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 h...
5 Jan 202229min
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 ...
4 Jan 20221h 18min
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 government...
23 Des 20211h 16min
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 t...
22 Des 202132min
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 d...
21 Des 20211h 27min
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 rava...
16 Des 20211h 23min
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 m...
15 Des 202132min
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 th...
14 Des 20211h 25min
