Political Affairs Podcast #103 Fixing the Broken Health System
On this episode, we look closely at the healthcare reform debate and talk with various activists and leaders in the movement to fix the broken healthcare system and create a public option for Americans who can't afford or who have been left behind by the private insurance industry.
Political Affairs Podcast #102 - Building Bridges with Cuba
On this episode, we talk with Elena Mora and John Bachtell, both members of the National Board of the Communist Party and who traveled this month to Cuba for meetings with the Communist Party there and with leaders of various Cuban social and cultural institutions.
Political Affairs Podcast #101 - McCarthyism in American History
On this episode we play our recent interview with authors Clarence Lang and Robbie Lieberman, editors of a new book titled Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement.
Interview with author Daniel Rubin about his new book "Can Capitalism Last?". Discussion of the economic crisis, Marxism, socialism and other hot topics.
Political Affairs podcast #99 Public healthcare option. Yes we can.
On this episode, will meaningful health care reform with a public option pass? We talk with Flavio Casoy, a medical student and an activist for universal health care reform, about the particulars of the debate and the need to build broad unity in order to win.
Political Affairs podcast #98 Change is coming to America
On this episode, the House of Representatives passed a landmark hate crimes prevention bill this past week, and April 28th was Equal Pay Day. President Obama wants you to join a union, and Vice President Biden comments on the Employee Free Choice Act and universal health care reform.
On this episode. Taxes, taxes, taxes. We report on a national movement to restore fairness to the tax code by taxing the rich. Also, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights held a national teleconference on the Employee Free Choice Act as a civil rights issue. We have some audio from that. And, finally, in March El Salvador elected Mauricio Funes, a candidate of the FMLN, as its president. We will play a portion of an interview with Rossana Cambron who visited El Salvador during the election as an observer.
On this episode we will play an excerpted version of our recent discussion with historian and occasional Political Affairs contributor Gerald Meyer about his recent article on cultural pluralism, the historical development of that concept and what it means for today.
On this episode, we feature some discussion of the economic benefits of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill pending in Congress that would reduce barriers to unionization.
On this episode we will play an editorial comment by Political Affairs publisher Joe Sims on race and the economic crisis. It is based on a presentation he made in Chicago in February for an African American history month event sponsored by the People's Weekly World. Also check out Sims' article on this subject in the latest online issue at PoliticalAffairs.net.
On this episode we discuss the "buy America" provisions of the president's economic recovery package with Communist Party Labor commission chair Scott Marshall.
In his recent article for the latest online issue of PoliticalAffairs.net, PA publisher Joe Sims examined one aspect of the financial meltdown that few other commentators have even taken up its racist origins.
On this episode we discuss the Gaza Crisis with Susan Webb, associate editor of People's Weekly World. Also, the US House of Representatives passes two laws to promote equal pay for equal work.
On this episode we talk with regular Political Affairs contributor John Case about his recent article for PA on what Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has called "depression economics."
On this episode we talk with John Rummel who is the organizer of the Communist Party in Michigan about the auto crisis and the need for a bailout for workers.
On this episode, we play the second part of our interview with Josef Gregory Mahoney about China, its political system, and its role in shifting centers power in the world today.
On this episode, we play the first part of our interview with Josef Gregory Mahoney about China, its political system, and its role in shifting centers power in the world today.
On this episode we talk with Sam Webb, chair of the Communist Party USA about the origins of the financial crisis and what it will really take to get out of it.
On this episode, the Green Jobs Alliance releases a report on how to create at least 2 million green jobs, the Energy Action Coalition launches a campaign to get 1 million young voters to the polls.
On this episode we talk with Political Affairs contributor Karin Coddon about her new horror novel The Shadow Man. Also, we chat with PA contributing editor Jose Soler about the concepts of class and globalization.
On this episode we bring you highlights of the Democratic national convention, and an interview with Christopher Cox of Junkyard Empire, a Minneapolis-based hip-hop jazz fusion that is somewhere between Miles Davis and P.Diddy.
On this episode we'll examine some of the claims of the John McCain campaign compared to the record, and expose the real McCain. From veterans issues to Social Security, the war, the economy and health care, John McCain is out of touch.
On this episode we talk with Communist Party Political Action Commission Chair Joelle Fishman about the Party's election program for 2008. We also discuss with Gregory Esteven, a contributing writer for Political Affairs, whether the left has saved capitalism. But first some short segments from the news
