Skip to content Skip to footer

Economic Update: Enabling Worker Co-ops

This week’s episode discusses capitalism and Earth Day, how the Chinese movie industry is overtaking Hollywood and more.

Truthout Logo

Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation.

This week’s episode discusses capitalism and Earth Day, how the Chinese movie industry is overtaking Hollywood, and how small businesses are using cooperatives to compete with big business. Additionally, this segment features an interview with Richard Bartlett, cofounder of Loomio, a powerful software worker-cooperative that is using groundbreaking collective decision-making strategies in its everyday operations.

To see more stories like this, visit Economic Update: Your Weekly Dose of Revolutionary Economics

To listen in live on Saturdays at noon, visit WBAI’s Live Stream

Economic Update is in partnership with Truthout.org

Your radio station needs Economic Update! If you are a radio station, check this out. If you want to hear Economic Update on your favorite local station, send them this.

Visit Professor Wolff’s social movement project, democracyatwork.info.

Permission to reprint Professor Wolff’s writing and videos is granted on an individual basis. Please contact p[email protected] to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

An important fundraising appeal: 9 Days to raise $50,000

Donations are down for Truthout at a time when media is under immense pressure. Google’s AI search has driven our traffic down by 15 percent, Trump is arresting journalists, and many independent media organizations face heartbreaking cutbacks and closures.

At the same time, movement media is vital in the fight against Trump’s authoritarian reign. Our mandate to tell the truth, share strategies for resistance, and speak against fascism is ever more urgent in this deluge of political censorship and misinformation. Yet, we are struggling to meet our publishing costs when our work is so urgently needed.

We are fundraising right now for those basic operating expenses — we need $50,000 in the next 9 days. If you can support Truthout with a one-time or monthly donation, you will make a significant impact on our work. Anything you can do makes a difference.