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Old Mole Variety Hour for December 23, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Mole, featuring two discussions of the situation and the prospects for change in post-apartheid South Africa, Jesus as a radical, and Capitalism and the environmental crisis. To hear the whole show, including music, use the play but... Read more

Post-apartheid South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In spite of the ANC's and Nelson Mandela's socialist orientation, when they took power, they bought into neo-liberalism. Why? South Africa historian John Saul continues his discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the future of class struggle in South Africa. Pa... Read more

Post-apartheid South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In spite of the ANC's and Nelson Mandela's socialist orientation, when they took power, they bought into neo-liberalism. Why? South Africa historian John Saul continues his discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the future of class struggle in South Africa. Pa... Read more

Post-apartheid South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In spite of the ANC's and Nelson Mandela's socialist orientation, when they took power, they bought into neo-liberalism. Why? South Africa historian John Saul continues his discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the future of class struggle in South Africa. Pa... Read more

Post-apartheid South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In spite of the ANC's and Nelson Mandela's socialist orientation, when they took power, they bought into neo-liberalism. Why? South Africa historian John Saul continues his discussion with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about the future of class struggle in South Africa. Pa... Read more

Movie Moles: 12 Years a Slave

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel and her guest, Lynn MaKau, review the film "12 Years A Slave". Directed by Steve McQueen, John Ridley's screenplay adapts Solomon Northrup's own 1853 account of being deceived and captured by slavers while living as a free-born African in upstate New York. Nort... Read more

Movie Moles: 12 Years a Slave

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Frann Michel and her guest, Lynn MaKau, review the film "12 Years A Slave". Directed by Steve McQueen, John Ridley's screenplay adapts Solomon Northrup's own 1853 account of being deceived and capture by slavers while living as a free-born African in upstate New York. North... Read more

The Complexity and Contradictions of Class Consciousness in Nelson Mandela

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

In the Old Mole method, offering a critical though comradely commentary on the political work of Nelson Mandela, Alan Weider digs beneath the distracting and disarming veneer surrounding the late Nelson Mandela in mainstream media today. Inverting Barack Obama's neoliberal ... Read more

John Saul on The End of Apartheid, Race, and Class Domination in South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with John Saul, a historian of South Africa and active contributor to The Socialist Register. They review some history of antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, and what did or did not happen when it was officially ended. John explains how South Africa's... Read more

John Saul on The End of Apartheid, Race, and Class Domination in South Africa

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick talks with John Saul, a historian of South Africa and active contributor to The Socialist Register. They review some history of antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, and what did or did not happen when it was officially ended. John explains how South Africa's... Read more