Podcasts by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media and as a result by the general public.
Our goal is to provide a platform for communists, anti-imperialists, Black Liberation movements, ancoms, left libertarians, LBGTQ activists, feminists, immigration activists, and abolitionists to discuss radical politics, radical organizing and share their visions for a better world. Our goal is to center organizers who represent and work with marginalized communities building survival programs, defense programs, political education, and counterpower.
We also plan to bring in perspectives on and from the global south to highlight anti-capitalist struggles outside the imperial core. We view solidarity with decolonization, indigenous, anti-imperialist, environmentalist, socialist, and anarchist movements across the world as necessary steps toward meaningful liberation for all people.
Too often within the imperial core we focus on our own struggles without taking the time to understand those fighting for freedom from beneath the empire’s thumb. It is important to highlight these struggles, learn what we can from them, offer solidarity, and support with action when we can. It is not enough to Fight For $15 an hour and Single-Payer within the core, while the US actively fights against the self-determination of the people of the global economically and militarily.
We recognize that except for the extremely wealthy and privileged, our fates and struggles are intrinsically connected. We hope that our podcast becomes a meaningful platform for organizers and activists fighting for social change to connect their local movements to broader movements centered around the fight to end imperialism, capitalism, racism, discrimination based on gender identity or sexuality, sexism, and ableism.
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"Resistance Always Has a Utility in Time" - Abdaljawad Omar from 2023-12-10T01:02
In this episode we welcome Abdaljawad Omar back to the podcast.
This is another slightly edited livestream that we’ve converted to an audio podcast. You can Listen
“Turning Grief Into Defiance” Abdaljawad Omar on Resistance&Possibility in Palestine from 2023-11-29T20:08
This is a slightly edited version of our recent livestream with Abdaljawad Omar.Listen
“Struggle Is Not Legal in Amerika” - Shaka Shakur on Sanyika Shakur and the New Afrikan Prisoner Movement from 2023-11-23T14:46
We recorded this conversation just before the world shifted on October 7th. We actually have several conversations that we still need to release that we recorded in August and September, but I w...
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“War Is the Basis of Accumulation” - Ali Kadri on Genocide, Waste, Imperialism, and the Commodification of Death from 2023-11-16T19:32
In this episode we talk to Ali Kadri.
Ali Kadri is the author of Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment, The Unmaking of Arab Socialism: Anthem Fron...
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“A Dam Against the Motion of History” - Fred Moten on Palestine&the Nation-State of Israel from 2023-11-11T19:38
This is the slightly cleaned-up audio of our most recent conversation with Fred Moten.
This was recorded on October 25th. Given the evolution of this struggle and the increasingly genocid...
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On Operation Al Aqsa Flood, Decolonizing Palestine and Debunking Zionist Myths with Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer of Decolonize Palestine from 2023-11-03T16:04
This is a slightly edited audio version of one of the MAKC livestreams we’ve hosted on our new Youtube channel Listen
“The Is Not a Charity Operation, Our Liberation Is Connected” - Max Ajl Reflects on His Time in Gaza and the Palestinian Liberation Struggle from 2023-10-22T19:07
This is the slightly edited audio from a livestream conversation we had with Max Ajl on the morning of October 17th. This conversation was Listen
Special Announcement - MAKC Live! from 2023-10-18T23:12
This is a special announcement.
Given the critical nature of the Palestinian Liberation struggle in this moment.
We have made some quick shifts. As w...
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“This Is a War on All Fronts” - Zionism, Palestinian Resistance&Al Aqsa Flood With Frances Hasso and Sina Rahmani from 2023-10-13T16:39
Our guests for this discussion are Frances Hasso, a brilliant scholar and friend of the show, and author of ...
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"Build From Existing Strengths" - Max Ajl on Theories of Political Ecology from 2023-10-12T20:58
In this episode is the conclusion of our 2 part conversation with Max Ajl.
Max Ajl is an educator and a researcher and the author of Listen
Theories of Political Ecology with Max Ajl from 2023-10-06T03:17
In this episode Max Ajl returns to the podcast.
Max Ajl is an educator and a researcher and the author of Listen
On Engels' "The Principles of Communism" with Breht O'Shea from Revolutionary Left Radio from 2023-09-27T10:00
In this conversation Breht from Revolutionary Left Radio join the podcast to talk about the Friedrich Eng...
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"Popular Coercion From Below" - César "che" Rodríguez on Why Oscar Grant Did Not Die in Vain from 2023-09-25T18:07
This is the conclusion of our discussion with César “che” Rodríguez (Listen
“Record the Noise” - César “che” Rodríguez on Racial Regimes and Blues Epistemology in the Lead-up to the Oscar Grant Moment from 2023-09-22T16:28
In this episode we welcome César “che” Rodríguez to the podcast.
We had a lengthy conversation about Rodríguez’s piece, “‘Oscar Did Not Die in Vain’ Revelous Citizen Journalism, Righteous...
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“We Can Never Be Citizens of This Country” - The Shakurs in Santi Elijah Holley’s An Amerikan Family from 2023-09-15T11:42
In this conversation we talk to Santi Elijah Holley about his recently published book Listen
“The Men of Attica Were Different Than Their Captors” Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear and Attica as Abolition from 2023-09-13T15:05
Content Notice: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence & rape
This is the conclusion of our discussion on Orisanmi Burton’s forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radi...
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"The Conspiracy of Mutual Caring" on Andaiye's Writings with Alissa Trotz from 2023-09-11T16:47
This is a conversation about Andaiye who was born 81 years ago today on September 11th 1942.
For this discussion we speak with Alissa Trotz, who like Andaiye was born in Guyana. Alissa te...
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“Attica Is an Ongoing Structure of Revolt” - Orisanmi Burton on Tip of the Spear, Black Radicalism, Prison Rebellion, and the Long Attica Revolt from 2023-09-09T04:01
Orisanmi Burton returns to the podcast to discuss his forthcoming book Tip of the Spear:...
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Purgatory Citizenship, on Reentry as a Verb and Abolition with CalvinJohn Smiley from 2023-09-04T02:18
In this discussion we talk to CalvinJohn Smiley about his book Listen
"We Want Leaders Who Listen to the Masses" Inemesit Richardson and Wendlassida Simporé on Recent Developments in the Sahel from 2023-08-31T10:50
[This episode was conducted bilingually in French & English and there is also a French version of the episode Listen
"Nous voulons des leaders qui écoutent les masses" - Inemesit Richardson et Wendlassida Simporé sur les événements actuels au Sahel from 2023-08-31T10:44
[French version of MAKC, the English version of this episode is available Listen
“They’re Inside for Us, We’re Outside for Them” - Uprising Support on Anti-repression, Building Memory, Care, and Resilience from 2023-08-30T13:23
In this episode we interview Cappy, an organizer from UprisingSupport.org. In response to massive state repression durin...
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“A Radical Reimagining of Life” - On the Haitian Revolution and Adapting C.L.R. James’ Toussaint Louverture With Sakina Karimjee and Nic Watts from 2023-08-21T19:21
In this episode we talk about a forthcoming graphic novel adaptation of C.L.R. James’ play Listen
The Dialectic of Autonomy&Inclusion: Organizing and Resistance in Colombia with Anthony Dest from 2023-08-18T17:29
In this episode we interview Anthony Dest.
Anthony Dest is assistant professor of anthropology at Lehman College and currently a faculty fello...
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The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism with Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret from 2023-08-12T13:56
In this conversation Josh interviews Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret discussing their article on “The South African tradition of racial capitalism,” which serves as the introduction to a speci...
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“Ultimately, the Goal Is to Bury the Clock” - Ivan Stoiljkovic on E.P. Thompson’s ‘Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism' from 2023-08-07T15:09
In this conversation we talk to Ivan Stoiljkovic.
Ivan is the...
