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Jacobin Radio
News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.
Episodes
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The Vast Majority: What's Next for the Labour Party with David Broder
There's no way around it: the recent election results in the UK were crushing for the Left. But they also weren't the referendum on socialist policies that…
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The Dig: Single-Payer Now! with Tim Faust
Why we need single-payer healthcare, why Medicare for All is suddenly at the center of debate, and why this is all part of a broader struggle for health…
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The Vast Majority: Krystal Ball, Matt Karp, and Michael Brooks on Bernie and the 2020 Elections
Krystal Ball, Matt Karp, and Michael Brooks on Bernie and the 2020 Elections For the release of our latest print issue, "From Socialism to Populism and Back,"…
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The Dig: Capitalism with Michael Hardt
An interview on how the transformation of capitalism has changed the possibilities for anti-capitalist struggle with Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio…
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The Vast Majority: Anthony Clark, Socialist for Congress
<style type="text/css"></style> Anthony Clark is running for Congress in Illinois’s seventh district, which mostly covers Chicago’s West Side and surrounding…
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Behind the News: Leslie Salzinger and Forrest Hylton
Leslie Salzinger, a contributor to Mutant Neoliberalism, on gendering Homo economicus. Then,Forrest Hylton on the coup in Bolivia and popular rebellions…
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Jacobin Radio: Mass Protests in France and Iran
Millions people are protesting worldwide to challenge neoliberal capitalist austerity policies that add to economic insecurity, inequality, and poverty for the…
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The Dig: From the archives, Paul Frymer on Westward Expansion
On the occasion of our third anniversary we are taking a break. Here's a classic on settler colonialism from our archives: Paul Frymer on Building an American…
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The Vast Majority: Winning a Radical Green New Deal with Alyssa Battistoni, Carlos Rosa and Sean Estelle
We’ve got a new book out: ‘A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal,’ by Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Kate Aronoff, and Thea Riofrancos. Alyssa…
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People's History Podcast: "Rent Strike" (S1E3)
Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority. This is episode three of the first season of a people's…
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The Dig: Coup in Bolivia with Jeff Webber
Political scientist Jeff Webber discusses the coup against Evo Morales and the recent history of Bolivia. Read "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Macho Camacho" by…
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Jacobin Radio: Labour Manifesto, Netanyahu Indictments, and the Bolivian Coup
Suzi speaks with Kevin Ovenden about Jeremy Corbyn’s new Labour Party manifesto. The just-launched manifesto promotes a vision for the country with broad…
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People's History Podcast: "Grove Hall" (S1E2)
<h4>As urban rebellions arise in cities, welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed.</h4><h4>This is…
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The Dig: World on Fire with Naomi Klein
Dan interviews Naomi Klein on her new essay collection On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Thanks to University of California Press. Check out…
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Behind the News: Ryan Grim, Jenny Brown
Ryan Grim, author of We’ve Got People, on the long fight between insurgents and establishment in the Democratic Party. Then, Jenny Brown, author of Without…
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The Vast Majority: Ecological Politics for the Working Class with Matt Huber
The Green New Deal is on the political agenda in the United States, and thank God for that. Can you imagine how depressing it would be to hear all of these…
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People's History Podcast: "Placement" (S1E1)
<h4>At Columbia Point, a Boston public housing project built in 1954, mothers organize to try and close the city dump.</h4><h4>This is episode one of the first…
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The Dig: Colonialism in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla
Maria hit Puerto Rico as austerity dismantled its social and material infrastructure. But as Yarimar Bonilla explains, these years also taught Puerto Ricans…
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People's History Podcast: Trailer
A new audio documentary about struggles in the United States. Each six-episode season covers one local story, told from the viewpoint of working-class people…
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Behind the News: Quinn Slobodian on Neoliberals
Historian Quinn Slobodian makes a return appearance to talk about neoliberals: their opposition to the European Union (essay in Mutant Neoliberalism), their…
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The Vast Majority: Financialized Capitalism and Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn?? with Grace Blakeley
Two of the most pressing questions facing humanity are as follows: 1. What exactly has changed and what has stayed the same about the global capitalist economy…
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Jacobin Radio: Tariq Ali on the UK Election
Suzi talks to Tariq Ali, author of The Extreme Center,about the UK election, Jeremy Corbyn, and the Labour Party campaign. Unlike the endless US presidential…
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The Dig: Socializing Ownership with Mathew Lawrence
Mathew Lawrence, founder and director of the left-wing UK think tank Common Wealth, explains why ownership must be socialized, what that might look like, and…
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The Vast Majority: Rebecca Parson for Washington
What a time to be alive, when there are so many socialists running for Congress that it's difficult to schedule them all. We've interviewed two socialists…
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Behind the News: Grace Blakeley and Emmanuel Saez
Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen, on where financialized capitalism came from and how we could get out of it. Then, economist Emmanuel Saez, co-author of The…
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The Dig: Settler-Colonial Revolutionaries with Joshua Simon
The divide between Latin American and the United States was not always so evident. Across the hemisphere, creoles—the descendants of European settlers, born in…
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Behind the News: Chile; Nobel in Economics
René Rojas, author of this article, on the social explosion in Chile. Then, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, author of this article, on the little problems, little…
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The Vast Majority: Checking in with NY State Senator Julia Salazar
It's safe to say that Julia Salazar's campaign for state senate in New York was the most watched and most brutal state legislature race in recent history…
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Behind the News: PMC; US Hegemony in Decline
Gabriel Winant, author of this article, on the professional–managerial class and its decomposition (the 1977 Ehrenreich papers are here and here; their 2013…
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Jacobin Radio: October Uprisings in Chile and Lebanon
Suzi talks to Pablo Abufom and Gilbert Achcar about the ongoing massive protest movements in Chile and Lebanon, where for more than two weeks the mobilization…
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The Dig: Worldmaking after Empire with Adom Getachew
Adom Getachew explains how anticolonial leaders from across the black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also end empire by constructing an…
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What Bernie Could Do For Racial Justice with Briahna Joy Gray, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ariella Thornhill
<style></style> What could a Bernie Sanders presidency do for racial justice in America? Last month at Riverside Church in New York City, we hosted a…
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Behind the News: Jodi Dean on Political Belonging
Jodi Dean, author of Comrade, on the sense of political belonging formed by and essential to common struggle.
