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Sunday, September 14, 2025 10:00 am
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| Sebastian Budgen, Joe Allen
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| French political crisis; Teamsterland
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Sebastian Budgen joins to unravel the political turmoil in France, where Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government has collapsed after losing a vote of confidence. President Emmanuel Macron’s relentless drive to impose austerity has sparked yet another wave of resistance: the “Block Everything” mobilization on September 10, which brought unions, students, and grassroots activists into the streets, with another national strike set for September 18. Sebastian Budgen is here to help understand this political moment: over the years I’ve spoken to him about explosive social movements that have stopped governments in their tracks. Today we ask: what makes this mobilization different — and what does the crisis mean for the left, the far right, Macron’s presidency, and the future of the Fifth Republic?
Joe Allen talks about his new book Teamsterland — a story of the union’s notoriety and contradictions. In 2023, after a year-long contract campaign and practice pickets, the Teamsters came close to launching one of the largest strikes in U.S. history before reaching a last-minute agreement with UPS covering 340,000 workers. Leaders hailed it as “game-changing,” but some Teamsters worried about what was left on the table. And just months later, Teamster president Sean O’Brien stunned many by speaking at the Republican National Convention. From the near-strike at UPS to O’Brien’s embrace of Donald Trump, Allen shows how the Teamsters’ fate mirrors the challenges facing the American working class.
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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, August 31, 2025 10:00 am
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1:00:13
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| Vermont Senator Tanya Vyhovsky
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| Inside Ukraine at War
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| Vermont State Senator Tanya Vyhovsky has just returned from several weeks in Ukraine, where she traveled from Kyiv to L’viv, Kryvyi Rih, and Dnipro. In her diary and now with us, Tanya shares on-the-ground reflections from meetings with trade unionists, feminists, students, and survivors of Russia’s bombardment. Her visit coincided with Putin’s meeting with Trump in Alaska — pointedly without Zelensky at the table. We’ll hear Tanya’s analysis of Ukraine’s fight for survival, the role of labor and grassroots organizations in keeping society alive, and why international solidarity has never been more urgent.
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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, August 24, 2025 10:00 am
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1:00:12
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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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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, August 17, 2025 10:00 am
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1:00:12
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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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| 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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