The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire
Michael Oswald's film The Spider's Web reveals how at the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands.
Documentary ■ 14 Sept 2018 ■ 1h 18min
Short explainers
The Tax Justice Network: Changing the World
5 min
#01
"I’m a multimillionaire. I should be taxed more.“
3 min
#02
Healthcare professionals on corporations not paying their taxes
4 min
#03
Winning the fight for tax justice - how do we make multinationals pay?
6 min
#04
What is the City of London's Finance Curse?
2 min
#05
The "Race to the Bottom" and how it makes us all poorer
12 min
#06
Tax abuse: how to shaft the little people
3 min
#07
How to pay for a green energy transition
The Reboot Ep 01 ■ 16 min
#08
How to pay for the pandemic
The Reboot Ep 02 ■ 17 min
#09
Taxcast shorts
What is unitary tax?
7 min
#01
The Big Four, aka the "Pin Stripe Mafia"
6 min
#02
The Finance Curse
8 min
#03
Zambian miners paying more tax than mining company
5 min
#04
City Of London: global tax haven hub
4 min
#05
Setting up anonymous companies - it's child's play!
5 min
#06
The Magic Money Tree, Tax Justice and Modern Monetary Theory
28 min
#07
The Brexit Tax Haven Walking Tour
Singapore on the Thames: John Christensen, Tax Justice Network
2 min
#01
Damaging finance and its effects on women: Roosje Saalbrink, Womankind
2 min
#02
Why tax is so important for gender equality: Susan Himmelweit, Women's Budget Group
2 min
#03
The City of London finance sector and Africa: Dereje Alemayehu, Global Alliance for Tax Justice
2 min
#04
How to pay for the climate transition - online conference
Introduction and Keynote: ‘Decolonising Climate Justice - Towards a Just Transition’
36 min
#01
Interview and Q&A with Peter Bofinger: ‘Black Zero in the time of Coronavirus’
40 min
#02
Panel discussion: ‘Subsidise THIS!’ with Q&A
1hr 12 min
#03
Interview with James K. Boyce: ‘The Case for Carbon Dividends as Tax Justice’ with Q&A
55 min
#04
Keynote: Is the European Green New Deal Green, New, or a Deal? with Q&A
28 min
#05
Panel discussion: ‘Scenting profits: Neoliberalism and the Wall Street Climate Consensus’ with Q&A
1 hr
#06
In conversation with Gail Bradbrook: ‘What does victory look like?’
30 min
#07
‘Money, climate and political will: where next?’ with Q&A
1hr 24 min
#08
Imperial inequalities: states, empires, taxation and reparations - online conference
Panel 1: ‘Institutional and fiscal issues’
1h 45mins
#01
Panel 2 : ‘Welfare, Taxation, and Resistance’
2hr 14min
#02
Keynote, ‘Decolonisation is also movement of money', Vanessa Ogle
45 min
#03
Keynote ‘Colonial Macroeconomics then and now’, Ndongo Samba Sylla
42 min
#04
Panel 3 : ‘Postcolonial legacies’
1h 30 mins
#05
Panel 4 : ‘Reparations policy and narratives'
1hr 30 mins
#06
Panel 5 : ‘Reparations in action’
1hr 18 min
#08
Webinars
The State of Tax Justice 2020
1hr 33min
#01
How to use the Illicit Financial Flows Risk Tool to assess vulnerability in Europe
37 min
#02
Financial Secrecy Index 2020
41 min
#03
