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How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability. By Damon Orion The arrival of...
The Left Chapter
Mar 295 min read
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‘Only the People Can Save the People,’ Say Migrant Workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant...
Michael Laxer
Feb 215 min read
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United States in 2025: Social Problems Denied via Rhetorics of Refusal
Public domain image from November, 2024 By Richard D. Wolff Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their...
Michael Laxer
Jan 177 min read
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US Political Economy Contradictions as We Lurch Into 2025
President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in the Oval Office -- public domain image By...
Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20245 min read
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Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration
The “migrant crisis” was manufactured and is the fault of both Trump and Biden. We need to understand that the U.S. needs immigrants more...
Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20246 min read
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A Reformist Program on Immigration (or What Harris Might Have Said)
Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Richard D. Wolff The immigration issue...
Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20246 min read
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Montana’s First Worker Cooperative Is In It for the Long Haul
How the custom steel fabrication and design company Crucible built a “gravel road” for other Montana worker co-ops to follow. Photo of...
Michael Laxer
Nov 1, 20244 min read
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A Circular Economy
Latino community members in Southern California use the tanda system for mutual financial support. By Damon Orion Between 1942 and 1964,...
Michael Laxer
Sep 23, 20245 min read
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The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?
By Richard D. Wolff The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping...
Michael Laxer
Sep 6, 20245 min read
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Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth
Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...
Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20245 min read
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Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20248 min read
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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Composite By Richard D. Wolff Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language...
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20245 min read
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A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
Amaury Laporte, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By Richard D. Wolff By “class system” we...
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 202410 min read
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Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives. Image via screenshot By...
Michael Laxer
Mar 30, 20245 min read
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Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20248 min read
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Empire Decline and Costly Delusions
President of Russia Vladimir Putin and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping, March 2023 -- Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20245 min read
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Unions Are Critical in the Fight Against Israeli Apartheid
From South Africa to Palestine, global worker solidarity can link worker oppression to the injustices of apartheid. UAW workers march in...
Michael Laxer
Jan 13, 20245 min read
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How California’s Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an Hour
The fast-food industry threatened to undo a major labor law in California. But even a compromise bill appeasing the industry is a huge...
Michael Laxer
Oct 13, 20235 min read
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Why Is Kaiser Permanente Engaging in Corporate Kabuki?
Ahead of a potentially historic strike, a major nonprofit health care provider seems to be choosing corporate values over worker...
Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20235 min read
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