The Plan to Save the World: Poor and Working Class People Look the IMF in the Eye (and Don't Blink)

This is the first episode of the audiofeed for The Demos, a series about an anarchist's strategy for how to end finance capitalism, replace it with real democracies, from the bottom up and then from the top, down. In my thinking, all of the many goals binding activist groups everywhere depend ultimately on how the institutions and policies at the heart of international relations are structured to function. If we fix those, we can begin to address all of our individual concerns with hope for success. Those institutions and policies are comprised primarily of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, which were designed at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944. The conference was held in the US, so that the Allied powers could decide on a new international monetary system to re-organize international power at the end of World War II. But ...