Political Economy

Nov 15, 20222 min read

MLK Tapes: What We’ve Learned About the Interests Fighting Unity and Organized Labor

“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read...

Oct 6, 20222 min read

Policies for Universal Prosperity with Daniel Burke - Political Economy Project

“Look at economics from the standpoint of the ability to increase the potential relative population density the number of people that you...

Oct 3, 20221 min read

Life with Energy Scarcity 101 with Irina Slav - Political Economy Project

“There's still people on social media who say, ‘You know, we should just shut up and suck it up. We can get through the winter, even if...

Oct 2, 20222 min read

Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder with author Christian Parenti

“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear...

Sep 14, 20223 min read

America's Fight for Universal Progress from Franklin to Kennedy with Author Anton Chaitkin

“Power is a good thing for people to have. It can be misused by ugly cliques who take over governments or who exercise some coercion on...

Aug 23, 20222 min read

Fighting for a Better Future with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan - Labor Solidarity Podcast

“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes...

Aug 12, 20222 min read

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events..

Aug 4, 20222 min read

"We choose to go to the Moon" - JFK on Space Exploration

“That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.” "We...

Aug 3, 20222 min read

Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers

The nuclear energy economy provides high skilled, high paid, union jobs

Aug 2, 20222 min read

Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers

The Future of Union led Nuclear Energy in America “These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits....

Jul 26, 20221 min read

End Eco-Colonialism and Free Africa's Nuclear Energy with Princy Mthombeni

“I'm a humanitarian at heart. So I see nuclear as a vehicle that will deliver prosperity to the African continent.”

Jul 25, 20223 min read

Nuclear Surplus Energy: China vs. United States

“China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.” Energy is Everything. It sustains all...

Jul 18, 20221 min read

Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander

his new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electri

Jul 12, 202210 min read

JFK On Revolution - March 13, 1962

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

Jul 11, 20223 min read

Killing People with a Bad Electrical Grid - Meredith Angwin: Author of Shorting the Grid

Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the U

Jun 25, 20222 min read

CEOs Screwing Workers with Sarah Anderson of Global Economy Project at IPS & Inequality.org

“At Amazon, the CEO got $213 million last year, and that was 6,474 times as much as median worker pay at the company, which was about...

Jun 7, 20222 min read

Richard DeShay Elliott - Candidate District 24 Maryland House of Delegates

“The amount of money they paid these anti-union lawyers...It's an insult to spend money against somebody when you could have spent less...

May 28, 20221 min read

Political Economy Project (Excerpt)

The future depends on it... To move beyond the entrenched binary that pits capitalism versus socialism, the political economy project...

May 19, 20221 min read

FDR Reorganizes Banks After Collapse - March 1933

The Emergency Banking Act (EBA), was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking...

May 6, 20221 min read

Christian Smalls Amazon Labor Union, Senate hearing on Taxes Going to Companies Violating Labor Laws

Christian Smalls, Amazon Labor Union President, delivers his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, hearing on “Taxpayer...