FILMS FOR ACTION
Library
Quality
Sort
View
1-100 of 1,706
Why Every Single Billionaire Is Evil 35 min
Why Every Single Billionaire Is Evil
Billionaires can't exist without exploitation, so here's why that makes ALL billionaires are inherently evil... along with plenty of other things.
Ben Durham
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money 2 min
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (trailer)
In Everyone Is Lying to You for Money, actor and author Ben McKenzie turns investigator, pulling back the curtain on the cryptocurrency industry and the culture of hype, misinformation, and speculation that fueled its explosive rise. What began as a promise of financial...
Ben McKenzie
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Tl;dr: For historical and cultural reasons, the Commons has remained largely overlooked or misunderstood. But today, it’s more important than ever to restore it as a vital third mode of provisioning—one that complements and moderates both markets and governments.
Michel Rauchs
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
Tl;dr: We are facing an overlapping set of crises that our dominant institutions seem unable to address. While many have withdrawn in disillusionment, their latent desire for change can be redirected toward the Commons: a real, actionable alternative grounded in...
Michel Rauchs
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
"Socialism" has been used to describe everything from Soviet gulags to universal healthcare. The word was always vague. That's what made it so easy to weaponize, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph
The Iran War Changes Everything: The World Will Never Be the Same 40 min
The Iran War Changes Everything: The World Will Never Be the Same
The US-Israeli war on Iran is transforming the geopolitical order, and could even unleash a global economic crisis. The conflict has caused the largest oil shock in history, disrupting markets and driving up fuel and food prices.
Geopolitical Economy Report
The Secret Reason You Can’t Buy a House 15 min
The Secret Reason You Can’t Buy a House
There’s a monopoly on home construction screwing over America. The biggest builders work with Wall St. to maximize profits, at the expense of everyone who wants to own a home. One family told us that the black mold in their poorly built home made their daughter cry blood.
More Perfect Union
How Trump Destroyed The World Economy for Israel’s Iran War 10 min
How Trump Destroyed The World Economy for Israel’s Iran War
Double Down News examines how Israel's escalating military actions are destabilizing the global economy — and how U.S. foreign policy under Trump has enabled it. From the extreme factions driving American policy to the infrastructure attacks sending oil prices soaring, the...
Double Down News
Labor’s Answer to A.I.? Give Us Our Time Back
Labor’s Answer to A.I.? Give Us Our Time Back
A four-day, 32-hour workweek with full pay and benefits should be at the center of this offensive agenda. The demand for shorter work time shows how the gains from technology can flow outward, not just upward. If A.I.’s promise is that it’s going to “save us time,” then it...
Vishal Reddy
We Went on Rent Strike and Won
We Went on Rent Strike and Won
My fellow tenants and I were able to win rent relief and repairs in our building. Maybe you can, too.
Cynthia Barlow
Working People Are Leaving MAGA, but Where Will They Go?
Working People Are Leaving MAGA, but Where Will They Go?
Working class voters need a home, but the Democratic Party refuses to build them one.
Les Leopold
Big Blow to US Dollar: Iran Says Oil Must Be Sold in Chinese Yuan, as It Targets US Corporations 46 min
Big Blow to US Dollar: Iran Says Oil Must Be Sold in Chinese Yuan, as It Targets US Corporations
In response to the US-Israeli war, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil chokepoint on Earth, causing energy prices to skyrocket. However, Tehran is allowing Chinese tankers through, and says other ships can pass if they agree to sell oil in China's...
Geopolitical Economy Report
How We Put an End to Human Sacrifice 22 min
How We Put an End to Human Sacrifice
The US and Israeli political / military alliance is controlled by 3 cults. It's imperative we understand their coordination strategy, and their end game -- so we can defeat their self-destructive ideology.
Matthew Cooke
Punch Up: On Division, Solidarity, and Who We Fight 4 min
Punch Up: On Division, Solidarity, and Who We Fight
Throughout history, those in power have relied on a familiar tactic: divide people against one another and often against their own best interests so they don’t look upward. Whether along lines of race, class, gender, immigration status, sexuality, ability, identity, or...