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"Diffuse Revolt" to Stop Camp Grayling from 2023-08-02T16:32
In this episode we welcome an organizer who goes by Grandma to talk about the campaign to Stop Camp Grayling.
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Responding to a “Barrage of Nonsense” - Henry Hakamäki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro On Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend from 2023-07-30T15:28
In this episode we discuss the brand new authorized English translation of Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, pre-orders are now being fulfilled, from
“I Said What I Said” - Dr. Jared A. Ball on The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, The After Party, Hip Hop and Colonialism from 2023-07-20T10:00
This is the conclusion of our two-part discussion with Dr. Jared A. Ball on the release of the second edition of his book The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. Part one can be ...
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“It’s Demonstrably Misleading People” - Dr. Jared A. Ball on the Second Edition of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power from 2023-07-17T23:53
In this episode we welcome Dr. Jared A. Ball back to the podcast.
Of course we know Jared Ball as a host of Listen
“The Mind Is the Weapon” - Thandisizwe Chimurenga and Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur on the Political Writings of Sanyika Shakur from 2023-07-12T19:30
In this episode we welcome Thandisizwe Chimurenga and Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur to have a conversation that revolves around Sanyika Shakur’s final book, Listen
“Back to Organization” - David Chávez, Steven Osuna, Alejandro Villalpando&Jared Ware Offer Reflections from the Abolitions Conference from 2023-07-06T19:16
This past May David Chávez, Steven Osuna, Alejandro Villalpando, and Jared Ware (co-host of MAKC) gave a panel presentation at the Abolitions Conference in DC. We wanted to have a conversation t...
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"To Push the Struggle Forward" - The Fight to Stop Cop City Continues from 2023-06-27T20:43
In this episode we welcome on multiple activists and organizers involved in the struggle to stop cop city.
For this discussion Kamau Franklin from Community Movement Builders, and Micah H...
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“We Have Chosen The Wrong Weapon For Our Struggle” - Breaking the Silence on NGOs in Africa with the Kenya Organic Intellectuals Network from 2023-06-25T22:04
In this episode we welcome members of the Kenya Organic Intellectuals Network to the podcast.
We discuss their most recent book Listen
“A Statecraft of Torture” - Orisanmi Burton on the CIA, MKULTRA, New York Prisoners and Indigenous Children from 2023-06-22T21:41
For this episode Orisanmi Burton returns to the podcast.
This episode is about Dr. Burton’s latest article which was released today on Truthout. This new piece is called, “Listen
“A Win for Cuba Is a Win For Humanity” - Ending the Blockade and Getting Cuba #OffTheList with the National Network On Cuba from 2023-06-15T20:11
In this episode Josh caught up with organizers from the National Network on Cuba, Shaquille Fontenot and Tee Maloney.
We will provide full bios of each guest in the show notes, but will s...
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Paris 1968, French Theory and the Intellectual World War With Gabriel Rockhill from 2023-06-10T17:10
In this episode we welcome Gabriel Rockhill to the podcast to discuss his latest piece “Listen
“We Don’t Get There Without The Shared Struggle” - Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba’s Let This Radicalize You from 2023-06-05T20:42
This is part 2 of our 2 part conversation with Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba on their new book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care. (Listen
"How Are We Going To Build Power To Get What We Want?" - Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba on Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care from 2023-06-02T14:19
For this conversation we are honored to welcome Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba back to the podcast.
This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation on t...
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“War to Domesticate” - Orisanmi Burton on U.S. Prisons as Sites of Counter-Revolutionary Warfare from 2023-05-29T03:36
In this episode we welcome Orisanmi Burton back to the podcast.
For this conversation, we discuss Dr. Burton’s latest article, “Listen
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism - Elisabeth Armstrong on Women’s Internationalism at the Dawn of Anticolonial Movements from 2023-05-26T14:13
In this episode we interview Professor Elisabeth B. Armstrong. Armstrong is a professor of the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She teaches courses on feminist political praxis, with ...
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The Sundiata Jawanza Freedom Campaign, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and Jailhouse Lawyering from 2023-05-21T04:04
This episode is focused on the campaign to free Sundiata Jawanza.
Sundiata Jawanza is a New Afrikan, abolitio...
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"Everything We Love Was a Criminal Act" - Felicia Denaud on the Master's Violence and Social Treason from 2023-05-15T23:03
This is part 2 of our 2-part conversation with Felicia Denaud.
In this part of the discussion Denaud talks about what the category of political prisoner might do politically, in thinking ...
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“The Messages We Refuse To Learn From” - Felicia Denaud on the Unnameable War and Afro-Assembly from 2023-05-13T14:00
This is part one of a two part conversation with Felicia Denaud.
Felicia Denaud is a writer, poet, and professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She writes, in the wo...
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“How Do We Relate to Our Ghosts?” - Kris Manjapra’s Black Ghost of Empire, Demystifying Emancipation, Excavating Pan-Africanism from 2023-05-10T12:57
In this episode we interview Dr. Kris Manjapra.
Kris Manjapra works at the intersection of transnational history and the critical study of race and colonialism.Listen
"Know Your Fight" - Stop LAPD Spying Coalition on Study, Surveillance, Watch The Watchers and Resistance from 2023-05-03T19:45
In this episode we interview Matyos Kidane and Shakeer Rahman two organizers with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition,<...
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Black Resistance to Intentional Formations of Genocide - Damien Sojoyner Against the Carceral Archive from 2023-04-29T15:01
In this episode we welcome Damien Sojoyner to the podcast.
Damien M. Sojoyner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at th...
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"Systemic Amnesia" - Nazia Kazi on the Invasion of Iraq, the War On Terror, Islamophobia and Empire from 2023-04-24T23:16
In this conversation we welcome Dr. Nazia Kazi to the podcast.
Dr. Nazia Kazi is an anthropologist and educator based...
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Becoming an Abolitionist by Fire with Safear Ness from 2023-04-20T15:00
In this conversation we welcome home Safear Ness. Safear is a formerly incarcerated organizer, a founder of In The Mix Prisoner Podcast, a writer, and a Revolutionary Abolitionist.Listen
“We Don’t Have Time” - Hugo Chávez and Revolutionary Urgency with Manolo de los Santos from 2023-04-14T15:00
For this discussion we welcome Manolo de los Santos to discuss the book Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chávez.
M...
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Yugoslavia and Constructing Non-Alignment with Gal Kirn and Dubravka Sekulić from 2023-04-09T16:51
This is the second episode in our two part discussion on Socialist Yugoslavia with our guests Gal Kirn and Dubravka Sekulić.
Gal Kirn is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Culture at the...
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“Deciding and Building Their Everyday Society” Reflections on Yugoslavia With Gal Kirn and Dubravka Sekulić from 2023-04-07T17:53
This is part 1 of a 2 episode discussion on Socialist Yugoslavia, the legacy of the Yugoslav Partisan struggle, and on how we think about and understand transition with relation to Yugoslavia an...
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Debunking "Norwegian Prison Reform" As Propaganda with Oakland Abolition and Solidarity from 2023-03-28T21:07
In this episode we interview Brooke Terpstra and James Carlin, members of Oakland Abolition and Solidarity. Oakland Abolition and Solidarity supports prisoners’ efforts to organize for their own...
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"This Found Us" - Free The Pendleton 2 from 2023-03-22T18:27
This episode is about the Campaign to Free the Pendleton 2. In this discussion Too Black from the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2 and from Black Myths Podcast returns to MAKC...
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“This Was Resistance To Genocide” - On The Mohawk Warrior Society from 2023-03-17T18:30
In this episode we have a roundtable discussion grounded around the book The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival. For this discussion we have all four of the ...
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Beautiful Revolutionary Wildness and Counterinsurgency with Dylan Rodríguez from 2023-03-10T02:07
In this episode Dylan Rodríguez returns to the podcast.
Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a ...
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Protracted Counter-Revolution - Gerald Horne on Slavery, Settler Colonialism, Texas and US Fascism from 2023-02-26T23:51
In this episode we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Gerald Horne to the podcast.
Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African...
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“The Day in Day Out Commitment to Abolition” - Alejandro Villalpando on Organizing, Building Connection, and the Abolitionist Horizon from 2023-02-23T15:53
In this conversation we interview Alejandro Villalpando.
Alejandro Villalpando is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pan-Afri...
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“In the Presence of Agape, Battles for Life Ensue” - Joy James&K. Kim Holder, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love from 2023-02-16T22:04
In this episode, Joy James returns to the podcast and is joined by K. Kim Holder.
Holder was a member of the Harlem Chapter of the Black Panther Party and his dissertation The Black ...
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“This Is a Love Story” - Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger (Stayed on Freedom Oral History Part 4) from 2023-02-10T15:14
This is the 4th and final installment in our series of conversations with Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons, and their biographer Dan Berger. The conversations are inspired by Dan’s new book ...
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"The Monster We Live In" - Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger (Stayed on Freedom Oral History Part 3) from 2023-02-05T20:46
This is the third installment of our conversation with Zoharah and Michael Simmons, and their biographer Dan Berger, as we discuss their lives in relation to Dan’s new book Stayed on Freedom...
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Organic Histories of Black Power - Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger (Stayed on Freedom Oral History Part 2) from 2023-02-01T17:55
This is the second episode in our series on Dan Berger’s new book Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey. <...
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"They Put Everything On The Line For the Movement" - Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger (Stayed on Freedom Oral History Part 1) from 2023-01-25T16:55
This conversation is centered on Dan Berger’s new book Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey.
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“What We Did When We Were in Need of Repair” - Of Black Study with Joshua Myers from 2023-01-18T16:42
This is the second half of our conversation with Joshua Myers on his latest book Of Black ...
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The War Against Us in Our Names - Of Black Study With Joshua Myers from 2023-01-15T01:55
This is part one of a two part conversation with Joshua Myers on his latest book Of Black Study.
In Of Black Study Joshua My...
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On Politics in Command, Economism and “The Working Class as a Fighting Subject” with J. Moufawad-Paul from 2023-01-07T18:44
In this episode we welcome J. Moufawad-Paul back to the podcast. Previously we had him along with Alyson Escalante and Devin Zane Shaw to talk about Listen
MAKC's 5th Anniversary Q&A from 2022-12-31T22:38
This is an episode we recorded about a month and a half ago for our 5th anniversary. Due to all the other stuff we were recording at the time we just held on to this one for the year end. Listen
“We Want to Be Grounded in What Came Before” - Alex Charnley, Alana Lentin and Michael Richmond on Anti-racism in This Conjuncture Pt. 2 from 2022-12-23T21:52
This episode is part 2 of Josh’s conversation with Alex Charnley, Alana Lentin, and Michael Richmond. This conversation is extremely wide ranging, but focuses around topics of anti-racism, ident...
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“This Isn’t a Culture War, This Is a Class and Race Offensive” - Alex Charnley, Alana Lentin and Michael Richmond on Anti-racism in This Conjuncture Pt. 1 from 2022-12-23T21:44
In this episode Alex Charnley, Alana Lentin, and Michael Richmond all join the podcast.
Josh brought all three of these thinkers together for a discussion on anti-racism in the current co...
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"Creating an Entirely Different Kind of Human Material" - China Miéville’s A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto from 2022-12-14T17:30
In this episode we interview China Miéville.
China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fi...
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"We Can't Appeal To The Oppressors Anymore" - Palestine Action with Huda Ammori from 2022-12-08T02:21
[photos in the collage were taken by Guy Smallman, Callum Ford, and Martin Pope or otherwise found on Palestine Action's social media]
In this episode we interview co-founder of Palestine...
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"It Is Not The Mountains Which Open Fire" - Efemia Chela on Amilcar Cabral's Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories from 2022-12-03T22:28
In this episode we interview Efemia Chela. Chela is a Zambian-Ghanian writer, literary critic, and an editor. Efemia joins us in her role as the commissioning editor at Inkani Books, which is th...
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"Fighting For Generations To Come" - Robin DG Kelley's Freedom Dreams at 20 from 2022-11-27T13:42
In this episode we welcome Robin DG Kelley back to the podcast.
Robin DG Kelley is the Gary B. Nash professor of American History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, and the editor ...
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"What Does It Mean To Change The Air?" - Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rehearsals for Living (part 2) from 2022-11-17T18:17
In this conversation Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson return to the podcast for the second conversation on their book Rehearsals For Living (Listen
"To Share Equally The Benefits of Living" - Dionne Brand on Nomenclature, Sanctioning All Revolts, and Registering Black Duration from 2022-11-10T18:46
[Note: In the episode image the artwork behind Dionne Brand at the podium is by Torkwase Dyson, as is the cover art work for Nomenclature]
In this conversation we are thrilled to...
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Scenes of Subjection at 25, and the Survival Programs of Black Anarchism with Saidiya Hartman from 2022-11-01T23:35
[The image contains the cover of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Scenes of Subjection, two images of author Saidiya Hartman, and one image from visual artist Torkwase Dyson (which is in...
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Battering Down The Wall From Both Sides - Winston James on Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (part 2) from 2022-10-30T15:32
This is the continuation of our conversation with Winston James about his latest work Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik. In Listen
"If We Must Die, Let It Not Be Like Hogs" - Winston James on Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (part 1) from 2022-10-23T01:41
For this conversation we welcome Winston James to the podcast. Winston James is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion, The S...
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"The State Is The First Front That's Established Once They Conquer" - Too Black on "Laundering Black Rage" (part 2) from 2022-10-15T13:28
This is the second part of our two part conversation with Too Black on his piece “Launderi...
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Laundering Black Rage with Too Black (part 1) from 2022-10-14T11:06
Our guest for the episode is Too Black. Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, host of The Black Myths Podcast which can be found on Black Power Media, he’s a writer, and he is...
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"Multiple Grammars of Struggle" - To Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City from 2022-10-07T21:48
In this episode we interview multiple people who’ve been involved in the struggle to Stop Cop City and Defend the Forest in Atlanta. What started as a political struggle against an extremely unp...
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"To Elevate the Level of Struggle" - Charisse Burden-Stelly&Jodi Dean on Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing from 2022-09-30T00:05
In this conversation Charisse Burden-Stelly returns to the podcast, and is joined by Jodi Dean to talk about their new book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political W...
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"Getting Ready For The Next Act" - On Rehearsals for Living with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson from 2022-09-25T15:23:14
In this conversation we speak with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Robyn is the author of the bestselling and award-winning book...
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Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism - Essays From The Pan-African Revolution with Jesse Benjamin from 2022-09-19T11:41:15
In this episode Dr. Jesse Benjamin returns to the podcast.
Imperialism and the Responsibility of Intellectuals with Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad from 2022-09-07T20:48:35
For this episode we welcome Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad back to the podcast.
This is our second conversation on Listen
"The Hollow Crown" - Noam Chomsky&Vijay Prashad on The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power from 2022-09-05T18:00:08
In this episode we are honored to host a conversation with Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, to discuss their brand new book Listen
Researching Nkrumah with Marika Sherwood from 2022-08-30T18:28:59
In this episode we interview Marika Sherwood. As she mentions in the episode, Sherwood was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary in 1937. After World War 2, the surviving members of her...
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W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois in China with Dr. Gao Yunxiang from 2022-08-24T19:35:16
In this episode we interview Dr. Gao Yunxiang. Dr. Gao is professor of history at Toronto Metropolitan University and the author of Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making durin...
