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The Dig: Combat Liberalism w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Mindy Isser, & Zachary Hershman Apr 16, 2021

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Three thinkers and organizers on the much debated question of ultra-leftism post-Bernie 2020. Two texts that informed our discussion:

The Liberal to Ultra-Left Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle by Brian W.

Liberalism, ultraleftism or mass action, a speech delivered by Socialist Workers Party leader Peter Camejo.

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Jacobin Show: Sex and the State w/ Kristen Ghodsee Apr 15, 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 episode from April 14, 2021.

Kristen Ghodsee, author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, joins us to discuss socialist sex education and how Eastern European state socialism helped women gain more independence from men and, by extension, have better sex lives.

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A World to Win: Biden's America w/ Doug Henwood Apr 14, 2021

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This week, Grace talks to Doug Henwood, Marxist, journalist, host of the Behind the News podcast, and author of many books, including the classic Wall Street: How it Works and For Whom.

They discuss Biden’s stimulus package, his corporate tax hikes, and what’s been going on in US stock markets – as well as how workers can organise in the post-Covid economy.

You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: John Logan on Bessemer Apr 13, 2021

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Suzi talks to labor historian John Logan who assesses the historic unionization drive against Amazon at the new Bessemer Alabama warehouse — and processes the outcome: a no vote for the Retail Workers union. Front line workers took on the second largest, notoriously anti-union company in the US during a pandemic — and won widespread sympathy and media coverage — but failed to win enough votes to get union recognition. With so much riding on this struggle, we ask what was achieved, and what the defeat means for organizing in the US, where labor law is stacked in favor of the employers. We get John Logan’s perspective on the larger significance of this drive as well as the nitty gritty of the obstacles faced every step of the way.

The Vast Majority: Sliding Into (and, Hopefully, Out of) Reaganland Apr 13, 2021

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Micah talks with Chapo Trap House's Matt Christman about historian Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980, the politics of the 1970s and the possibilities for political alternatives to the right turn America ended up taking, the parallels of that era to the Obama/Bernie/Trump era, and (what else?) the desperate need to revive labor to escape our neverending culture wars.

Behind the News: Jennifer Berkshire and Helen Yaffe Apr 13, 2021

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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, about teachers’ unions and school reopenings. Plus: Helen Yaffe on Cuba’s handling of COVID-19 and their impressive vaccine development (Counterpunch article here).

Weekends: Amazon Union Aftermath, Remote Workplace Control, and the Left Post-Bernie w/ Meagan Day Apr 12, 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 April 10, 2021.

Staff writer Meagan Day joins us to discuss what led to the disheartening defeat of the Amazon union drive in Alabama, how the new age of remote work will change workplace organizing, and how the left can regroup in the Biden era.

New paperback of Meagan and Micah's book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3167...

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Michael and Us: Q Vadis? Apr 12, 2021

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Filmed over three years, the new HBO docuseries Q: INTO THE STORM (2021) seeks to find an answer to the question that plagued the Trump years: who is Q, the mysterious leader of the "QAnon" movement? The documentary offers a provisional answer... but of course, there is no one simple explanation for how QAnon came to dominate the past few years. We discuss the backwash of the Trump era, PLUS: a report on Fox News' new late-night talk show "Gutfeld!"

"Howard Dean pushes Biden to oppose generic COVID-19 vaccines for developing countries" by Lee Fang - theintercept.com/2021/04/08/howar…-covid-vaccines/

"Is Gutfeld! the Worst Show on Television?" by Alex Shephard - newrepublic.com/article/161985/gu…t-show-television

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The Dig: Black Left with Charisse Burden-Stelly Apr 11, 2021

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Dan interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly on racial capitalism, the history of the US Black left, and the US government's Red Scare attacks on Black radicals.

Read Burden-Stelly's work:

Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights

Black Cold War Liberalism as an Agency Reduction Formation during the Late 1940s and the Early 1950s

Constructing Deportable Subjectivity: Antiforeignness, Antiradicalism, and Antiblackness during the McCarthyist Structure of Feeling

Caste Does Not Explain Race

The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies

Meet with Charisse Burden-Stelly at the Dig's last Book Club event thedigradio.com/dig-book-club

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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Labor Struggle at Amazon Apr 07, 2021

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Lauren Kaori Gurley at Vice.com’s Motherboard has covered the unionization drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama for more than a year. Voting ended March 29 and counting is currently underway. If they vote to join the RWDSU they will become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the country. Suzi talked to Lauren K. Gurley about Amazon’s business model, the pee scandal, and the anti-union campaign Amazon has mounted against the RWSDU. All eyes are on this titanic labor struggle in the anti-union south because it has enormous potential for the labor movement far beyond Alabama, and for that reason the battle has been fierce.

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