Seeing Red Radio: Honduran Coup, Smithfield Workers and Marx’s Capital 7/2/09
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.
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Seeing Red remembers the Black Panther Party, featuring the voices of Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Bobby Rush, Fred Hampton and others. We follow with Israel’s right-wing coalition lashing out at Israeli Arabs in the Knesset with a trio of bills that would criminalize any commemoration of the Nakba, any refusal to recognize Israel as a “Jewish state”, and demand of Israeli Arabs to sign loyalty oaths or lose their citizenship. Finally, we remember the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
The Two-State Solution is a non-starter with the Zionist regime of Netanyahu. On this edition of SRR we examine the proposal for a secular one-state that represents all of the people of historic Palestine. We also expose the heinous lies of pro-corporate opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act, including the glaring statistic that reveals the number of unfair labor practice filings with the National Labor Review Board against unions amounts to “only 42 cases of misconduct over seven decades—while there are nearly 30,000 unfair labor practices against workers by companies every year.” So much for “union intimidation”… We also commemorate the end of the first acquisition of state power by the working class, the Paris Commune, when it was violently suppressed in 1871.
Obama shows his true colors by not releasing the un-seen Abu Ghraib photos. Lawrence Wilkerson reveals that detainees were tortured to spill lies that would support the invasion of Iraq. Dick Cheney hits the major news networks with lie after lie. This time it’s not WMD’s, or the efficacy of torture, but the Employee Free Choice Act. US Chamber of Commerce uses bailout money to fight against EFCA. Obama stealthily slips in over 100 billion for the International Monetary Fund, while the IMF, in the face of the global financial crisis, destabilizes Turkey, Latvia, and “threatened” Pakistan, to name just a few. Finally, another Palestinian child dies as a result of Israel’s continued siege on Gaza.
May Day Solidarity, Comrades!
