In this episode, The Specter’s Susie Davtyan talks with Rick Nagin, a longtime CPUSA member, leader, and organizer in the Ohio district. Reform and revolution; personal property and private property; class struggle and racial justice; democratic socialism, socialist democracy, and communism: Susie and Rick break it down. Think of it as “Communism 101.”
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Rick Nagin, Ohio correspondent for the People's World, has written for the paper and its predecessors since 1970. He has been active for many years in Cleveland politics and the labor movement.
He helped elect Cleveland's first Hispanic city councilman and served as his Executive Assistant for over seven years. Rick has run for public office a number of times and received 45 percent of the vote in a race for City Council in 2009. He is the Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and serves on the County Democratic Party Executive Committee.
A member of The Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, he is a delegate to the North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor and serves on its Political Coordinators and Labor Day Parade committees. He is on the Executive Board of the Greater Cleveland Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and represents the People's World on the steering committee of Cleveland Jobs With Justice.
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