Municipalization: Community Ownership of the Economy (Murray Bookchin)
Murray Bookchin’s Libertarian Municipalism is an attempt to bring up to date the historical legacy of those directly democratic organs of self-management that were thrown up in times of struggle by the working class. It suggests the potential of moving |
Punk Economics
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Everything you asked about economics and nobody wants to tell you never ever. Mind them, is for the sake of your own happiness…
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The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
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Taking a long view of the current economic crisis, eminent academic David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and why it resulted in the current financial crisis. For three centuries, the capitalist system has shaped western society, … |
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
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Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version … |
Documentary: Children of the Riots
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By Christos Georgiou When Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot dead on December 6, 2008, the idea that a 15-year-old boy could die on a seemingly safe pedestrian street in the middle of Athens on a Saturday night, as he and his … |
Documentary: Debtocracy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7mVhLwRP0 For the first time in Greece, a documentary produced by the audience. “Debtocracy” seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions sidelined by the government and the dominant media. The documentary is distributed online under creative commons … |
Documentary: The right to the city (aformi.gr)
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http://vimeo.com/14895896 The documentary is produced by grassroots movements, discussing squating practices in Athens, particularly since the December 2008 events; cases of squated houses, social centers and squated parks are discussed.… |
Radio documentary: File on 4 – Cash from the Crisis (BBC)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b016817r How investors are profiting from the eurozone crisis. Can money be made from disaster?… |
Documentary: Memoria del saqueo (Social Genocide)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6_i8zuffs After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world’s most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally … |
