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Mumia: Fear of Socialism
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
15 Dec 2020

Margaret Kimberley · Mumia: Fear of Socialism

“Politicians have pulled out the fear card – socialism – to ensure that voters stay in their place,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner. “The term “still has a foreign ring” to US ears, but it’s actually “about as American as hunger, itself,” said Abu Jamal, in a commentary for Prison Radio.

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