Across the city and beyond, people are creating powerful alternatives to the systems that have failed us. These resources — reports, podcasts, videos, books, and more — are here to spark ideas, deepen understanding, and offer real-world examples of how communities are reimagining everything from housing to healthcare, education to local economies.
Whether you’re just getting started or already organising in your community, these tools can help you connect the dots, challenge the status quo, and explore new ways of thinking and doing — led by the people, for the people.
The path to change is already being walked. These insights may guide and inspire you along the way.
Reports and articles
This is an exciting time for East Birmingham. Major changes are planned that will create new jobs, homes and transport connections.
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Videos
Gary Stevenson made millions of pounds working in The City, betting inequality was going to destroy our economy.
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Books and poems
In this bold new book, former Treasury Minister Liam Byrne explains why wealth inequality has grown so fast in recent years.
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Podcasts and talks
A discussion on the need for a Ministry of Extreme Wealth, global redistribution, and ethical wealth overhaul with Jake Hayman.
Watch [External link]@garyseconomics is focused on teaching people about real world economics.
CLES are the curators of the community wealth building movement in the UK.
Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. In other words, to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials
What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? “Like a doughnut,” says Oxford economist Kate Raworth.
Barrow Cadbury Trust and the Economic Justice Brum facilitators Huddlecraft have seeded and are supporting 7 Huddles – peer learning and action groups – that will run in parallel and will be 4 months in duration. They aim to:
GDP: ‘measures everything except that which is worthwhile’, Bobby Kennedy
It’s perhaps more important than ever in these especially tumultuous, lonely, and oppressive times that we continue to believe that another world is possible
Macrodose is turning 1! To celebrate we hosted our first Macrodose live event. In this panel discussion James Meadway is joined by Labour MP Nadia Whittome, Senior Fellow at the Social Market Foundation Shreya Nanda and author/Guardian columnist Owen Jones to discuss: where next for the UK economy?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: what the victory of far-right libertarian Javier Milei means for Argentina and the world (1:19) and how climate change is driving inflation and directly squeezing British households (9:49).
Join us for a discussion on the need for a Ministry of Extreme Wealth, global redistribution, and ethical wealth overhaul with Jake Hayman.
This report summarises the lessons learned from a two year nationwide action research programme of Community Economic Development (CED).
This webinar marked a pivotal moment as we launched the final UK Poverty report before the next general election. We looked at key findings from the report and getting insight from some expert speakers on the state of poverty in the UK.
The UK is entering this election year with unacceptably high levels of poverty, appallingly high for some groups. We need a coherent plan with creative policies to end poverty in the UK.
This is an exciting time for East Birmingham. In coming years major changes are planned that will create new jobs, homes and transport connections.
Go-to, free campaign tools, training resource for campaigners, activists, and changemakers of all kinds.
To engage in social change at this moment in time requires consistent attention, deep reflection, and committed collective action.
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In Beautiful Economics: A guide to Gentle World Domination, author Howard Collinge challenges conventional economic theory while championing a new kind of cross-disciplinary economics
This book offers an incisive analysis of the UK’s problems and a new approach to tackling them.
In Everyday Utopia, anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee explores what we can learn from these experiments
This is an exciting time for East Birmingham. Major changes are planned that will create new jobs, homes and transport connections.
Gary Stevenson made millions of pounds working in The City, betting inequality was going to destroy our economy.
In this bold new book, former Treasury Minister Liam Byrne explains why wealth inequality has grown so fast in recent years.
A discussion on the need for a Ministry of Extreme Wealth, global redistribution, and ethical wealth overhaul with Jake Hayman.
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