Carl Dix of Refuse Fascism on the Resistance to Trump

Carl grew up in the ghettos of Baltimore. He has spent his life building the revolutionary movement deep within the ghettos and barrios. He knows the conditions and hopes of the people first hand.
Wherever he goes, Carl Dix puts forward the interests and aspirations of the world's oppressed and proletarian people. He believes that only all-the-way communist revolution can end the oppression suffered by billions of people across this planet.
Carl is a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA. He has written a widely circulated critique of Black capitalism.

Alan J Singer on the Slave Trade in New York City

Few people may know that New York City is a gigantic civil war monument to both the union and confederacy. NYC has a deep history as America's premier port and economic center. It was the capitol of the US when Washington was president, the Erie Canal connected the midwest grain belt with the world, its civil war mayor wanted to secede and NYC was the target of a rebel plot to burn the metropolis to the the ground. A former High School Social Science teacher Alan Singer discusses the continuing slave trade in NYC on the eve of civil war and the conspiracies of business and finance to profit from the sale of human beings kidnapped from the coast of Africa by pirate slavers. Now NYC fit into the slave trade and the response of education authorities to demands for a telling of the story to young people in the school system.

Andrew Blatcher ANTIFA Activist Witness to Charlottesville Fascist Rally

Andrew Blatcher ANTIFA Activist was a witness to the tiki torch march by fascists in Charlottesville and the murder of Heather Heyer in a terrorist attack. Also Carl Dix of RefuseFascism.org

Joshua Green on Steve Bannon, and Donald Trump

Joshua Green is an American journalist who writes primarily on United States politics. He is currently the senior national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek. He is author of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

"I Can't Breathe," Anniversary of Eric Garner Homicide By NYPD

Activist musician Ty Black aka Queen Blizzy and Jewel Miller mother of Legacy the child of Eric Garner who was killed by PO Daniel Pantaleo in a choke hold in 2014.

Stephen Taylor: the Genocide of Yazidi People by ISIS and US WAR Machine

Three years ago on August 3, 2014, a frightened escape by 200,000 Yazidi people from an onslaught by ISIS troops led to a desolate mountain named Sinjar. Kurdish forces heled most escape, although 50,000 were taken by ISIS, many heading to sexual slavery and death. We are joined from Irbil, Iraq by reporter Stephen Taylor, an international journalist who lives in Iraq and has reported from many places in the region. He joins us on WBAI.