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"This Is People's History" - Claude Marks on The Freedom Archives, Black August and Liberation Struggles from 2022-08-19T12:52:56
In this episode we interview Claude Marks the co-director Freedom Archives. The Freedom Archives the best archive we know of documenting the history of revolutionary, radical and progressive mov...
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"The Only Way We Win Is With Each Other" - The Struggle to Defend the UC Townhomes with Rasheda Alexander and Sterling Johnson from 2022-08-11T17:12:21
In this episode we interview Rasheda Alexander and Sterling Johnson. They are both participants in the struggle to defend the UC Townhomes, which residents have renamed the People’s Townhomes in...
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"Everybody Changes In The Process Of Building A Movement" - Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition Geography from 2022-08-05T14:06:39
In this episode we are honored to welcome Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore to the podcast.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, ...
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"Law Can Never Be A Substitute For Politics" - Instructions For Thinking About The Law With Politics In Command with Sophia G and Nathan Y from 2022-07-27T19:21:13
In this interview we wanted to do a discussion about the law, politics and abolition. We thought that this was an important thing to have some discussion on, in light of all the recent Supreme C...
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"Commune or Nothing" - Chris Gilbert on Venezuelan Communes, the Program of Hugo Chávez&Theory of Mészáros from 2022-07-22T14:42:38
In this episode Chris Gilbert returns to the podcast.
Chris Gilbert is a professor of Political Science in the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela. His articles hav...
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"We Make Our Community By Defending It" - Tracy Rosenthal on the Homeless Industrial Complex, Housing and Tenant Union Organizing from 2022-07-16T01:25:24
In this conversation we interview Tracy Rosenthal who is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Their book, Abolish Rent, written with Leonardo Vilchis, is forthcoming from Vers...
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"A Threat To This Day" Jared Ball on the Distortion and Erasure of Black Revolutionaries in Corporate Media from 2022-07-10T14:23:37
In this episode Dr. Jared Ball returns to the podcast. Jared Ball is a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University. He is the author of Listen
"Waging National Democratic Revolution Is The Only Remedy" - Jaz Tabar and Jennifer Benitez from Anakbayan and PUSO on mass struggle for the Philippines from 2022-07-06T18:46:10
In this episode we interview two organizers to discuss the struggle for National Democracy in the Philippines and solidarity with that struggle.
Jen Benitez has been a community organizer...
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“I Felt Like We Had Been Bamboozled In That Integrationist Moment” - Mary Helen Washington on Gwendolyn Brooks and The Other Blacklist from 2022-06-29T23:24:37
In this episode we interview Dr. Mary Helen Washington. Mary Helen Washington is an accomplished African-American literary scholar and the editor and author of many books including Midnight ...
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“I Started Thinking Of The United States As A Weapons Company” - Matt Deitsch On Violence And Critical Reflections And Lessons From Parkland from 2022-06-25T19:50:04
In this episode we interview Matt Deitsch, artist, journalist, organizer and former founder and director of March For O...
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“They Know The Terror” - Dorothy Roberts on Family Policing and Abolition from 2022-06-14T20:43:40
In this episode we interview Dr. Dorothy Roberts.
Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professo...
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“It Feels Like The Goals Have Changed” - Karim from RAM-NYC and Wendy Trevino on the War in Ukraine and the Western Left from 2022-06-02T13:43:44
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"Forget What The Ruling Class Deems Unacceptable. Revolution Is Illegal" - Ed Mead On A Life In Struggle from 2022-05-26T22:34:46
In this episode we interview Ed Mead. Mead is a veteran of the revolutionary underground organization the George Jackson Brigade which operated in solidarity with prisoner, anti-racist, and anti-im...
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"The Research Arm of the Movement" - Abdul Alkalimat on The History of Black Studies from 2022-05-19T14:28:55
Abdul Alkalimat is a founder of the field of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar-activist with a PhD from the University of...
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"We Need To Be Active In The Working Class Struggle For Socialism Globally" - Steven Osuna on Class Suicide from 2022-05-12T12:52:22
In this conversation we interview Steven Osuna to discuss his piece “Class Suicide: The Black Radical Tradition, Radical Scholarship, and the Neoliberal Turn” from the 2017 collection Listen
"I Don't Believe You Can Make a Whole Politics Out of Deference" - Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò on Elite Capture from 2022-05-04T22:39:51
In this episode we welcome back Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
“Almost As If Their Spirits Are Still There” - David Austin on The 1968 Congress of Black Writers from 2022-04-30T18:57:48
In this episode we interview David Austin, and discuss his book Moving Against T...
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"Practice Toward Future Sovereignty" - How We Stay Free, Black Philly Radical Collective and the Fight to Defend Black Trans Lives with Gabriel Bryant and Abdul-Aliy Muhammad from 2022-04-24T22:39:14
This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation with the editors and contributors to a book called How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising. This book is edited by Christopher R. Rogers, Fajr M...
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How We Stay Free - Philadelphia Housing Action featuring Christopher Rogers, Fajr Muhammad, Sterling Johnson, and Wiley Cunningham from 2022-04-24T04:15:33
This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with the editors and contributors to a book called How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising. This book is edited by Christopher R. Rogers, Faj...
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"The Last of the Loud" - Dhoruba bin Wahad, Philosopher of the Whirlwind from 2022-04-14T14:01:13
In this episode we interview Dhoruba bin Wahad. A leading member of the New York Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, ...
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"Our Enemies Know the Power of Books" - Louis Allday and Liberated Texts from 2022-04-11T12:41:52
In this episode we talk to Louis Allday, writer, historian and founding editor of Liberated Texts.
Liberated Text...
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JLC Session 4: Covering Movements&Repression in Various Media Contexts - A Panel Discussion from 2022-04-05T00:18:53
This episode is the 4th and final session of Journalism for Liberation and Combat.
Make sure to check out the audio from all four sessions her...
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JLC Session 3: Comparative Case Study - The South End, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and Popular Propaganda with Too Black from 2022-03-30T14:49:02
This is the 3rd session of Journalism for Liberation and Com...
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JLC Session 2: From Survival to Winning - Hegemony and Liberation on the Ground Hosted By Brooke Terpstra from 2022-03-26T23:30:17
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JLC Session 1: Internal Colonialism&Emancipatory Journalism with Dr. Jared A. Ball from 2022-03-24T00:06:08
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Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution with Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston from 2022-03-16T22:57:04
In this episode we interview Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston, authors of the book Anois ar theacht an tSamraidh: Ireland Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution, a work that may be unpar...
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The Constructive View of Reparations with Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò from 2022-03-07T22:25:55
In this episode we talk to Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
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“Culture is Sovereign” - Amílcar Cabral and African Anti-colonial Internationalism with António Tomás from 2022-02-23T02:16:03
In this episode we interview António Tomás. 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 h...
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“If I Fall, And We Struggle Together…” Certain Days, Political Prisoners and Movement Defense with Josh Davidson and Daniel McGowan from 2022-02-18T17:38:23
In this episode we interview two members of the Certain Days Collective.
Josh Davidson has been an activist for nearly two decades, focusing on...
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"ACT UP, Fight Back" Charlie Frank on AIDS, Resistance, Health and Monopoly Capitalism from 2022-02-10T16:21:41
In this episode Josh interviews Charlie Frank, an independent marxist researcher currently studying the history of AIDS in the United States. He is on the general staff of Cosmonaut magazine, a mem...
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“Consecrate the Obscene… Condemn The Sacred” O'ahu Water Protectors on US Military, Water Contamination and Colonialism from 2022-02-01T00:00:16
In this episode we interview two organizers with O'ahu Water Protectors.
O‘ahu Water Protectors is an organization that formed out of a coalition of Kanaka Maoli organizers, Sierra Club m...
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“Against Alienation” - Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi on their book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine from 2022-01-24T02:49:43
In this episode we talk to Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their recently published book Listen
Martin Luther King Jr: Dialectics, Materialism, and the Black Radical Critique of Racial Capitalism with Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins from 2022-01-15T15:59:38
In this episode we interview Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins to discuss their recently published book, Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capital...
