Introduction

As some friends know I have joined the Old Mole Variety Hour collective at KBOO F.M. radio in Portland.  Thus far I have contributed radio essays on South African revolutionaries, Ruth First & Joe Slovo, the subjects of my forthcoming book with Monthly Review Books in the United States and Jacana Press in South Africa, a review of Martin Duberman's biography of Howard Zinn, as well as a commentary on Thanksgiving.  Next Monday I will talk about Obama's neo-con/deformer Department of Education.  Have decided to begin publishing the radio essays at streetpixxwords.blogspot.com.  Look forward to your thoughts