Capitalism in Crisis: Why Do Recessions Happen?
Why does the capitalist economy lurch into a recession every few years with massive unemployment and job losses? Why is the debate between the millionaires in Congress only about whether working famil...
30 Des 202036min
In the News: 2020 - The System Was the Problem
Covid-19 failures, 60 million lose their jobs, growing hunger in the richest country in the world, 40 million facing imminent evictions and rampant police violence against Black and Brown people -- 20...
29 Des 202046min
Capitalism in Crisis: An Even More Shocking Failure
Professor Richard Wolff dissects the new "stimulus package" and exposes the mind-blowing cruelty and greed of the capitalist class and the political agents in Congress.
23 Des 202039min
In the News: The War Against the Poor
Congress decides to throw tens of millions of working people under the bus with the new so-called stimulus package. Will Joe Biden bring the United States back into the Iran nuclear arms deal? FBI and...
23 Des 202039min
The Real Story: Why U.S. Capitalism is Addicted to War
Militarism is everywhere you look in U.S. society. No country on earth spends sums anywhere near as vast as the U.S. government. We are fed propaganda from childhood glamorizing war and the armed forc...
18 Des 202036min
Capitalism in Crisis: What the Hell is a K-Shaped Recovery?? The Fraud of Capitalist Economics
On this week's episode of The Socialist Program's regular segment "Capitalism in Crisis" with Prof. Richard Wolff, we discuss the economy's "K-Shaped" recovery -- in which one section of society bounc...
16 Des 202033min
In the News: Police Stand Aside as "Proud Boys" Lynch Mob Rampages Through D.C.
On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Nicole Roussell, Esther Iverem, and Walter Smolarek discuss the huge and rapidly rising rates of hunger in the United States, the "Proud Boys'" racis...
15 Des 202037min
The Real Story: Why Not Have Peace with North Korea?
The Korean War began 70 years ago and has still not ended even though North and South Korea want it to end. The key obstacle is not in Pyongyang or Seoul but in Washington DC. Brian takes an in-depth ...
10 Des 202053min
