n the 70s, OPEC doubled oil prices. Capital blamed unions & welfare for inflation - EVEN progressives bought it. MMT w/ class analysis shows the fiscal crisis was manufactured to justify austerity. Link to full ep ft Bill Mitchell in comment 👇 #OPEC #inflation #austerity

SAVE THE DATES! WEEKEND OF ACTION JULY 17-19! ICC is excited and proud to be participating in all three days of Good Trouble Lives On’s “Teach, Reach, Preach” series taking place July 17-19. This series is being held as a tribute to John Lewis and his life’s passion, voting rights.

The New York state legislature just passed a landmark, first-in-the-nation one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers. Now we need Governor Kathy Hochul to sign this into law. Take a few minutes today (and tomorrow) to call her office and tell her that. Her number is (518) 474-8390.

A great role model is franceskalbs.bsky.social - the intrepid truth teller. They tried to destroy her. #Sanctions & smears & isolation. She didn't stop. This is how #resistance works. Link to full ep ft mediaphiled.bsky.social of projectcensored.bsky.social#Sanctions#resistancen comment 👇

American healthcare isn‘t funny. 500,000 bankrupt and 200,000 preventable premature deaths occur annually because of health care business. The Utah Cares Act will bring better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Read the act, get your questions answered, join the cause at www.utahcares.health

Episode 383 – The Complicit Lens with Robin Andersen New episode available on our 'free' #substack, and as always on our website realprogressives.org#substack Link to both below. 👇

Episode 382 – Yellow Vests & the Battle for Democracy: Beyond the Ballot Box with Ida Susser Links to our free #Substack full episode and website below! 👇 #yellowvest #organizing #macroNcheese

What happens when the people stop waiting for elections to solve their problems? @austerityismurder.bsky.social talks with anthropologist Ida Susser about the possibilities and limits of grassroots organizing. #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests

Millions of Americans shame the poor. The French defend their welfare state. The Yellow Vests came together and fought for healthcare, pensions & public services. New ep ft Ida Susser 5/30 @ 8 am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

We've had a lot of requests for t-shirts, so that we can recognize each other at a distance and show our support. We put together a quick survey to see what kinds of things you might want to see on a shirt. Please take two minutes to give us your thoughts! Survey (in comments) closes on Monday.

Trump may be using the language of war to bypass the Constitution at every turn, but the only war being waged is a war against the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people.

NEW EP! 🎙️📺📰 Billionaires use big tech to manufacture consent, surveil the working class & enforce a dictatorship of capital. Mickey Huff from @projectcensored.bsky.social and @austerityismurder.bsky.social remind us that critical media literacy is an essential weapon of resistance.

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, the Ellisons. They own your data, your media, and your government. Mickey Huff of projectcensored.bsky.social on the supervillains running America. New ep. Sat. 5/23 @ 8 am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-chee... #PeterThiel #ElonMusk #Oligarchy

How to convince the American ppl to change their views on communism? Ho Chi Minh won millions of Vietnamese who didn't even know what that term meant. He empathized with & empowered them. Link to full ep ft lunaoi.bsky.social in comment below 👇 #American #communism

"Vietnam now loves America." Really? The US embargoed and indebted their people for decades after they won. The Vietnamese people forgive but never forget. #embargo #debt #IMF

Millions of Vietnamese faced poverty & famine after the war. The US leveraged that suffering: pay back $145m of the fascist regime's debt, or the embargoes stay. Full ep ft lunaoi.bsky.social 5/16 @ 8 am ET. Link to all our eps in comment below 👇 #poverty #famine

80% of Vietnam would have voted for communist Ho Chi Minh in 1956. That's why the US maintained its fascist dictatorship in the south, sowing the seeds for the Vietnam War. Full ep ft lunaoi.bsky.social Sat 5/16 @ 8 am ET. Find link to all our eps in comment below 👇 #fascist #VietnamWar

“In Vietnam, we do not call it the Vietnam War. We call it the Resistance War Against Imperialist USA.” lunaoi.bsky.social recounts the history of class struggle from a Vietnamese perspective. New ep Sat 5/16 @ 8 am ET. Link to all our eps in comment below 👇 #VietnamWar #history

"It's a good band performance in the sense that it's not sort of built up over time with many different layers. It does feel more live than a lot of the tracks" - pg Listen to 'Won't Stand Down' now: lnk.to/PGS39

Toys for Tots in Cortland County is closing operations. This is a TERRIBLE thing for our community and our more vulnerable neighbors. Read the complete story in the comments below and share. And if you have any ideas for how to keep this from happening, please contact [email protected].

