In this episode we speak to three of the contributors to On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal , which is available from Kersplebedeb and you can find that at leftwingbooks.net . On Necrocapitalism was collectively authored by a writing group known as M.I. Asma which included J. Moufawad-Paul, Devin Zane Shaw, Mateo Andante, Johannah May Black, Alyson Escalante, and D.W. Fairlane. In this conversation we speak with Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul and Devin Zane Shaw. The authors introduce them...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 125
In this episode we speak with veteran of the Black Panther Party, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and co-founder of the Black Autonomy Federation Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. A former long-time political prisoner, we talk to Ervin about the recent release of the definitive edition of his book Anarchism and the Black Revolution on Pluto Press. Anarchism and the Black Revolution was written during Ervin’s political imprisonment, and is considered a foundational text for Black Anarchist tr...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 124
In this episode we interview António Tomás, author of the recently published biography Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist . Tomás is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is a native of Angola, and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. He has worked as a journalist in Angola and Portugal and has written extensively on issues related to Lusophone Africa. Recently we held a study group on...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Orisanmi Burton is a social anthropologist, his research examines grassroots resistance and state repression. He is an assistant professor of anthropology at American University. Currently, as he will discuss briefly in the episode, he is working on a book on prisoner organizing in the New York State prison system, and the Attica Rebellion. In this episode we are talking about Burton’s recent essay, “Captivity, Kinship & Black Masculine Care Work Under Domestic Warfare.” It was published in ...
Nov 29, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 122
In this episode we host Joshua Myers, to talk about his recently published book Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition . Folks will recall that last year we had a conversation with Josh Myers about Cedric Robinson much of which centered around the content and concepts within Black Marxism . While there is a slight overlap between this conversation and that one, the two are quite distinct and mutually inform each other. So we invite folks to revisit that alongside this conversat...
Nov 17, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 121
In this episode we speak to Geo Maher. Maher is an educator, organizer, political theorist and the author of four books, including We Created Chavez , Building the Commune , and Decolonizing Dialectics . In this episode, we talk about Geo’s latest book, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete . In this discussion we talk about Maher’s grounding of the abolitionist struggle in W.E.B. Du Bois’s seminal work of history Black Reconstruction in America . Geo discusses the sp...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 120
In this episode Josh interviews Eric Stanley about their most recent book Atmospheres of Violence: The Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable. Eric is also the co-director of two films, Homotopia and Criminal Queers . And the co-editor of Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility and Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex . In this conversation, Josh interviews Eric about their latest work. Discussing the continuum of anti-t...
Nov 03, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 119
This week’s special report, features Hassan M. Hassan is a scientist and writer. He is a contributing editor for the Peoples Anti-Colonial Press and co-host at TheKulture.TV , a new weekly anti-imperialist roundup. He is currently researching the relationship between dialectical materialism and the history of the philosophy of science. In special reports, we interview journalists, activists, scholars and organizers on shorter pieces. These might be essays, articles, short stories or even poems. ...
Oct 25, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 118
In this episode we interview Alex Turrall, an independent researcher and primary school teacher. We talk to Alex about two reviews they've written for Liberated Texts . Liberated Texts is an independent book review website which features works of ongoing relevance that have been forgotten, underappreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted in the cultural mainstream since their release. Liberated Texts focuses on texts with anti-colonial, anti-imperialist themes and those related to the history of M...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 117
For this special report we talk to Jon Ben-Menachem . Jon is a researcher and journalist, currently working on his PhD in Sociology at Columbia University, where he researches political economy and punishment. As a journalist he’s published on policing, incarceration and austerity for The Appeal, Slate, Shadowproof, Current Affairs, Truthout and New York Daily News. Today we invite Jon on to discuss his latest piece “ What Media Gets Wrong About Last Year’s Uptick In Murders ” which was publishe...
Oct 15, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 116
In this episode we interview Ashon Crawley . Ashon is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at the University of Virginia and author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility and The Lonely Letters . In this discussion we ask Ashon questions from both books. Ashon delves into the context in which both works were created. Along the way Ashon shares reflections on religion, doctrine, on spirituality, theology, sense capacity, aesthetics, Blackness, Q...
Oct 10, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 115
This is a special episode, as today - October 4th - is our 4th anniversary of releasing episodes of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. In this episode Josh and Jay look back on 4 years of doing the podcast, and on different contradictions and issues we’re thinking about currently. Some folks might read this as a bit of a pessimistic conversation, and to the extent that this comes across, neither of us want to encourage a pessimistic outlook. We simply don’t have the time for that. However, it i...
Oct 04, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 114
In this episode we inter view Torkil Lauesen. Lauesen is a long-time anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989 he was a full-time member of a communist anti-imperialist group, supporting Third World liberation movements by both legal and illegal means. In connection with support work, he has traveled in Lebanon, Syria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Philippines, and Mexico. In the 1990’s, during his political imprisonment, he was involved in prison activism and recei...
Sep 25, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 113
For this episode we offered our platform to some organizers inside and out, who put together a series of discussions on the state and needs of prisoner movements today. This is the third segment of a series of political discussions focused on building support for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak’s 2021 National Call To Action “Shut ‘Em Down” and looking forward to next summer’s 2022 National Prisoner Strike and Boycott . The first two panels were hosted by George Jackson University and Final Straw Radio ...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 112
In this episode we interview Ray Luc Levasseur. During his time underground Levasseur was a purported member of the United Freedom Front, and the Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson Unit. Prior to that Levasseur organized in several above ground formations, including the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), Vietnam Veterans Against The War, and SCAR. We talk to Ray about his early life, and the influence of his experience in Vietnam on the development of anti-imperialist politics and commitme...
