Jacobin Radio

Every Saturday starting 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 left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show from September 5th, with Ariella Thornhill filling in for Ana.The guest today is Matt Karp. Matt is a historian, Jacobin contributing editor, and author of This Vast Southern Empire. Matt's epic new essay from the print issue can be read here.Subscribe to Jacobin here.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug interviews Mike German on cops and white supremacists (Guardian article; Brennan paper) and Hadas Thier, author of A People's Guide to Capitalism, on Marx’s economics.

Dan interviews historian Matthew Countryman on his book Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia.Join a Dig Book Club reading group and discuss Up South with Countryman on September 12. Sign up here thedigradio.com/dig-book-clubSupport this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig

A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In this episode, Grace Blakeley is joined by Walden Bello, academic, author, human rights campaigner and former member of the Filipino House of Representatives.The show discusses the history of the Philippines, Bello’s opposition to the brutal Marcos dictatorship, his longstanding fight against US imperialism and neoliberal globalisation (including in breaking into the offices of the World Bank to steal confidential documents), as well as how Covid-19 is affecting the Philippines.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and our graphic designer, Kevin Zweerink, for their hard work on this episode.Remember, you can support the show by signing up as apatron.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade, on the role of shipping in the development of capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. He also speaks with Kayla Popuchet on what’s been going on in Belarus.

Every Saturday starting 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 left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show from August 29th.The guest today is Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union.Subscribe to the channel and press the like button! Subscribe to Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Filmmaker and Twitter personality Rob Reiner looked back at the Kennedy/Johnson era through the lens of the Obama era in LBJ (2016), the story of how an idealist's vision can only be achieved by a pragmatism... and how the pragmatist's centrism may or may not have actually camouflaged an idealist the whole time. A piece of Boomer-porn, this movie is unmistakably the vision of a Joe Biden primary voter. PLUS: fiery hot thoughts on the Canadian Conservative Party leadership race, the Ed Markey/Joe Kennedy III battle, and the controversial release of TENET.

We talked to Jared Abbott about his article in the new print issue of Jacobin, the title of which is a pretty accurate summary of it: "The Two Paths of Democratic Socialism: Coalition and Confrontation." You can read Jared's article here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2020/08/the-two-paths-of-<wbr />democratic-socialism-<wbr />coalition-and-confrontation Read Jared's coauthored Catalyst article here: https://catalyst-<wbr />journal.com/vol3/no2/a-<wbr />socialist-party-in-our-time Read Adam Hilton's article on New Politics here: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />2016/02/bernie-sanders-new-<wbr />politics-democratic-party-<wbr />realignment-primary

A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In the second episode of A World to Win, Grace talks to former foreign minister of EcuadorGuillaume Longabout the impact of Covid-19 in the country, the rise and fall of the Correa government and the growth of ‘neoliberal authoritarianism’ in Latin America.Long discusses the “huge cuts” imposed in recent years by Ecuador’s Moreno administration, an austerity plan which has seen public investment in the health sector halved and 10 percent of public health workers laid off with the support of the IMF.He also explains the campaign of ‘lawfare,’ which has sought to criminalise Rafael Correa and prevent him from returning to office, and the systematic retaliation from Western governments to Ecuador’s progressive economic and environmental policies under Correa’s government.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and our graphic designer, Kevin Zweerink, for their hard work on this episode. Remember, you can support the show by signing up as apatron.

Suzi talks to Lizaveta Merliak, International Secretary of the Belarussian Independent Trade Union BNP, about the massive protest movement in the streets in Belarus since August 9, when the blatantly fraudulent election results were announced. President Lukashenko claimed he won 80% of the votes in a deteriorating economic situation and escalating pandemic -- which the government ignored, while spending lavishly on WWII parades. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets, workers have downed their tools to go on strike and join the protest movement – while President Lukashenko has dug in, doubling down on repression and shocking the world with the regime’s brutality. Sarah Mason, a former Lyft driver and DoorDasher, now a grad student studying platform mediated labor, talks to Suzi about the California Supreme Court decision and Assembly Bill 5, which have determined that Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Doordash and Postmates are not tech apps, but driving companies, and their workers are employees, not independent contractors. The Court has issued an injunction against the companies, and they in turn have threatened to halt services in California until November when voters will vote on their sponsored Proposition 22, which would give them a carveout, an exemption to the law to deny their drivers rights and protections like minimum wage, sick leave and safety protections.

