Seeing Red Radio

Sunday’s coup by the Honduran military and the international response it invoked reveals a shifting dynamic between the global South and the continued hegemony of the North Atlantic. After 13 years of hard-fought struggle the Smithfield Workers finally win their first contract. Recent unemployment statistics reveal a lengthening recession in the United States. We return to Michael A. Lebowitz’s book, Build It Now: Socialism in the 21st Century for a look at Karl Marx’s disrobing of classical political economy in his master work Capital. We remember the days of rioting at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village forty years ago this week. Finally, we look back at this day, July 2nd, in Revolutionary History.

A New Day Dawns in the Western Hemisphere: The Old Day Not Yet Buried by Harry Targ
First-ever union contract approved at world’s largest pork plant by John Wojcik
467,000 More Jobs Lost in June by Jason Lefkowitz
An excerpt from “Build It Now: Socialism in the 21st Century” by Michael A. Lebowitz
An excerpt from the documentary, Before Stonewall

Music:
Contras, Kings and Generals, & From Kabul to Khartoum – David Rovics
Charming the Cobra – Cobra Skulls
Susan’s in the Union – Vern Paltrow
Gone, Gone, Gone – Red Shadow
The Internationale – Sheffield Socialist Choir

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Original version broadcast on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 8 PM EST on WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM

Valley Free Radio Northampton, MA

Program Length – 1:01:03