Podcast Episodes

Weekends: Our Collective Descent Into Ideology w/ Liza Featherstone

Jacobin columnist Liza Featherstone joins Weekends to discuss how deindustrialization and stagnant wages have affected working-class men, and how right-wing politicians and pundits like Josh Hawley a…

Published on 4 years ago

Michael and Us: The Kanehsatake Resistance

For 78 days in 1990, a group of Mohawk protestors withstood a siege from the Canadian armed forces. The root of the conflict? A town in Quebec sought to take over their land to expand a golf course. …

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Jacobin Radio: Victory at Starbucks, Struggle at Kellogg's

Suzi talks with John Logan about the unionization victory at Starbucks in Buffalo, and the continuing Kellogg Co. strike: workers rejected the agreement and Kellogg's said it will permanently replace…

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Long Reads: Michael Vann on Indonesia's Killing Fields (Part 1)

Michael Vann joins Long Reads for a special, two-part conversation about Indonesia’s turbulent past and present. Michael is a professor of history at Sacramento State University who specializes in th…

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Jacobin Show: The Evolution of Racial Justice Under Neoliberalism w/ Touré Reed & Adolph Reed

Touré Reed and Adolph Reed discuss their new article in Socialist Register, how the project of racial justice became unmoored from political economy in the postwar era, and how this disconnect contin…

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Dig: Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes

How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary…

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Weekends: The Class Path to Racial Liberation w/ Adaner Usmani

Adaner Usmani joins Weekends to explain why fighting racial inequality today depends on forging a working-class coalition, and why race-based solutions to inequality are ultimately a dead end.

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Michael and Us: Promiscuous Dope Fiends

With the Beatles once again in the zeitgeist, we decided to revisit the jukebox musical ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007), which positioned the lads' music as a backdrop to the social upheavals of the 1960s…

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Behind the News: The Limits of Trials & Elections in Chile and Honduras

Doug speaks with Matt Kierkegard and David Adler of the Progressive International on the Honduran and Chilean elections. Plus: an interview with Sarah Lustbader, author of this article, on why trials…

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Dig: Brazil w/ Sabrina Fernandes & Andre Pagliarini

Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-righ…

Published on 4 years ago