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“We Cannot Allow Our Movement To Abandon Them In Prison” - Jalil Muntaqim on Political Prisoners, Charging Genocide and Organizing Inside&Out from 2022-01-09T15:01:06
In this episode we once again get the opportunity to sit-down with Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army veteran Jalil Muntaqim. Muntaqim was a political prisoner of the United States fo...
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"And Another Phase of Struggle Begins" - Kali Akuno and Kamau Franklin on Strategy and Liberation from 2021-12-30T20:34:44
In this episode we were honored to host Kali Akuno, co-director and co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and Kamau Frank...
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“We have to understand what we’re dealing with” On Necrocapitalism with Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul, and Devin Zane Shaw from 2021-12-27T15:03:38
This is part two of our two part episode with three of the contributors to On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal, which is available from Kersplebedeb and you can find that at Listen
"Capitalism Generates Death Worlds" - On Necrocapitalism with Alyson Escalante, J. Moufawad Paul, and Devin Zane Shaw from 2021-12-23T16:35:48
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 Listen
“We’re Not Distinct From The People As Revolutionaries” - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin on Anarchism and The Black Revolution from 2021-12-16T17:21:12
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 l...
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The Life of Amílcar Cabral and the Struggle of the PAIGC with António Tomás from 2021-12-09T15:44:57
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 Gradua...
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"A Profound Tenderness" - Orisanmi Burton On Black Masculine Care Work Within Zones Of War from 2021-11-29T16:13:46
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 h...
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"The Oppressed Have a Way of Addressing Their Own Conditions" - On Joshua Myers' Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition from 2021-11-17T14:54
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 Listen
“They Embody The Division” Geo Maher On Breaking Police Power And Building A World Without Police from 2021-11-10T14:33:16
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 ...
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"Through The Aim Of Ending It" - Eric A. Stanley on Anti-Trans&Anti-Queer Violence from 2021-11-03T00:48:11
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-direc...
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Special Report: “Patriot Socialism” vs National Liberation with Hassan M. from 2021-10-25T18:40:56
This week’s special report, features Hassan M. Hassan is a scientist and writer. He is a contributing editor for the Peoples Anti-Colonial Pre...
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"Sense Of Duty For Each Other" Alex Turrall on Collectivity&Nature In Soviet Pedagogy from 2021-10-21T14:21:01
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 Listen
Special Report: Jon Ben-Menachem on Copaganda and "Police Pullback"&"Ferguson Effect" Mythology from 2021-10-15T01:17:25
For this special report we talk to Jon Ben-Menachem. Jon is a researcher and journalist, currently working on his PhD in So...
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"Capacity for Capacious&Expansive Imagination” Ashon Crawley on Queerness, Blackpentecostalism and Otherwise Worlds from 2021-10-10T15:23:31
In this episode we interview Ashon Crawley. Ashon is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies a...
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4 Years of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism - A Reflection from 2021-10-04T16:25:34
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...
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"The Swedish Model," Social Democracy and the Imperialist World System with Torkil Lauesen from 2021-09-25T21:44:24
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-imper...
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"Building Infrastructure: Identifying Tactics for Sustainable Formations": A Panel Discussion Supporting Jailhouse Lawyers Speak's #SHUTEMDOWN2021 Demos from 2021-09-08T14:22:16
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 ...
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"I Took Those Deaths Personally" - Ray Luc Levasseur On Vietnam, Prison, Principles and Anti-Imperialist Resistance from 2021-09-05T16:16:16
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 tha...
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“To Service The Field” - featuring Jennifer Lawson and Dorothy Zellner of SNCC from 2021-08-28T17:57:24
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 conversatio...
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"No One Wins From The Politics of Desire" - Da'Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness from 2021-08-22T23:00:18
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 Listen
“We Remember The Attempts To Be Free” Joy James on Black August and the Captive Maternal from 2021-08-12T17:47:26
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 Ame...
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Lorraine Hansberry's Radical Vision with Soyica Diggs Colbert from 2021-08-02T22:36:03
In this episode we interview Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert about her recently published book,
Ben Fletcher: The Life And Times Of A Black Wobbly With Peter Cole from 2021-07-25T18:32:43
In this episode we talk to Peter Cole, historian and author of Ben Fletcher, The Life and ...
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Rinaldo Walcott On Black Freedom And The Abolition Of Property from 2021-07-13T01:54:24
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...
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"We Charge Genocide, Again" - Jalil Muntaqim on The Spirit of Mandela Tribunal, Political Prisoners, and a Life in Struggle from 2021-06-27T18:47:49
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 liberat...
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Max Ajl On A People's Green New Deal from 2021-06-20T03:05:43
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 ...
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Decolonize Palestine and #SaveSheikhJarrah with Rawan Eid and Fathi Nemer from 2021-06-11T02:16:53
In this episode we interview Rawan and Fathi, co-founders of decolonizepalestine.com.
Rawan is the co-founder of Listen
Remaking Radicalism with Dan Berger, Emily Hobson and Barbara Smith from 2021-06-03T15:27:35
In this episode are joined by Dan Berger, Emily K. Hobson and Barbara Smith to discuss the recently published book <...
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The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation with Joseph R. Fitzgerald from 2021-05-26T04:29:49
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 Bla...
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Hanif Abdurraqib&Fred Moten - "Building a Stairway to Get Us Closer to Something Beyond this Place" from 2021-05-13T14:43:59
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 wante...
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“There's No Such Thing as a Decolonized Museum” - Zoé Samudzi on southern Africa, settler colonialism, genocide and museums from 2021-05-08T17:12:55
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/Nam...
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“To Only Fight For White People Would Be Counter-Revolutionary” - Hy Thurman on Becoming a Young Patriot and The Forming of The Rainbow Coalition from 2021-05-01T22:49:55
In this episode we interview Hy Thurman, founding member of the Young Patriots, and the Rainbow Coalition.
Our conversation focuses on his rec...
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"The Wealth of Europe is the (Stolen) Wealth of Africa" with Devyn Springer from 2021-04-25T16:15:27
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. <...
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"A Really Deep-Seated Notion of Love" - The Red Nation on The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth from 2021-04-17T21:42:27
In this episode we interview Justine Teba, Orien Longknife, and Demetrius Johnson from The Red Nation. Our discussion centers around the book The Red Deal: Indigenous Action To Save Our Eart...
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"Chavez Has A Present In Venezuela" On Venezuela, The Present As Struggle Part 2 with Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert from 2021-04-01T16:05:47
This is part two one of a two-part conversation with Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert, editors of the book Venezuela, The Present As Struggle: Voices From The Bolivarian Revolution. Listen
Venezuela, The Present As Struggle Part 1 with Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert from 2021-03-29T16:19:22
This is part one of a two-part conversation with Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert, editors of the book Venezuela, The Present As Struggle: Voices From The Bolivarian Revolution. ...
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Harsha Walia's Border&Rule on Racial Capitalism, Border Imperialism and Global Migration from 2021-03-20T20:21:47
“An Uprising Against Capital” - Herb Boyd on Rebellion, Black Studies and The League of Revolutionary Black Workers from 2021-03-14T22:51:44
This is part 2 of our 2 part conversation with journalist, educator, author and activist Herb Boyd. In this part of the conversation we talk more about how Boyd and other politicized students us...
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Herb Boyd On Black Detroit In The Years Before The 67 Rebellion from 2021-03-14T22:46:55
This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with journalist, educator, author, and activist Herb Boyd. Our conversation with Boyd centers around his book Black Detroit, with particular attention pai...
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400+1 On The Struggle For Orisha Land And The Case For The Black Vanguard from 2021-03-07T22:19:59
400+1 is a Black, cooperative federation that exists to leverage vanguardism, destabilization, and Black and autonomous alternatives to build a world beyond survival. The federation is currently...
