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Sunday, May 12, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Alan Minsky, Mitch Abidor
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| Progressive Democrats, Victor Serge's Notebooks
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Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats America (PDA), joins us to talk about the Democratic primary field, and what he gleaned from conversations on a recent trip to the European Parliament as part of a contingent of the American left.
Mitch Abidor, translator of "Victor Serge’s Notebooks," newly published by NYRB, joins me in conversation about Victor Serge, the Belgian-Russian anarcho-Bolshevik and lifelong Left Oppositionist, who was one of the great writer-thinker-activists of the 20th Century. Serge’s contribution is especially attractive today because he never compromised his commitment to the creation of a society that defends human freedom enhances human dignity and improves the human condition – and he insisted that democracy was at the heart of the socialist project and that if it wasn’t democratic, it wasn’t socialist. This makes him both a contemporary as well as a man for our future. Serge’s last exile was in Mexico, and a rich trove of his notebooks were recently discovered and published in France in 2012. NYRB has just published the English translation and we are fortunate today to speak to the translator, Mitch Abidor.
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Sunday, April 28, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:19 |
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Sunday, April 21, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:24 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Blase Bonpane, Harold Meyerson
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| Remembering Blase Bonpane; Democrat play dirty
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Remembering Blase Bonpane whose �World Focus� broadcast for fifty years on KPFK, much of it in this Sunday morning time slot. It is fitting that we remember him today on this program, in his time, for his audience. Mitch Jeserich interviewed Blase in 2013 on �Letters to Washington,� about Liberation Theology -- the credo by which Blase lived. We play Mitch Jeserich�s interview.
Harold Meyerson on �The Democrats play dirty, ' his LA Times piece exposing the DCCC�s rule change that would blacklist consultants who aid democratic insurgents 'primarying' sitting centrist Dems, the way AOC did with the �speaker-in-waiting� Joe Crowley. Cheri Bustos, chair of the DCCC is responsible for the blacklist rule, attempting to stifle new voices and protect the centrist status quo in the Party and Congress. But can a rule stave off the new generation of left democratic activists entering the political arena? We�ll get Harold�s take on how not to deal with divisions in the party � in history and today � and how he thinks this will play out. Harold also remembers Gary Stewart, who died Friday night.
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Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:20 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Micah Uetricht, Yoav Peled
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| Socialists win in Chicago; Israeli election
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Micah Uetricht on the election of 5-6 socialists to the Chicago City Council -- a Very Big Deal -- because they will have outsize influence in determining the political issues, as we have seen nationally with democratic socialists in Congress. Micah argues that the socialist victories in Chicago were not a fluke, that people are miserable with the status quo of austerity � and if Chicago�s elections are any indication, it just may be that people are ready to try socialism.
Yoav Peled on the April 9 Israeli election: Benjamin Netanyahu, or Bibi, is under indictment for one case of bribery and two cases of fraud � and Yoav says Bibi is the only issue in the election. He is likely to win even though his party and their bloc � with far right, racist and religious parties -- is more or less tied with the anti-Bibi �Blue and White� coalition or bloc. Yoav also discusses his new book, "The Religionization of Israeli Society," which sheds light on how the country has moved from secular Zionism to an increasingly far right expansionist religious Zionism, and how that helps us understand the election, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the relation between culture, politics, nationalism, secularization and new social movements.
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Sunday, April 7, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:23 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Sarah Mason, Barry Eidlin
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| Lyft driving, Labor & socialism
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Sarah Mason returns -- because Lyft went public this week, just as both Lyft and Uber drivers, the people who power this app-based service, went on strike in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego. The strike was to protest low wages and their unsatisfactory working conditions: they are classified as independent contractors, meaning they lack benefits, paid time off, and the ability to collectively bargain. Sarah Mason, a former Lyft driver and now a grad student at UCSC, wrote "High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification," about being a Lyft driver. She reveals the stark new precarious world of work and explains how workers are motivated, essentially in game mode, to do insane amounts of driving, ever in search of more and better bonuses.
Barry Eidlin joined me for a live broadcast event about Labor, Socialism and the Struggle for Power. Barry compares labor�s divergent fates in the US and Canada -- his book is "Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada" -- in order to shed light on the urgent problems facing workers today. We discuss the new wave of strikes that has captured the public imagination and what it means for politics today.
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Sunday, March 31, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:21 |
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