The Curious Case of the Late David Horowitz
By Steve Wasserman / Original to ScheerPost The death on April 29 of my old nemesis, David Horowitz, at age 86 after a long battle with cancer, prompts these recollections…
Trump’s Tariffs are a Hail Mary Pass (w/ Richard Wolff)
Prof. Richard Wolff describes the chaotic, unpredictable and desperate nature of Trump's tariff policies.
How Woke Politics Infested Academia and Corporate Culture (w/ Christian Parenti)
By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report Oftentimes the idea of “wokeness” or “woke” ideology, whether calling it as such or acknowledging its existence, can be thought of as…
Why the Republi-Fascists Can’t Stop Calling the Capitalist Democrats ‘Marxists’
By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much…
On Football, Opium and Popular Resistance: Not All Sports Are Created Equal
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of…
The Most Dangerous Architect in America
Gregory Ain wanted to create social housing in Los Angeles. Dogged by the FBI, his hope for more egalitarian architecture never came to be.
Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible
Cuba's socialist approach to culture is unique in that it tries to make art forms available to everyone while balancing the lingering colonial practices.
How the Communist Party of China Renews and Improves Itself
An in-depth analysis of the Communist Party of China by Chinese researcher Huang Ping.
VIDEO: Ask Prof Wolff: Why Are Strikes and Unions Increasing?
By Richard Wolff / Democracy At Work A Patron of Economic Update asks: “Workers are organizing and Trade Unionism is on the rise in the UK and around the world.…
VIDEO: Ask Prof Wolff: Carbon Emissions, Consumption, and Wages
By Richard Wolff / Democracy At Work A Patron of Economic Update asks: “If pay for workers increases, won’t that increase consumption (unless its stolen back through inflation) and, in…
VIDEO: Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
By Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman / Lex Fridman Podcast Conversation between Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman exploring questions surrounding Marxism, communism, capitalism, socialism, human nature, economics, governments, corporations and…