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This is the podcast version. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left.The guest for this episode, which originally aired August 22, 2020, is Mark Dudzic. He is a longtime union activist, former national organizer of the Labor Party, and current national coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...

Dan's recent live event with Yanis Varoufakis on how 2020 revealed that 2008 had changed capitalism forever.Also: we had some pod feed issues last week. If you missed Dan's interview with brilliant organizers Andres Celin and Rapheal Randall—and this is a must-listen for everyone interested in organizing—check it out: www.thedigradio.com/podcast/organize-to-win-with-andres-celin-and-rapheal-randall/

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Christian Parenti, author of Radical Hamilton, on appropriating the state-led developmentalism of the Founding Father for the left.

Jacobin Europe editor David Broder has a new book out, First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy. It's an excellent, though depressing, look at Italian politics today, and how the developments in the country over the last several decades might foreshadow developments in the rest of the world. You can buy David's new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/<wbr />books/2974-first-they-took-<wbr />rome

In our final episode, we talk about the emergence of what Thompson sees as mature class consciousness in the English working class. Through the writing and agitation of figures like Cobbett and Owen in the slow 1820s and then the great reform struggle of the early 1830s, the working class moved from its ambivalent position — partly resisting proletarianization, partly looking forward — toward a more aggressive vision of its own social power. We also reflect a bit on what we've taken away from this reading and collective project.References:Richard Hoggart, The Uses of LiteracyTobias Higbie, Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual LifeRichard Biernacki, The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914

Welcome to the first episode of A World to Win with Grace Blakeley! A World to Win is a new podcast from Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world.---“Who do we remember? Do we remember the Home Secretaries that imprisoned the Chartists? Or do we remember the Chartists for what they stood for, albeit unsuccessful in the immediate time?” –Jeremy CorbynToday, Grace is joined by Jeremy Corbyn to discuss to the UK government’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the rise and fall of Corbynism, and the future of socialism within the Labour Party.For the first time ever, hear Jeremy on the “absurd” discussions he had with the government about its herd immunity strategy and why the furlough scheme was unlikely to have been implemented without significant pressure from key figures in the Opposition.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and our graphic designer, Kevin Zweerink, for their hard work on this episode. Remember, you can support the show by signing up as a patron.

Every Saturday starting 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 left political strategy, along with interviews with prominent individuals on the left. The guest for this episode, which originally aired August 15th: science writer and EU affairs journalist, Leigh Phillips. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts and co-author of The People's Republic of Walmart.Purchase Leigh's book: https://www.jacobinmag.com/store/prod...Read Leigh's latest Jacobin article: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/on...Subscribe to the channel and press the like button! Subscribe to Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. In this episode, episode #166, we revisited Charlie Chaplin's Sadly Still Relevant® classic MODERN TIMES (1936) to ask: what are the politics of the Little Tramp... and what are the politics of his famous author? We discuss how Chaplin depicted work, class, and poverty, and the many ways that people have interpreted him. PLUS: Joe Biden as FDR (or not), and thee unholy return of Blockbuster Video.

A must-listen conversation on organizing to win with two extraordinary organizers from Philadelphia's Youth United for Change.Download their book Y’all Tryna Win or Nah?! https://www.youthunitedforchange.org/y_all_tryna_win_or_nahSupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug speaks withElizabeth Wrigley-Fieldon race and mortality: years lost to police violence and how many white people would have to die of COVID-19 to equal a “normal” year of black death. (paper here, NYT article here). Then an interview with Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty, on the ecological crises facing US agriculture.

Biden/Harris 2020, Harris(/Buttigieg??) 2024 — who could be unhappy about the political scenario we now find ourselves in?? Meagan and Micah talk about the Kamala Harris VP pick and how cool and good everything is right now. Branko Marcetic's long profile of Harris's career: https://www.<wbr />jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-<wbr />harris-trump-obama-california-<wbr />attorney-general CNBC: "Wall Street executives are glad Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris to be his VP running mate" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/<wbr />11/joe-biden-vp-pick-wall-<wbr />street-executives-are-happy-<wbr />about-kamala-harris.html

