Video Series

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  No More Presidents: Protesting the Trump Inauguration

  January 26, 2017 / By Country, Featured, United States, video series

  The inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States has unleashed a wave of anger across the country. Faced with the frightening prospect of an authoritarian right wing government, many people have chosen to take their opposition to the streets. In the days surrounding Trump’s inauguration, Washington DC became the scene of continuous disruptions and resistance. On the day after the inauguration, one of the largest international mobilization in recent history took place with an estimated 4.8 million […]

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  Saving Midtown: San Francisco Renters on Strike

  February 24, 2016 / Articles, By Country, United States, video series

  This is the story of the Midtown rent strike, the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978.

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  Super Bowl Protest For Mario Woods

  January 31, 2016 / By Country, Featured, United States, video series

  On January 30, 2016, hundreds of people marched to the grand opening of Super Bowl City in San Francisco, CA to protest the police killing of Mario Woods.

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  Reclaim MLK March 2016: Oakland, California

  January 20, 2016 / By Country, Featured, United States, video series

  On January 18th, 2016 thousands of people marched from Oakland to Emeryville as part of the second annual Reclaim Martin Luther King Jr March.

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  Reclaim MLK: Oakland International Airport, January 16, 2016

  January 18, 2016 / By Country, Featured, United States, video series

  On January 16, 2016, demonstrators in California protested at the Oakland International Airport to draw attention to police murders in the Bay Area. The protest was part of a weekend of direct actions organized around the Reclaim MLK weekend.

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  Belgium on Strike: December 15, 2014

  December 19, 2014 / Belgium, By Country, Featured, video series

  On December 15, 2014, a 24-hour general strike brought Belgium to a standstill as trade unions shutdown airports, trains, ports, highways, shops, factories, schools and government offices. The strike was the first general strike in Belgium since 1993 and was part of wave of actions against the latest austerity polices of the centre-right government, headed by Prime Minister Charles Michel, who took office in October.

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Interviews

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  Global Uprisings Conference Interview # 3: More Business As Usual with Paul Mattick

  February 25, 2014 / Interviews

  The following interview was conducted in December 2013 at Paul Mattick Jr’s home in Brooklyn, NY. Paul Mattick Jr. (born 1944) is a Marxist theorist and philosopher.  This is the third in a series of interviews conducted with participants from the Global Uprisings conference, that occurred during the weekend of November 15-17th, 2013.  The transcript of this interview was done by Nick Terpolilli and edited by Jerome Roos.   Brandon Jourdan (Global Uprisings): So looking now at this period of time since we […]

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  Global Uprisings Conference Interview #2: Paul Mason on Economics and Revolt

  February 4, 2014 / Featured, Interviews

  Paul Mason is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the current Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News, having previously been economics editor of BBC2′s Newsnight. He is the author of several acclaimed books including Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global, and Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton. The following […]

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  Global Uprisings Conference Interview #1: Fighting Sexual Assault in Egypt

  January 27, 2014 / By Country, Egypt, Interviews

  Mariam Kirollos is an Egyptian feminist activist and a human rights defender based in Cairo. Mariam is one of the founding members of Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault (OpAntiSH), a group that is combatting the growing problem of sexual harassment and collective sexual assaults/rapes against women during protests. The group patrols the streets during protests and fights off men as they attempt to encircle and assault women. The group also provides legal and medical support and follow-up care to girls and women […]

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  David Harvey in Athens

  June 15, 2012 / Interviews

  David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His work has contributed greatly to broad social and political debate; most recently he has been credited with restoring social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism. He is a leading proponent of the idea of the right to the city, as well as a member of the Interim Committee for […]

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  Paul Mattick: The Decline in the Rate of Profit

  June 15, 2011 / Interviews

  This is an exert from an interview with Marxist theorist and philosopher Paul Mattick Jr. He is author of several books and journal articles. His recents works include Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism, an excellent short read on the economic crisis. He is the son of council communist theoreticians Paul Mattick Sr. (1904-1981) and Ilse Mattick (1919-2009).

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  Paul Mattick: Keynesian Economics

  June 15, 2011 / Interviews

  This is an exert from an interview with Marxist theorist and philosopher Paul Mattick Jr. He is author of several books and journal articles. His recents works include Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism, an excellent short read on the economic crisis. He is the son of council communist theoreticians Paul Mattick Sr. (1904-1981) and Ilse Mattick (1919-2009).

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