Episode Information: On this episode we play the second of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Some democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.

Episode Information: August 5th, 2010. On this episode we play the first of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Some democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.

Episode Information: On today's episode, we play the second part of our interview with author, lawyer, and ciivl rights activist Michelle Alexander whose new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness just came out from The New Press. So stay with us.

Episode Information: It's June 5th, 2010. On this special two-part episode, we interview author, lawyer, and civil rights activist Michelle Alexander whose new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness just came out from The New Press. Check it out at NewJimCrow.com.

Episode Information: It's June 3rd, 2010. On this episode we talk with Political Affairs contributing editor Ben Sears about his new book, Generation of Resistance: The Electrical Unions and the Cold War, out now in paperback at Amazon.com. So stay with us.

Episode Information: On this episode we talk with Jarvis Tyner about racism in the Obama era and about the importance of Black History Month. Tyner is the executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA.

Episode Information: It's January 6th, 2009. On this episode we discuss national politics with Communist Party chair Sam Webb, focusing on some of the ideas in his recent report to the Communist Party's national committee. This interview was recorded in December 2009. Stay with us.

Episode Information: Gerald Horne is the author of numerous books including Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese attack on the British Empire, Cold War in a Hot Zone, The White Pacific, Fire This Time, Blows Against the Empire, and The Deepest South. His most recent is a study of the impact of the MAu Mau uprising in Kenya on US foreign and domestic policy.

Episode Information: On this episode we'll play our interview with Scott Marshall, chair of the Communist Party's labor commission, about the recent AFL-CIO national convention and labor's role in the demonstrations at the G-20 events in Pittsburgh.

Episode Information: On this episode, President Obama raises the roof at the AFL-CIO annual convention, discussing his positions on issues like workers' rights, the environment, jobs, health care reform and education. Stay with us.

Episode Information: It's September 7th, 2009. On this episode, we celebrate Labor Day by playing a portion of our recent interview with Labor historian and activist Rosemary Feurer, author of the groundbreaking book Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950.

Episode Information: It's August 29, 2009. On this episode, we play a portion of our recent interview with historian Gerald Meyer about his recent article for the Columbia Journal of American Studies on radical painter Alice Neel. So stay with us.

Episode Information: On this episode, we talk with People's World labor editor, John Wojcik, about the coverage of labor and working class issues in that publication. When the corporate media is full of hype, you can get the facts at PeoplesWorld.org.

Episode Information: On this episode, we play our recent interview with Teresa Albano, editor of the Peoples World, peoplesworld.org. Albano discussed the PW's editorial philosophy, it's role in reporting on labor and democratic struggles, and some of the big changes it is undergoing this fall.

Episode Information: On this episode, President Obama fires back against Republican obstructionism of health reform. The minimum wage goes up July 24th to $7.25 per hour. And we play excerpts of a recent interview with Dan Kovalik a United Steelworkers union staffer who traveled to Honduras earlier this month to observe pro-democracy protests against the military coup.

Episode Information: On this episode, the government is now saying that the swine flu may not be as bad as expected, plus, we interview scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson about his new radio show, Star Talk Radio, and we talk with up and coming hip hop band Junkyard Empire about politics and music.

Episode Information: 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.

Episode Information: 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.

Episode Information: 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.

Episode Information: Interview with author Daniel Rubin about his new book "Can Capitalism Last?". Discussion of the economic crisis, Marxism, socialism and other hot topics.

Episode Information: 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.

Episode Information: On this special episode we interview singer/songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg about his new album Mr. Love and Justice (Anti Records).