This week, Ana Kasparian and new co-host Nando Vila talk about big data capitalism, discuss US imperial ambitions in Venezuela, speak with Abby Martin about Afghanistan and China, dunk on the ludicrous arguments for reopening schools, and more! Abby Martin is a journalist, filmmaker, and host of The Empire Files. Weekends on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ1p5CrbecY&list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk Empire Files: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG29FnXZm4F5U8xpqs1cs1Q

<font color="#000000">Suzi talks to </font>Gilbert Achcar<font color="#000000"> about the </font>horrific explosion, on August 4, in his native Lebanon. Nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been sitting in the port of the City for seven years ignited, leaving hundreds dead, thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands homeless. Gilbert AchcaroutlinesLebanon’s decades long history of corrupt neoliberal rule, which he characterizes as marked by exploitation, criminal neglect, sectarian divisions, and utter disregard for the population. This catastrophic explosion comes on the heels of economic collapse -- in the midst of a pandemic that derailed one of the largest and broadest protest movements from 2019, now in the streets again demanding an end to the regime in power. We spoke to Gilbert just before the Prime Minister and Cabinet resigned.

Dan interviews Kelly Lytle Hernández on MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol.Dan's 2017 interview with Lytle Hernández on City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965: thedigradio.com/podcast/a-history-of-human-caging-with-kelly-lytle-hernandezSupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

We speak to historian Matt Karp about his Catalyst article "The Mass Politics of Antislavery" and what the success of abolitionist politics in the 19th century has to teach radicals in the 21st. Matt is a new dad so this episode features some background baby sounds. Matt's article: https://catalyst-<wbr />journal.com/vol3/no2/the-mass-<wbr />politics-of-antislavery

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Edwin Ackermanon Mexican president AMLO andMarcia Chatelain, author ofFranchise, on the impact and role of black McDonald’s franchisees.

Suzi talked to David Dayen, editor of the American Prospect, just days before Congress failed to negotiate a new package to replace the CARES Act, which came to an end July 31. That means the weekly $600 lifeline supplement ended, exposing tens of millions to hunger and eviction. The mostly secret negotiations were stuck by divisions within the Republicans, while the Democrats -- pushing their Heroes package -- did not appear to have a clear strategy to win. Dayen’s daily Unsanitized reports have carefully unpacked the details of the CARES Act, showing who has benefited most – and he joins us to discuss the last minute stalled negotiations over what kind of extension or package we are likely to see. Suzi then talks toAlex Vitale, author of The End of Policing – to get a deeper understanding of the nature and role of policing as a critical component of maintaining our economic system, essentially a tool of social control. Alex does not see police violence as an aberration to be reformed, but a feature of the system. We get his take on various reform efforts, how he sees police and camouflaged federal cops deployed to quell the broad movement that has emerged in response to police killings, the demand to defund the police – and how he envisions public safety without policing.

Jacobin Radio welcomes its newest show! Michael and Us, from co-hosts Will Sloan and Luke Savage, is one of our favorite film and comedy podcasts. We're joining Will and Luke at episode 164, "Mo Money Mo Problems."Everyone agrees that money in politics is a problem, but in MEET THE DONORS: DOES MONEY TALK? (2016), filmmaker Alexandra (daughter of Nancy) Pelosi asks: is it really? She interviews some of the biggest political donors in America to find out why they donate and what they expect for their donations, and finds out... not a whole lot. Politics - what a concept! PLUS: we discuss the state of the left in electoral politics, and definitively identify the worst Twitter feed in the world.Support the show and get exclusive subscriber-only episodes on the Michael and Us Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. This week features Tobita Chow on the roots and dangers of Sinophobia in the US and Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, on the emergence of the Black Panther Party out of early 1960s campus study groups.

Dan's 2018 interview with Matthew Frye Jacobson on Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America. With a new intro from Dan on the Columbus myth and the politics of white ethnicity.Support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Micah and Meagan speak with sociologist Barry Eidlin, author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada, and Jacobin contributing editor Chris Maisano on why the US doesn't have a labor party and why that matters. Barry's book: https://www.cambridge.<wbr />org/core/books/labor-and-the-<wbr />class-idea-in-the-united-<wbr />states-and-canada/<wbr />356399CB43939B0B259AE018615D55<wbr />87 Barry's article "The Phantom Limb": https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2016/11/labor-third-party-<wbr />us-canada-ccf-ndp-democrats-<wbr />unions/ Chris's review of Barry's book: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />2020/06/labor-party-in-the-<wbr />usa-workers-party-history

In this episode we discuss Chapter 15, "Demagogues and Martyrs." The period immediately after peace in 1815 saw both a rapid rise in militancy and intense repression, such that an increasingly agitated and radicalized population had no organizational capacity to express its militancy. This gave rise to personalized leadership around individual demagogues and to an oscillation between insurrectionary and constitutionalist approaches. We also discuss the Peterloo massacre, which is narrated in this chapter, and Mike Leigh's recent film Peterloo on the subject.