CRITICAL ACTION
The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America's Cycle of Violence
The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America's Cycle of Violence
​Why did the United States help topple a democratic government in Iran some 70 years ago—and how did that decision create the conditions we’re seeing today?
Sarah Van Gelder
Slumlord Millionaire 84 min
Slumlord Millionaire (2025)
Rents have gone up an average of 30% in the past five years in the United States – as of April 2024, the average rent in Manhattan was almost $5,000 a month. Some landlords are eager to get rid of long-term tenants and use various tactics including cutting off heat and gas...
PBS
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
Rasmus Hästbacka
Iran War Will WRECK World Economy, Says Qatar 15 min
Iran War Will WRECK World Economy, Says Qatar
The video discusses the potential global economic impact of a war between the US/Israel and Iran, as warned by Qatar's energy minister. The conflict's impact is already visible in oil and gas markets, with the Strait of Hormuz being a critical choke point for global oil and...
Novara Media
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
With democratic control over our productive capacities we can stop climate breakdown in short order. We can overcome the capitalist law of value, and organize production around social and ecological objectives.
Jason Hickel
Flushing the Toilet of the “Left” for a Better Future 56 min
Flushing the Toilet of the “Left” for a Better Future
As inequality gets worse and worse, hostility for elites is at all time highs, and huge majorities of voters want higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy to pay for social programs. All the conditions are perfect for the left to be overwhelmingly dominant as a social and electoral...
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film 96 min
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film (2026)
Purpose asks the central question of our time: What is the purpose of our economies — and how can we change them? Director Martin Oetting follows two visionaries, Katherine Trebeck (founder of the Wellbeing Economy Governments alliance) and Lorenzo Fioramonti (who rises from...
Martin Oetting
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.
Jason Hickel
Shopping Isn’t a Strategy. Here's How to Make Boycotts Effective.
Shopping Isn’t a Strategy. Here's How to Make Boycotts Effective.
With millions of Americans’ resistance still limited to consumer choices plus attending an occasional protest, we’re leaving a lot of potential people power on the table. If even a fraction of these individuals became active participants in campaigns and organizations, our...
Eric Blanc
Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State
Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State
Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.
Nick French
China, The U.S. & The Rise of Xi Jinping 114 min
China, The U.S. & The Rise of Xi Jinping (2024)
Offering a comprehensive look at Xi’s vision for China and the broader implications — from his crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang to his provocative ambitions for Taiwan — “China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping” also probes the state of China’s economy and its trade war with...
Martin Smith
Endless Growth Serves the Powerful, Not the Global Poor.
Endless Growth Serves the Powerful, Not the Global Poor.
A common objection to calls for demand reduction and degrowth comes from defenders of the status quo:
Tim Hjersted
Why Degrowth Eco-Socialism?
Why Degrowth Eco-Socialism?
The case for a better future
TheLastFarm
Private Equity's Ruthless Takeover of Public Power for Data Centers 17 min
Private Equity's Ruthless Takeover of Public Power for Data Centers
Private equity giant Blackstone is trying to buy New Mexico’s largest utility provider.
More Perfect Union
Why Every City Needs a Public Bank
Why Every City Needs a Public Bank
“We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank that puts our money to work for our people.”— Zohran Mamdani, Victory Speech, Nov. 4, 2025
Ellen Brown
We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate – Here Are the First Three Steps
We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate – Here Are the First Three Steps
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratize our economy and a better world is within our grasp.
Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
The Epstein Island 5 min
The Epstein Island
The Epstein files - and the coverup - reveal all we need to know.
Matthew Cooke
We Uncovered the Scheme Keeping Grocery Prices High 12 min
We Uncovered the Scheme Keeping Grocery Prices High
Walmart found a creative, illegal way to make sure they have the lowest prices.
