Today we discuss major developments in the labor movement as workers grow increasingly

assertive of their rights.

Members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage employees voted almost unanimously

to authorize a strike that would shut down Hollywood.

Kellogg's factory workers are on strike.

And workers at Nabisco recently wrapped up a successful strike action.

Will this trend continue?

We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago,

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Deepening unemployment, a looming wave of evictions, massive and widening inequality.

There's no denying it. Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis.

We are very excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us for a regular weekly segment,

where we discuss the biggest stories relating to the economy, the state of the working class,

and the crimes of big business. I'm Walter Smolerick, filling in for Brian Becker.

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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many

books, the latest being The Sickness is the System, when Capitalism Fails to Save Us

from Pandemics or itself.

You can check out all his work at R.D.Wolf.com.

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