Partake in a most agreeable tea dance alongside your gracious fellow crew members.

WORKING CLASS OI FROM OUTER SPACE

For a Chamomile Tea on the Lower Decks

In the latest episode of Working People, we go back to the picket line to get a critical update on the longest ongoing strike in the United States. In October 2022, over 100 workers represented by five labor unions—including production, distribution, advertising, and accounts receivable staff—walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike at the&nbsp;Pittsburgh Post-Gazette&nbsp;(PPG). The strike began after the newspaper’s management, Block Communications, which is owned by the Block family, cut off health insurance for employees on Oct. 1 of that year. After more than 2.5 years on strike, with other unions reaching contracts or taking buyouts and dissolving their units, workers represented by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh are the last remaining strikers holding the line. We speak with a panel of union officers for the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh about how they’ve managed to stay on strike so long and about recent legal updates that have given them hope that an acceptable end to the strike may be on the horizon. Panelists include: Ed Blazina, striking transportation writer at the PPG and one of the Vice Presidents of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh; Erin Hebert, also one of the Vice Presidents of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and a striking copy-editor and page designer at PPG; Emily Matthews, photographer on strike and treasurer for the Post-Gazette Unit of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh. Additional links/info:  Pittsburgh Union Progress&nbsp;,&nbsp;,&nbsp;, and&nbsp;  Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh&nbsp; Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “” Bob Batz Jr.,&nbsp;Pittsburgh Union Progress, “” Ian Karbal,&nbsp;Pennsylvania Capital Star, “” Mel Buer,&nbsp;Working People&nbsp;/ The Real News Network, “” Bob Batz Jr. &amp; Steve Mellon, Pittsburgh Union Progress, “” Brett Wilkins,&nbsp;Common Dreams&nbsp;/ The Real News Network, “” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “(Livestream)&nbsp;” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “(Livestream)&nbsp;” Maximillian Alvarez,&nbsp;Working People&nbsp;/ The Real News Network, “”  Permanent links below…  &nbsp;and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network&nbsp;,&nbsp;&nbsp;page, and&nbsp;&nbsp;page In These Times&nbsp;,&nbsp;&nbsp;page, and&nbsp;&nbsp;page The Real News Network&nbsp;,&nbsp;&nbsp;channel,&nbsp;&nbsp;feeds,&nbsp;&nbsp;page, and&nbsp;&nbsp;page  Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song  Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor

An update on the longest ongoing strike in the US: ‘Some things don’t change at the Post-Gazette’

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!



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

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, Working People host and TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez delivered the keynote speech at the national convention of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320. “I am here to report back to you from the front lines of struggle, without hesitation or hyperbole, that we are at risk of losing everything,” Alvarez told the crowd of union members. “And so I am here not to extol the virtues of your union or the value of unions in general, but to ask you bluntly: What good is a union in Hell? How much can an organization of the dawned do in a future no one wants to live in? What good does a collective bargaining agreement serve when the world as we know it is dying?” Additional links/info:&nbsp;  NOLSW-UAW Local 2320&nbsp;,&nbsp;,&nbsp;, and&nbsp;  Featured Music:&nbsp;  Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song  Credits:&nbsp;  Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor&nbsp;

What good is a union in Hell?

Today on American Indian Airwaves, tune in and hear William I. Robinson speak on his book, War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), the systematic militarization against immigrants in the United States, global capitalism’s crisis and how the transnational capitalist class structures predatory mechanisms of settler colonial violence against Mother Earth, Indigenous peoples such as in Palestine, working peoples, and ecological systems as we know it. In addition, tune in to hear about how the legacy of capitalism’s violence through digital technologies are producing cheaper labor (“surplus humanity”), and how the capitalist system forms the basis for the non-renewable resource extractive industries comportment with the Green Economy and Green Capitalism. All this and more on today’s AIA program. 

Guest: 
William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. He is the author of several books, including War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022), and The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017). Robinson joins us for the first part of three-part interview on his brand-new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022). 

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.


War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance on Mother Earth

The Endless Wheel: More than just a song, it's a statement. This track cuts deep into the reality of rising costs and the endless battle to survive, fueled by the anger of those pushed too far. Feel the defiance.

The Endless Wheel

AfricaNow! August 13, 2025 Materializing Race: Charles W Mills

Topic and Guest: As we commemorate Black August and centering with WPFW’s Summer Pledge theme, and keeping in mind this critical time for the African World AfricaNow! goes into its archives featuring a past show with Professor Charles W. Mills. Professor Charles W. Mills who joined the ancestors on September 20, 2021 was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He is the author of numerous books on race and political theory, including The Racial Contract (1997), Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998), and Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (2017).