Sep 05, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 111
In this episode we interview SNCC veterans Jennifer Lawson and Dorothy Zellner. This is our second conversation with SNCC veterans we encourage folks to listen to this along with our conversation last year with Jennifer Lawson and Charles Cobb Jr . SNCC is about to host it’s 60th Anniversary conference, you can register at sncc60thanniversary.org . We encourage folks to do that and connect with these amazing veterans of the Black Freedom Struggle. In this conversation we talk about communication...
Aug 28, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 110
In this episode we speak with Da’Shaun Harrison. Da’Shaun is a Black trans writer, abolitionist, and community organizer. Da’Shaun serves as Managing Editor for Wear Your Voice Magazine . In this conversation we speak with Da’Shaun about their recently published book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness . We talk to Da’Shaun about their analysis of how the logic of anti-fatness works in relation to anti-blackness. This includes a discussion of Da’Shaun’s perspective...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 109
In this interview we talk to Dr. Joy James. Joy James is the author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals, and Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in US Culture . Her edited books include: Warfare in the American Homeland, The New Abolitionists: (Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings, Imprisoned Intellectuals, States of Confinement, The Black Feminist Reader (co-edi...
Aug 12, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 108
In this episode we interview Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert about her recently published book, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry . Most well known as the playwright behind A Raisin In The Sun , Hansberry was a journalist and editor for Paul Robeson’s Freedom , which covered domestic and international politics and social movements from a Black Radical perspective in the 1950’s. In the 50’s Hansberry was firmly embedded in a radical milieu that included Robeson, Du Bois, William Patterso...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 107
In this episode we talk to Peter Cole, historian and author of Ben Fletcher, The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly . Fletcher was among the most successful union organizers in the early 20th century, and a Black leader of the Local 8 union - a component of the Industrial Workers of the World - which organized on the docks in South Philadelphia beginning in 1913. Local 8 of the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, was the most powerful interracial union of its era, and the IWW or the W...
Jul 25, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 106
In this episode we talk to Dr. Rinaldo Walcott. Walcott is a Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Walcott is also the author of many books, including Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada , Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora , and Black Studies , and the co-author of BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom . In this episode we primarily focus our conversation around Walcott’s two most recent books, On Property: Policing, Priso...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 105
In this episode we interview Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army veteran Jalil Muntaqim. Muntaqim was political prisoner for nearly half a century due to his involvement in the liberation struggle. He was released from prison in October of 2019 after eleven parole denials. He is the author of We Are Our Own Liberators , which we discuss some in the episode, and Escaping The Prism… Fade to Black , a collection of poetry and essays. In this discussion we talk about some of Muntaqim’s lif...
Jun 27, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 104
In this episode we interview Max Ajl, author of the new book A People’s Green New Deal . Max Ajl is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He has written for Monthly Review, Jacobin and Viewpoint. He has contributed to a number of journals, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Review of African Political Economy and Globalizations, and is an associate e...
Jun 20, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 103
In this episode we interview Rawan and Fathi, co-founders of decolonizepalestine.com . Rawan is the co-founder of decolonizepalestine.com . While studying political science, Middle Eastern studies and Arabic at university, Rawan organized for Students for Justice in Palestine and the Democratic Socialists of America before moving to Palestine and working for a feminist organization in Ramallah. Fathi Nemer is a political scientist, activist, and co-founder of decolonizepalestine.com . He is a fo...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 102
In this episode are joined by Dan Berger, Emily K. Hobson and Barbara Smith to discuss the recently published book Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001 edited by Berger and Hobson. Dan Berger is an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell and the author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era among other titles. Emily K. Hobson is an associate professor of history and gende...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 101
In this interview we talk to Joseph R. Fitzgerald, associate professor of history and political science at Cabrini University and author of The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation . Perhaps most known today as the subject of an iconic photo where she pushes away a bayonet and stares down the national guardsman whose wielding it, Gloria Richardson was a dynamic leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee. We talk to Dr. Fitzgerald about Ms. Richardson’s life, her t...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 100
This is a dialogue between Hanif Abdurraqib and Fred Moten. Hanif Abdurraqib has been on the show twice before, but we really have not done a proper episode to honor his work. So we wanted to figure out a unique way to commemorate the release of A Little Devil In America: Notes In Praise of Black Performance . It dawned on us that a lot of Fred Moten’s work was wrestling with many of the same questions explored in Hanif’s. So we invited both of them to join us in a dialogue, and they both gracio...
May 13, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 99
In this episode we talk to Zoé Samudzi. Dr. Samudzi has a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Her dissertation was about German colonialism, the Herero/Nama genocide, and the afterlife of that genocidal structure in the present. Her writing has appeared in Art in America , The New Republic , The New Inquiry , Jewish Currents , and other outlets. She is co-author of As Black as Resistance , which we spoke with her and co-author William C. Anderson back in 20...
May 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 98
In this episode we interview Hy Thurman, founding member of the Young Patriots, and the Rainbow Coalition. Our conversation focuses on his recently published memoir Revolutionary Hillbilly: Notes From The Struggle On The Edge Of The Rainbow . We begin the conversation discussing growing up in a family of poor white farm workers in Appalachia and the conditions in Tennessee that lead to his migration to Chicago along with tens of thousands of other displaced Appalachians. We talk about how police...
May 01, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 97
In this episode we interview Devyn Springer. This is the third episode we’ve recorded over the years with Springer, but the first since the summer of 2018. Devyn Springer is a cultural worker, community organizer, and independent researcher. They are a member of the Walter Rodney Foundation and the host of the Groundings podcast. In this episode we revisit some of our discussion from 2017 on Walter Rodney, touching on How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , the dialectic of underdevelopment and devel...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 96
