The Right to Organize: Starbucks Workers Stand Strong in the Face of Firings

The Right to Organize: Starbucks Workers Stand Strong in the Face of Firings

On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the wave of organizing exploding across Starbucks locations nationwide, and how the company is desperately trying to thwart the union by illegally firing employees who are involved. As the class struggle continues to heat up nationwide, corporations are attempting to trample on the right to organize at the workplace.

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.

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Behind the Propaganda: U.S. & British Intelligence Ramp Up Threats Against China

Behind the Propaganda: U.S. & British Intelligence Ramp Up Threats Against China

In an escalation in the cold war against China, the heads of the U.S. FBI and UK MI5 spoke jointly in London on the “serious threat“ that they say the Chinese government poses to Western businesses. M...

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Will the West, not Russia, Lose the Most from the Global Sanctions Regime?

Will the West, not Russia, Lose the Most from the Global Sanctions Regime?

On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how the leaders of the wealthy G7 nations gathered in Germany this week for a summit focused on isolating Russia from the world ec...

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Mass Protests Erupt as Supreme Court Decimates Abortion Rights: Demand Biden Act Now!

Mass Protests Erupt as Supreme Court Decimates Abortion Rights: Demand Biden Act Now!

The Supreme Court – an unelected group of nine millionaires with lifetime appointments – have overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion at the federal level. Tens of thousands h...

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Building Revolutionary Solidarity Across the Americas Against the Failed “Summit of the Americas”

Building Revolutionary Solidarity Across the Americas Against the Failed “Summit of the Americas”

In a true show of intercontinental solidarity, words from Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel joined the speeches of Native activist and Co-Director of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committe...

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Going Left: Lessons for the Left from French Elections

Going Left: Lessons for the Left from French Elections

On today's episode, Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the elections in France's legislature that led to a large upswing in seats won by the progressives and current President Macron's ...

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What Westerners Should Learn About The Accomplishments & Challenges of China

What Westerners Should Learn About The Accomplishments & Challenges of China

Anti-China news and disinformation dominate the mainstream press in Western countries. When the pandemic hit, several researchers, mainly in the Global South, decided that they needed a news source fo...

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International Peoples’ Assembly: Building a New Global Movement Against Capitalism & For Socialism

International Peoples’ Assembly: Building a New Global Movement Against Capitalism & For Socialism

Working class communities around the world are organizing against capitalism. They are also forging a new international movement of solidarity and cooperation in the International People’s Assembly. H...

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Workers Crushed as Inflation Hits 40-year High

Workers Crushed as Inflation Hits 40-year High

On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the newly-released inflation report that found that prices rose at a breathtaking pace – 8.6 percent, the highest in over 40 years. ...

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