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The Vast Majority: Christian Socialism May 17, 2021

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Micah and Meagan speak with Josh Davis and Aaron Anderson of the Institute for Christian Socialism about — you guessed it — Christian socialism.

Josh Davis is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Christian Socialism and teaches Theology and Ethics in the Anglican Studies Certificate Program at Drew University School of Theology. Aaron Anderson is a co-founder of the Institute for Christian Socialism and the managing editor of its publication, the Bias, which you can read here: https://christiansocialism.com/the-bias-magazine/

References:

https://christiansocialism.com/herbert-mccabe-class-struggle-capitalism-marxism-christianity/https://christiansocialism.com/christian-socialism-statement/https://wipfandstock.com/9781532613609/misrecognitions/

Weekends: How Israel Is Carrying Out Apartheid w/ Amira Hass May 17, 2021

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Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from May 15, 2021.

Haaretz journalist Amira Hass joins us to discuss how recent violence by the Israeli state is part of a longstanding political project carried out against the Palestinian people.

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The Dig: Hammer and Hoe with Robin D.G. Kelley May 15, 2021

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Dan interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression.

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Long Reads: Paul Buhle on C.L.R. James and the Black Jacobins of Haiti May 15, 2021

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Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.

The guest for this episode is Paul Buhle, author of the pioneering 1988 study C.L.R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary.

Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

A World to Win: Where Labour Won w/ Matthew Brown and Paul Dennett May 14, 2021

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After a week that saw Keir Starmer’s Labour tank in the local elections, Grace speaks to two brilliant local leaders who managed to defy the downturn.

Matthew Brown is leader of Preston City Council and the driving force behind the Preston Model, as well as the co-author of Paint Your Town Red, which you can buy now from Repeater Books. Paul Dennett is the city-mayor of Salford, and a frequent contributor to Tribune, including a recent piece on why socialist Salford bucked the trend in the elections.

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Michael and Us: Cleggmania Revisited May 13, 2021

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In the wake of the Labour Party's disastrous performance in the 2021 U.K. local elections, we're taking a look back at a key moment in recent British history. The made-for-TV movie COALITION (2015) documents the wheelings and dealings that led to Nick Clegg's Liberal-Democrats joining forces with David Cameron's Conservatives after. the 2010 election left no party with a parliamentary majority. We share some larfs over a perfectly mediocre movie, and. discuss the true meaning of "Cleggmania" and its aftermath. PLUS: Why can't Keir Starmer sell centrism like Tony Blair could? And reflections on Toronto's alt-media landscape, from NOW Magazine to Eye Weekly to The Grid.

"The Grid R.I.P." - http://radiofreecanuckistan.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-grid-rip.html

"Keir Starmer’s Televised Meltdown Was Decades in the Making" by Luke Savage - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/keir-starmer-bbc-meltdown-labour-election-hartlepool

Jacobin Show: Public Education Post-Pandemic w/ Megan Erickson, Rebecca Garelli and Jay O'Neal May 13, 2021

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Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from May 12, 2021, hosted by Paul as Jen and Ariella are out.

Jacobin editor and educator Megan Erickson, leader of Arizona Educators United Rebecca Garelli, and West Virginian union activist Jay O'Neal all joins us to discuss rebuilding public education after a year of pandemic lockdowns. We also examine "woke" charter schools and the COVID-era resurgence of politicians demonizing teachers' unions.

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A World to Win: Amazonification w/ Alex Press May 10, 2021

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Grace talks to Alex Press, staff writer at Jacobin, about Amazon’s ruthless exploitation of its workforce, its deeply embedded culture of union busting, and its avoidance of basic labour regulation in its mission to become the ‘everything store’ — as well as how workers are coming together to resist the company.

You can read Alex’s recent work on Amazon and unions here, here, and here.

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Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

Weekends: Colombian Protests, Vaccine Patent Waiver, and the Rotting Ruling Class w/ Doug Henwood May 10, 2021

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Journalist Doug Henwood joins us to discuss how the American ruling class has developed overtime and led us to our dystopic present. We also cover the massive protests in Colombia and the international fight over vaccine patents being waived.

Read Doug's latest here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class

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The Dig: "Cancel Culture" w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield May 09, 2021

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What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ from the anti-PC discourse that first emerged in the early 1990s? How do we distinguish between liberal opponents of PC like Jonathan Chain and right-wing ones like Donald Trump? And then, finally, is there still a there there? Some problems with The Discourse that we should reflect upon?

Readings:

Some “Politically Incorrect” Pathways Through PC by Stuart Hall ram-wan.net/restrepo/hall/some%20politically%20incorrect%20pathways.pdf

Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy by Moira Weigel theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump

The Use of Free Speech in Society by Asad Haider versobooks.com/blogs/4793-the-use-of-free-speech-in-society

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