elected barack obama by no means a radical by no means a socialist but someone who was identified with the liberal slash labor wing of the democratic party obama raise the hopes of tens of millions of people and while he has not delivered he is not sarkozy he is not the new british government he has pursued a counter cyclical keynesian policy of pumping large sums of money into the economy . so that. the american situation is a little different is that why people's reactions are so different that yes the united states does not have a welfare state in the european sense it has if we just talk about psychological reaction yet do you feel like inertia is sort of becoming a trend in the united states because we know for example recently there have been polls out that are seeing in the united states nearly half of the population is

believe that the federal government poses some kind of threat to u.s. freedoms and civil rights but it seems that you know instead of acting this philosophy of sort of i'm going to sit on the couch and see what happens has some somehow prevailing why is that first. americans are the most media saturated society on earth they are bombarded with counterfeit opinions that come from the mass media to them and they are encouraged to believe that these are their lives their ideas they become consumers as against actors and producers of political culture whose ideas are reflected in the media is that they are going to . the ideas of the right the far right and the center that would be considered conservative in the european context so that by no means no opinions of not all sides of the spec by no means. are responsible left to find that one must

search. and it does not exist on media in media labor leaders are almost never taken seriously in media unless they go on strike is that white people feel like there is no real labor movement in the united states because we were seeing millions of people who've lost their jobs whereas the labor movement the labor movement. is one third roughly have was what it was at the end of the second world war the labor movement is there but its history has been the formed by cold war anticommunism and by some of the worst labor was in the developed world what kind of relationship would you say the labor movement has with the government the us well the labor movement has aligned itself with the democratic party. since the one nine hundred thirty s. . that alliance made sense and was essentially

a north and seven positive alliance in the one nine hundred thirty s. and one nine hundred forty s. and over the last fifteen years or so beginning with the election of john sweeney now richard trumka the national leadership has been. a lot better in terms of its commitment to workers' rights and its attempt to sort of in instil and encourage militancy but at the same time the relationship with the democratic it's been called by some like a bad marriage the union are sort of like the women within the bad marriage they know it's bad but they're afraid to get up i want to ask about the middle class in the us teachin right from a marxist standpoint yes and recently a lot of attention has been brought to the issue of the gap between the rich and poor in the united states that this gap keep it keeps expanding has become bigger

than it's ever been is the middle class basically going to cease to exist at some point well in the united states. the people who are called the middle class are the working class that's a very important point and the consciousness of what happens if the working class is not working what happens if the working class is not working. then they become what in marxist terms would be the women proletariat the marginalised poor do you know the the anti utopian movie blade runner yeah a world where you have a small group of enormously powerful super corporations and a world and the masses of people living in a kind of endless slum and the rich in that in that novel the elites are planning to colonize outer space but if we're showing to the other planets that he speaking of you know you know we could be holding the situation on the masses really being in terrible conditions many are saying that that is what's going on right now yeah

well so it's not but it isn't it is yes yes no it's not a fantasy at all the united states is the richest country in human history in terms of its general wealth and it has had more poor people than any other rich country in human history the united states was never seriously invaded the united states never had to work for any ports the united states had the richest agriculture for any developed country on earth the united states had ports of course the atlantic and the pacific and the gulf coast and the mississippi valley that it's all these fantastic advantages along with being a magnet for capital and labor for the whole world and these advantages these advantages bred a consciousness of. basically having it all. and not really looking at the people below you right now in the united states many people are to disadvantage millions of people tells me that tens of million writes post

the economic collapse do you think this american sort of pride and patriotism that you mention will that end up feeding and where can the seven-up leading the country where there are great dangers today in the united states there are dangerous and sinister reactionary forces who. are unlike european countries where these forces are organized in groups like the national front and in in france and here these forces have become a significant force in the republican party and. the dangers of these elements becoming a major power in the us government and what they would do to immigrants to minorities to workers what they would do in terms of. at the very least creating a deadlock with the obama administration. the possibilities are catastrophic

potentially potentially as a term for a third party in the u.s. what's interesting is you know americans are at a distrust you know a lot of them are to distrust with governments right with congress right as a time to create a third party and who should carry out this push so that this actually happened was because there's been a lot of talk about it's you know what can change the political establishment or how do we how do we create a third party i have always believed that the best way and. the communist party of the united states puts the state steward and states stands for this in the long run to create a kind of broad party of labor and the people amass labor party what we face is the reality that. the people who are most committed to progressive political action have been the most loyal to the democratic party what's going to make a shift forward for the country hopefully hopefully the working people will

