I was quite pleased about that because, as you mention, most people know me as a political song writer, and I think sometimes my love songs get out of the loop. The best ones, I think, are ones that can be seen as both love songs and political songs.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance.

We all loved his collaboration with folk-rocking band Wilco that produced the two-disk Mermaid Avenue collection of reproduced Woodie Guthrie songs. Many of his albums from Workers Playtime to William Bloke are must haves for any progressive's music collection.

My feeling is exactly what I write in the article, which is to say, I am very hopeful, but I lack sufficient information to be more than hopeful. I wasn't saying that only others need more information, though many other people do, of course.

The Shadow Man is a kind of classic haunted house story, but one very much driven by contemporary and edgy characters, which is what I think makes it fresh and different. My female protagonist, Maggie, is a Latina. She is a single working mother who inherits this strange toxic house...

In the first place, I subscribe to the Marxist conception of class, which is that your class position is determined by your relation to the means of production, whether you own them or not. There are different views about class.

A jazz version of Rage Against the Machine, Minnesota-based Junkyard Empire blends jazz instrumentals, hip hop, and socially consciously lyrics to create a fresh sound.

Intersex or Disorders of Sexual Development is basically an umbrella term for a number of conditions. Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, 5-alpha reductase syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, gonadal dysgenesis, Klinefelter syndrome, etc. are all under the umbrella of "intersex" or DSD.

The truth about John McCain is not very pretty. You can start with the Iraq War, when he made the flippant comment that “as far as I’m concerned, we could be in there for 100 years.” The peace movement has been fighting for a timeline.

The Communist Party's program, "Election 2008: Help Make History," addresses the urgent situation and the tremendous opportunity to defeat the ultra-right in this election and create the conditions to turn the country around.

It is possible that the successes of the Left and progressive forces, the labor movement, Marxist parties, etc., helped preserve capitalism from its own contradictions.

Well, we set it up because I have finished two books. I have a book on Alice Neal that maybe you saw some reference to, and I just finished a novel that I started out for my grandson, years ago, and I finally completed it – it’s called Iron Mountain.

If I had to put it all together and lay out a scenario, I think we are facing years of a very weak and stumbling economy that will feel to many people like an extended recession, even if it is not formally one.

In a recent essay on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s advocacy for peace, titled "Vocation of Agony: A Personal Meditation on Dr. King's Legacy," Rev. Osagyefo Sekou elaborated a stirring call for deep moral change in America.

Strategy for a Black Agenda first came out in 1973. The book was and remains a fundamental contribution to the struggle. The issues that Henry Winston raised centered on the unity of the class and national questions.

For working people, the long-term trend in the US has been toward greater inequality in wages, less job security, fewer pensions, and fewer people with healthcare. All these long-term trends are being further aggravated by the economic crisis the country is currently going through. How does this crisis manifest itself?

So far the campaign has shown, to any independent, intellectually astute observer, that there is currently no such thing as a free election in this country. Since Mr. Putin was appointed #1 in the electoral list, all the government’s administrative resources, all the power structures and ministries, are being used on behalf of his party’s campaign.

I have opinions, God knows, on language. This statement of Lessing’s is ridiculous. What Marxism did was to liberate language for millions of workers the whole world over, and still does to this day.

“New Orleans: A Labor of Love,” is actually a public awareness campaign to get 5,000 volunteers into the Gulf Coast during 2008.

Our organization, the Free Burma Campaign, South Africa, is made up of exile Burmese activists in South Africa, along with native South African civil rights and former anti-apartheid activists.