What Is Austerity? [Part 1 + 2]

What Is Austerity? [Parts 1 + 2]

Part 1

Austerity measures aim to reduce public expenditure through spending cuts and tax increases. These cuts and increases are designed to help governments meet their obligations to pay back loans. Austerity measures often have unintended consequences that often impact the poor and vulnerable hardest and may have the opposite effect of stimulating growth.

An AIDC Popular Education Media Production in partnership with Uhuru Productions.

Part 2

The working class is standing up against Austerity in South Africa. In part two we follow the resistance and consider some of the alternatives. An AIDC Popular Education Media Production in partnership with Uhuru Productions.