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  1. After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
  2. A Paradise Built in Hell
    The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
  3. Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
  4. People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics.
  5. Social geography of a night of plunder
    ‘Up for it to cause havoc’ on the streets of London

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In London last month every local uprising, or as a notice in a closed Clapham pub read, ‘social unrest’, had different origins and manifestations. And very few of them were riots.
  6. Stealing History
    Tomb Raiders,Smugglers,and the Looting of the Ancient World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004


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