Communism

  • Democracy Now! August 22, 1997

    Caribbean Community and Cuba; Chris Hani and the Truth Commission; Back to School |(14 Minutes) Caribbean Community and Cuba Leaders of the 15-member Caribbean Community hit back last week at a Congressional bid to penalize the group for establishing closer trade links with Cuba. GUEST: Ambassador Corinne Mcknight, Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago to the…

  • Democracy Now! July 31, 1997

    Tobacco Deal; Tobacco; Campaign Finance Abuse; Suicide Bombing; Cambodia |Tobacco Deal The Institute for Policy Studies and the Stakeholder Alliance have released a new study regarding the tobacco industry’s proposed settlement prior to Senate hearings. GUEST: Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies. Tobacco A new scientific study regarding hazards ammonia and nicotine have…

  • Democracy Now! January 1, 1999

    Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Monthly Commentary; 40th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution |Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Monthly Commentary Written by Abu-Jamal but read by Adrienne Rich since Pennsylvania prison officials have banned Mumia from recording commentaries for broadcast. 40th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution It was forty years ago today that the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista was forced to…

  • Russia: Collapsing economy, conflicted leadership, and the nuclear legacy

    Russia: Collapsing Economy, Conflicted Leadership, and the Nuclear Legacy GUEST: Mark Weisbrot is the director of research at the Preamble Center for Public Policy and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and author of Globalization for whom? and The Phony Crisis of Social Security. GUEST: David Johnson is an associate director of the…

  • American Labor : Myths And Realities / Jon Amsden Interviewed By Marc Cooper

    Marc Cooper (KPFK News Director) interviews historian Jon Amsden (professor at U.C. Davis) about the labor movement and class struggle in the U.S. (for labor day special): Debs, the Wobblies, Palmer raids, Spanish Civil War, prairie socialism, bombing of the L.A. Times, and other topics are covered. Period 1900-1940 in U.S. is focus but current…

  • Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley

    Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) and political activist and scholar Angela Davis (1944 – ). The rally was in support of Davis whose appointment to the faculty of U.C. Berkeley was challenged by the University of California Board of…

  • Reminiscences of the communist international / Bertram Wolfe.

    Talk on Wolfe’s experiences with Joseph Stalin, Trotsky, Bukharin, Molotov, and other Soviet communists during the early years of Russian communism, and the resulting troubles which these associations caused in the United States.|REMINISCENCES OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Professor Bertram Wolfe, senior research associate at the Hoover Institute for the Study of War, Revolution and Peace,…

  • The Communist Party of Australia / Mavis Robertson ; interviewed by Dorothy Healey.

    On the party’s growth and objectives.

  • Eric Hobsbawn ; interviewed by Dorothy Healey.

    The British Marxist historian discusses politcs and economics.