We are currently living in an age where poverty and disease are big business. In a world where race and class continues to produce and reproduce ways of interacting.  This process has found ways to attach itself to our very construction of individual and group realities, therefore entrenching conscious and unconscious acts of racism as being natural and/or universal occurrences.

We live in a world where racial diversity is understood as ideological diversity…a constructed reality where the ascription of power is imposed on old ideas of identity and re/incorporated in new forms of marginalization. This holds true, despite any claim of post-this-or-post-that…that is made by dominant discourses.

W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903 in Souls of Black Folk that: “THE PROBLEM of the twentieth century is the problem of the colorline..."

Today, in the 21st Century, we are still confronted with this color line, which is exacerbated by a symbiotic relationship with the drive to secure material wealth at rates that often rival the height of the age of imperialism, where the total control of Africa as well as other resource rich lands were dominant behavioral expressions in geopolitics. Prophetically, in his later writings, as W.E.B Du Bois is known to do, expands or situates his conceptualization of the color line into being intimately linked with class formations. ....

Often ignored by the sympathetic democratic rhetoric of liberals, are the racialized consequences of massive poverty and cultural displacement integral to the globalizing project of democratization (a euphemism for the unbridled proliferation of capitalism). ... 

Charles W. Mills is a Caribbean philosopher from Jamaica. He is known for his work in social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race.

He was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He is the author of numerous books on race and political theory, including The Racial Contract (1997), Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998), and Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (2017).

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“NABU CORFA” BY DOROTHY ASHBY commemorating her birthday which was on August 4 (August 6, 1930–April 13, 1986); closing--“AFRICAN” BY PETER TOSH.

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW during our Summer Pledge Drive August 3 to August 16, 2025.  Donate online: visit https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. You can also text to donate by simply texting WPFWFM (not case sensitive) to 801801 and then follow the instructions. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you.  

Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).


AfricaNow! Aug. 13, 2025 Materializing Race--Charles W Mills

Working Class Zero

Bills To Pay is a gritty working-class anthem about the daily grind, struggle, and survival.

Bills To Pay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_pXEcC_Syw

The British working class cannot place its faith in liberal politicians who parade the 'term' socialism to score votes for their social democratic agendas. These politicians are there for one purpose only: to restore faith in an economic system that relies on the exploitation of the working class by the bourgeoisie. Only the communists fight for the best interests of the working class.
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American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org).  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacr


American Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein.

American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.

🇩🇪 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.

I primarily share country music, though I explore other styles as well. Using AI tools like Suno and Musicful, every element — lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation — is generated by AI. I guide the process from start to finish, choosing themes, shaping moods, and tweaking lyrics until the songs feel right. Many tracks are inspired by my experiences, feelings, and fears, while others tell stories beyond my own life. My music blends advanced technology with storytelling — it’s AI bringing my personal stories, dreams, and emotions to life.

Aaron Davison is a Berklee College of Music alumnus, singer, songwriter, and guitarist with a passion for creating music that blends emotion, melody, and meaning. After years of writing and performing both as a solo artist and collaborator, Aaron’s latest project Future’s Past marks a new creative chapter.

Future’s Past explores themes of awakening, transformation, and renewal through cinematic, ethereal, and emotionally charged songs. Each track invites listeners on a reflective journey that bridges the personal and the universal, reminding us that even in endings, there is always a beginning.

Watch videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FuturesPastMusic

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!)

I write lyrics in a wide range of genres. Work with 2 musicians (so far) and suno.com to make songs. Make videos for the songs on my youtube channel. Poet, lyricist, piano hack. Youtube is langstonify. Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing.

Retrouvez les podcasts des émissions de votre radio préférée !

I’ve been making music and been in bands since I was in school. I’ve always loved watching people enjoy listening, dancing and singing to the music. I feel that music is first and foremost about enjoyment. It should evoke an emotion, whatever the artist is trying to convey. 

My musical tastes are quite eclectic and varied. I tend to enjoy a song rather than a specific group or genre. And I guess this is why what I produce goes along with that ethos of variety 

Recently I’ve felt compelled to focus my time on creativity. Loss and the brevity of life have made me understand life is too short. So here I am. I hope you enjoy!

New tracks tagged #working class