More Perfect Union
The Tech Billionaire to Fascist Pipeline 94 min
The Tech Billionaire to Fascist Pipeline
A treatise and video essay on tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg and others Silicon Valley Tech guys.
Alexander Avila
We Found the Radical Solution to Skyrocketing Grocery Prices 16 min
We Found the Radical Solution to Skyrocketing Grocery Prices
Zohran's plan for city-run grocery stores has drawn intense pushback from critics.
More Perfect Union
The Money Cult of American Christianity 38 min
The Money Cult of American Christianity
Michae Burns explores how American Christianity, particularly in its dominant evangelical form, has become deeply intertwined with capitalism, creating a "money cult" where economic success is seen as a sign of God's blessing. He argues that this fusion prioritizes the...
Michael Burns
The Two Reflexes That Are Breaking the Left
The Two Reflexes That Are Breaking the Left
Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
Mehran Khalili
Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?
Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?
As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.
Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath
Socialism for Conservatives, Free Markets for Socialists and the Tyranny of Property Rights 29 min
Socialism for Conservatives, Free Markets for Socialists and the Tyranny of Property Rights
Today, free markets are championed as the foundation of capitalism, while socialists argue that free markets cause growing inequality and exploitation of the working classes, and thus need to be constrained by the state, or else abolished entirely.
WHAT IS POLITICS?
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab
Strike, Strike, Strike
Strike, Strike, Strike
The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.
Chris Hedges
Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny
Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny
The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter
How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny: A Multi-Part Guide to Social Strikes 53 min
How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny: A Multi-Part Guide to Social Strikes (2026)
From South Korea to Serbia to the Philippines, people power uprisings have toppled authoritarian regimes — armed with nothing but conviction and solidarity.
OfficialZNet
Revolution Now! w/ Peter Joseph | Ep. 58 Integral & the Mirage of “Marxism” 118 min
Revolution Now! w/ Peter Joseph | Ep. 58 Integral & the Mirage of “Marxism”
In this episode, Peter Joseph addresses the release of the Integral White Paper, as the core focus, and critiques the pervasive vagueness of alternative economic discourse, arguing that terms like socialism, communism, and Marxism function as empty abstractions that obscure...
Revolution Now!
60,000 Trump Voters Just Elected a Socialist. We Asked Them Why. 14 min
60,000 Trump Voters Just Elected a Socialist. We Asked Them Why.
A full 10% of NYC Trump voters turned around and voted for Zohran Mamdani. So we went to talk to them. These voters are done with the status quo. One New Yorker told us: "As Americans, we can realize it's not Republican versus Democrat. It's more of like a class war."-----
More Perfect Union
Nobody Wants to Be Working Class 20 min
Nobody Wants to Be Working Class
Once, unions shook nations and promised a better future for working people. Some even sought radical social transformation. But today, their once booming voice has felt more like a whisper. Their mass mobilisation has retreated into passive bureaucracies. All while their...
Andrewism
‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires
‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires
"Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.
Jake Johnson
How to Prevent Future Trumps 4 min
How to Prevent Future Trumps
If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can see.
Robert Reich
At the Root of All Our Problems Stands One Travesty: Politicians’ Surrender to the Super-rich
At the Root of All Our Problems Stands One Travesty: Politicians’ Surrender to the Super-rich
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to.
George Monbiot
Organize! Yes, but How?
Organize! Yes, but How?
Most people agree we need to organize — but few talk concretely about how. This guide draws on a century of Swedish labor organizing to offer a practical framework for building real collective power at work.
Rasmus Hästbacka
Exposed: This Is Why Trump's Venezuela Plan Will FAIL - and Blow Back on the US 57 min
Exposed: This Is Why Trump's Venezuela Plan Will FAIL - and Blow Back on the US
Donald Trump claims he will "run" Venezuela, after he bombed it and abducted President Nicolás Maduro. However, his plan makes no sense -- and will likely blow back on the USA. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez is still independent, and not cutting off China. US sanctions...
