Episode #113
The Bosses have Two Parties-We Need One with Les Leopold
Les Leopold is a longtime labor educator, author, political economist, and co-founder and executive director of The Labor Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to worker education, union activism, and economic and environmental reform. Raised in a working-class family of war refugees, Leopold studied at Oberlin College and earned a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University. He later worked closely with visionary labor leader Tony Mazzocchi, a pioneer of the occupational safety movement and an early advocate for a Labor Party. Leopold is the author of several acclaimed books on labor, economic inequality, and political power, including Runaway Inequality, How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour, Wall Street’s War on Workers, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor, and The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own. You can find Les Leopold's Substack here , and you can find more information about his newest book, The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own here . Fight Back! Radio is online at fightbackradio.show , and on the following socials: Instagram Twitter TikTok Facebook YouTube And as always, check out Fight Back! News: Instagram Website Twitter
