‘Union Joe’ and Congress Choose Corporate Bosses Over Railway Workers

Описание: With Biden’s urging, Congress voted to force rail workers to accept a pro-corporate contract, providing no solution to brutal work conditions and zero sick leave, which the rank-and-file had already rejected. Their vote effectively denies their right to strike and collectively bargain. Reese Murtagh, a CSX roadway mechanic and local chairman of Lodge 696, joins to explain the working conditions for rail workers and how the deal forced by Congress is an attack on all unionized workers' right to bargain collectively.

As of Dec. 9th, the world-renowned political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal will have spent 41 years in prison, the majority of which has been in solitary confinement. The decades-long movement to free the revolutionary journalist continues and will rally for Mumia’s final hearing for his current appeal in Philadelphia on Dec.16th. Mumia’s grandson, Jamal Jr., joins to share an update on his grandfather and the international movement to free Mumia and all political prisoners.

Amid the uptick in assassinations, state-led violent repression, and political persecution of the South African shack dwellers’ movement or Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) continue their struggle to secure land and housing for South Africa’s urban poor. Despite having to contend with regular arrests and killings of their leaders, AbM has grown into a collective with more than 100,000 members. Thapelo Mohapi, General Secretary of AbM, explains the intensifying repression, the political dynamics in South Africa, and the movement as a whole.

Millions of Cubans voted to elect the representatives of the local assemblies of the People’s Power, the main governing body at the local level in Cuba on November 27th. Kei Pritsker, Journalist with BreakThrough News, was in Cuba to observe the elections and joins the show to discuss the stark differences between the US’s corporate-funded electoral system and Cuba’s worker’s democracy.
As the Ukraine-Russia conflict escalates, the Ukrainian government forces have increased their bombing of civilians in Donetsk. Fighting in the Donbas has claimed over 15,000 lives since 2014 and in September four regions of the Donbas voted in favor of leaving Ukraine and joining Russia. Journalist Johnny Miller has been living in Donetsk and joins the show to provide the on-the-ground reality of the daily attacks on civilians there.

Also, Rania and Eugene discuss the geopolitics surrounding the World Cup and the Supreme Court’s Wednesday hearing on Moore v. Harper, the case that could have the capacity to overturn the popular vote in the United States.

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