Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Hyung Nam talks with Effie B about recent mobilizations among the left against the right in Portland, and about the Portland police’s targeting of anti-fascist activists.  Although Effie organizes with PopMob, they are speaking here about their own views and not for t... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams about the future of the democratic left.  Williams is best known for his book Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America.  Kristian and Bill discuss his latest work, Whither Anarchism? which calls for social transformati... Read more

Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments: Whither Anarchism?  Bill Resnick talks with Kristian Williams about the future of the democratic left.  Hyung Nam talks with Effie B about antifascist organizing and police targeting (extended version). Joe... Read more

  Joe Clement talks with Alessandra Seiter about her recent article for the Socialist Worker on libraries, hate-groups, and free speech. They consider the contradictions of the American Library Association's commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion on the one hand,... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization.  They advocate a World War II type great mobilization, here and around the world, to vastly reduce, or even eliminate, greenhouse gas emissions starting today. The group has just won Climate Emer... Read more

IWW organizer Marianne talks with the Old Mole’s Joe Clement about Stardust Family United, the union formed by singer-servers at Ellen's Stardust Diner with the help of the New York branch of the Industrial Workers Of The World. Though they won a big settlement ahead of ... Read more

  One of the most important thinkers following Marx and who extended our understanding of capitalism and how it shapes our lives was the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Although his life was shortened by a long prison term imposed by Mussolini, his Prison Notebooks con... Read more

The abolition of chattel slavery, the Civil Rights movement, and the Women's movement, partial and inadequate as they are, leave untouched a kind of slavery that is pervasive and nearly invisible. Clayton Morgareidge explains how we are all enslaved by the domination of ... Read more

Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Old Mole, with the following segments: 1. Margaret Klein Salamon of The Climate Mobilization talks with Bill Resnick about the massive WWII-size commitment necessary to deal adequately with climate change. 2. Joe Clement in... Read more

  Bill Resnick interviews Jessica Tovar, an organizer with the Local Clean Energy Alliance in California, about how California cities and counties are taking over the electric energy systems from the privately held Investor Owned Utilities such as PGE, and with new demo... Read more