First, we speak to Dr. Johnny Eric Williams who is Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College in Connecticut. Professor Williams has a special interest in the covid-19 pandemic and how it has been handled in this country. Covid continues to have an impact, but now there is an official consensus to act as though it has disappeared. The neglect of public health is a result of neoliberal policies. He joins us from Hartford, Connecticut.
Josmar Trujillo is a writer and activist based in New York City. He joins us to talk about policing in New York under mayor Eric Adams. You can find him on twitter @josmar_trujillo.
Dr. Philippe Gendrault joins us to discuss presidential election results in the French overseas territories of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. The candidate who was considered right wing, racist and even fascist, won the votes of majority Black populations. But the results don’t explain a more complicated story of voter apathy born of political disaffection and protest. Dr. Gendrault speaks to us from San Francisco.
Every year presents new challenges to those struggling for human liberation.
The Devil got a donor—a real high roller! The Devil’s donor base blew up like it caught the mumps from this true believer in big Capital projects:
Without self-determination, socialism becomes an economistic demand that fails to account for imperial rule.
There can be no workers’ rights without peace and social justice. “War and militarism are class issues.”
On any given day, 80,000 people are locked in solitary confinement in US prisons and jails.
