The financial industry, in contrast to the mythology it loves to peddle, does not create wealth — it confiscates wealth, attempting to profit off every aspect of human activity

Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today, a catastrophic rise in sea levels of…

The insatiable greed of financiers has reached the point where large corporations are now spending almost all profits on stock buybacks and dividends

The world has to drastically reduce its consumption. As this is an impossibility under capitalism, another world is not only possible, it is necessary

Once we realize we don’t need capitalists to make decisions for us, and learn to organize collective self-defense, getting rid of bosses and running enterprises ourselves enters our imagination

“Free trade” agreements are nothing more than initiatives to cement corporate control over all aspects of society

The only route for capitalists is to reduce wages and benefits. The only route for the 99 percent is an entirely different world

So disastrous has austerity been for Jamaica that its per capita gross domestic product is lower than it was 20 years ago

A year’s worth of gross world product is traded in about two weeks on the world’s stock, bond, derivative, futures and foreign-exchange markets

The struggle to save the United States Postal Service is emblematic of the larger struggle against corporate plundering of public resources