newly revealed internal communications from the New York Times shows the lengths that the management

has gone to to bust or stop the union organizing drive by hundreds of tech workers at the

newspaper. At the end of the day, the Times and its fellow mainstream media giants are

profit-seeking corporations, a fact that is

clearly reflected in their so-called unbiased reporting.

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 excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for a regular

weekly segment where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy. I'm your host,

Brian Becker. The Socialist Program brings you content three days a week,

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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization, Democracy at Work.

He's the author of many books.

The latest being The Sickness is the System,

when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

There's a new hard copy edition of Professor Wolfe's book,

Understanding Marxism, which you can also receive by going to R.D.Wolf.com. That's

R.D.W.O.F.F.com. Professor Wolf, welcome back. Thank you, Brian. Glad to be here.

You're in New York City. So is the New York Times. Long thought to be the newspaper of record in the

United States. The most prestigious newspapers lasted for a very, very long time. It's a source of news.

It's a source of opinion. It's also a big corporation, or a big company, at least, a family-owned

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