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Why Profit is Theft
On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how wage theft is rampant across the United States -- Workers are sent to jail for theft, but under capitalism corporate executives …
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Fascism and the Bankruptcy of Ruling Class Liberalism
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss Donald Trump's plan to speak at a nationally televised press conference on the anniversary…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Preparing for War: Industrialization and the Fascist Threat — Lessons of Soviet History, Part 3
The Soviet Union survived its tumultuous first post-revolutionary years of civil war and imperialist invasion, but found itself isolated in a hostile, capitalist-dominated world. The Soviet governmen…
Published on 4 years ago
Manchin is the Symptom, Capitalism is the Disease
On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how Joe Manchin took his war on workers to new lows over the weekend as he announced on Fox News that he was pulling out of negotiations with …
Published on 4 years ago
Joe Manchin's War Against Workers
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how after months of talking, begging and offering concessions the Biden administration’s …
Published on 4 years ago
Red Star Over the Third World w/ Vijay Prashad: Lessons of Soviet History, Part 2
Russia’s October Revolution in 1917 and the rise of Soviet power reverberated across the world, from Latin America to Africa to Asia, and Middle East – that part of the world that lived under the rav…
Published on 4 years ago
Worshiping at the Altar of Billionaires
Elon Musk is TIME magazine's Person of the Year this year, despite gaining more than $225 billion dollars over the course of the pandemic, while hundreds of thousands of Americans died. Why does the …
Published on 4 years ago
Capitalism and Imperialism: A Global System of Death
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how workers are bearing the deadly brunt of the devastating tornadoes that ripped across t…
Published on 4 years ago
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union -- Lessons for Socialists
The Russian Revolution in 1917 brought the Bolsheviks to power. For the first time in history the working class seized and held state power. What was the experience of the Soviet Union? How did it ch…
Published on 4 years ago
Capitalist Vultures Cause Homelessness
On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss two sickening injustices of the capitalist economy -- landlords going after the children of the tenants they target for eviction & the ultra-w…
Published on 4 years ago