Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.’s new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book “fills a giant hole in the literature,” illuminating the role played by “Black elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,” said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. “Many ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,” said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
In this week’s segment, we explore the right-wing politics of South Africa's anti-migrant movement and its impact on upcoming elections. But we begin with the first and only union leader to organize…
Chris Smalls discusses his book, "When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class," published by Penguin Random House. He is best known for successfully organizing an Amazon…
Our guest is Nairobi-based political writer and strategist Clinton Nzala. He joins us once again to provide an update and analysis of the anti-immigrant March and March movement in South Africa,…
The Hague Group’s goal is to “. . . take coordinated legal and diplomatic measures against Israel’s violations of international law.” But international law was never a reality.
“I believe that the Movement of Nonaligned Countries…can buttress the united will of the Arab nation and help it to prevail against intervention and aggression.”