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Behind the News: Corey Robin on Clarence Thomas
Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, on the life and thought of a conservative black nationalist.
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The Dig: Hindu Nationalism with Achin Vanaik
Perhaps nowhere is the far right stronger than in India. There, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, continues in power under Prime Minister Narendra Modi after…
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Jacobin Radio: Israeli Election
Suzi talks to Tel Aviv University professor YoavPeled, whose latest book is The Religionization of Israeli Society, about the still unclear outcome of the…
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Austerity Created the 'Joker' with Connor Kilpatrick
'Joker' is not an ode to the alt right. It is a film about the devastating consequences of austerity. This is an objective fact, which I spoke with Jacobin…
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The Dig: Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch
Dan interviews Alex Gourevitch about how 19th century US labor radicals remade the idea of freedom into a principle of working-class social transformation. If…
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Jacobin Radio: UAW Strike; Green New Deal
Suzi talks to UCSB Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about the ongoing UAW strike against General Motors, the first strike since 2007, with 50,000 workers on…
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Behind the News: Impeachment; Sanders's Climate Plan
Samuel Moyn (author of this article and this) on the political snares of impeachment. Then, Tom Athanasiou on the Sanders climate plan and the need for a…
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The Dig: Palestine and the Law with Noura Erakat
Dan interviews Noura Erakat, the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, a new book that analyzes the history of settler-colonialism in…
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The Vast Majority: "War Is A Racket" with Rory Fanning and Sarah Lazare
Our newest print issue is “War Is a Racket,” focused on war and imperialism. At the Chicago issue release party, I spoke with two organizers and writers who…
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Behind the News: Israeli Elections; Justin Trudeau
Joel Schalit, co-founder and editor of The Battleground, on the Israeli election. Then, Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, on that slippery Canadian…
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The Dig: Ayn Rand's Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan
Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don't have to read…
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Behind the News: UAW Strike; Slavery in the Early United States
Sam Gindin on the UAW’s strike against GM, and the possibilities for the green repurposing of a plant GM is abandoning. Then, Robin Einhorn on the role of…
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The Dig: The Class Politics of Suburban Racism with Matt Lassiter
The history of suburbanite reactions to school integration in Atlanta and Charlotte reveal the class power underpinning both racism and the demolition of the…
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The Vast Majority: "West Virginia Isn't Just Trump Country" with Cathy Kunkel
As we trudge closer to 2020, candidates are emerging for elected office beyond the presidency. And, thank God, they don't all suck. Like Cathy Kunkel, who is…
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Jacobin Radio: Paul Mason and George Kerevan on Brexit
Suzi talks to Paul Mason on Brexit and George Kerevan on Brexit in Scotland — to unravel the complexities and many political-economic ramifications of the…
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Behind the News: Brexit; Slavery
Margaret Corvid, city councilor in Plymouth, England, on Boris Johnson and Brexit madness. Then, John Clegg on slavery’s profound effects on the US political…
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The Dig: Silvia Federici on Women and Capitalism
Dan interviewed legendary feminist scholar Silvia Federici on Caliban and the Witch at her Brooklyn apartment. Next year, he'll make a return trip to discuss…
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The Dig: Black Socialism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism with Michael Dawson
Dan discusses the history of black politics in the US—left, nationalist, liberal, and neoliberal—with Michael Dawson. Check out New Dawn, Michael's podcast on…
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The Vast Majority: "We Need A Green New Deal For Housing" with Daniel Aldana Cohen
We need a Green New Deal to stop climate catastrophe. Everybody knows this. But housing has to be a key piece of the GND, as Daniel Aldana Cohen argues in the…
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Behind the News: Moscow Protests; Amazon on Fire
Journalist Yasha Levine on the “democracy” demos in Moscow: for a flossier neoliberalism. Then, Maria Luisa Mendonça, director of Rede Social de Justiça e…
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Behind the News: Hong Kong and Kashmir
Writer Brian Hioe updates us on the Hong Kong protests. Then, Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA), on India’s…
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The Vast Majority: "It's the Demand of the People That Creates Real Change" with Heidi Sloan
Heidi Sloan is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for Congress in Texas's 25th district. She's challenging a Republican incumbent, used…
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The Dig: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Indigenous History
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about Indigenous people's history to reexamine all of history, the present, and our possible futures…
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The Dig: Keywords of Capitalism with John Patrick Leary
Ordinary language is the sound of hegemony; it is also an archive of the struggles to overturn it. Language is an institution and a constantly emergent field…
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The Vast Majority: "What is the Rank-and-File Strategy, and Why Does It Matter?" with Barry Eidlin
The question of how socialists should engage with the labor movement has always been a critical one. One proposal: the rank-and-file strategy, which the…
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Jacobin Radio: How to End Homelessness; Eugene V. Debs
<font color="#000000">Suzi talks to UCLA law professor </font>Gary Blasi, a longtime housing activist and advocate for the homeless about the staggering…
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The Dig: Socialist Manifesto with Bhaskar Sunkara
Dan talks to Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara about his book The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. We must…