Trump, his far-right billionaire cabinet and his far-right billionaire agenda took office on Monday

and has already been enacting the wishes of the wealthy.

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. We are very excited to have Professor Richard Wolf join us for our 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.

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Richard Wolf is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books,

including Understanding Capitalism, which is now available at Democracy at Work.Info.

Professor, Trump and the far-right billionaire agenda, they're in office, they're moving fast,

already he has pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, which was a step

towards stopping climate change, but nowhere near what we actually need.

He's put Cuba back on the state sponsor of terrorism list, promised broad 25% tariffs on goods

from China and Mexico on February 1st.

He signed orders to seal U.S.

borders and systematically cracked down on undocumented immigrants in the United States.

And he ordered the Attorney General to get lethal injection drugs into state's hands for executions.

So, I mean, this is what his far-right agenda built by and for the billionaires looks like. Underneath all of this is the elite billionaire class of society fully opening up, no-holds-barred capitalism, and profit-seeking.

They're cutting even the small attempts at saving the planet from climate change like the Paris

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