In US and UK, the Working and Middle Classes Are Under Attack

This article originally appeared at Truthout.org

The crises affecting the political economies of the U.K. and U.S. are strikingly parallel. The 2008 capitalist crash hit and hurt both badly. Each arranged government bailouts of their major banks and many large corporations. After 2008, they both imposed real economic suffering — austerity — on the mass of their people. Finally, in both countries, pre-2008 trends toward greater economic inequality accelerated post-2008. Those trends in turn provoked deepening political and cultural divisions.

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Economic Update: Capitalism vs. Socialism

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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff does something a little different. He dives deep into the 200+ year old debate and struggle between capitalism and socialism and looks into how it has...READ MORE


Trump Has Politicized the Fed. Now What Happens to Democracy?

Has the FED ever been politicized the way Trump is proposing now and what would be the result of that? Prof. Wolff joins The Thom Hartmann program to answer questions about Donald Trump's attack on the FED and what it means for our country and economy.

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Economic Update: The #MeToo Movement

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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Chicago in change, the decline of world trade, New York City’s "congestion pricing plan, the IMF comments on Trump’s trade war and the hi-tech monopolies, the 7...READ MORE


Prof. Richard Wolff on Organic Intellectuals

Prof. Richard Wolff joins RJ Eskow to discuss supply, demand, and customer service in today’s markets.

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Brexit Benefits?

Brexit has been a bane to the British economy, but could it have some benefits around the bend? Professor Richard Wolff joins BoomBust to discuss. 

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Bernie Sanders Makes “Big Impression” at Fox News Town Hall

Prof. Wolff joins Brian Becker and John Kiriakou on Loud & Clear to discuss Bernie Sanders' Fox News Town Hall meeting in Pennsylvania.

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Economic Update: Venezuela

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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Brexit and the Mueller Report, the new labor upsurge happening in Chicago, how income shapes education and thus “merit", the mistaken objections to...READ MORE


Can the Bolivarian revolution survive the Venezuelan crisis?

This essay originally appeared at roarmag.org

Creating the space for and allowing the Bolivarian Revolution to flourish is perhaps the most important achievement of Venezuela’s Chavista government — but can it survive the current crisis?

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Hopes raised for end of U.S.-China trade war

Prof. Wolff joins Walter and John on Loud & Clear to discuss the latest on the trade war with China.

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Economic Update: Employer vs Employee: Capitalism's Endless Conflict

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On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on LA strippers strike, Trump fails to end US trade deficit, UN reports on protests against capitalist inequality and gov't repression of those protests, GM...READ MORE


A conversation with Renown economist Dr. Richard Wolff about our economics and solutions.

Prof. Wolff joins Egberto Willies of Politics Done Right to talk about current economic conditions and offers a solution.

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Economic Update: Beyond Universal Basic Income

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On this week's show Prof. Wolff presents an in-depth analysis of UBI shows its advantages over most welfare, safety net systems. An even better alternative would avoid capitalism's unnecessary...READ MORE


AskProfWolff: Is it necessary for a socialist political party to exist to fight capitalism?

Prof. Wolff answers a question from a Patron of Economic Update.

The patron asks: Is it necessary for a socialist political party to exist, as Lenin emphasized in his books, in order to support and lead the labour movement fighting capitalism or not. If yes, why don't you and people in this struggle don't create one, or join the Communist party? If not, how we're going to fight this class struggle without an organized party?

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Economic Update: Political Activism's Revival

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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on International Women's Day, the University of CA making all research free, NY’s Gov. Cuomo begging and bribing Amazon again, how the U.S. is...READ MORE


AskProfWolff: Do the super-rich want the rest of us to be economically uncomfortable?

Prof. Wolff answers a question from a listener from Tampa, FL.

To what extent do the owners of the country: the billionaires, the CEO's and the people who live only off their investments (and do not work for a living- aka the idle rich)- to what extent are they threatened by low and moderate income people who have a right to health care, a living wage, affordable housing and no worry about college debt? To what extent does a comfortable working class and a comfortable moderate-income class-- threaten the super rich? Another way to ask this is to put this is: Do the super-rich want the rest of us to be uncomfortable, economically speaking? Why?"

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Global Capitalism: March 2019 Economic Update

US and China: 1 Global Economy, 2 Giants - Tariffs, Competition, Deals: What’s Coming

with Richard D. Wolff 
Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum & Judson Memorial Church

These programs begin with 30 minutes of short updates on important economic events of the last month, then Prof. Wolff analyzes several major economic issues. For March 2019, these issues will include...READ MORE


Wolff on Trump's 2020 Budget Proposal

Prof. Wolff responds to President Trump's 2020 budget proposal.

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Economic Update: Renewing Labor's Movement

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This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff gives a shout out to the striking Oakland school teachers and delivers updates on the dangers of declining pensions, a bank fined for helping wealthy clients evade taxes, the U.S. and the EU in...READ MORE


AskProfWolff: Is Religion an Opium for the People?

A patron asks:  Is religion an opium of the people? Is religious faith generally harmful to worker solidarity or cooperation? I know a catholic priest founded Mondragon, but most of the anarchists fighting Franco and establishing worker controlled industries were anti religious before the civil war ended...

 

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Economic Update: Fighting the System

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This week’s episode of Economic Update features updates from Prof. Wolff on the economics of immigration, France's yellow vests join union-called general strike, demonstrations against Sackler family's profiting from...READ MORE


News.View.Hughes: US-China trade talks ‘made for TV politics’

Wolff joins News.Views.Hughes to discuss reports that the Trump Administration intends to limit or ban Chinese telecommunications equipment by next week.

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Thom Hartmann: The American Destruction of Venezuela

Wolff joins Hartmann to discuss the US' slow and deliberate destruction of Venezuela.

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Wolff on Boom Bust: Trade talks & intertwining economies

Wolff joins Boom Bust to talk about current US-China trade talks.

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Letters and Politics: The History of Socialism in the US

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Wolff joins Jeserich on Letters & Politics to discuss the history of socialism in the US.


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