Top Video Courses

• WHEN COMMUNISM WAS MADE ILLEGAL. History of the HUAC from its inception in 1938, through the Hollywood investigations of 1948, to the 1960 San Francisco City hall police water hosing of protestors. 45 minutes.
• TREASON TRILOGY: Casino capitalism, a futile 'war on terror,' and ecological doom. THREE FILMS, each just under an hour, on three megaproblems on our collective plate. Great for study groups.
• THREE RECONSTRUCTIONS. Rev William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP speaks to the Steelworkers convention, laying out the 'fusion strategy' of the Moral Monday movement. One hour, powerful and inspiring.

• Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama, two hours with Tim Wise and his audience. Excellent for understanding privilege and the intersection of race and class. Listen to it in sections for study qroups, or all at once.

• DEMOCRACY, NATURAL RIGHTS & 21ST CENTURY SOCIALISM. A 20 minute video talk by Carl Davidson at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Good discussion starter.
• THE DOG WHISTLE OF RACIAL POLITICS. A 20 minute discussion starter with Bill Moyers and Ian Haney Lopez on how the rightwing political class uses race to manipulate elections.
• THE WORKING UNDERCLASS. A short video, 26 minutes, that exposes the nature of work and low wages in de-industrialized New Jersey, but typical across the U.S. Excellent as a discussion starter for campaigns around the minimum wage and/or a deeper look at capitalism today.
• SELLING CIGARETTES, BACON AND EGGS,AND WARS:  Edward Bernays: Part 1 and Part 2, Cigarettes and Sufferettes, and the Selling of Wars. The nephew of Freud, Bernays invented public relations as a tool for capitalism, not only to sell its goods, but also its wars and other policies. The key the all other media studies. Less than 20 minutes. Great discussion starter on how hegemony is manufactured. Download his classic book, 'Propaganda,' HERE
• Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change.In a 30 minute video with Bill Moyers, Klein, author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, says the tragic destruction of Hurricane Sandy can also be the catalyst for the transformation of politics and our economy. Good discussion group starter.
• Ollie Stone's 'Untold History' All 10 parts of Stone's series on birth of the American Empire. Chapter 1: World War II Chapter 2: Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace Chapter 3: The Bomb Chapter 4: The Cold War: 1945–1950 Chapter 5: The 50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World. Chapter 6: JFK: To the Brink Chapter 7: Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune Chapter 8: Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Revival of Fortune Chapter 9: Bush & Clinton: Squandered Peace - New World Order Chapter 10: Bush & Obama: Age of Terror
• Discussion Starter:  Automated Green Energy Production.  This seven-minute video hightlighting Conergy, a fully automated factory producing solar cells in Germany, should open a variety of topics--the new working class, the labor theory of value, the falling rate of profit, the ability to shift to a solar-powered world, and much more.
• Carl Davidson at Berlin's Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on Mondragon's Impact
• Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2 with David Harvey: 4 90-min videos so far...
• Marxian Economics with Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick.