Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

  Frann Michel shares thoughts drawn mostly from an article by Jane McAlevey from In These Times about "What #MeToo Can Teach the Labor Movement," but also touching on disucssions of social reproduction theory by Tithi Bhattacharya and Silvia Federici, as well as inform... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg Hosts this episode of the Old Mole and includes Bill Resnick and Don McIntosh, senior reporter for the Northwest Labor Press, discuss union renewal with examples of unions that inspire and activate members. A report from the class struggle at the n... Read more

  Bill Resnick talks with Don McIntosh of NorthWest Labor Press about various perspectives on unions, differences or similarities with the Labor Notes perspective, the different kinds of unions, the value of communities of interest between unions and the people they ser... Read more

  Three leading elven labor activists from the North Pole Labor Study group offer a class analysis of the North Pole "gift economy"; via Jacobin.   Read more

  Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken look back at 1983's Trading Places, a comedy of Wall Street finance in the Reagan era.  Read more

  Book Mole Larry Bowlden looks back on his reading this past year, and recommends, among other works, The Ninth Hour,  Manhattan Beach, The Snow Child, Lying Under the Apple Tree, and works by Mary Lawson and William Boyd.   Image by Ch. Maderthoner (Own work) [CC0], v... Read more

Denise Morris reviews an article in Counterpunch by Paul Street: What's Not Happening with Mr. Jones. Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in the recent Alabamian senatorial race. As Street argues, it’s not much of a victory.   Graphic by Jake Mapping2015 via Wikimedia Commons Read more

Tom Becker shares exceprts from  The US is Not a Democracy, It Never Was by Gabriel Rockhill, philosopher, activist and professor at Villanova University.   Graphic by CityGypsy11 Read more

Jan Haaken talks with Katie Gentile about feminist politics, sexual harassment and the #MeToo campaign. They take up different feminist positions on the problem of harassment and how to respond to the issue as a symptom of this historical period.  Gentile is Professor of... Read more

Today on the Old Mole: Bill Resnick interviews Dena Floberg of Free Press on Net Neutrality.  Denise Morris reviews an article by Paul Street entitled What's Not Happening with Mr. Jones (the newly elected senator from Alabama).  Tom Becker reads excerpts from The U.S. Is... Read more