In this special tribute episode of Weekends, Ana is joined by Nando Vila and many friends and colleagues to remember Michael Brooks. Guests include: Bhaskar Sunkara, Matt Lech, David Griscom, Dustin Guastella, Joshua Kahn Russell, Ben Burgis, and our own super-producer Cale Brooks.Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLkKasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. This show features Jason Wilson on the protests and storm troopers in Portland. Then, Forrest Hylton on COVID-19, repression, corruption, and drug gangs in Latin America.

Our police system is a product of Cold War US imperialism too. Dan interviews Stuart Schrader on Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing.Support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/TheDig

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks have been broadcasting live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This week features an interview with professor Vivek Chibber on the state and the left's road to power. Sadly and very unexpectedly, Michael passed away the Monday after recording this episode.---Read more on our website:"Remembering Our Friend and Comrade Michael Brooks" by Bhaskar Sunkara https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/remembering-our-friend-and-comrade-michael-brooks"'Michael Brooks Was My Absolute Political Inspiration'," a series of reflections collected by Micah Uetricht https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-viewers-listeners-reflections"Michael Brooks Was a True Internationalist" by Daniel Bessner https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-internationalist-remembrance---Weekends archive on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk

All of us at Jacobin are devastated and in deep shock about the untimely death of our collaborator, comrade, and friend Michael Brooks. Michael was truly a one-of-a-kind figure, warm and loving and smart and hilarious and completely irreplaceable. Jacobin's Meagan Day, Micah Uetricht, Luke Savage, and Ben Burgis talked about Michael's impact on them and legacy on the Left. We'll miss you, Michael. Bhaskar Sunkara's remembrance of Michael: https://jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2020/07/remembering-our-<wbr />friend-and-comrade-michael-<wbr />brooks Meagan's remembrance: https://<wbr />jacobinmag.com/2020/07/<wbr />michael-brooks-remembrance

Suzi talks to Joel Jordan and Constance Penley who make the case against school reopening for K-12 and the Universities. <u>JoelJordan</u>,ret<wbr />ired LAUSD teacher and former UTLA strategist, is helping to coordinate a coalition of the largest teacher unions in California who are leading the fight by teachers, parents, and students against school reopening at the K-12 level. The teachers and their allies have won an initial victory -- Los Angeles and San Diego counties have just announced they will not open in the Fall. The resurgence of the deadly pandemic in the region underscores the danger of going back to school until the curve is flattened and the disease brought under control, giving the unions a temporary breathing space. The Trump administration, along with its corporate and political allies, have made reopening the economy the only priority and are stepping up the pressure to reopen so parents can be freed from childcare responsibilities and go back to work. Joel Jordan fills us in on the class-wide counter-organizing that is taking place.Constance Penley, President of the Council of UC Faculty Associations and Professor at UC Santa Barbara discusses the rush to bring students back to campuses at the university level in some form this fall. The issues are somewhat different for higher education than for K-12, but faculties across the board have questioned their institutions, who have presented an ever changing series of plans, rationales and procedures for bringing people back to campus without explaining why this is the right approach -- and more importantly, have left faculty input out of the equation in making the decisions that will affect their livelihood and health security. Constance Penley and the Council of UC Faculty Associations are also fighting the Trump administration’s efforts to force in-person classes by threatening to expel international students who don’t attend physical classrooms. We get her take on what is behind this push and the fight to prevent putting everyone’s health at risk.

