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Daniel Kovalik is a professor of International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. His most recent book is entitled, "No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests" www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Mor…781510755291 His most recent article is entitled, "I’ve seen for myself the horrific toll Western sanctions are having on the people of Syria and Lebanon."...

Dr. Amal Wahdan is the founder and editor of the Arab Gazette and an organizer for One Democratic State of Palestine (odspal.net). She lives in Ramallah, where she recorded her part of this conversation on July 14th. Dr. Wahdan and Teddie Kelly were both members of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election. bit.ly/syria2021 Find Workers World Podcast at wwp.pub/pod. Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution...

Mpho Masemola is Secretary General of the Ex Political Prisoner's Veterans Association of South Africa (EPPA) and was an underground guerrilla fighter as a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress. He was a political prisoner Pollsmoor Prison, where he was incarcerated along with Nelson Mandela, and later at Robben Island. Masemola was one of ten signatories of the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election...

On June 3rd, 2021, Larry McGlynn interviewed Workers World Party member Ted Kelly about her recent participation in the International Delegation to the 2021 Syrian Presidential Election. Find the delegation's full statement at bit.ly/syria2021. Thanks to People Powered News, 106.5 WPPM FM, and PhillyCAM for granting us permission to reproduce this segment of their program. Special thanks to Larry McGlynn and Allison Durham. Green by jantrax | @jantr4x Music promoted by...

A conversation with Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian writer, biologist, and Workers World Party member. Comrade Abulhawa's latest novel, Against the Loveless World, is out now. We're also joined by Susan's dogs, Luca, Lily, and Mika. !أبطال فلسطين توحّد الأشراف في العالم !تسقط الحركة صهيونية Against the Loveless World: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Against-the-Loveless-World/Susan-Abulhawa/9781982137038 Workers World Party حزب عالم العمّال

Hosted by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party, with special guests PAM AFRICA and DR. JOHANNA FERNANDEZ Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has tested positive for COVID-19. Supporters learned of the diagnosis March 3, as they were gathered in front of the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to call for Abu-Jamal’s release and that of all incarcerated people over 50, who are vulnerable to premature death from COVID-19 and other illnesses....

On March 16th, 2021 Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, author of “Hammer and Hoe: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" and Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at U.C.L.A. joined Asantewaa Nkrumahj Ture of Black Alliance for Peace and Ted Kelly of Workers World Party to discuss the history and significance of the #BAmazon Union struggle led by majority Black workers in Bessemer, Alabama who are taking on Amazon and fighting for a union. Alabama — particularly the...

On February 15, an unprecedented winter storm brought subfreezing temperatures to Texas. After a week, huge sections of the working class, including incarcerated workers, are still without power, heat, and water while elites like Ted Cruz flee to Cancun to wait out the crisis. People in Texas are not only struggling to recover from this freeze, but from previous hurricanes and floods caused by global warming that produces extreme precipitation at all temperatures. This crisis is compounded...

Who will benefit from the bipartisan stimulus bill that is winding its way through the US Congress? On Thursday, March 11, a roundtable discussion of young revolutionary workers from Workers World Party discussed what this stimulus means to poor and working young people and how we can fight back against this unprecedented attack by the super rich. Biden’s campaign promise for a $15 minimum wage has been taken out of the stimulus package with little resistance. Workers have seen how the...

TEAR DOWN THE WALLS! Workers World spoke with Chris Smalls, who was fired from Amazon for organizing a walkout at his Staten Island workplace on March 30th. Chris tells us about why he was inspired to act and reveals that he has been targeted by Amazon even before the COVID pandemic. Also featuring Workers World managing editors Monica Moorehead, Martha Greavatt, as well as Clancy, a WWP member and Whole Foods grocery store worker and organizer. Orchestral Funky Hip-Hop Beat by Glitch |...

This is an interview with Bryant Arroyo, a lifer at SCI Frackville which is a state prison in central Pennsylvania. He's the man Mumia Abu-Jamal referred to as "the world's first jailhouse environmentalist." Bryant has been in prison for 27 years for a crime he did not commit. Read more at workers.org Support the Prisoner Solidarity Committee at patreon.com/WWP #TearDownTheWalls Interstitial Music: Insiders by Joe Crotty | https://soundcloud.com/joecrotty Music promoted by...