Geopolitical Economy Report
MLK: Road to Revolution and the Promised Land 17 min
MLK: Road to Revolution and the Promised Land
Most Americans are taught a sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man with a dream. The peaceful marcher. The national holiday.
Taken for Granted
The CIA Coup That Broke Latin America 39 min
The CIA Coup That Broke Latin America
This is the story of how an exotic berry in Jamaica built a multinational empire: the United Fruit Company, El Pulpo, The Octopus, a corporation so powerful it could make and break nations.
Cogito
The Tyson Situation in Nebraska Just Got Worse 12 min
The Tyson Situation in Nebraska Just Got Worse
Tyson is about to fire 50% of Lexington, Nebraska's workforce in one of the largest plant closures in decades.
More Perfect Union
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.
James Dennis Hoff
Trump Says USA Will 'Run' Venezuela and Take Its Oil 37 min
Trump Says USA Will 'Run' Venezuela and Take Its Oil
After the US military bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump said "we're going to run the country", potentially for years. "We're in the oil business", he added, boasting that US corporations will exploit Latin America's natural resources. Ben...
Geopolitical Economy Report
Why Working-Class Consciousness Is the Real Threat to Elite Power | Paul Jay 40 min
Why Working-Class Consciousness Is the Real Threat to Elite Power | Paul Jay
Paul Jay and host Barry Stevens analyze rising progressive movements, from Mamdani's victory in New York City to Sanders and AOC drawing massive crowds in red states, and why working-class consciousness has always been the real threat to American elites. They discuss why...
theAnalysis-news
Reagan: The Man Who Sold the World 32 min
Reagan: The Man Who Sold the World (2025)
Ronald Reagan is remembered as the "Great Communicator," the man who brought optimism back to America. But behind the smile was a ruthless counter-revolution.
Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse
Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse
Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious.
Michelle Ellner
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism 76 min
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political and economic philosophy of our time. Yet despite capturing both major parties and shaping...
Peter Hutchison
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties, especially the one they think will be more responsive to their opposition.
Tim Hjersted
We're Making 'Tax the Rich' More Than a Slogan
We're Making 'Tax the Rich' More Than a Slogan
Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine.
Max Page
Why the Future Is Post-Growth | Donnie Maclurcan on Life Beyond Capitalism 80 min
Why the Future Is Post-Growth | Donnie Maclurcan on Life Beyond Capitalism
My guest today is Donnie Maclurcan, founder of the Post Growth Institute and a thinker who played a major role in my own journey. In this episode, Donnie breaks down why money accumulation under capitalism necessarily produces rising debt and inequality, leading to human...
Michael Mezzatesta
The Capitalist Mindset 11 min
The Capitalist Mindset
I’m Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit.In this essay, I explore a question I’ve been thinking about for years: Why does everything in our economy seem to demand endless growth?
The Market Exit
We Found a Solution to America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect. 19 min
We Found a Solution to America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect.
Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
More Perfect Union
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever! 30 min
How to Make Housing Affordable for Everyone, Now and Forever!
In this video we outline:
WHAT IS POLITICS?
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
Norman Solomon
People Aren’t Being “Replaced” — They’re Being Distracted From Who Actually Robbed Them
People Aren’t Being “Replaced” — They’re Being Distracted From Who Actually Robbed Them
“Invasion” and “replacement” narratives function as cover stories for the corporate plunder of the working class, turning justified anger away from elites and toward scapegoats.
Tim Hjersted
UNREDACTED: Debunking Every Pro-Capitalism Argument! 27 min
UNREDACTED: Debunking Every Pro-Capitalism Argument!
In this special episode of Unredacted Tonight, Lee Camp takes on capitalism, market economics, and the myths of the “free market” using comedy, data, and real-world examples. From “capitalism creates wealth” to “free markets allocate resources efficiently” and “the poor are...
Lee Camp - Unredacted Tonight
What Is Libertarian Socialism?
