An angry person's guide to finance - Jack Copley
A layperson's guide to the complex and frustrating financial world - from a Marxist perspective.
Class composition and US direct investments abroad - Ferruccio Gambino
Article originally written for Zerowork 3 in December 1974 about class composition and American investments abroad.
Worker sabotage in a financial services call centre
An inspiring first person account of employee sabotage in a pensions call centre, where workers helped customers recoup forgotten pension benefits at the cost of the company in response to bullying management.
Spanish banks occupied
Submitted by working class s... on Jul 11 2013 13:53
Hundreds of activists from the Platform for Mortgage Victims (PAH) have occupied a branch of the Banco Popular Bank, and the BBVA bank, both in Barcelona.
Autonomisation, financialisation, neoliberalism
Submitted by Alasdair on Jan 7 2013 21:34
An overview of the way in which with increasing autonomisation of finance capital, models come to shape the real economy and influence its restructuring.
Debt: the first 5000 years - David Graeber
David Graeber maps out the history of debt from ancient civilisations to current times, suggesting it has been one of the great catalysts for social and political strife throughout.
Credit crunched – working in financial services during the 2008-2009 crash
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 23 2012 23:42
This article comes from a comrade who is a member of the Solidarity Federation in the UK. He describes the article as “An account of working for a credit company during the financial crisis, as well as workers’ attempts to resist speed-ups and workload increases.”
The Corporation (Documentary)
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 23 2012 23:16
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.
Enron: The smartest guys in the room (documentary)
Submitted by working class s... on Jan 15 2012 09:56
A remarkable documentary which packages the events of the scandal into a cohesive story.
Unbelievable footage of employees reveals unbridled greed, lust for risk-taking, and guiltless cheating, all while thinking they could never be caught.
Stupid regulators and greedy financiers or business as usual? - Chris Wright
As the occupy movement in the US this week shifts its attention from the shiny crystallisations of high finance to the hubs of material circulation, Chris Wright reviews Paul Mattick Jr.'s book, Business as Usual, and asks: what is missed by shouting down only one aspect of capitalism?
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