Albania in the 1980s was the last bastion of Stalinism in Europe. It was difficult to visit, and a place of poverty, executions and secret police, but for LSE politics professor Lea Ypi it was also home. She talks to Alex Andreou about her astonishing memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, which details her childhood in one of Europe’s most repres ... Show More
Yesterday
The absolute State of the Union – Weekly Wrap-Up with Rafael Behr and Jacob Jarvis
Donald Trump delivered a record-length State of the Union address this week, in a marathon rant that has become the new normal. Plus, we explore the looming special educational needs reforms in the UK and check in on Kim Jong Un. And also, the weird story of an army of robot vacu ... Show More
29m 11s
Feb 25
Obama says aliens are real. What more does he know?
Barack Obama set the internet alight when he declared on a podcast that aliens are “real”. However, the former US president later insisted that, while in office, he saw no evidence of this and that he was just answering a speed round question. Once the preserve of late-night radi ... Show More
30m 10s
Apr 2022
[BEST OF] State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
<p><em>[Orignally released Oct 2018]</em></p> <p>Alyson Escalante joins Breht to discuss Lenin's major work of political theory, State and Revolution. <br /> <br /> Here is a previous show we here at Rev Left did specifically on the Paris Commune entitled "The Paris Commune: A Br ... Show More
1h 9m
Mar 2019
Women Behind the Iron Curtain: Socialism, Feminism, & Soviet Power
<p>HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY!<br /> <br /> Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Breht once again to discuss her latest book, <em>Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialis ... Show More
1h 15m