Episode Information: On this episode we'll play our interview with Scott Marshall, chair of the Communist Party's labor commission, about the recent AFL-CIO national convention and labor's role in the demonstrations at the G-20 events in Pittsburgh.

Episode Information: On this episode, President Obama raises the roof at the AFL-CIO annual convention, discussing his positions on issues like workers' rights, the environment, jobs, health care reform and education. Stay with us.

Episode Information: It's September 7th, 2009. On this episode, we celebrate Labor Day by playing a portion of our recent interview with Labor historian and activist Rosemary Feurer, author of the groundbreaking book Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950.

Episode Information: It's August 29, 2009. On this episode, we play a portion of our recent interview with historian Gerald Meyer about his recent article for the Columbia Journal of American Studies on radical painter Alice Neel. So stay with us.

Episode Information: On this episode, we talk with People's World labor editor, John Wojcik, about the coverage of labor and working class issues in that publication. When the corporate media is full of hype, you can get the facts at PeoplesWorld.org.

Episode Information: On this episode, we play our recent interview with Teresa Albano, editor of the Peoples World, peoplesworld.org. Albano discussed the PW's editorial philosophy, it's role in reporting on labor and democratic struggles, and some of the big changes it is undergoing this fall.

Episode Information: On this episode, President Obama fires back against Republican obstructionism of health reform. The minimum wage goes up July 24th to $7.25 per hour. And we play excerpts of a recent interview with Dan Kovalik a United Steelworkers union staffer who traveled to Honduras earlier this month to observe pro-democracy protests against the military coup.

Episode Information: On this episode, the government is now saying that the swine flu may not be as bad as expected, plus, we interview scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson about his new radio show, Star Talk Radio, and we talk with up and coming hip hop band Junkyard Empire about politics and music.

Episode Information: On this episode, we look closely at the healthcare reform debate and talk with various activists and leaders in the movement to fix the broken healthcare system and create a public option for Americans who can't afford or who have been left behind by the private insurance industry.

Episode Information: On this episode, we talk with Elena Mora and John Bachtell, both members of the National Board of the Communist Party and who traveled this month to Cuba for meetings with the Communist Party there and with leaders of various Cuban social and cultural institutions.

Episode Information: On this episode we play our recent interview with authors Clarence Lang and Robbie Lieberman, editors of a new book titled Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement.

Episode Information: Interview with author Daniel Rubin about his new book "Can Capitalism Last?". Discussion of the economic crisis, Marxism, socialism and other hot topics.

Episode Information: On this episode, will meaningful health care reform with a public option pass? We talk with Flavio Casoy, a medical student and an activist for universal health care reform, about the particulars of the debate and the need to build broad unity in order to win.

Episode Information: On this episode. Taxes, taxes, taxes. We report on a national movement to restore fairness to the tax code by taxing the rich. Also, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights held a national teleconference on the Employee Free Choice Act as a civil rights issue. We have some audio from that. And, finally, in March El Salvador elected Mauricio Funes, a candidate of the FMLN, as its president. We will play a portion of an interview with Rossana Cambron who visited El Salvador during the election as observer.

Episode Information: On this episode we will play an excerpted version of our recent discussion with historian and occasional Political Affairs contributor Gerald Meyer about his recent article on cultural pluralism, the historical development of that concept and what it means for today.

Episode Information: On this episode, we feature some discussion of the economic benefits of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill pending in Congress that would reduce barriers to unionization.

Episode Information: On this episode we will play an editorial comment by Political Affairs publisher Joe Sims on race and the economic crisis. It is based on a presentation he made in Chicago in February for an African American history month event sponsored by the People's Weekly World. Also check out Sims' article on this subject in the latest online issue at PoliticalAffairs.net.

Episode Information: On this episode we discuss the "buy America" provisions of the president's economic recovery package with Communist Party Labor commission chair Scott Marshall.

Episode Information: On this special episode we interview singer/songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg about his new album Mr. Love and Justice (Anti Records).

Episode Information: On this episode we talk with Political Affairs contributor Karin Coddon about her new horror novel The Shadow Man. Also, we chat with PA contributing editor Jose Soler about the concepts of class and globalization.

Episode Information: On this episode we talk with Communist Party Political Action Commission Chair Joelle Fishman about the Party's election program for 2008. We also discuss with Gregory Esteven, a contributing writer for Political Affairs, whether the left has saved capitalism. But first some short segments from the news