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Factory farms pose an ‘existential threat’ for rural Wisconsin communities
The rural landscape in the US is changing drastically: The days of the independent family farm have given way to industrial agriculture and factory animal…
As Maryland Evictions Resume, Activists Demand Protections
Activists demanded state and local officials extend protections for the some 400,000 people unable to pay rent during the coronavirus pandemic. The post As Maryland…
Social Justice Is The Way To End Riots
Eddie Conway talks with Jacqueline Luqman about the myths surrounding peaceful protests, uprisings, economic oppression and capitalism, valuing property over people, and the country’s founding…
What Impact Has Coronavirus Had On Policing?
Racial bias in policing has always existed, with tragic results for some. But has the coronavirus had an impact, or has it merely exposed just…
How Democracy Falls In East Europe And The Balkans
Freedom House says Eastern European and Balkans democracies are in danger. COVID-19 has opened the door to surveillance, and threatens democracies from Hungary to India…
Refocusing May Day On The Revolutionary Struggle For Workers’ Rights
The revolutionary history of May Day is recognized around the world in a way that should inspire workers in the United States to continue their…
Healthcare Workers Punished For Challenging ‘Profit Over People’ Management
The US medical system’s drive to maximize profit has always been at the cost of public health, and amplifies the danger healthcare workers and their…
Who Would Really Be Sacrificed To Save The Economy From COVID-19?
Whose families do the high priests of capitalism really intend to sacrifice to their god of money? The post Who Would Really Be Sacrificed To…
Neoliberalism, Nike, and the Need to Organize a Movement
What do resistance to Obama’s presidential library project in Southside Chicago, Nike’s $5 million donation to it, and the giant shoe company’s relationship with Kaepernick’s…
Can Land Value Tax Give Baltimore’s Neighborhoods Back To Their Residents?
Joshua Vincent of the Center for the Study of Economics talks about how a land value tax could give Baltimore residents relief from the wealth…
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Propaganda That Upholds the Status Quo
In the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to The War On Terror, authors Roberto…
Socialism Back on Agenda, 30 Years After ‘End of History’
Alexandr Buzgalin discusses the crisis of neoliberalism and the resurgence of socialist thought and political movements, 30 years after the publication of Fukuyama’s ‘End of…
Racism in America, Socialism, and Medicare for All Dominate Democratic Debate (1/2)
Kamala Harris seized the evening by taking on bussing and race with Biden, while Hickenlooper and others confronted Sanders’s socialism and the nuances of Medicare…
Generational Divide Was Subtext of Second Democratic Debate (2/2)
Back and forths about bussing, segregation, and race and confrontations about socialism and the nuances of Medicare For All had the 10 candidates at times,…
What Would It Mean to Win? (Pt 2/2)
Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin and author of The Socialist Manifesto, explains what socialism could actually look like in the United States in part 2…
Why Socialism? With Bhaskar Sunkara
Most people know capitalism is unjust. Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara says he wrote The Socialist Manifesto to lay out an alternative The post Why Socialism?…
Humane Capitalism or Fascism and War – Q&A with Paul Jay
A viewer asks why did Paul say that capitalism led to World War I, and another viewer asks if humane capitalism is the answer to…
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