Richard Wolff appears on KGNU radio with Jim Banks and speaks on healthcare. Issues such as lives lost due to financial strains, healthcare in other parts of the country, some of the context of the healthcare proposition by President Obama, and other political problems are touched upon.

  Michael Moore's 2012 Left Forum speech, delivered Saturday, March 17, at Pace University in New York City. Features introduction by Marxist economist Richard Wolff. Of note, Moore rallies attendees at the end to march to and reoccupy Zuccotti Park.  

Professor Wolff's lecture:

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These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad. We will focus on the evolving global capitalist economic crisis and its consequences. We will examine topics such as

We discuss how the tiny top and the increased bottom of the US economic system have very differently experienced economic crisis since 2007. We suggest some specific programs urgently needed and also draw some lessons about what basically has to change.

This month, I am testing a trial partnership with ForaTV to disseminate widely the Monthly Economic Update I prepare. Fora TV charges $5.95. For three years, all my interviews, articles, lectures, blogs, podcasts and radio programs have been free. Most will continue to be.   However, because my team of four devote much time and effort to arrange, tape, process, and post each item to reach the maximum number of people, they need some remuneration.

Originally appeared on Truthout.org on Janurary 30th, 2012 in their Tax Issue

Richard Wolff.

In this fifth year of economic crisis, as the 99% bear its mounting costs, a new movement is rising to confront and change the system in crisis. What strategy should we pursue, what choices must we make to realize the historic potential of our movement?  

Richard Wolff speaks by the central fountain in Washington Square Park.

The political movements of the left that I have participated in over many decades were almost always focused on or prioritized particular issues (wars, civil liberties, civil rights, poverty, collective bargaining, etc.) and/or particular subsections of the population (African-Americans, women, gay people, immigrants, etc.). The authorities almost always took advantage of that focus to separate and isolate the movement from society generally. They were often successful.