LONG OVERDUE: Building a powerful left in the US

Werner Sombart asked this embarrassing

     question in the 1920s: “Why is   there no left in the US?”

Now the need to answer this question successfully has become imperative

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HOST: Alan Minsky

Informing this series is the sense that three years into the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the vast majority of Americans have no significant political movement that truly represents their interests.

The people of the United States – and the world, due to the central geopolitical and economic role of the USA and the global nature of the economic crisis – desperately need such a movement to advocate on their behalf.

So, how do we build one?

This question will be addressed all next week at 4pm (PST) on KPFK.

In addition to the daily hour-long special at 4pm (PST), there will be many segments during the week on KPFK’s other political talk shows that will be a part of the series – these interviews will also be available on the series website.

The series will be “evergreen” for at least a few months – i.e. it will not be a series relating to the specific news of the day, though it will reflect on the political and economic situation in America in the first half of 2011.