Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen discusses the need and program for a broad social justice, class struggle labor movement ..read more

We talk with Damion Gilbert about the Mass Car Caravan for Our Future, for the Jobs & Public Services We need; and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the Meaning of the Nationwide Uprising Sparked by the Police Lynching of George Floyd; and Jeremy Gong on Why We Have to Demand an End to the Social Order That Led to George Floyd’s Murder ..read more

VSEA analyst Adam Norton discusses the Collapse of State Revenues and Possible Cuts in Jobs and Public Services; Stephanie Yu, of the Public Assets Institute, reports on how the Crises' Affect Vermonters' Livelihoods; and Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen calls for Resisting the Attacks on Our Jobs & Living Conditions and Building a Better Vermont ..read more

We talk with Kate Gold, President of VSCS-United Professionals at Northern Vermont University, and Tanya Vyhovsky of Rights & Democracy about the Vermont People's Bailout: COVID Virtual Town Hall, and Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, joined by Ashley Smith of Champlain Valley DSA, about the May Day/Primero de Mayo Car Rally for Essential Workers in Vermont ..read more

Economic analyst Doug Henwood warns that This Downturn Could Be Worse Than the Early 1930s,  but it’s also an opportunity to emerge from this crisis as a better country.  Meagan Day, co-author of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism discusses the possibilities and strategies necessary "to take the baton from Sanders and run with it," building a mass, multiracial working-class movement bigger and more radical than Bernie ..read more

Jack Rasmus, author of The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Trump, discusses the global financial asset deflation underway: prelude to next great recession and the impact of COVID-19 on the working class ..read more

Alyssa Battistoni, co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal and Branko Marcetic, author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden ..read more

Vermont AFL-CIO President, David Van Deusen, reviews the results of the historic December 7th political summit, its largest political conference in years, which debated how to move forward with a working class political agenda.  Following the political summit, the Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Board voted to make the recommendations of the summit official: VT Political Parties To Back Labor Initiatives Or Face Moratorium On Political Endorsements; Top Priorities $15 An Hour Livable Wage For All, Card Check, Worker Miss-classification; Strategic Partnership With VT P ..read more

Vermont AFL-CIO President, David Van Deusen, discusses plans for a historic political summit on December 7, 2019 in order to make a determination as to how we move forward with our political agenda, how we may change our approach to the legislative process, and to re-evaluate our relationship to the political parties and elections/endorsements. For too long the Vermont AFL-CIO has endorsed dozens and dozens of candidates (who win), and then those elected officials FAIL to advance a Labor agenda. In the last election we helped elect a “veto proof majority” of Democrats and Progressives to ..read more

Howie Hawkins, a leading Green Party candidate for president, explains that Implementing the Green New Deal will require ecosocialism—social ownership in key sectors in order to democratically plan the coordinated reconstruction of all economic sectors for ecological sustainability. The Green New Deal encompasses an Economic Bill of Rights and a Green Economy Reconstruction, and Howie explains how we would pay for it. He also elaborates on his campaign's perspectives and policies ..read more