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Special: Nina Turner Is Ready to Keep Fighting Jan 28, 2022

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Jacobin’s Micah Uetricht sat down with Nina Turner to discuss the launch of her candidacy for Congress in Ohio’s 11th District. Turner speaks about the need to prioritize bread-and-butter issues like good jobs and affordable healthcare in places like Cleveland, the need to challenge members of the Democratic party who block legislation meant to improve the material conditions of the most vulnerable, and the need to go directly to the people to build pressure for progressive change.

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The Dig: Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko Jan 28, 2022

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An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.

Read Volodymyr's work:

truthout.org/articles/ukrainians-are-far-from-unified-on-nato-let-them-decide-for-themselves/

ponarseurasia.org/how-maidan-revolutions-reproduce-and-intensify-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-political-representation/

lefteast.org/ukraine-in-the-vicious-circle-of-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-hegemony/

lefteast.org/contradictions-post-soviet-ukraine-failure-ukraine-new-left/

Tony Wood on Russia: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood/

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Jacobin Show: Why Everything Is Politics Now w/ Anton Jäger Jan 27, 2022

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Jacobin contributor Anton Jäger explains the rise of "hyper-politics" and why everything these days is "political" but collective struggle remains elusive. Luke Savage analyzes the Democrats' recent failure to pass voting rights legislation. Jen Pan argues that the debate over affirmative action at elite universities overlooks larger inequalities.

The Jacobin Show, hosted by Jen Pan, offers 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 January 26, 2022.

Read Anton Jäger's article in Tribune: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/from-post-politics-to-hyper-politics

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Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

Sports Show: Confronting Racism & Police Brutality w/ Etan Thomas Jan 26, 2022

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This week on the Jacobin Sports Show, a very special episode with former NBA player and poet/writer/activist Etan Thomas. Etan's latest book, Police Brutality & White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions, dives into the tradition and enshrinement of police brutality against Black people and talks with activists, allies, police, and media members about why and where action is needed, as well as concrete proposals to combat it. What can athletes do to change things? The press? The police? Interviewees include Lora Dene King, daughter of Rodney King, Rayond Santana from the Exonerated 5, Steph Curry, Isiah Thomas, Craig Hodges, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Jake Tapper, Jemele Hill, Sue Bird, Breanna Stewart, Yamiche Alcindor, Chuck D and many more.

The Jacobin Sports Show covers the most meaningful stories from around the world of sports, both on and off the field. Hosted by Matthew Miranda and Jonah Birch. To find it, search for "Jacobin Sports" wherever you get your podcasts.

Show website: https://anchor.fm/jacobinsports

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jacobin-sports-show/id1548995463

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0rGF836yZQVE2jjg1k2hcd

RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/47ae1a2c/podcast/rss

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Michael and Us: Guy's Winnipeg Jan 25, 2022

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The great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was assigned to make a documentary about his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He made MY WINNIPEG (2007), a hilarious, surreal dreamscape that combines autobiography, history, and fiction into a free-flowing meditation on a city and a home. We discuss the film's treatment of truth, memory, and the Canadian identity. PLUS: Luke discusses the glamorous life of being a published book author.

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

Preorder Luke's book The Dead Center- https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-dead-center/

"Manitoba History - February 19, 1942: If Day" by Michael Newman - http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/13/ifday.shtml

Guy Maddin's "The Heart of the World" - https://vimeo.com/115997353

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Tension on the Russia-Ukraine Border Jan 21, 2022

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Bohdan Krawchenko, author of works on Ukrainian politics and history, talks to Suzi from the University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan about the potential disaster on the Russian-Ukrainian border—and looks at the bigger picture of Putin’s government in Russia. We talk about what is driving Putin’s actions and what is at stake in the dangerously escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Is this geopolitical gamble with the West aimed at negotiating with the US to keep NATO at bay—or is it about increasing domestic political support at home, where grievances are rife about the lack of democratic rights and growing inequality?

The Dig: Biden's Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman Jan 21, 2022

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Epidemiologist Justin Feldman makes a comprehensive and devastating critique of Biden's pandemic response.

Read Justin's essay: jmfeldman.medium.com/?p=88452c696f2

Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Buy Angela Davis: An Autobiography haymarketbooks.org/books/1741-angela-davis

Jacobin Show: Why the Left Can't Win Without West Virginia w/ Ted Boettner Jan 21, 2022

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Researcher Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute outlines West Virginia’s political shift from blue to red through the history of coal mining and discusses why the Left can’t win without rural and working-class voters. Matt Bruenig explains the pandemic baby boom in the Nordic countries, and Jen Pan discusses a surprising increase in the number of self-identified Republicans in the US.

The Jacobin Show offers 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 January 19, 2022 with Jen Pan hosting.

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Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

A World to Win: Speculative Communities w/ Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou Jan 18, 2022

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Grace talks to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, associate professor of sociology at UCL, about his book Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World. They talk about the formation of a new kind of subject—homo speculans—and how mutual cooperation in the context of the deep and pervasive uncertainty that characterizes life under financial capitalism is building new communities and new forms of resistance.

A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

Long Reads: Cédric Durand on the Twilight of Neoliberalism Jan 15, 2022

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Cédric Durand joins Long Reads for a conversation about global capitalism and the pandemic. Cédric is a French economist who teaches at the University of Geneva, and the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future. 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.

You can find Cédric's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2452-fictitious-capital

And, for Jacobin, his 2018 article about the gilets jaunes movement: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/gilets-jaunes-yellow-vest-macron-capitalism

Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

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