In the warehouses organized by base unions SICobas and ADL Cobas 90% of the workers don't go to work anymore.

National strike against austerity measures

IKEA dismisses 24workers in Piacenza/Italy because they went on strike

The Solidarity Clinic in Thessaloniki

Vio.Me Self-organisation in Greece

Film about the situation at the vio.me factory near Thessaloniki three weeks before the resumption of production under workers control.

Film about the strike wave in Greece in late 2011.

May 2012 - In Québec, Canada, a broad anti-capitalist movement developed around the issue of university fees.

Steel workers' strike at Halyvougoria Ellados in Greece.

Video on the general strike in Lisbon in November 2012

Short documentary film on the 24-hour general strike in Spain on March 29, 2012.

Spanish miners stage an unlimited strike: short video on their struggle against the reduction of coal subsidies.

Presentation given by Beverly Silver at the conference "Transformation within and beyond capitalism", organized by Rosa Luxemburg-Foundation in Berlin on October 13, 2011.

A Trader stunns the BBC. He says, it is not governments, but Goldman Sachs whoi rule the world, and that economic collapse is coming up.

Giovanni, Antonio and Marco have been laid off by FIAT and are now on a tour to visit several FIAT plants in the south of Italy. They lost their jobs after going on strike against a rise in the pace of work, which had been unbearable even before the protest.

Road movie on the crisis - On a trip through six German cities in Spring 2009, nine people describe their perspectives on the economic crisis.

In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane.

(Crash Vertrauen Teer) An essay film about the crisis in Germany.

April 2009 - At the end of March Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge (commercial vehicles) wanted to sack 213 temporary agency workers. They had organized themselves while taking part in a job training program. On March 19 about 200 temporary agency workers visited a meeting of the works council (Betriebsrat), because the metal workers union IG Metall had announced that there was nothing it could do for the extension of their job contracts.

Interview with Robert Kurz - The crisis process of globalization provokes several reactions that follow crude patterns. In most cases they indulge in nostalgia for national states in their comfortable Fordist prosperity, or - complementary to that - they rave against the "locusts", often with an antisemitic subtext. A return to normal, that is back to the national state, and a respectable accumulation in a hegded zoo without the locusts is not possible any more. Robert Kurz explains why.

In "Das Weltkapital" the term globalization is strictly separated from that of the world system. In Kurz's new publication globalization appears as an ecompassing process of crisis induced by the micro-electronic revolution. For a detailed account see this second part of the interview.

Robert Kurz explains in his book taht capitalism as such is already designed as a world system. The author explains in this video-clip how this can be understood and how this fact can coexist with statehood as the other pole of capitalist socialization.

People with money they can invest, invest it where they get maximum profit. Therefore, all companies are in a race for the highest profits. In the course of this race they rationalize: wages are lowered, the work gets intensified, people are sacked etc. Those who appropriate the profits get more and more money that way, while the others - including the public budgets - have less and less at hand.