This is an incredible moment to learn about the Young Lords from historian Johanna Fernández, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History.Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. On this episode, Michael is on break and Nando Vila is filling in. Ana and Nando speak with Nomi Prins, Journalist and author of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLkBrooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooksKasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead. Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C Dawson Dig interview with Michael Dawson Democracy Remixed by Cathy Cohen Dig interview with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil by Patricia de Santana Pinho Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields Dig interview with the Fields sisters Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Things have been pretty bleak across the US lately, so Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht were eager to talk to a socialist who actually won something recently: Nikil Saval, a democratic socialist who recently won the Democratic Primary for a state senate seat in Pennsylvania's first district. A profile of Nikil: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2020/05/pennsylvania-<wbr />nikil-saval-rick-krajewski-<wbr />reclaim-philadelphia Nikil's 2016 article about Bernie: https://nplusonemag.<wbr />com/issue-26/the-intellectual-<wbr />situation/canvassing/

In this episode, Gabe talks with Gavin Mueller about Luddism. (Alex's internet died, so she's not part of this one.) What can an insurrection of machine breaking tell us about how solidarity develops? How should we relate to technology, and what role does technology — and opposition to it — play in the development of solidarity? Secondary readings: Eric Hobsbawm, "The Machine Breakers," https://www.jstor.org/stable/<wbr />649989 Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now (https://www.versobooks.com/<wbr />books/2951-full-surrogacy-now) Salar Mohandesi, "Class Consciousness or Class Composition?" https://<wbr />guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/<wbr />10.1521/siso.2013.77.1.72 Online library of Johnson-Forest Tendency writings: https://libcom.org/<wbr />tags/johnson%E2%80%93forest-<wbr />tendency

Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir on how policing and mass incarceration became core features of the war on immigrants and on his book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It.Please support this podcast wit $ at Patreon.com/TheDigBuy Dan's book at versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism

Suzi talks toRobert Brenner,who has just published “Escalating Plunder” in New Left Review 123, about the federal response to the shutdown of the economy in the wake of the coronavirus. The punchline is that the COVID-19 bailout, or Cares Act, not only escalates plunder, it is predation on steroids in a stalled economy in worsening decline. In other words, the bipartisan establishment has concluded that they can only intervene — and call it rescue — by underwriting the rip-off already in motion, bailing out the top 0.1 percent in the face of plunging production, employment, and profits. Brenner calls out predation. We get his analysis.

Debating a "dirty break" from the Democrats, with Kim Moody, Eric Blanc, and co-hosted by Meagan Day. You can read Eric’s article about the Minnesota Farmer-Labor party and dirty break strategy here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2017/12/democratic-party-<wbr />minnesota-farmer-labor-floyd-<wbr />olson Read Kim Moody’s rebuttal here: https://newpol.org/<wbr />dirty-break-for-independent-<wbr />political-action-or-a-way-to-<wbr />stay-stuck-in-the-mud/

Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This week, June 27, 2020, New York State Senator Julia Salazar joins the show to discuss democratic socialists' recent election wins as well as movements outside the electoral arena. Weekends on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLkBrooks on Twitter https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooksKasparian on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian

Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism.Read Dan's essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirusNot in the mood for a long, complex Dig interview? Check out Antibody, which is like commie This American Life: thedigradio.com/antibodySupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

On this episode, we offer readers an extra week to read Chapter Fourteen. Instead, we speak with Labour MP John McDonnell about the coronavirus pandemic, economic crises, and how he's liking The Making of the English Working Class on this reading.

Suzi talks to two student activist/leaders of #StudentsDeserve, Sarah Djato at Dorsey high school, and Asia Bryant, who just graduated from Hamilton High, about their organizing, in partnership with Black Lives Matter LA, to defund school police and reallocate the money ($70 million of the LAUSD budget) to bring in counselors, services, and programs that serve black and brown youth as “students, not suspects.” That idea has now been endorsed by UTLA (United Teachers of Los Angeles), and will be taken up at the LAUSD School Board meeting this week. Suzi then talks to Los Angeles Times legal affairs columnist, former US Attorney Harry Litman to discuss AG William Barr and President Trump against Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Friday night Barr announced Berman would resign, but Berman refused, and Saturday afternoon Trump fired Berman. But it doesn’t stop there, and Harry Litman helps us understand the dizzying array of legal and practical questions this raises. We also talk to Harry about the surprising decision on the Bostock v. Clayton Country Georgia case announced last week that saw our very conservative Supreme Court come to an unexpected rule, by a vote of 6-3 that says Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status — a hugely significant result.