What does it cost to wage empire ? Join us Tues. 5/12 @ 8 pm ET for Macro n Chill to listen to and discuss our latest Macro N Cheese ep. ft. MMT OG Randy Wray! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #LearnMMT #EachOneTeachOne #USEmpire

#Debt ratio above 200%? #Japan proved it doesn't matter. The Bank of Japan keeps rates exactly where it wants. Bet against that and you lose. Link to full ep ft Randy Wray in comment below 👇

😎 New ep w/ Randy Wray & @austerityismurder.bsky.social! The real cost of war is measured not in dollars, but in diverted labor, wasted resources, destroyed infrastructure & the steady cannibalization of society’s productive capacity. Not to mention human lives. Listen here:

$31 trillion in debt and deficits rising. Paulson says get ready for doomsday - bond markets on strike! But he also said the Fed could keep buying. So what's the problem? There is none. Full ep ft Randy Wray Sat 5/9 at 8 am ET. Find all our eps in link below 👇 #debt #bonds

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HONK & WAVE! Join us for our next Honk & Wave, to be held Saturday, May 16 from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Clinton Street Bridge. And the theme is whatever you want it to be, what’s making you most angry that day? Make a sign about it and show up! Or we’ll have a sign that fits! See you there!

The ignorance of the people who vote for these criminals is why we are where we are. Good morning everyone. ☕️☕️☕️

NEW EP! 🐻 The conclusion of our two-part series looking at Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Project, without seeking to condemn or sanctify. @austerityismurder.bsky.social talks with Jeremy from @prolespod.bsky.social

Imagine the thrill of a lifetime in going all the way to the moon... And then coming back and being forced to meet with this piece of trash.

Tonight's tipple a Helles larger in a beer garden in Munich. Lovely weather here.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

Episode 377 – Revisiting the Stalin Eras Part 1 with Jeremy of Proles Pod Full ep. links below. 👇

Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions and reshape our public spaces.

TONIGHT, PLEASE JOIN US! One Year Later: Honoring Virginia Roberts Giuffre 🦋 On Saturday, April 25 at 7:45 pm in Homer, a lantern vigil will take place in memory of the life and legacy of Virginia Roberts Giuffre. This event coincides with a national commemoration in Washington DC.

NEW EP 🎙️ Democratic Centralism sounds like a contradiction, but it’s key to Leninist organizing. Jeremy of Proles Pod & @austerityismurder.bsky.social break it down. No hype, just history & how it actually works. Rethink what #democracy means inside a revolutionary party. #socialism

Your idea didn’t pass? Debate beforehand. Unite afterward. That's revolutionary discipline. The capitalist class will exploit any division. Full ep Sat 4/25 @ 8am ET. Macro N Cheese link in comment below 👇 #debate #capitalist

How did Cold War propaganda shape our views of the Soviet Union and the leaders of the nascent socialist project? Part one of our interview w/ Jeremy of Proles Pod Sat 4/25 @ 8am ET. Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/ #socialism #soviet

To address issues like the climate crisis and economic inequality, we need a real democracy. One which we do not have. How do we vote our way out of oligarchy? Link to full ep ft Jim Byrne of MMT101.org in comment below.👇 #ClimateCrisis #EconomicInequality

Govts aren't like households.️ The 'we can't afford it' lie keeps us trapped. MMT says: resources are finite - money is not. The govt’s real job is managing resources, not balancing a checkbook. Full ep ft Jim Byrne of MMT101 Sat. 4/18 8am ET. Podcast link in comment below 👇 #MMT #resources

(R)evolutionary Struggle ft. Steve Grumbine. Join us for our YouTube premiere tonight at 7 pm ET! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x312... #LearnMMT #ClassConsciousness #DualPower

@austerityismurder.bsky.social on his own shift in direction, that of the Real Progressives organization & this podcast – how new information, revelations, and depth of understanding are helping solidify our analysis of the world around us. realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

Macro N Meme ft. Clara E. Mattei realprogressives.substack.com/p/escape-fro... Episode link: realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-... #economics #inequality #profit #UnpaidLabor

Why does mainstream economics ignore factors like exploitation of labor by design? Join us Tues. 4/7 @ 8 pm ET to listen to and discuss our latest ep. ft. Clara Mattei! Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #exploitation #labor #capitalism

Capitalism traps us w/ invisible coercion, not force. You don't need a knock at the door to make you work. You need to survive. This is how exploitation hides in plain sight. New ep ft Clara Mattei 4/4 8am ET. Find all our ep @ realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/ #capitalism #exploitation