Socialist News and Views

Special Interview Recorded (1/28/2026) and Uploaded Here (1/29/2026) (A NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH18Nf9Wsqk ) (ANOTHER NOTE: National Day of Action at Target stores on Saturday January 31, 2026 - MORE INFO: https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/ ) In this special I speak with Kip Hedges, a member of Workers'...

Special Interview Recorded (1/11/2026) and Uploaded Here (1/22/2026) (NOTE: You can sign the petition in Solidarity with Lebanon's small hold farmers here: https://en.siyada.org/siyada-board/campaigns/call-for-solidarity/ ) In this special we speak with Ghassan Makarem of the Agricultural Movements in Lebanon (AgriMovement: https://agrimovement.org/ ) about the concern of small hold farmers th...

In this Extra I read a flyer from Freedom Road Socialist Organization ( FRSO: https://frso.org/ ) that I was handed at the January 3rd, 2026 Emergency MN Protest, No War On Venezuela that was held in Downtown Longfellow in South Minneapolis. The reading is over background of audio from the January 3rd protest.

NEWS + MUSIC + INTERVIEW - Thirst Trapping For The Revolution. In our interview recorded on January 3rd, 2026 we speak with Alannah (a.k.a. AKD1984: https://www.instagram.com/akd.1984/ ) Alannah is from Melbourne Australia and is currently using "her assets" like her "degree in development" and her "sex appeal" to "spread class consciousness and ignite revolution...

Special Interview Recorded (12/27/2025) And Uploaded Here (1/8/2026) (THUMBNAIL PHOTO - Chicago -- from Paul Goyette: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/54887147521/in/album-72177720330367428 ) (NOTE - A video version of this interview is available from URBAN CABIN STUDIOS on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2qb4lPlemXQ?si=B3ltqJBhDM-BqvV5 ) In this special we speak with Steve Edwards, who lives in C...

Special Interview Recorded (12/19/2025) And Uploaded Here (1/1/2026) (NOTE: you can watch a video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/68ho4P-RHO8?si=3ebS2y1g1xmiLyIM ) In this special we speak with Jacob Ward, who is a journalist who has worked for NBC, PBS, Al Jazeera and other news sites. Ward has covered tech for a long time including as Editor in Chief of Popular...

Holiday Special Report (12/25/2025) Links to items covered in this Holiday Special Report: Progressive Labor Party: https://www.plp.org/ Italian Hall disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster Mourn for him, boys PLP-LP rewrites Joe Hill: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ca.firstwave/cpl-plp-lp.htm Winona ROAR: https://www.facebook.com/RoarWinona/ Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen...

NEWS + MUSIC + INTERVIEW - FREE BOOKS . In the interview my brother Jamie and I discuss the FREE BOOKS table. We curate books of all genres we think could be helpful to the movement and set up a table with Free Books at protests and other events in Minneapolis (and sometimes other places). If you want information about books in general and occasional notices about where the table will be set up jo...

Special Report (12/11/2025) After Trump attacks the Somali community...Minneapolis, Minnesota, and this podcast stand strongly with the Somali people against racist and xenophobic attacks by this regime's secret police. Links To Items Covered In This Special: Trump, ICE target Somalis in Minneapolis; city leaders respond (12/2/2025): https://www.fox9.com/news/trump-administration-targeting-twi...

Special Interview Recorded (11/23/2025) and Uploaded (12/4/2025) In this special we speak with Jason. Jason self-identifies as a redneck and has been a communist for 25 years. He has founded a number of local chapters of leftist organizations primarily in Alabama; such as the Socialist Party USA (SPUSA: https://www.socialistpartyusa.net/ ) and Communist Party USA ( CPUSA: https://www.cpusa.org/ )...

Special Interview Recorded (11/20/2025) and Uploaded (11/27/2025) In the middle of 2023 we spoke with Eliza Blum from General Strike US (find that interview here: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-interview-general-strike-us ) In this special we speak with Laura Fredrickson-Gosewisch, who is a regenerative vegetable farmer, market vegetable grower, and manager of a Farmers M...

Zohran Mamdani's Full Victory Speech, November 4th, 2025 (VIDEO/YOUTUBE):  https://youtu.be/5cG4WD8uEwE?si=Ujw1KuGR7TETcyZ8

NEWS + THEORY OF REVOLUTION by Peter Maurin + AUDIO ESSAY - If Conservatives Are So Keen On Marriage, Why Are They So Bad At It? by Stephanie Cholensky. (THUMBNAIL PHOTO: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife Angela who are getting divorced) NEWS: RoseMarie Roberts LIVESTREAM (ICE/FBI/other Feds in St. Paul): https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1WfW1bBVn7/ Felony charges for local activist c...