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“In The Spirit of Abolition” - Jailhouse Lawyers Speak Calls For Shut ‘Em Down Demonstrations from 2021-03-03T23:08:42
In this episode we catch up with representatives from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak. They talk about the state of the prison abolition and prisoner support movements from their perspective. JLS descri...
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"Myths Are Being Placed On The Murder" - Yannick Giovanni Marshall On The Colonial Present from 2021-02-28T17:10:25
Dr. Yannick Giovanni Marshall writes and teaches in Black Studies. His research focus is on police power, colonial policing in Nairobi, the white supremacist state, anti-colonial movements and m...
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Special Message: On Being In Solidarity With Haiti Now With Mamyrah Prosper from 2021-02-21T19:27:27
This is a special message and brief addendum to our conversation published earlier this week with Dr. Mamyrah Prosper.
We had a great conversation with Mamyrah in which she gave a ton of ...
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Mamyrah Prosper on the History of Imperialism in Haiti, the Current Crisis and Questions of International Solidarity from 2021-02-18T21:08:45
In this episode we interview Dr. Mamyrah Prosper.
Mamyrah Prosper is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College an...
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Community Movement Builders and Liberated Zones Theory with Kamau Franklin from 2021-02-11T02:36:39
In this episode we speak to Kamau Franklin. Kamau is the founder of Community Movement Builders a grassroots organization dedicated to creating sustainable Black communities through organizing a...
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"All Roads Lead To Revolution" - The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X with Dr Michael Sawyer from 2021-02-04T22:54:23
In this episode we interview Dr. Michael Sawyer. Sawyer is an assistant professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies in the Department of English at Colorado College. We spoke to him abou...
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Philosophy of Antifascism in a Settler Society with Devin Zane Shaw from 2021-01-31T17:42:19
In this episode we interview Devin Zane Shaw. Shaw is the author of three books, including Philosophy of Antifascism, and Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière, and a...
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The Third Event: Bedour Alagraa on Sylvia Wynter and Black Radical Thought from 2021-01-22T23:57:59
In this episode we interview Dr. Bedour Alagraa. Alagraa is an Assistant Professor of Black Political and Social Theory in the department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the Universit...
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"I Am Not The Person You Remember" - In Memoriam Of MF DOOM with Hanif Abdurraqib from 2021-01-13T02:58:57
This is a special episode we’re going to release through Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. Just to be clear, this episode is not about politics or social movements and falls outside of what we...
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"White Reconstruction" - Dylan Rodriguez On Domestic War, The Logics of Genocide, and Abolition from 2021-01-07T02:36:20
Millennials Please Kill 2020 from 2020-12-31T04:12:23
This episode is an informal recap of the hellish year that has been 2020. Joshua and Jared discuss various major events of the year, including moments of promise and frustration.Listen
A Political History of Self-Determination in Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire from 2020-12-14T23:28:42
In this episode we interview Dr. Adom Getachew. Getachew is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial politi...
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“The Criminal Enterprise Is The Baltimore Police Department “ - A Case Study in Police Terror with Brandon Soderberg, Author of I Got A Monster from 2020-11-12T02:48:32
In this episode we interview Brandon Soderberg who along with Baynard Woods co-authored the book I Got A Monster, The Rise And Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad. Sode...
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The Movement to #EndSARS with Ani Kayode Somtochukwu from 2020-11-01T01:37:40
In this episode we discuss the movement to #EndSARS with Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, a 21 year old openly gay Queer Liberation activist, writer and journalist living in Enugu state Nigeria. His work...
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Becoming Kwame Ture with Amandla Thomas-Johnson from 2020-10-22T16:54:29
In this episode we interview Amandla Thomas-Johnson, about his new book, Becoming Kwame Ture. Amandla Thomas-Johnson is a British-born writer of African-Caribbean descent. He is based i...
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“An Instrument For The Sovereignty Of Peoples” Camila Escalante On MAS’s Return To Power from 2020-10-20T01:22
This is a quick special report. In this episode we interview TeleSUR English presenter and Kawsachun News co-founder Camila Escalante. Camila shares with us the latest news coming out of Bolivia...
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“Solidarity Doesn’t Mean Making Statements” - Laura Whitehorn On The Material Practice Of Anti-Racism from 2020-10-06T20:17:43
In this episode we interview Laura Whitehorn.
Laura Whitehorn is a co-founder and organizer with the RAPP Campaign (Release Aging People in Prison). Whitehorn is a veteran organizer of nu...
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“Abolition is Inherently Experimental” Craig Gilmore on Fighting Prisons and Defunding Police from 2020-09-30T14:45:54
In this episode we interview Craig Gilmore. Gilmore is a prison abolitionist, cofounder of California Prison Moratorium Project, and a member of the Community Advisory board of Critical Resistan...
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"It's Really Up To Us" Barbara Smith on Combahee, Coalitions and Dismantling White Supremacy from 2020-09-24T19:30:42
Barbara Smith co-founded the seminal Black Feminist Socialist organization the Combahee River Collective and Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. She is an educator, organizer, scholar and publi...
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Black Communists Against US Racial Capitalism with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly from 2020-09-17T20:06:40
In this episode we talk to author, scholar and educator Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is currently a visiting scholar in the Race and Capitalism Proje...
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Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier On The American Prisoner Movement from 2020-09-09T12:44:12
In this episode we interview prisoner movement historians Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier who co-authored the book Rethinking The American Prison Movement. Today is the 49th anniversary...
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Free the Land! Edward Onaci on the History of the Republic of New Afrika from 2020-08-24T04:11:05
In this episode we interview Edward Onaci. Onaci is an associate professor of history at Ursinus College. In this episode, we talk about Onaci’s recent book, Free the Land: Listen
"No Place To Sit-In" Jennifer Lawson and Charlie Cobb on SNCC's Community Organizing in the Rural South from 2020-08-10T04:44:42
In this episode we interview SNCC Veterans Jennifer Lawson and Charles “Charlie” Cobb. They discuss their experiences organizing in rural Mississippi and Alabama with SNCC in the 1960’s at the h...
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Robyn Spencer's 'The Revolution Has Come' - On The Oakland Black Panthers, Gender Politics, Internationalism, and Repression from 2020-08-03T15:02:40
In this episode, we interview Robyn Spencer. Robyn Spencer is a historian and the author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and The Black Panther Party In Oakland.
"Community Is An Intentional Act" - Hanif Abdurraqib from 2020-07-27T12:49:20
In this episode we interview Hanif Abdurraqib.
Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. Among other things, he is the best-selling and award winning author of <...
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"Give Your House Away, Constantly" - Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Revisit The Undercommons In A Time of Pandemic And Rebellion (part 2) from 2020-07-11T21:41:13
This is part 2 of our 2 part conversation with Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Revisiting The Undercommons In A Time Of Pandemic And Rebellion. In this part of the conversation we focus on their ...
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"Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano Harney Revisit The Undercommons In A Time Of Pandemic And Rebellion (Part 1) from 2020-07-04T04:39:46
This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.
Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics o...
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The Myth And Propaganda Of Black Buying Power With Jared Ball from 2020-07-01T01:42:57
In this episode we interview Morgan State University and Media Studies Scholar Jared Ball. Ball is the creator of IMIXWHATILIKE.org and the author of ...
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Cedric Robinson, the Black Radical Tradition and Racial Regimes with Joshua Myers from 2020-06-21T15:14:55
Joshua M. Myers is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University. He is the author of We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989<...
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"An Undying Love For The People" - Jamal Joseph On The Black Panther Party's Open Letter To Black Artists from 2020-06-18T03:36:37
In this episode we talk to Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army Veteran Jamal Joseph. We discuss the new “Open Letter from Original Black Panther Party Members to Black (Hip-Hop) Artist...
