We chat with indie political analyst Dan Welch and union worker Gregory Lucero to discuss the current state of unions today, unions historically, and if anything can be done in the present to aid the union fight.
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Today I talk to Stephanie McMillan, an author and cartoonist, who we have had previously on the program to discuss her book Why Capitalism Must Die, to discuss an article she wrote for Skewednews.Net entitled “What Is Surplus Value and Why Should Anti-Capitalists Care?”
We also have on Sarah Cruz of the organization One Struggle [Onestruggle.net], where she co-wrote an article, along with Jorge Quintana and Matthew Daiagi, entitled “A Few Points on Electoral Politics.”
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Today we sit down with Labor Chair Nick Partyka to discuss an article he wrote in March entitled “On The Meaning of ‘Middle Class’ and the State of the Middle Class.” In the article, he explores the idea of the meaning middle class throughout Western and US history.
Happy May Day.
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Today we sit down with writer, researcher, academic, and manual laborer Joseph M. Kramp to discuss manual labor and society’s view of those who engage in it. We also discuss his article entitled “Call of the Wild: The Negative Tendency in the Nature Religions of American Youth,” that was published in 2013 in the Journal of Religious Health.
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