want to beat him — and how he can win.
Ronan Burtenshaw with Paul Mason · 3,601 views · 5 stars
“I am not suggesting that white racism alone explains Trump’s victory. Nor am I dismissing the white working class’s very real economic grievances. It is not a matter of disaffection versus racism or sexism versus fear. Rather, racism, class anxieties, and prevailing gender...
Robin D.G. Kelley · 1,095 views · unrated
Before casting the blame for our environmental ills on countries like China, we would do well to reflect on who is truly responsible.
Alex Jensen · 401 views · 5 stars
Amador Fernández-Savater talks with Guiomar Rovira, author of Networked Activism and Connected Multitudes, about punk, Zapatismo, technology, communication, and activist appropriation of the internet.
Guiomar Rovira and Amador Fernández Savater · 588 views · 3.5 stars
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 · 5,379 views · 4.5 stars
As the march towards Brexit rekindles arguments over British nationalism and the strength and merits of the union between England and Scotland, the mass of conflicted feelings over the British Empire is naturally bubbling to the surface again.
Ibtisam Ahmed · 4,015 views · unrated
Only a global confederation of rebel cities can lead us out of the death-spiral of neoliberalism towards a new rational society that delivers on the promise of humankind.
Debbie Bookchin · 7,888 views · 5 stars
The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is a one-man wrecking crew aimed at democratic norms...
Chris Hedges · 21,283 views · 5 stars
Tens of thousands descend on Hamburg, challenging policies put forth by Trump-type nationalists and Europe's neoliberals elites
Jessica Corbett · 8,913 views · unrated
Metamodern mindfulness offers a new way of thinking about the ideological conflicts of the past.
Gregory Leffel · 702 views · unrated
If we want a future worthy of the name we need a different form of revolution.
Gregory Leffel · 1,216 views · unrated
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 · 1,450 views · 4 stars
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking...
John Pilger · 21,582 views · 3.7 stars
Stein’s Green Party run doesn’t offer a plan to win, or to build power. The Left is capable of so much more.
Kate Aronoff · 4,357 views · 4.8 stars
Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?
Anis Shivani · 66,410 views · 4.5 stars
Inequality represents simultaneously a cornerstone and a weak link in today's capitalism. The idea that wealth creation for the few benefits the many is a core myth of the system. But the expanding inequality divide shreds this theory. In practical terms, the super-rich buy...
Steve Rushton · 5,670 views · unrated
It is nearly certain that we will endure, sooner rather than later, another catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil. The blundering of our military into the Middle East; the failed states that have risen out of the mismanagement and chaos of Iraq and Afghanistan...
Chris Hedges · 1,982 views · 5 stars
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
560 min · 200,534 views · 4.8 stars