What Is Libertarian Socialism?
Libertarian socialism is a political tradition that argues real freedom requires both personal liberty and democratic control over the economic institutions that shape our lives.
Tim Hjersted
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
Reason Magazine presents itself as a courageous outsider “pushing back against socialism,” but its real and consistent function is far more familiar: it operates as an ideological shield for concentrated private power while marketing itself as anti-authoritarian.
Tim Hjersted
This Is the US Empire's New Strategy for Global Dominance 70 min
This Is the US Empire's New Strategy for Global Dominance
The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire's new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring...
Geopolitical Economy Report
What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
Steve Rose's framing of Scott Galloway as a kind of enlightened guide to “the crisis of men” is a useful illustration of how contemporary media systems manage dissent.
Tim Hjersted
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step outside the self-help narrative and confront the system that created these conditions in the...
Tim Hjersted
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Critics say a public grocery program would limit consumer freedom, but unlike corporate monopolies, it expands it by adding competition, giving shoppers another choice and pushing private retailers to keep prices in check.
Tim Hjersted
American Decline in the Fossil Fuel Age
American Decline in the Fossil Fuel Age
By the time Donald Trump leaves office in 2029, this country will be distinctly on the imperial decline. By discouraging alternative energy and encouraging fossil fuels, President Trump is undercutting America’s economic competitiveness in the most fundamental way imaginable.
Alfred W. Mccoy
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
In this article, Peter Joseph presents Integral—a cooperative economy designed to replace both markets and top-down state control with an architecture of open design, time-based reciprocity, and democratic coordination, starting with small mutual-aid projects at the...
Peter Joseph
Why Trump Tried Tariffs: The Turn to Nationalist Capitalism
Why Trump Tried Tariffs: The Turn to Nationalist Capitalism
Trump's trade policies are an admission of capitalism's failures. Perhaps finally enough people have learned the lessons of the past so that we can build an economy that works for working people.
Richard Wolff
AI Bubble Madness: Why Nvidia's Market Cap Fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY 29 min
AI Bubble Madness: Why Nvidia's Market Cap Fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
The US economy depends on an unsustainable stock market bubble driven by AI companies that are almost all losing money. Nvidia seems healthier, but serious red flags explain why its stock price is extremely volatile, and why its market capitalization dropped $600 billion in...
Geopolitical Economy Report
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Released from jail on this day 130 years ago, the great socialist and labor leader delivered a speech we would do well to remember in these perilous times.
Jeffrey C. Isaac
The 86 House Democrats Who Condemned Socialism Weren’t Defending Democracy—They Were Defending Concentrated Private Power
The 86 House Democrats Who Condemned Socialism Weren’t Defending Democracy—They Were Defending Concentrated Private Power
When 86 House Democrats—including party leader Hakeem Jeffries—join Republicans to “condemn the horrors of socialism,” you don’t need a political science degree to understand what’s happening.
Tim Hjersted
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
Fascism is not merely a set of authoritarian habits or unpleasant attitudes. It is a political arrangement designed to centralize power: the fusion of state authority with corporate interests; the suppression of dissent; the mobilization of nationalist mythology to bind the...
Tim Hjersted
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks down his suggestions into actionable steps.
Tim Hjersted
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
Chris Hedges
"Socialism Has Never Worked" | Matthew Cooke 6 min
"Socialism Has Never Worked" | Matthew Cooke
I mean do we want to live in a society or nah: anti-social is the way to go?
Matthew Cooke
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.
Richard Eskow
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know...
Films For Action
Trump Just Lost the Trade War With China - Which He Started! 40 min
Trump Just Lost the Trade War With China - Which He Started!
Donald Trump is losing the trade war on China, which he started. The agreement he made at the meeting with President Xi Jinping shows how the US is much more dependent on the Chinese economy than vice versa. Political economist Ben Norton explains how Trump's tariffs have...
