• Statement from Katherine Franke
    Statement from Katherine Franke

    A statement from Katherine Franke, a longtime Columbia Law professor who was terminated after defending student Gaza protests.

    A radical voice in a dispossessed land (Yates interviews the translator of Paraguayan Sorrow)
    A radical voice in a dispossessed land (Yates interviews the translator of Paraguayan Sorrow)

    Rafael Barrett has always been close to the hearts of Paraguayan radicals, who, along with his progeny, have kept his memory alive. And he is known throughout the Southern Cone of South America, though his work has suffered long periods of relative neglect there.

    Community Currencies with Jens Martignoni
    Community Currencies with Jens Martignoni

    Money on the Left speaks with Dr. Jens Martignoni, lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and chief editor of the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). Community or complementary currencies are phenomena of great interest to monetary scholars and activists. We’ve spoken often about them on this show–whether about the Benjamins classroom currency at SUNY Cortland, the DVDs currency at Denison, or our recurring work on the Uni Currency Project. During our conversation with Martignoni, the appeal of such projects becomes clear.

    Trump’s threat of a tariff wall
    Trump’s threat of a tariff wall

    All this however is still in the realm of mere possibilities; what is more certain is the 10 per cent tax on global imports and the 60 per cent tax on imports from China.

    Looking backward autobiographically
    Looking backward autobiographically

    I'm old enough to remember, just barely, the Great Depression: lines of shabby men waiting for free soup, better-dressed men selling apples on streetcorners, miles of evil-smelling, self-made shacks in a Hooverville near Newark.… In February 1937 I recall the movie newsreel with happy, unshaven sit-down strikers at GM in Flint, waving from the factory windows in a dramatic (Communist-led) victory which changed the USA.

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