Socialist News and Views

Special Report Recorded (9/2/2025) and Uploaded (9/4/2025) (PHOTO: Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) Workers informational picket in St. Paul Winter 2022) ****(NOTE - IMPORTANT UPCOMING LABOR EVENT - RALLY AT DAVIS: Prioritize Lower Class Sizes and Safe Staffing!  www.facebook.com/events/1114084400824142 ) (****BONUS EVENT: Join Educators and their supporters at open bargaining session on Thursd...

Special Report (8/28/2025) In this special report we hear audio from a protest at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center on Monday August 25th 2025. A speech and two short interviews with workers.

(NOTE: An audio version of this interview on YouTube includes CAPTIONS:  youtu.be/V5Pt0VN03UU?si=32pzkag9TMleYyPt ) INTERVIEW with Jihad Jneid ( https://www.instagram.com/jeehad.jn/ ), Journalist and Producer from Tripoli, Lebanon. He entered Syria just hours after the fall of the Assad regime there. Here we discuss the situation on the ground in Syria shortly after the fall of Assad and later. Th...

Special Interview Recorded (8/5/2025) and Uploaded (8/14/2025) In this Special we speak with Raycurt Johnson (AKA Raycurt Lemuel AKA FIDDLA: http://raycurt.com/bio.htm ). He has been in Minneapolis for about 5 years. He is based at the Center for Performing Arts where he has a studio and at George Floyd Square ( https://www.instagram.com/38thandchicagogfs ) where the community still meets twice a...

Special Report (8/7/2025) In this special we discuss the release on July 25th, 2025 of George Ibrahim Abdallah from a French prison after 41 years as a political prisoner. Abdallah played a leadership role within the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_External_Operations ) and f...

Special Interview Recorded (7/29/2025) and Uploaded (7/31/2025) (NOTE - A video version of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBi2jBWWtz8 ) In this special we speak with Leslie Myint (She/Her) an Associate Professor of Data Science and Statistics at Macalester College (https://www.macalester.edu/) and also a member of the Zero Burn Coalition...

Special Interview Recorded (7/10/2025) and Uploaded (7/24/2025) In this special we speak with long-time activist Beth Blick, Board Member of Minnesota Citizens for Global Solutions ( globalsolutionsmn.org ) and MN State Chapter of the National Organization For Women (NOW: https://now.org/ ). In this special we speak about ending the practice of allowing sheltered workshops for disabled individuals...

NEWS + POEM + ESSAY - Empty and Fill: Seven Days in Chengdu, China ready by Anne Winkler-Morey ( https://annewinklermorey.com/fill-up-and-empty-seven-days-in-chengdu-china/ ). NEWS: Good Trouble Lives On: https://goodtroubleliveson.org/ (FULL) Good Trouble Lives On: Socialist News And Views Interview with Monique Cullars Doty, Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota: https://youtu.be/NV5wgvzP-Y...

Special Report (7/10/2025) In this special we revisit 40 years since the 1985 bombing of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior) in the Port of Auckland. The bombing and subsequent sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a "covert operation" by the French secret service agency, the Directorate-General for Exte...

Special Interview Recorded (6/19/2025) and Uploaded (7/3/2025) (NOTE: A video version of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/obXNp1uHXaY?si=mSTzS09o-DXlE95P ) In this Special Interview the great Author and Globetrotter Anne Winkler-Morey ( https://annewinklermorey.com/about-the-author/projects/travel-blog-political/ ) interviews the Host of Social...

Special Interview Recorded (6/24/2025) and Uploaded (6/26/2025) (NOTE - A video version of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/mIS-vmbJfg4?si=UO4txy3BHOPqbrfj ) In this special we speak with Bjorn Johnson, a Paraprofessional at Inver Grove Heights School Districts who works primarily in Special Education. Johnson is a member of Teamsters Local 320 ( https://...

NEWS + MUSIC + ESSAY In Behalf of the IWW by Helen Keller ( https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/18_03_x01.htm ) NEWS: St. Paul ‘No Kings’ rally attracts 25,000 as community mourns shooting of lawmakers (6/14/2025): https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minnesota-capitol-no-kings-rally-draws-thousands/ Late DFL leader Melissa Hortman remembered as ‘shining ligh...

Special Interview Recorded (6/10/2025) and Uploaded (6/12/2025) In this special we speak with Andrea Stearns a Registered Nurse and socially conscious Minneapolis activist. Stearns has an organization called Red Dog Collective ( https://www.reddogcollective.org/ ) that provides services to the unhoused community in South Minneapolis. In this special we discuss the Tuesday, June 3rd raid on Las Cua...