Special Report (11/13/2025) In this special we start out speaking with Brian von Ahsen about a recent nightmare patient experience in the Hospital as a result of short staffing. Then we broaden our scope to look at a number of elements of US Capitalist Healthcare's decline. Links to items covered in this special: Hennepin Healthcare resident physicians file for union recognition (3/12/2025): h...

A discussion and debate with community members and organizers in the Midwest on guns and gun control in America. (NOTE: A video version of this debate is available from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9xJj7OfugSM?si=IBezFhZ71aQZh71H ) David Boehnke: An organizer and visionary, works with people in the prison system to transform the prison system, a High School Teacher and educator...

Special Interview Recorded (10/25/2025) and Uploaded (10/30/2025) (NOTE: A video of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0mm_dfnbQe4?si=WKcvoYt5XODv2ODc ) In this Special Interview we speak with Dan Engelhart ( https://danengelhart.org/ ) who is running for Park Board District 1 in Minneapolis. Engelhart is a Labor and Community Organizer who has been a...

Special Interview Recorded (9/30/2025) and Uploaded (10/23/2025)(NOTE: You can watch a video of this interview on YouTube from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3tunnaYG1o )In this special we speak with Kamana'okekai Lattig (She/He) who identifies as Māhū (native Hawai'ian gender identity) and is Kānaka Maoli ( which means “real people" and refers to people in...

(NOTE: You can watch a version of this as a video on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios, which includes some images and video of settler violence: https://youtu.be/BxxAnWZ0kWk?si=boqv728mT56QMRVR ) In this Interview we speak with Yolanda Roth. Yolanda Roth is a Social Justice Activist, Singer, Songwriter and General Lover of Humanity. Originally from Wisconsin Roth has lived in the Twin Cities si...

NEWS + MUSIC + ASSATA SHAKUR SPEAKS (letter read by Shakur from 1998 on Pacifica Radio). NEWS: Wall Street’s Bid For Your Power (10/3/2025): https://www.levernews.com/wall-streets-bid-for-your-power/ Report From The Occupied West Bank: Interview For Socialist News And Views (URBAN CABIN STUDIOS YOUTUBE): ⁠https://youtu.be/BxxAnWZ0kWk?si=zRF9bdK_kpKwCyPv Amid ceasefire, Minnesota Palestinians expre...

Special Interview Recorded (10/07/2025) and Uploaded (10/09/2025) In this special we speak with Jeff Roy and Arlys Herem from Veterans For Peace ( https://www.veteransforpeace.org/ ) and their Save Our VA ( https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/stop-privatization-veterans-health-administration ) campaign. We discuss the current situation with Veterans Healthcare and the Healthcare at the De...

Special Interview Recorded (9/25/2025) and Uploaded Here (10/2/2025) (NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube for Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/AOCYmGkckgg?si=hf4uGFCU7Aty0U2H ) In this Special Interview we speak with Anthony DePice ( https://www.instagram.com/j.anthony.depice/ ), originally from Philly who now works with 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 i...

Special Interview Recorded (9/11/2025) and Uploaded (9/25/25). In this special we speak with the local author Elaine Klaassen about her book La Penultima: With A Rose In Its Eye ( https://www.amazon.com/PENULTIMA-ROSE-ITS-EYE/dp/B0D92NTR9C ). She has also written for the local newspaper SouthSide Pride ( https://southsidepride.com/columnists/elaine-klaassen/ ) for many years. The author wished for...

In this Extra we hear the voice of Journalist Pranaya Rana from Nepal who has reported on recent Gen Z protests at Kalam Weekly ( https://kalamweekly.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search ). You can watch a video version of this interview on the YouTube of Urban Cabin Studios: https://youtu.be/wk9kJnQx_gg?si=FlBQAgziYg2xxwHA

NEWS + MUSIC + PERSPECTIVES on Social Movements from listeners. NEWS: State DFL declares war on Minneapolis: https://southsidepride.com/2025/09/03/state-dfl-declares-war-on-minneapolis/ Educators RALLY AT DAVIS for Smaller Class Sizes and Safe Staffing! 9/9/2025 (FROM URBAN CABIN STUDIOS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPoiEgDuHGE Teamster Strike Victory at the University of Minnesota: https://w...

Special Interview Recorded (9/9/2025) and Uploaded (9/11/2025) (ILLUSTRATION: from Laws of Social Reproduction Twitter of the European Research Council.) (NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the Urban Cabin Studios YouTube here: https://youtu.be/nWMA2Te1kU4?si=15aowHByYVrqw7rx ) In this Special Interview we speak with James Radek, Revolutionary Socialist, Anti-Police and Ant-F...