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Sunday, August 24, 2025 10:00 am
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| Barry Eidlin
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| Air Canada Strike and what labor can win
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Labor sociologist Barry Eidlin returns to discuss the recent Air Canada strike, which has now reached a tentative agreement. The strike began when 10,000 flight attendants, organized in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), walked off the job on August 16, after months of failed negotiations. The Canadian government responded with its usual move: a back-to-work under Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code—a provision that ostensibly regulates strikes, but is instead used to short-circuit them. But this time, something unusual happened: the workers defied the order, chanting “Forced to fly? We won’t comply!”
After an all-night bargaining session, they secured a tentative settlement on August 19th — showing what labor can do when it doesn’t back down.
We talk about the strike, the government response, its outcome and what it portends. We’ll also talk about the differences between Canadian and US labor law, strike outcomes and public policy.
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Sunday, August 17, 2025 10:00 am
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| Vladyslav Starodubtsev
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| Alaska summit and Ukrainian Revolutionary History
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Ukrainian left activist, historian, and soldier Vladyslav Starodubtsev joins us to connect two moments, separated by more than a century, in the fight between Russian power and Ukrainian self-determination. We begin with the Trump–Putin Alaska photo op “summit” -- an attempt to decide Ukraine without Ukraine at the table. Thankfully, a Munich in Alaska was averted, no deal was struck.
Then we turn to the Ukrainian People’s Republic of 1917-1923, born in the revolutionary upheavals of 1905, WWI, and the February 1917 Russian Revolution. Built on grassroots power from peasants, workers, soldiers, and cooperatives, it was a state with sweeping land reform, gender equality, national-personal autonomy for ethnic minorities, and a cooperative economy. It did not last. Its history is tied to the larger story of revolution, civil war and defeat. Starodubtsev traces the through-line from that struggle to today’s resistance: lessons on power, sovereignty, and the future of democracy.
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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, August 10, 2025 10:00 am
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1:00:15
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| Tariq Ali, Flor Melendrez
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| Corbyn’s new “Your Party”; ICE raids on carwasheros in LA
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Tariq Ali on Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new formation —provisionally called “Your Party”— which signed up 650,000+ in weeks, surpassing the Labour Party in membership. What’s driving the surge, beyond Starmer’s Labour government with nothing for the population, but billions for war and complicity in genocide? We discuss the emerging program: public ownership, redistribution, a politics that unites the broad left; the split-the-vote charge, and the prospects and perils ahead.
Then Flor Rodriguez (CLEAN Carwash) on ICE’s escalating raids hitting carwasheros across Southern California—how the operations work on the ground, the legal pushback against unconstitutional workplace and home raids that violate the 4th and 5th Amendments, and how workers are organizing to defend their jobs and families.
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Cal State LA Community News Hour
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Sunday, August 3, 2025 10:00 am
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| Julie P Liss
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| Christiane Rios
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| Homelessness + Beyond Bars: Stories of Liberation
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The "Cal State LA Community News Hour" airs the first Sundays of each month at 10 a.m. on KPFK 90.7 FM Pacifica Radio. The show features stories by Cal State LA student journalists from the largely under-covered areas of the Eastside and South L.A. that they live in -- which is why they often find stories others don't. Cal State LA professors Julie Patel Liss and April Brown produce the show, along with their students.
Episode 32:
Part 1: This is the first of several follow up stories about LA Public Press and UT Community News' investigation on tiny homes, temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County. This interview is a preview of a follow up story for LA Public Press. Hosted & edited by Julie Patel Liss.
Parts 2 & 3: We'll hear two stories that are part of recent Cal State LA graduate Christiane Rios "Beyond Bars: Stories of Liberation," series about women's lives after incarceration. Hosted & edited by Cal State LA grad Vincent Moc.
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https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/cal-state-la-community-news-hour/
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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, July 27, 2025 10:00 am
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1:00:12
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| Yoav Peled
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| Netanyahu, Gaza, and the Crisis of Israeli Politics
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As Gaza starves and the world watches in horror, Israel’s relentless, devastating war grinds on with staggering human costs. Yoav Peled assesses the accelerating crisis in Israel and Gaza, and the war’s domestic logic: a strategy for Netanyahu’s political survival, not peace.
Netanyahu faces growing international condemnation and internal anger. Polls now show that a majority of Israelis want the war to end and the hostages returned—even if Hamas remains in power. We’ll explore the broader political implications of the war: the disarray of the opposition, the growing authoritarianism of the state, public awareness and public opinion, and the push to disqualify Arab parties from the slated October elections.
Can Netanyahu stay in power? Peled says Bibi has worked hard to remove any potential threat or successor, so “there's no government, there's no Israel, there's only Bibi.” Tune in for his sober analysis of Israel’s internal politics and war.
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Sunday, July 13, 2025 10:00 am
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| Ksenia Kagarlitskaya, Simon Pirani, Ilya Budraitskis
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| Putin's Political Prisoners
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Suzi Weissman moderates a panel from the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, July 4, on Putin’s Political Prisoners— critical voices imprisoned for publicly opposing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The panel draws attention to these prisoners of conscience resisting war and authoritarianism—both from inside Russia’s prison system and in exile.
We hear from Ksenia Kagarlitskaya, daughter of imprisoned Marxist Boris Kagarlitsky and founder of the Freedom Zone campaign; we’ll also hear from Boris Kagarlitsky himself, in a recorded message from Penal Colony No. 4; historian Simon Pirani; and exiled scholar Ilya Budraitskis.
The day before this panel—on July 3—eleven political prisoners, including Kagarlitsky, issued an open letter to world leaders. They called for the mass release of Russian political prisoners and Ukrainian civilian hostages—an estimated 10,000 people—as part of any peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine.
As pressure builds for an end to the war, their call must become ours: freedom for all political prisoners!
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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, June 29, 2025 10:00 am
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| Alan Minsky
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| Mamdani’s spectacular NYC Mayoral Primary victory
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Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist, has just pulled off a historic upset—defeating Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.
Despite being outspent 4 to 1, Mamdani’s campaign galvanized record turnout in triple-digit heat, powered by years of grassroots organizing among young progressives, immigrants, and working-class New Yorkers. His inclusive platform – emphasizing affordability – and visionary campaign won the day against the status quo, and set off alarm bells in the ossified Democratic establishment.
Mamdani is the first Muslim and South Asian nominee for mayor of New York, and the first democratic socialist in generations with a real chance to lead America’s largest city. He won support across nearly every constituency—from working-class neighborhoods to communities long pushed to the party’s margins.
Can this victory be replicated across the country? What can we learn from this campaign?
Alan Minsky—just back from New York, where he worked on Mamdani’s campaign, joins us to talk about how Mamdani won, what it means for New York, the left, the future of the Democratic Party, -- and social democratic reforms across the country.
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