Geopolitical Economy Report
We Investigated Hundreds of Trump Donors: What We Found Will Shock You 12 min
We Investigated Hundreds of Trump Donors: What We Found Will Shock You
Trump used to say that Big Tech is a horrible thing for our country.
More Perfect Union
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell 88 min
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
Monopolistic business practices have been illegal in the United States for more than a century. Yet, monopoly power continues to accelerate in our modern commercial landscape. Large, powerful corporations edge out smaller businesses, often citing scale, “efficiency”, and...
Nate Hagens
Warning: Largest Bubble Ever Seen Threatens US Economy 34 min
Warning: Largest Bubble Ever Seen Threatens US Economy
The US economy depends more and more on enormous bubbles in the stock market and AI. The richest 10% of Americans drive half of all spending, while the real economy in many states is in recession. When the bubble pops, it could cause a severe crisis. Political economist Ben...
Geopolitical Economy Report
Start Building the World You Want to Live in After Trump's Dark Age
Start Building the World You Want to Live in After Trump's Dark Age
As Trump demolishes the old and drives America toward a darker future, the Democrats’ instinct has been to grieve, resist, and dream of restoration. But restoration may be the wrong goal.
Richard Sclove
The Great Transition, 2025-2050 24 min
The Great Transition, 2025-2050
Part 1 of this 2 part short film explores one of humanity’s greatest challenges — the energy transition — and the bold choices that will define our future. The next 25 years will decide who leads and who is left behind.
DNV - Energy Systems
From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich 7 min
From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
We’re now in the Second Gilded Age. As in the first, America’s wealth is in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption exists alongside homelessness and hunger, monopolies crush competition, money corrupts politics, and working people are abused and exploited.
Robert Reich
The Real Reason Why Trump Is Bailing Out Argentina With $20 Billion 16 min
The Real Reason Why Trump Is Bailing Out Argentina With $20 Billion
The Donald Trump administration plans to use $20 billion of US government money to bail out Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei. Ben Norton explains the scandal, involving election meddling, anti-worker austerity, economic crisis, corrupt corporate payouts, and, of...
Geopolitical Economy Report
How the US Loots the Congo’s Minerals | BreakThrough News 16 min
How the US Loots the Congo’s Minerals | BreakThrough News
Kambale Musavuli of the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa explains how eastern Congo is facing a “de facto annexation” by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, with U.S.-backed forces driving a war that has already killed millions in the scramble for the country’s vast mineral...
BreakThrough News
AI Fight: the Working Class Is at a Crossroads W/ Prof. Wolff 10 min
AI Fight: the Working Class Is at a Crossroads W/ Prof. Wolff
The CEO of Walmart — one of the largest employers in the U.S. — has joined the chorus of business leaders warning that AI will “change literally every job.” Already, artificial intelligence has upended the entry-level job market, led to thousands of layoffs, and threatens to...
BreakThrough News
How To Boycott An Invasion | Matthew Cooke 4 min
How To Boycott An Invasion | Matthew Cooke
Is Your City Getting Invaded? Boycott! Divest! Sanction! Boycotting these companies may take a few hours. Time well spent. We cannot afford to continue to fund them.
Matthew Cooke
America's Forgotten Socialist History 18 min
America's Forgotten Socialist History
From our very earliest education Americans are told that the US has never been and will never be a socialist country. While it's true that the US has never been governed by a socialist party, it's impossible to look at US history and say we've never had strong socialist...
Second Thought
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders 13 min
AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders
The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by multi-billionaires will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits.What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?
Senator Bernie Sanders
USA vs China: Which Represents Humanity's Future? Compare Their UN Speeches 44 min
USA vs China: Which Represents Humanity's Future? Compare Their UN Speeches
The US and China are the world's two most powerful countries, but they have very different visions for the global order. Compare the speeches delivered at the UN General Assembly by Donald Trump and Chinese Premier Li Qiang. The United States wants a unipolar system based on...
Geopolitical Economy Report
Share this: