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Varoufakis' Critique of Capitalism Today

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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The Rise of Labor Militancy in Europe

In the U.S., we are speaking of a rise of labor militancy on a scale we haven't seen for 70 years. Is something comparable going on in Europe? I have good news and bad news. The good news is that our people here in Europe, especially in Greece and France, but in other countries too, have turned the tide which was essentially submerging all opposition to the neoliberal toxic pro oligarchic policies across Europe. Now the bad news is that we are nowhere near having returned to the height of 2014-2015 when we had hundreds of thousands of millions of people in Spanish cities occupying the piazzas.

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