The People’s Game – Radio Show – 06/24/10

The People’s Game Radio show for Thursday June 24, 2010

Italy, the defending champions, get knocked out of the tournament by Slovakia. Japan scores a historic victory over Denmark. Counterpunch’s Harry Browne joins Alan to discuss the tournament – and whether soccer, which not long ago was understood as a source of working class solidarity, can be reclaimed by the people from the forces of global capital that rule the sport today. Then Alan turns to the great analyst of contemporary Italy, Alexander Stille, to find out whether the pathetic performance of the Azzurri is related to culture of corruption that reigns in Berlusconi’s Italia.

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