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#8ToAbolition featuring Nnennaya Amuchie, Rachel Kuo, Eli, Micah Herskind and Reina Sultan from 2020-06-15T04:34:39
In this episode we speak to five of the creators and authors of 8 To Abolition. Which is an abolitionist response to the police preservationist platform 8 Can’t Wait. Since launching 8 to Abolit...
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We Want Freedom: Abolition In Philly and Beyond with Robert Saleem Holbrook and Megan Malachi from 2020-06-11T13:09:29
In this episode we talk to Robert Saleem Holbrook and Megan Malachi. Megan is an educator and an organizer for Philly for REAL Justice, a grassroots police abolitionist organization that has bee...
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#FreeThemAll Friday - Illegal Police Repression In New Mexico with Selinda Guerrero from 2020-06-05T06:06:16
This is a special episode. We did not record this audio, but it was shared with us by some organizers with IWOC New Mexico / Millions For Prisoners New Mexico in order to get the word out and ho...
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Vijay Prashad on the CoronaShock Imposed Planetary General Strike from 2020-05-16T14:44:04
In this episode we interview Vijay Prashad. Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is also the author of thirty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The...
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Episode 54: Sekou Odinga On Political Prisoners, The Black Panthers And The Black Liberation Army from 2020-05-07T02:38:09
In this episode we are honored to interview Sekou Odinga. Odinga is a former member of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity, a founding member of New York Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Episode 53: Asad Haider - We Have To Begin With Emancipation from 2020-05-01T04:23:35
In this episode we talk to Asad Haider. Haider is the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso, 2018), and a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine...
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Midnight On The Clock Of The World - An Interview with Robin DG Kelley from 2020-04-25T14:03:24
This is a special episode that was the result of an impromptu study group which focused on Robin DG Kelley's interview entitled "Solidarity Is Not A Market Exchange." Kelley shares reflections o...
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Episode 51: Aesthetic Markers of Genocide - Ju-Hyun Park On Bong Joon-ho's Parasite from 2020-04-20T14:41:20
In this episode we interview Ju-Hyun Park, author of the piece "Reading Colonialism In Parasite." We talk to them about their piece, and Ju-Hyun provides a ton of great context and back...
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Episode 50 - Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness - PAIGC Education with Sónia Vaz Borges from 2020-03-29T06:47:03
In this episode we interview Sónia Vaz Borges to discuss her book Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC Education In Guinea Bissau 1963-1978.
This book brings ...
Episode 49: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee with Hilary Moore and James Tracy from 2020-03-18T04:06:52
This week we are speaking to Hilary Moore and James Tracy about their new book No Fascist USA: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons For Today’s Movements.
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Episode 48: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak's 2020 Call To Action from 2020-03-02T06:09:39
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS) is a collective of imprisoned human rights advocates. We talk about their recent national call for outside solidarity actions from August 21st through September 9th. W...
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Episode 47 - The Young Lords - A Radical History by Johanna Fernández from 2020-02-10T03:58:01
In this episode we talk to author, professor, and organizer Johanna Fernandez. Fernandez is an assistant professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York and editor of the ...
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Episode 46 - The Steroids of Orientalism with Sina Rahmani of The East Is A Podcast from 2020-02-03T05:24:25
In this episode we talk to Sina Rahmani about Edward Said’s theory of orientalism and how we see it playing out in the discourse surrounding the US assassination of Qasim Soleimani, Iran’s retaliat...
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Episode 45: The Nation Of Islam Against The Carceral State In Garrett Felber's Those Who Know Don't Say from 2020-01-13T05:27:20
In this episode we talk to author Garrett Felber about his book Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, The Black Freedom Struggle, and the Carceral State which is out today, January 13th. 2...
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Special Episode - Free The Gadsden 6 from 2020-01-02T03:28:13
In this special episode, Jared talks to a prisoner named Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, founder of the Free Alabama Movement. Bennu is currently serving a life without parole sentence in the state of Alaba...
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Episode 43: Serving The People with Delency and Blake from Hella Black Podcast from 2019-12-16T01:09:14
In this episode, we got the opportunity to sit down with two amazing organizers and fellow radical podcast hosts. If you’re not familiar, Hella Black Podcast is an Oakland based audio experience br...
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Episode 42: Noname's Book Club from 2019-11-13T04:27:39
In this episode we talk to Noname about Noname’s Bookclub, and the inspiration behind it and her aspirations for it, including her plot to take down Amazon. We get into conversations about capitali...
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Episode 41: Racism and Capitalism in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race For Profit from 2019-10-20T17:27:41
In this episode we interviewed professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about her latest book Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. The book ha...
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Episode 40: Aminta Zea - Solidarity Against Empire from 2019-10-18T04:53:55
In this episode we interview, Aminta Zea, a Marxist Leninist organizer based out of Washington DC. Aminta was a participant in the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective's efforts to protect the ...
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Episode 39: No New Jails NYC featuring Ngozi Alston and Marlene Nava Ramos from 2019-10-11T05:37:06
Ngozi Alston and Marlene Nava Ramos are volunteer organizers with No New Jails NYC, a multi-racial, multi-gender, and intergenerational campaign aimed to shut down Rikers without building new jails...
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Episode 38: Nick Estes On A Red Deal And The History And Future Of Indigenous Resistance from 2019-09-17T03:58:26
In this episode we talk to Nick Estes about his book Our History Is The Future, the new collection he co-edited Standing With Standing Rock and we also talked about his latest piece "A Red Deal," w...
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Episode 37: Danny Haiphong Interrogates American Exceptionalism and American Innocence from 2019-08-25T23:58:28
In this episode we interview Danny Haiphong, who along with Roberto Servant recently co-authored the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-from the Re...
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Episode 36: Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World with Dr Jesse Benjamin from 2019-08-11T22:07:27
In this episode we talk to Dr. Jesse Benjamin, co-editor of Walter Rodney's recently published The Russian Revolution: A View From the Third World.
We talk to Dr. Benjamin about Walter Ro...
Episode 35: International Analysis with Eugene Puryear from 2019-06-14T05:24:49
In this episode, Eugene Puryear from By Any Means Necessary and the Party For Socialism And Liberation shares analysis of recent events in Haiti, Venezuela, Sudan, South Africa and Iran. We talk to...
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Episode 34: Embassy Protection Collective with Morgan Artyukhina from 2019-05-27T17:15:50
This episode we have an in-depth conversation with Morgan Artyukhina about their time with the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective.
Morgan is an autistic transgender communist and jou...
Episode 33: Prisoner Support And Solidarity Organizing With IWOC's Brooke Terpstra from 2019-04-29T03:21:43
In this episode we interview Brooke Terpstra, Oaklander forever, movement veteran, and IWOC worker. Brooke is an organizer with the Oakland chapter of IWOC, and was a member of the IWOC national me...
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Episode 32: The MOVE Bombing (collaboration with Rev Left Radio) from 2019-04-09T22:07:37
In this episode we collaborated with Rev Left Radio to discuss the history of institutional racism and violence within the Philadelphia Police Department in the latter half of the 20th Century culm...
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Episode 31: 25 Years After The Zapatista Uprising with Alejo Stark from 2019-02-20T22:58:25
In this episode we talk to Alejo Stark, an organizer with Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS) and a co-producer of Rustbelt Abolition Radio. Between 2008 & 2013, he was an undocumente...
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Episode 30: George Ciccariello-Maher On Revolutionary Solidarity With Venezuela from 2019-02-14T05:40:27
In this episode we talk with organizer, scholar and political theorist George Ciccariello-Maher. He is the author of two books on Venezuela, We Created Chavez, and Building The Commune.
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Episode 29: Movement Accountability with Clarissa Brooks from 2019-02-04T05:17:06
In this episode we sat down with Clarissa Brooks.
