In this week’s episode, Grace talks to Moses Khisa, Assistant Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University and a research associate with the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala. They discuss the recent elections in Uganda, in which President Yoweri Museveni won his sixth term against populist challenger and former popstar Bobi Wine, and place them in the context of Uganda’s long slide towards authoritarianism and the failed neoliberal reforms of...
Feb 17, 2021•45 min
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 February 13, 2021. Vijay Prashad joins us to discuss the latest on the massive Indian farmer strikes and how socialists can build international solidarity. Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: ...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 54 min
Former Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis died this week at the age of 67. In remembrance of one of the most important left labor leaders in recent history, we hosted a remembrance of her for the Jacobin YouTube channel.
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 22 min
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 Noreena Hertz , author of The Lonely Century , on what loneliness is doing to our minds, bodies, and societies. Rossana Rodríguez , Chicago city council member, puts in a word in favor of mutual aid....
Feb 12, 2021•53 min
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 audio version of the show from February 10, 2021. Ariella and Paul are out, with David Griscom filling in as co-host. In this episode, sociologist Jennifer Silva explains how rising economic inequa...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 58 min
For decades the most visible socialist in Britain, the late Labour Party MP Tony Benn is the rare instance of a left-wing politician who became even more radical as his political career progressed. The 1990 documentary TONY BENN: AGAINST THE TIDE, 1973-6 looks back at four years where radical change seemed possible and Benn was at the height of his power within Labour. We discuss his thwarted political vision, and how his politics remained consistent through the dark winters of Thatcher and Blai...
Feb 11, 2021•58 min
In this episode, Grace talks to Ellen Clifford, author of The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe (ZED Books, 2020), who is on the steering committee of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). They discuss successive UK governments’ breaches of the human rights of disabled people, how the Left can be made a more inclusive space for disabled activists, and how the pandemic has affected the lives of disabled people after a decade of austerity. Remember th...
Feb 11, 2021•49 min
Dan interviews Jeanne Morefield on her book Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection and how the disavowed wars have come home on the American Right. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Join the Dig Book Club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club Check out our vast archives at thedigradio.com
Feb 11, 2021•2 hr 5 min
In the latest episode of The Jacobin Sports Show, Matthew and Jonah talk with Lyndsey D'Arcangelo about the Big Game that was anything but, Sarah Thomas and the NFL's efforts to promote hiring more women, WNBA free agency, and Lyndsey's new book about the overlooked but meaningful history of the National Women's Football League. Lyndsey D'Arcangelo ( @darcangel21 ) writes for The Athletic, covering the NFL and the National Women's Hockey League, and founded the Courtside newsletter, which covers...
Feb 10, 2021•48 min
In this episode, Suzi talks to Meredith Whittaker , who worked at Google for a decade and now directs NYU's Artificial Intelligence Institute, where she focuses on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it. Her recent Nation article, co-authored with Nantina Vgontzas, puts forward a militant progressive vision for tech, insisting that the left must vie for control over the algorithms, data and infrastructure that shape our lives. This is all the ...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min
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 February 6, 2021, with Paul Prescod filling in for Nando. Historian Eric Foner discusses how Civil War history and the events of Reconstruction can help us understand our present political moment. Paul Prescod explains why "black capitalism" will never ...
Feb 08, 2021•2 hr 8 min
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 Katya Kazbek , who looks behind all the shiny stories about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. Then, Marianela D'Aprile offers a socialist critique of mutual aid (older article here) .
Feb 08, 2021•53 min
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 today is Gavin Walker. Gavin history at McGill University in Canada and is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan . He is also the editor The Red Years , a new collection of essays on the legacy of 1968 in Japan. Read Gavin's e...
Feb 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min
We're continuing a limited run of the new Jacobin Sports Show. If you'd like to keep listening, please subscribe! You can find links to Apple, Spotify, and other podcast apps here: https://anchor.fm/jacobinsports/ In the latest episode, Matthew and Jonah discuss their Super Bowl feelings and differ over whether MLB Hall of Fame voters should discriminate against suspected drug cheats. They are joined by Avantika Goswami ( @aygoswami ) to discuss all things English Premier League: Liverpool's str...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 3 min
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. The story of two men competing for the world Donkey Kong championship becomes a metaphor for so much in society, from celebrity culture to institutional power. We revisit THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS (2007) and celebrate two universal archetypes: Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell. PLUS: fiery hot takes on the Golden Globes, the Democrats' impending midterm strategy, and the lingering discourse...
Feb 04, 2021•56 min
Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy . How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more powerful and less accountable? Examples from Italy (Five Star Movement) and Spain (Podemos). How does the failure to incorporate people into rooted forms of political organization undermine the left's power, coherence, and durability? Example from the USA (the funhouse mirror-appeal of a certain Y...
