Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities across the country are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce take effect. In this episode of&nbsp;Working People, Maximillian Alvarez speaks with VA nurses and union representatives for National Nurses United about how these cuts, coupled with Trump’s attempt to strip over one million federal workers of their collective bargaining rights, are hurting VA workers, the quality of care they’ve been trained to provide, and the veterans they serve.Guest(s):  Irma Westmoreland, a registered VA nurse in Augusta, Georgia, who currently serves as secretary-treasurer of National Nurses United and chair of the National Nurses United Organizing Committee/NNU-VA Sharda Fornnarino, a navy veteran who has worked as a VA nurse for 25 years, and who currently serves as the National Nurses United director of the Denver VA.  Additional links/info:  National Nurses United&nbsp;,&nbsp;,&nbsp;, and&nbsp; National Nurses United - Veterans Affairs&nbsp; NNU Press Release:&nbsp;  Eric Umansky &amp; Vernal Coleman,&nbsp;ProPublica, “” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “”  Featured Music:  Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song  Credits:  Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor  &nbsp;

Trump cuts leave VA hospital nurses and veteran patients in a crisis

Skinhead! Rudeboy! and Punk! – We shout it out loud,
Different in style, but together we’re proud.
Brass and spikes and boots in the crowd,
One beating heart, we stand strong and proud!



WORKING CLASS OI FROM OUTER SPACE

Unity in Bender

 this is for the dreamers, the fighters, the intergalactic cry!

Working Class Oi! from Outer Space

City of Oi! – no future, no rules
For skinheads, punks, and cosmic fools


City of Oi!

A life full of madness, and one shining star
I made this album – took insanity out of the jar
This is my signature!


Chaos, Tea & Starlight

A weary love song for those who keep going. “It’s Workin’, but it’s Work” captures the honest grind of staying together when it’s not easy—but still worth it.

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It's Workin', but it's Work

49. Au travail
Junk, l’émission qui ne jette rien, aurait bien besoin de vacances. Au moins peut-elle trouver un réconfort dans ses disques. Bah oui : comment donc pourrions-nous supporter le travail sans la musique qui nous en venge ?
De Linton Kwesi Johnson à Lee Dorsey, de Riot Squad aux Impressions, la playlist sera joyeusement laborieuse.
Illustration : dessin de Franquin (« Idées noires »).

Junk, l'émission qui ne jette rien 49 - Au travail

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As migrant workers across the US face an onslaught of racist state terrorism from ICE and other federal agencies, solidarity from the labor movement is more critical than ever. One of the most powerful tools of repression that the bosses have is using racist dehumanization to split workers against each other across national lines. So now more than ever, it's critical that American workers understand that these migrant workers are our brothers and sisters, and that only by uniting with them can we advance our class interests. For as long as there has been a border between the US and Mexico, workers on both sides have only ever won their struggles against oppression through unity, rather than division. In this series, using the incredible book Radicals in the Barrio by Professor Justin Akers Chacon as our core guide, we will discuss the history of shared working class struggles by Mexican and Mexican American workers on both sides of the border from the Mexican-American War to the Cold War. 

In this first episode, we will begin by laying the groundwork for the politics of the Mexican Revolution, looking back through the history of colonization, independence, war with the United States, and relations with US Imperialism. In future episodes, we'll discuss the role of the working class in the Mexican Revolution, how these revolutionaries brought their ideas north across the border and influenced struggles in the US, and how multi-national unity has been critical to any labor victories won in the Southwest for over 150 years.


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The Working Class Has No Border Ep 1: Pre-Revolutionary Foundations

https://thecommunists.org/2025/01/01/news/history/stalins-library-geoffrey-roberts-resume-book-review-pt1/

Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review, pt 1

Dance beat, great mix, working class, party

Easy Beat on Easy Street

🇩🇪 Deutsch:
Wir sind Opa Klaus und die Sahnemumus – ein musikalisches Irrenhaus, komplett gesteuert von KI.
Unsere Tracks? Total durchgeknallt. Genre? Gibt’s bei uns nicht. Von Elektroschlager über dadaistische Apokalypse-Pop bis zu Techno-Märchenrap – alles, was verrückt genug ist, kommt rein.
Wir lassen die künstliche Intelligenz frei drehen und feiern das Chaos.
Wenn du auf radikale Sounds, absurde Texte und musikalische Grenzüberschreitungen stehst – willkommen bei den Sahnemumus!

🇬🇧 English:
We are Opa Klaus and the Sahnemumus – a musical madhouse powered entirely by AI.
Our tracks? Completely bonkers. Genre? Doesn’t apply here. From electro-schlager to dadaist apocalypse pop to techno fairytale rap – if it’s weird enough, it’s in.
We let the AI go wild and celebrate the chaos.
If you’re into radical sounds, absurd lyrics and genre-breaking madness – welcome to the Sahnemumus!

🇵🇭 Tagalog:
Kami ang Opa Klaus at ang mga Sahnemumus – isang AI-powered na musikang kabaliwan.
Mga kanta namin? Grabe sa kaweirduhan. Genre? Wala kaming pake. May electro-schlager, pop ng katapusan ng mundo, at techno-kwento rap – basta baliw, pasok ‘yan!
Hinahayaan naming magwala ang AI – at masarap pakinggan ang kaguluhan.
Kung trip mo ang kakaiba, nakakatawa, at genre-bending na tunog – tara sa Sahnemumus!

Dungeon Creole:

We be Opa Klaus an’ da Sahnemumus – cursed soundmancers from the Deep Data Warrens.
Songs? Twisted spellnoise. Genre? Crushed under iron boots.
From lightning-schlager to doomscribble chants to techno fairytale babble – if it's weird, it’s welcomed to the feast.
The AI rages. We cackle. Reality shatters.

If ye crave sonic heresy, lyrical curses, and forbidden genre-smelting – crawl closer.
Welcome to da Sahnemumus Crypt. Mind the goo.

Like, follow, comment, share. There's more coming. Always.

See phrases.pub for lyrics, licensing, and a full, searchable catalog.

Phrases and Phases Publishing is a one-man label, archive, and reality-refraction field. Founded by J. Adam Walters - lawyer-turned lyricist, satirist, and architectural dropout from polite society - it's the home for songs that shouldn't exist, poems that go to far, and fictional universes with better paperwork than the Library of Congress. 

From folk elegies to parody rap to theocratic cartoon trauma epics, everything here is written by a human who uses AI as a collaborator and instrument rather than an outsourced brain, and finished only when it reaches a space where laughing hurts, or hurting laughs.

Marxist analysis of current events and scientific socialist theoretical insights from the CPGB-ML. Get educated and get organised!

A podcast by, for, and about the working class today
(WE'VE MOVED OVER TO SPOTIFY/ITUNES, BUT WILL ALSO POST EPISODES HERE!)

Writer of poetry, fiction, scholarship, song lyrics.  Eccentric. Books are on amazon.com, etc. Blog is Poet's Musings. Youtube is langstonify. Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing.

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