fight off their reactionary and quasi fascist forces who call themselves tea party and other absurd names that have nothing to do with what they really are hopefully . the. obama administration will begin to itself with labor and progressive forces radically improve on the united states used to present health care legislation as the beginning for a real national health care legislation and most of all most of all launch a policy of the kind that roosevelt launched in one nine hundred thirty five when social security unemployment insurance national labor relations act and a whole series it was then she weighed in three years later in minimum wages fair labor standards begin to provide legislation to create

a real public sector and called bailout the people begin to invest in the masses begin to invest in labor this brings us to my last question you have said before that you believe that barack obama could be a unifying leader for the working class in the united states do you still believe that our yes i still believe that because. there is no other alternative in the short run or in the medium run. the defeat of the obama administration will be can only mean the strengthening of not only reactionary but reactionary and racist forces. and set back. people struggles in the united states. around the.

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thanks for taking the time to join us this is for today i'm ves our stories in brief. wide open leaders need to lose out spartak moscow to ensure a thrilling last few weeks in the russian premier league. a dream. quest to end the world number one gets closer after ten full day until. all drop their first points of the euro league season going down to partisan and again they really should have all. russian football fans are strapping themselves in for a frantic finale to the russian premier league season after top of the tables and suffered their first defeat of the year away to spartak moscow it was alternate in the first half however the clearest cut chance falling to the informal alexander cough but usually for the russian international

a shot failed to test this type shot stopper if the opening period belonged to zinni the second half was red and white but going close on the hour mark. chance after chance would come but it wasn't until two minutes from time not to worry karpen would have reason to smile another samba boy you're about to see ari doing it all himself before being a judge to it being felled in the area no problem for dmitri come far off from the spot one nil a final score defeat for zinni to a feeling be a half and experience the league since two thousand the. system also have the opportunity to move from third to second and put five points between themselves and eat on the day but they would need to win a delayed darby up to do just that they have the opportunity perfect. seven minutes after the break see do dubious brought on the ever islands a go ahead misses the penalty and feigner love the sinner with the rebound then

will the end up still in with a title shot but they need to start winning very soon. so with the run a month to go it still is a nice trying to use this in petersburg side with a game in hand. on the lead by six points the reading champions themselves in a curious position sitting just one point ahead of c.s.k. out the good news for neutrals is that snape played both rubin on c.s.i. in the championship run in all very much to play for. let's move across europe for a midweek football date starting in england who are still have booked their place in the carling cup last ate the gunners taking care of business against newcastle goal number one while it was a jumble the fir field walcott's corner isn't cleared with any real conviction the ball finds its way into the newcastle six yard box and then we need a close up to see just how arsenal secured the lead ryan trailers attempted

clearance crossing the line via the head of magpies came through the comedy of errors continued in the second half malta giving a muscle benefit of died after his teammate because you're seeing the body check me toss in the fender michael williamson in the build up no way back after that for the home side two more strikes would come in the final ten minutes including speedster walcott second for a few were win. over in spain valencia as hopes of clinching their second cup at the rate hike in four years remains on course the primera liga sigh came in three mil first leg win over lower league new coronas on. their opening goals almost carbon copies of one another the smooth direct style of the visitors paying the ultimate dividend. yuri's doing both it's been frightening period the last sixteen plus it was then all of a current t. ten minutes from time to chance

a netting with little amount of skill for email the final straw. because of the night though coming from the urge of busy i.x. moving to within a window of the tabletop the sense of finishing against the envy going or else making it difficult to look easy eleven minutes in mid table hundred being got back into it and twenty five minutes but just just the split second record in your post and the i.x. defense the home side's advantage was restored moments into the second half though and it was another record for mel and the more often make the the fans little former rock star sit up and take notice then became three half a dozen minutes from time again one for the highlight reel version with perhaps the goal of the game and in this case that was saying something three one i. courtside is marching on and her mission to become the world's top female tennis

player the russian grinding out a win over familiar food victoria azarenka to improve for a chance of taking over the number one spot the twenty six year old had lost to us a rank it twice earlier this year but was able to successfully stand on the other russian in the opener smaller over rallying from four to darren in the first six with a similar story unfolding in the second rank of building a three one lead to start the set this time before the russians stormed back for a seven six six four when it's all are over remaining on beaten in her white group after the effort the muscovite needs to get to the final to rise to the top of those w.e.t.a. right hope. wozniacki loses a group clash with the top. to do it herself surprised by the. seated samantha stosur on the night is truly and started well against the world's best taking the opener six four while for straining her opponent in the process it seemed was not

