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Revolutionary Socialist Organization for Global Class War. Since 1959. Build a Workers World! workers.org

09/13/2021

"The world is actually getting much bigger" - Dan Kovalik on sanctions and human rights

Daniel Kovalik is a professor of International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. His most recent book is entitled, "No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests" www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Mor…781510755291 His most recent article is entitled, "I’ve seen for myself the horrific toll Western sanctions are having on the people of Syria and Lebanon." www.rt.com/op-ed/534711-wester…tion-syria-lebanon/ Dan and Teddie were both members of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election. bit.ly/syria2021 Find Workers World Podcast at wwp.pub/pod. Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

49 min
08/04/2021

"We are bonded" - Dr. Amal Wahdan on International Solidarity in the 21st Century

Dr. Amal Wahdan is the founder and editor of the Arab Gazette and an organizer for One Democratic State of Palestine (odspal.net). She lives in Ramallah, where she recorded her part of this conversation on July 14th. Dr. Wahdan and Teddie Kelly were both members of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election. bit.ly/syria2021 Find Workers World Podcast at wwp.pub/pod. Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

45 min
06/21/2021

Anti-Apartheid Guerrilla Fighter: “We made the system ungovernable”

Mpho Masemola is Secretary General of the Ex Political Prisoner's Veterans Association of South Africa (EPPA) and was an underground guerrilla fighter as a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress. He was a political prisoner Pollsmoor Prison, where he was incarcerated along with Nelson Mandela, and later at Robben Island. Masemola was one of ten signatories of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election (bit.ly/syria2021). He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. This interview was recorded on June 16th, 45th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising, when 20,000 Black students protested white supremacist schooling policies in Apartheid South Africa. Find Workers World Podcast at wwp.pub/pod. Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

1h 4m
06/16/2021

2021.6.3 PhillyCAM Interview - 6:16:21, 11.29 AM

On June 3rd, 2021, Larry McGlynn interviewed Workers World Party member Ted Kelly about her recent participation in the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election. Find the delegation's full statement at bit.ly/syria2021. Thanks to People Powered News, 106.5 WPPM FM, and PhillyCAM for granting us permission to reproduce this segment of their program. Special thanks to Larry McGlynn and Allison Durham. Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

57 min
05/11/2021

"This Isn't Something New": susan abulhawa on Palestine, Settler-Colonialism, and the Environment

A conversation with susan abulhawa, Palestinian writer, biologist, and Workers World Party member. Comrade abulhawa's latest novel, Against the Loveless World, is out now. We're also joined by Susan's dogs, Luca, Lily, and Mika. !أبطال فلسطين توحّد الأشراف في العالم !تسقط الحركة صهيونية Against the Loveless World: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Against-the-Loveless-World/Susan-Abulhawa/9781982137038 Workers World Party حزب عالم العمّال

46 min
03/26/2021

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Freedom is the Only Treatment w/ Dr. Johanna Fernandez - WW Round Table 3/18/2021

Hosted by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party, with special guests PAM AFRICA and DR. JOHANNA FERNANDEZ Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has tested positive for COVID-19. Supporters learned of the diagnosis March 3, as they were gathered in front of the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to call for Abu-Jamal’s release and that of all incarcerated people over 50, who are vulnerable to premature death from COVID-19 and other illnesses. Due to mismanagement of the virus crisis, prisoners in Pennsylvania are experiencing high rates of COVID. Exempt from mandatory testing and refusing to wear masks, guards and other prison staff are the source. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist, former Black Panther, and after being shot by a white police officer and framed for murder in 1981, a world renowned political prisoner. His revolutionary writing has uncompromisingly criticized the institutions of white supremacy, imperialism, and capitalism. Next month, he will turn 67 years old. The last 40 years of incarceration has had a devastating effect on Mumia's health. He suffers from cirrhosis of the liver after contracting Hepatitis C in prison and has acute dermatitis all over his body. After contracting COVID 19, he now also has congestive heart disease. The only treatment for these ailments is, at long last, his UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE FROM PRISON. Join Betsey Piette and Ted Kelly of the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party in a panel discussion with Pam Africa of the MOVE Organization; Dr. Johanna Fernandez, author of The Young Lords; and Santiago Alvarez, fellow student of Mumia Abu-Jamal's at UC Santa Cruz. BRICK BY BRICK WALL BY WALL FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

1h 42m
03/18/2021

From Hammer & Hoe to #BAmazonUnion: a conversation with Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley - 3/16/2021

