Resources
What do I need to know about wealth, inequality & class in the UK?
📝 Report into wealth inequality in Britain by the IPPRL
📝 Carys Roberts explains why Wealth inequality isn’t inevitable – it’s a political choice
📺 Video series: Understanding Capitalism 101
🔊 Podcast on Class by the Center for Labour and Social Studies
📝 Article: Why do so many professional, middle-class Brits insist they’re working class?
📺 LSE talk on the persistence of old boy networks in shaping wealth inequality
📚 Chav Solidarity and Tracksuits, Traumas and Class Traitors by D. Hunter
Why is traditional philanthropy not the solution?
📝 Articles on the hypocrisy of and problems with elite philanthropy: The Ultrarich Don’t Deserve Our Gratitude for Small Acts of Philanthropy, The trouble with charitable billionaires, and The problem with philanthropy
📝 Academic study of problems of elite philanthropy in Britain and the US
📝 NYT article on Resource Generation: ‘The rich kids who want to tear down capitalism’
📚 Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Girihandras
How can we support transformative change? Why are movements for social justice important?
📚 How to Change It by Joshua Virasami
📺 How do we organise and win? With Jane MacAlevey
📺 Feminism for the Many – global feminist movements
📺 Slaying the Giants – beating corporate power
📝 Radical local organising with Gentle Radical
Why is racial justice important to RJ’s work?
📝 Facing History and Ourselves on the British empire: Expansion Was Everything
📝 From our US sister organisation: Why Resource Generation (USA) is Committed to Racial Justice
UCL’s Legacies of British Slave-ownership Project:
📺 Interview with Akala on his new book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire