interviews
Archive of interviews with radicals and working class activists on libcom.org.
On the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia - Noam Chomsky
An interview with Noam Chomsky in which he exposes the hypocrisy behind the "humanitarian" bombing of Yugoslavia and outlines its real causes.
NOAM CHOMSKY, world-renowned linguist, political analyst, philosopher and activist, has been called "arguably the most important intellectual alive" by the New York Times. Recently, in a British magazine poll, he has been voted by a landslide as the top public intellectual in the world today.
Le Jura Libertaire, interview about the French anarchist blog
Translation of interview with contributor to "Le Jura Libertaire," a French anarchist blog.
The Good Fuckers at Le Jura Libertaire
Interview conducted by Paco
http://www.notbored.org/le-jura-libertaire.html
Tower Hamlets College strikers interview
The Commune interviews two participants in the September 2009 ESOL teachers strike in East London against job cuts.
Tell us about what unions workers are in, their organising capacity, and of their previous relationship with management
Simon Saunders Interviews Abahlali baseMjondolo in London
Interview with a South African housing activist about recent struggles in Durban.
Many activists in South Africa's largest shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) have been fighting over the issue of housing rights for 15 years now.
After the fall of apartheid in 1994, the new ANC government wrote into the constitution that the shack dwellers, living four or five to a room in hovels at the centre of South Africa's wealthiest cities, should have homes.
Ssangyong occupation audio interview with Loren Goldner
Audio interview conducted with Loren Goldner by alternative radio in the aftermath of the two-month occupation of the Ssangyong motor plant by workers against job cuts.
Listen to the MP3 here:
http://www.archive.org/download/InterviewWithLorenGoldnerOnSouthKoreaWorkersOccupationOfSsangyong/mediahacker_korea__ssangyong_loren_goldner_interview.mp3
Or here:
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/mediahacker_korea__ssangyong_loren_goldner_interview.mp3
from www.mediahacker.org
Picket line interview with striking tube worker - June 2009
Brief interview from the picket line of the Tube strike that lasted from June 9 - June 11 2009.
“If popularity won pay rises, then nurses would be millionaires and politicians would be begging on street corners!”
- From the RMT strike support website
Resisting degradations and divisions: an interview with S'bu Zikode
S’bu Zikode is the elected president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a radical and radically democratic shackdwellers’ movement in South Africa that has committed itself to waging its struggles independently from party-political and NGO control.[1] This is an excerpt from a longer interview.
Richard Pithouse: What is your understanding of a living politics?
Voices from the Visteon-Ford occupation in Enfield
Interviews with sacked Visteon workers occupying their plant in Enfield, north London.
Audio interview with Visteon occupier
Audio interview with Unite convenor at the occupied Visteon plant in Belfast, John McGuire.
Download the audio interview here: http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/apr2009/workers_occupation.mp3
