VT AFL-CIO Program for Social Justice & Class Struggle
Vermont AFL-CIO president David Van Deusen discusses the need and program for a broad social justice, class struggle labor movement.
VT AFL-CIO Political Summit: The End of Politics as Usual
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
Vermont AFL-CIO’s Political Summit, No More Politics As Usual
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.
Howie Hawkins, Green Party presidential candidate speaks
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.
Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Socialism in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Bhaskar Sunkara , author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality and founder and editor of the socialist publication Jacobin, answers What Is Democratic Socialism?, draws lessons from socialism's mixed history, and presents a vision for its future.