Michelle Keller is a retiree of District Council 37 and President of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women AFLCIO. She joins us from New York City to discuss the outcome of a labor agreement which attempts to force New York City retirees to accept a privatized Medicare advantage program to access free care. Should this plan go forward, they would have to pay nearly $200 a month in order to secure traditional Medicare. The matter is now before the City Council which will vote on a proposal to change the City’s administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.
Without self-determination, socialism becomes an economistic demand that fails to account for imperial rule.
There can be no workers’ rights without peace and social justice. “War and militarism are class issues.”
On any given day, 80,000 people are locked in solitary confinement in US prisons and jails.
This week we discuss the rising popularity of socialism in the US, Bernie Sanders’ energy policy, and the electoral obstacles to electing a new Congress.
Race-based medicine in the US has solidified health inequality and is bound up with indebtedness.