Clarissa is a senior at Spelman College, a freelance journalist, and a community organizer. Originally from Charlotte, NC, Clarissa works...
Episode 28: Liberation Through Reading with Erica Caines from 2019-01-21T16:18:14
In this episode we spoke with Erica Caines, creator of Liberation Through Reading and the Liberation Through Reading Book Club. Erica is a self published author and local community organizer in her...
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Episode 27: Trans Liberation Through Decolonial Marxism with Feroz from 2019-01-01T04:08:44
In this episode we talk to Feroz, a decolonial marxist feminist and political organizer.
She shares with us some moments from the rich history of gender diverse peoples and radical organiz...
Episode 26: Mariame Kaba - You Have A Right To Disrupt from 2018-12-12T04:38:30
Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership developmen...
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Episode 25: The Antifa Imperative with Mark Bray from 2018-11-15T03:53:02
This week we have Mark Bray to talk all things in the world of anti-fascism following a slew of recent fascistic events. We touch on Bolsonaro's election in Brazil, and cover some of the points rai...
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Episode 24: Carceral Capitalism with Jackie Wang from 2018-11-08T13:38:27
Jackie Wang is s a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, filmmaker, performer, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at Harvard University in African and African...
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Episode 23: Movement Journalism & Prisoner Advocacy with Adryan Corcione from 2018-10-25T04:05:25
This week we interviewed Adryan Corcione, a freelance cannabis and politics journalist based in Philadelphia. Their work has appeared in Vice, Leafly, Teen Vogue, and more. We talk to them about th...
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Episode 22: A Year In China With Ian Goodrum from 2018-09-30T01:51:51
In this episode we talk to Ian Goodrum, who is a writer and editor at China Daily, an English-language newspaper based in Beijing. Who says that unlike his previous jobs at US newspapers, he no lon...
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Episode 21: Abolition & the #August21 Prison Strike with Devyn Springer from 2018-08-20T00:08:11
Devyn Springer who many of you know as @HalfAtlanta on twitter, and Jay decided to do an episode where they discuss what prison abolition is, and both of their connections to it, along with a conve...
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Episode 20: US Out of Korea and Everywhere Else with Hyejin Shim from 2018-08-03T04:18:55
In this episode we speak with organizer, and second generation Korean, Hyejin Shim to broaden our understanding US imperialism’s impact on Korea social and political life both historically and in t...
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Episode 19: The Black Giving Fund with Arielle Iniko Newton from 2018-07-09T15:56:22
In Episode 19, we sit down with Arielle Iniko Newton. Arielle is a writer and organizer within the Movement for Black Lives. She currently serves as Senior Editor of RaceBaitR, and Executive Direct...
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Episode 18: Class Struggle In Boots Riley's Sorry To Bother You from 2018-06-18T04:24:18
This week we sit down with filmmaker and musician Boots Riley to talk about his debut film Sorry To Bother You, which hits theaters everywhere July 13th. Boots recently received Sundance Film Festi...
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Episode 17 - As Black As Resistance with Zoé Samudzi and William C Anderson from 2018-06-05T04:58:26
This week we have two really exciting guests Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctor student in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. William C. Anderson is a freelance write...
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Episode 16: #StudentPowerHU - The A-Building Occupation with HUResist Organizers from 2018-05-09T04:15:38
On March 29th over 300 students took over the Administration Building at Howard University. Students liberated the building, turning it into the Kwame Ture Student Center & held the space for nine ...
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Episode 15 - Sankofa Brown - "Black Folks Have Been Resisting Ever Since We Were Captured From The Shores of Africa” from 2018-04-25T03:36
This week we’re really excited to bring on Sankofa Brown. We talk to him about Black Radicalism, the appeal of Liberalism, armed self-defense, socialist organizing, and the urgent need to build rev...
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Episode 14: No More Heroes Part 2 (Moderated by Da'Shaun Harrison) from 2018-04-09T03:55:01
This is part two of the two part interview with Josh and Jared about their own politics and experiences. In this part, Da'Shaun Harrison interviews them both about religion, anti-communist propagan...
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Episode 13: No More Heroes (An Interview with Jared & Josh, Moderated by Da'Shaun Harrison) from 2018-03-29T05:04:20
This week we have part one of a two part discussion moderated by Da’Shaun Harrison where Jared and Josh discuss their own political journeys growing up and the influence of key events over the last...
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Episode 12: Anoa Changa On Puerto Rican Disaster Relief, Mutual Aid & Growing Up With Radical Parents from 2018-03-22T03:47:12
In this episode we talk to Anoa Changa of "The Way With Anoa" about her trip to Puerto Rico a couple months after Hurricane Harvey, we talk about mutual aid, and the specific challenges and relatio...
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Episode 11: "Barbershop Talk" with Da'Shaun Harrison from 2018-03-06T04:41:39
Da'Shaun Harrison is a student at Morehouse College studying Sociology and African-American Studies. He is a Black Queer organizer and abolitionist in Atlanta, GA, where he also has the privilege o...
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Episode 10: Charlene Carruthers - "We Come In The Lineage of Folks Like Claudia Jones" from 2018-02-13T06:17:49
Charlene A. Carruthers is a Black, queer feminist community organizer and writer with over 10 years of experience in racial justice, feminist and youth leadership development movement work. As fou...
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Episode 9 - Palestinians And Jews Decolonize featuring Andrew Farkash and Lina Assi from 2018-01-29T05:19:26
This week we caught up to Andrew Farkash and Lina Assi to talk about their organization Palestinians and Jews Decolonize (PJD), a socialist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist organization supportin...
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Episode 8: The Land Is Stolen, Full Stop - William J Richardson on Nkrumah-Toureism and Decolonization from 2018-01-11T17:00:25
William Jamal Richardson discusses the interconnections between capitalism, slavery and settler colonialism within the USA and lays out some of the key elements of Nkrumah-Toureism. He also summari...
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Episode 7: Devyn Springer Discusses Walter Rodney from 2017-12-28T04:48:11
In this episode we caught up with artist, organizer, educator, and writer Devyn Springer to talk about the work and legacy of Walter Rodney. Devyn also spoke about the Rodney family and the Walter ...
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Episode 6: All I Want For Christmas Is... featuring George Ciccariello-Maher from 2017-12-22T00:51:44
This week as a special cup of holiday anti-capitalist cheer we’re joined by George Ciccariello-Maher. He’s a writer, professor, organizer, and the author of Building The Commune: Radical Democracy ...
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Episode 5: Wendi Muse, #LeftPOC, Brazil & Lusophone Africa from 2017-12-13T05:24:44
Wendi Muse is a PhD candidate in History at NYU. Her research concerns intellectual & political exchange between Brazilians and Portuguese-speaking African scholars, journalists, and activists duri...
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Episode 4: Eugene Puryear - What The Russian Revolution Means 100 Years Later from 2017-12-03T13:30
For this episode we caught up with Eugene Puryear, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Eugene talks with Jay about the Russian Revolution and what it means to him 100 years l...
Episode 3: #NoNazisAtUF featuring Chad Chavira from 2017-11-06T02:33:56
For this episode we interviewed Chad Chavira. Chad is the lead organizer for #NoNazisAtUF, the student led organization that protested Richard Spencer’s speech at University of Florida back on Octo...
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Episode 2: Black Feminist Anarchism & Leftist Neglect of the African Continent with Zoé Samudzi from 2017-10-24T06:55:03
This week we’re excited to bring you a conversation with Zoe Samudzi. Zoé is a freelance writer and doctoral student at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work is broadly around diffe...
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Episode 1: HU Resist Shuts Down Comey from 2017-10-04T06:19:09
In our first episode of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism we caught up with Alexis McKenney and Jason Ajiake from HU Resist to discuss the shutting down of James Comey's speech at Howard's convoca...
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