Special Interview Recorded (6/3/2025) and Uploaded (6/5/2025). In this special we speak with Adam Turl (member of Locust Arts & Letters Collective: www.locustreview.com/ a Co-founder of Born Again Labor Museum: www.bornagainlabor.com/ and author of the book Gothic Capitalism: www.revolpress.com/gothic-capitalism ). Turl's book was just released recently and I have just finished reading it so w...

Special Interview Recorded (5/25/2025) and Uploaded (5/29/2025). In this special we speak with Nadia with Wedge Workers ( https://www.instagram.com/wedgeworkers/ ) who are Co-op staff from both Wedge Lyndale (UFCW 1189) and Wedge Linden Hills (UFCW 663). Nadia, who works at the Lyndale location, where a recent picket was held, talks about the fight for freedom of expression at work. (A note: this...

Special Interview Recorded (5/16/2025) and Uploaded (5/22/2025) (NOTE: Upcoming event: SSC Inaugural Cookout Saturday, May 24·11:00am – 3:00pm at Powderhorn Park in MPLS) In this Special Interview we speak with Boris Smelov one of those organizing with the Socialist Social Club (SSC: https://socialistsocialclub.org/ ). We discuss the history and future of the club as well as how you can get involv...

NEWS + MUSIC + ARTICLE - The Art Of Primitive Communism by Adam Turl (member of Locust Arts & Letters Collective: https://www.locustreview.com/ a Co-founder of Born Again Labor Museum: https://www.bornagainlabor.com/ and author of the book Gothic Capitalism: https://www.revolpress.com/gothic-capitalism ) NEWS: The race for Mayor: https://southsidepride.com/2025/05/06/the-race-for-mayor/ ‘Blue...

Special Report Uploaded (5/8/2025) (PHOTO: Still from video of Stop the Attacks on Queer and Trans Rights! FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023) In this special report we here two speeches. At the beginning we here a speech from Jae who is a member of Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar (TCC4J: https://sites.google.com/view/tcc4j/home ) and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO: https://frso.org/ ) w...

Special Interview Recorded (3/19/2025) and Uploaded (5/1/2025) (PHOTO: Public art, Jeju Island, South Korea) HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY! (NOTE: A video version of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/RX2EEgOLEak?si=f9k9i0QlZ6YylxVk ) In this special interview we speak with one time Minneapolis resident, retired professor, writer and world traveler A...

Special Interview Recorded (4/21/2025) and Uploaded (4/24/2025) (NOTE: You can watch a video version of this interview on the Urban Cabin Studios YouTube here: https://youtu.be/kqFA7wNWsnc?si=IUmV3Jn7UF97GV7l ) In this special interview we speak with John Wallace, a forest activist and Vice President of the Shawnee Park and Climate Alliance ( https://www.shawneentlpark.org/ ). Wallace recently ret...

NEWS + MUSIC + INTERVIEW Lessons From The Toya López Campaign In this episode we speak with Toya López ( https://www.facebook.com/votetoyalopez/ ) about lessons learned from a run for the 61A House of Representatives position last year as a Green Party candidate in Minnesota. ---- NEWS: FRSO off to fast start: $15k netted, $85k to go!: https://fightbacknews.org/articles/frso-off-to-fast-start-15k-...

(**The views expressed in this debate are the views and perspectives of the individuals only and do not necessarily represent the official positions of any other entity or organization.**) (THREE NOTES... NOTE 1: This Debate was recorded before the "Hands Off" April 5th protests across the country. NOTE 2: This interview is available as a video from Urban Cabin Studios on their YouTube C...

FROM THE ARCHIVE - Recorded (9/1/2023) and Uploaded (4/3/2025) This is never before published narration from our September 2023 visit to Rabideau CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp) Camp ( https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/chippewa/recarea/?recid=26640 ) in Blackduck Minnesota. This narration leaves off at the end of our visit to The Lost 40 in our THE LOST FORTY9th Episode # 49 ( https://soundcloud.co...

Special Interview Recorded (3/4/2024) and Uploaded (3/27/2024) (NOTE: A video version of this interview is available from Urban Cabin Studios YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvau6cktFLg&t=4s ) In this special we interview Guillermo Kane, Argentine leader and militant in the Workers' Party Partido Obrero ( https://po.org.ar/ ) We also speak with John Reimann, a retired Carpenter a...

In this Extra we have four contributions from women at events in February and March 2025: #1 - Salwa Nubani, DO Psychiatry speaks as part of the Disability Justice is Liberation panel at the Lucy Parsons Center on February 22nd, 2025. Nubani is a member of Healthcare Workers for Palestine. The event was organized by Families Against Military Madness (FAMM: https://www.instagram.com/familiesagainst...