On March 16th, 2021 Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, author of “Hammer and Hoe: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" and Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at U.C.L.A. joined Asantewaa Nkrumahj Ture of Black Alliance for Peace and Ted Kelly of Workers World Party to discuss the history and significance of the #BAmazon Union struggle led by majority Black workers in Bessemer, Alabama who are taking on Amazon and fighting for a union. Alabama — particularly the Birmingham-Bessemer area — has a centuries-old tradition of Black-led organizing against enslavement, racist land seizures, Jim Crow racism, prison-convict labor, segregation laws and Ku Klux Klan violence. Within living memory of the Amazon workers and their families is their starkly dedicated struggle against white-supremacist assassinations and bombings of Black churches and homes during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. In 1990, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley published the phenomenal book “Hammer and Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party 1928-1951,” documenting the 23-year history of the Alabama Communist Party, a chapter of the Communist Party USA. Formed and molded by Black sharecroppers and laborers such as Black revolutionary Hosea Hudson, the ACP went above and beyond fighting for the rights of laborers and workers, Black and white, to the rights to housing, food and equal pay. We are also joined by Saladin Muhammad of the Southern Workers Assembly, Devin Cole of WWP Central Gulf Coast and STRIVE, and Susan Abulhawa, Workers World Party member and author of "Mornings in Jenin" and "Against the Loveless World." Learn more about building March 20th solidarity actions at supportamazonworkers.org. Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

1h 27m
03/16/2021

Eyewitness Texas: WW Round Table 2/25/2021

On February 15, an unprecedented winter storm brought subfreezing temperatures to Texas. After a week, huge sections of the working class, including incarcerated workers, are still without power, heat, and water while elites like Ted Cruz flee to Cancun to wait out the crisis. People in Texas are not only struggling to recover from this freeze, but from previous hurricanes and floods caused by global warming that produces extreme precipitation at all temperatures. This crisis is compounded further by the COVID pandemic and the massive suffering of Texans and workers across the capitalist world. Many people in Texas have frozen to death, and deaths are likely undercounted as more bodies will be found after the thaw. After months of high unemployment, record evictions and 500,000 virus deaths, we have a deregulated energy sector making record profits. The cause of all of this misery and profit for the rich? An entirely deregulated capitalist system that is destroying the planet. Hear five of our Texas comrades share their experiences, discuss and analyze this crisis and talk about why socialism is necessary to fight this climate disaster. Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

1h 10m
03/12/2021

Biden's Stimulus: Relief or Ripoff? WW Round Table 3/11/2021

Who will benefit from the bipartisan stimulus bill that is winding its way through the US Congress? On Thursday, March 11, a roundtable discussion of young revolutionary workers from Workers World Party discussed what this stimulus means to poor and working young people and how we can fight back against this unprecedented attack by the super rich. Biden’s campaign promise for a $15 minimum wage has been taken out of the stimulus package with little resistance. Workers have seen how the extended unemployment benefits originally in this stimulus bill have fallen from $400 to $300. This bill cannot possibly help our class make ends meet. Two-thirds of workers report they have been living paycheck to paycheck since COVID-19 hit U.S. shores. Nearly half were in that predicament even prior to the pandemic. This is due to extremely low wages, combined with the exorbitant costs of housing and other necessities. On the other hand, the handful of billionaires have thrived during the COVID pandemic. U.S. billionaire wealth has increased by 1.3 trillion since the pandemic began in March 2020. Millions of people lost their jobs but the super rich increased their wealth by over 40%. Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | https://soundcloud.com/patchworker Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

1h 2m
04/21/2020

Chris Smalls: "These Billionaires Should Be Ashamed"

TEAR DOWN THE WALLS! Workers World spoke with Chris Smalls, who was fired from Amazon for organizing a walkout at his Staten Island workplace on March 30th. Chris tells us about why he was inspired to act and reveals that he has been targeted by Amazon even before the COVID pandemic. Also featuring Workers World managing editors Monica Moorehead, Martha Greavatt, as well as Clancy, a WWP member and Whole Foods grocery store worker and organizer. Orchestral Funky Hip-Hop Beat by Glitch | https://soundcloud.com/glitch Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Green by jantrax | https://soundcloud.com/jantr4x Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ One Destination, Two Journeys by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

42 min
04/01/2020

"We're On Death Row Lockdown" - Conversation w/ Bryant Arroyo

This is an interview with Bryant Arroyo, a lifer at SCI Frackville which is a state prison in central Pennsylvania. He's the man Mumia Abu-Jamal referred to as "the world's first jailhouse environmentalist." Bryant has been in prison for 27 years for a crime he did not commit. Read more at workers.org Support the Prisoner Solidarity Committee at patreon.com/WWP #TearDownTheWalls Interstitial Music: Insiders by Joe Crotty | https://soundcloud.com/joecrotty Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Intro/Outro Music: Followers by Unwritten Stories | https://soundcloud.com/unwritten-stories Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

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