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 The death of historian and novelist Alexander Saxton led Old Mole Tom Becker to reflections on Saxton's long life as a radical activist and historian of race and labor.  Saxton is the author of The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in Californi... Read more

  Tom Becker hosts this show about the search for a vanished but popular musician, living shamelessly on public assistance, the demise of the European welfare state, and remembering a radical historian and activist.  To hear the whole show, use the play button below.  To h... Read more

  Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this second of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to buil... Read more

  On today's special labor-day Old Mole, Laurie Mercier hosts and we hear:   Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gindin about long-term working-class strategies to resisting capitalism Laurie and Denise Morris review the 1990 documentary about the Hormel meat-packers str... Read more

  Laurie Mercier hosts this special Labor Day episode and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Sam Gindin, an economist and activist who spent more than 20 years in the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Union, now teaches at York University, Toronto, and is author of the forth... Read more

Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this first of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to build p... Read more

Joe Clement talks with Emmit Nolan and Marie, members of the Portland IWW, about their Paid Sick Days Now! campaign. In addition to the October 6th rally at Holiday Park, they discuss the problem of workers coming into work sick because they have no other choice, the fai... Read more

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Bill Resnick continues his interview with Historian Bill Smaldone about the German Social Democratic Party. They discuss the split within the party over World War I, the Weimar Republic period of liberal democracy, developments after WW2 when social democrats developed ... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews the Man Booker prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. While the first part of the book is a fine life story, the second makes it a profound work on the meaning of history as the point "where the imperfections of memory meet t... Read more