U.S. Healthcare Fails Patients But Nurses Fight Back

U.S. Healthcare Fails Patients But Nurses Fight Back

On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the largest ever walkout of healthcare workers — 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees walked out last week. What does this mean for healthcare workers and workers everywhere?

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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The Real Story: Palestine Resists: A Conversation with Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of The Empire Files

The Real Story: Palestine Resists: A Conversation with Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of The Empire Files

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14 Maj 202150min

Capitalism in Crisis: Marx & Lenin on Monopoly Capitalism

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Brian and Prof. Wolff begin a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method for understanding and changing the world used by many of the great revolutionaries of modern history. Today, ...

12 Maj 202137min

In the News: Stand with Palestine as Palestine Stands Together

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On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss the assault being waged by the Israeli military on Palestinians following intense fascist ...

11 Maj 202152min

The Real Story: Understanding China's Foreign Policy -- 1959-1965

The Real Story: Understanding China's Foreign Policy -- 1959-1965

Today's episode is the second in a multi-part series that takes an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. We discuss how U.S. imperialist pressure on China and the Soviet Union lead t...

6 Maj 202157min

Capitalism in Crisis: When "Intellectual Property" Kills the Sick and Poor

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Brian and Prof. Wolff discuss the deadly consequences of the U.S. government's stubborn refusal so far to waive patents preventing developing countries from producing their own Coronavirus vaccines...

5 Maj 202136min

In the News: Socialist tactics and Biden's economic program

In the News: Socialist tactics and Biden's economic program

On today's "In the News" roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss where the Biden administration is headed politically and why. In his address to a joint ses...

4 Maj 202159min

The Real Story: Understanding China's Foreign Policy -- 1949-1959

The Real Story: Understanding China's Foreign Policy -- 1949-1959

Today's episode is the first in a multi-part series take an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. As the U.S. war machine ramps up aggression towards China, understanding the history...

29 Apr 202157min

Capitalism in Crisis: Declining U.S. Capitalism Declares Economic War Against Germany

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