Feb 03, 2021•2 hr 16 min
This week, Grace talks to Ben Smoke, one of the members of the Stansted 15: a group of activists who stopped a mass deportation flight from taking off from Stansted airport in 2017, before being tried under law designed to prosecute terrorists. They discuss the details of the protest and the trial, the government's barbaric approach to migration policy, and why successive Tory governments seem so adept at breaking international human rights law. For the full episode, support us on Patreon: https...
Feb 03, 2021•53 min
In 2013, several years before Bernie Sanders changed the American political landscape with his 2016 presidential run, socialist Kshama Sawant ran for Seattle city council — and won. Since then, she's accomplished much while facing an unending onslaught of attacks from all sides. Micah talked to Sawant about her time on the council and the lessons from her tenure for socialists everywhere. Read Sawant's piece in Jacobin about the attacks she has faced from the Right, capital, and the Democrats: h...
Feb 02, 2021•39 min
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 January 30, 2021. Jeremy Corbyn joins us to discuss his history of activism and his legacy as leader of the Labour Party. We also cover how Reddit users have been undermining Wall Street investors through apps like Robinhood to trade GameStop and AMC st...
Feb 01, 2021•2 hr 11 min
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug speaks with Sarah Buehler, a British Columbia-based climate activist, on the Keystone Pipeline and Biden’s climate policy. Plus, an interview with Chris Maisano, author of this article , on the work of Leo Panitch
Jan 29, 2021•53 min
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the War on Terror, James Bond went on a mission to find... relevance. We watched GOLDENEYE (1995), the first end-of-history Bond film, to find how 007 fit into the New World Order. PLUS: reflections on the inauguration, Canada's wacky system of governance, and the passing of Larry King.
Jan 29, 2021•43 min
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 audio version of the broadcast on January 27, 2021. What is the professional-managerial class and how is it standing in the way of economic redistribution? Catherine Liu explains how this group of ...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 46 min
Today, we're continuing our limited run of the new Jacobin Sports Show. If you'd like to keep listening, please subscribe! You can find links to Apple, Spotify, and other podcast apps here: https://anchor.fm/jacobinsports/ In this latest episode, Matthew and Jonah discuss the NFL's conference championship games. They're then joined by Dr. Robert Greene II ( @robgreeneII ) to discuss the late Hank Aaron's astonishing yet somehow overlooked career, the whitewashing of Aaron as a Black man and icon...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 1 min
All of us at Jacobin are still grieving the death of longtime Marxist scholar Leo Panitch, a former guest of this podcast who died last month at the age of 75. Micah talks to contributing editor Chris Maisano about Leo, whose work has shaped Jacobin perhaps more than any other single thinker. Read Chris's long essay on Panitch here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2021/01/leo-panitch-<wbr />marxism...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Dan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways . Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig Join a Dig Book Club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 49 min
In this week’s episode of A World to Win, Grace talks to Ian Lavery MP, former Chair of the Labour Party, and Laura Smith, former MP for Crewe and Nantwitch, about their new project No Holding Back, which you can find online and on Twitter . We discuss whether the Labour Party is still the party of the working classes, the likely impact of Brexit on the UK, and how the Left can rebuild trust with communities across the country in the wake of the pandemic. Remember that you can support our work o...
Jan 27, 2021•47 min
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 January 23, 2021. Richard Wolff discusses economics for the Biden era, Nando Vila covers the recent Teamsters Local 202 strike victory at Hunts Point Market in the Bronx, and Ana Kasparian covers the expansion of domestic surveillance flying overhead. W...
Jan 25, 2021•2 hr 31 min
In this episode: John Logan on organizing at Amazon in Alabama and Veena Dubal on anti-worker Proposition 22 going national and global. Suzi talks to John Logan, labor historian at San Francisco State , about the organizing initiative of Amazon workers in Alabama, taking on a notoriously anti-union company -- in the midst of a pandemic. The implications for this struggle are nothing less than historic, and titanic: taking on Amazon is akin to what it was to take on General Motors in the 1930s, w...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 5 min
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. Our guest for this episode is Kieran Durkin. Kieran is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie global fellow at University of York, and a visiting scholar at University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm and co-editor of Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and...
Jan 23, 2021•51 min
This week, in a special episode of A World to Win, we remember the brilliant Marxist thinker, writer and public intellectual Leo Panitch . Grace talks to Max Shanly, Labour Party activist and long-time friend of Leo, and Sam Gindin, former director of research for the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union and Leo’s collaborator, including on his magnum opus The Making of Global Capitalism. Several of Leo Panitch’s books and many of his essays are available for free through the Socialist Register . He was...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr
