Social Problems Require Social Movement Solutions
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Economic Update returns this week with an all-new episode of updates by Professor Wolff on:
Trump ending Housing First
Spain exploring the possibility of a wealth tax
Trump busting unions within government agencies
Protecting yourself in a declining capitalistic system
France's upcoming Sept. 10th mass movement against Macron's government
Air Canada's strike by flight attendants who defy the government's back-to-work order and win against both the Canadian government and their employer, Air Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.6 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:32.9 | I want to thank Shane Knight for putting together the last few weeks of the best of series. |
| 0:39.3 | It gave us time to rebuild and to plan for the autumn, which I'm about to tell you about. |
| 0:46.3 | I want to welcome you, of course, to the return of a more or less normal life into the |
| 0:51.5 | autumn of 2025. |
| 0:55.7 | Now to the events that we have planned. |
| 0:58.6 | It begins with the collaboration between the Democracy at Work organization and the Left |
| 1:05.8 | Forum. |
| 1:07.0 | That group, which has been around for 40 years, holding conferences every year in New York |
| 1:13.2 | City, used to be called the Socialist Scholars Program and other names. |
| 1:18.7 | We're very proud to be working with them. |
| 1:21.2 | And one of our immediately new programs is a class, a series of classes, four to be exact, starting September 15th. |
| 1:32.8 | It's called this first course, and it'll be, by the way, every Monday in the afternoon, |
| 1:38.5 | four times, that's what it'll be, and it'll be presented as a course on understanding capitalism. Three professors are |
| 1:47.6 | collaborating to produce it. I'm one of them, but my colleagues who will be working on it |
| 1:54.1 | with me and you will be seeing and hearing them is Professor Clara Matte from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and Professor Sharam |
| 2:05.8 | Azar from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. |
| 2:09.6 | It's a really superb course and I urge you, urge you to consider registering for it. |
| 2:17.1 | To do so, you just go to the Left Forum website. |
| 2:20.3 | That's www.org slash LEP, and that's for Left Educational Project. |
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