the father and coach peter helped turn things around recently for her and other events but the pair couldn't come up with a successful game plan to hold still reserve a superb six four six three when. a bigger window but wasn't actually needs to win just one more watch to take her ranking to. russia's north and couple has been kind to me to date the top seeded russian easily progressing into the second round of the same petersburg open against german daniel brands the muscovite while he was in no mood to drug proceedings swiftly racing to take the first set six four twenty eight year old just an even better tennis in the second finishing up with a six four six one win on are in two minutes usually has a solid record on these courts he won the title back in two thousand and four and has a twenty one win seven losses total in the. three weeks of start

of h. meanwhile became the first player to make it into the last eight the recent kremlin cup victory holding his nerve in the second set to overcome american veteran michael russell the opener belong completely to the serve who took it six two but thirty two year old russell put up more of a fight in the second to the holding on the first six two seven five win in just under two hours on. a house made his position clear on the recent fee for a vote selling scandal the international olympic committee president calling for the same strong measures that his body took following the salt lake city bribery scandal of one thousand nine hundred eight. had a discussion with mr blunt to mr bliss of us still kind to call me when the whole issue emerged and he got mean formed about what he had done and the decision that had been taken by fisa. of course i included him to do exactly what he has done

and to try to clean out as much as possible. we've been through this before the shoe mill in salt lake city. i think the i.o.c. do the right conclusions of something that was very in place and we took a lot of measures had to commission. we've borrowed the members to visit the candidates we went to sleep pools of conflict of interest so i do we did everything we good. partisan belgrade took advantage of a raucous home crowd to their first win of the euro league basketball season on wednesday edging him key moscow region the teams are now tied in group a with one win on one loss of pace keith langford carving the scoring early on tallying nineteen point helping his side to a forty two thirty six time lead the home team came off fired after the break. only cut to the basket for an easy two points in the third baseman joe why was

partisans biggest contributor with fifteen points he slices to him to lead to just one in the final four for a. relatively quiet night but psycho keith three late on to help the belgrade man to a seventy two sixty eight i on the team everybody is chiming in to watch on the n.b.a. hardwood have delivered their first win of the season they miami heat living up to the preseason hype finally with dwayne wade carrying the rest of the big three to a rude win over philadelphia now lebron james is usually known for his highlight reel dropping plays but it was this shined in the department early on under a dollar with a great steal and finish on the other end a sprained wrist seemingly not bothering the twenty six year old dwayne wade improving his form after a slow reshooting night in the opener having miami all forty three thirty two in the second the final part of the big three on the same page in the fourth james

finding chris bosh for the slot ninety seven eighty seven five used. to be an american football meanwhile former heisman trophy winner troy smith is set to make his first n.f.l. start since two thousand and seven for the forty niners when they face denver broncos at wembley this sunday with alex smith ruled out for three weeks for some francisco this decatur childer smith has been promoted to the starting line up ahead of second option david carr for a current this is the price for throwing a close the lid interception. but he appeared as a replacement in their latest game against carolina the forty niners have lost six of their last seven and see the broncos trash in the news capital a final step to turning their season are on denver losing fifteen and fourteen up the open raiders last weekend they are also struggling for form but smith believes the mile high side should not be underestimated. any team in uniform came on a beach on sunday so we can turn the same way not taking anything for granted that

they're doing and looking at the needs analyse everything figure i would do what i've been doing you know see this good. play my game that's what i do each week is up to tour to come out of the you know he he got to lower his pace he has to come out no matter what the condition is in perform at a high level i'm not as old as poor for now i'll see you soon where the weather is coming up in just a tick. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

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a fresh wave of strikes for the majority of becoming top of the. parliament's approval anyway. struggled with huge budget cuts the governments of the largest states becoming good paying for the problems of small and nations and call for amendments to the lisbon treaty. and a new arrest in the f.b.i. sting of homegrown terrorism in the u.s. and criticism of the agency's entrapment tactics by catching the wrong people. from our studios here in central moscow this is france is saying another day of

disruption and another crippling two hundred million euro loss for its finances the pension reform the people have been protesting against has already been rubber stamped and it seems the tide is now turning against the unions who have been paralyzing the country's economy. saving face the french trade unions are still taking people to the streets despite the fact that they're protesting against is a given still angry french citizens say the show must go on as ordinary person dragging their coffee and mineral water members of trade unions and students continue taking to the streets just outside the french senate protesting a reform that is pretty much already guaranteed to take place they haven't even had a chance to learn the new slogans but it's not enough to stop them.