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Margaret continues to read you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aidSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Margaret continues her interview with Black history comic author Ben Passmore about his new book Black Arms to Hold You UpSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Margaret interview Black history comic author Ben Passmore about his new book Black Arms to Hold You Up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>Donald Trump is being called a fascist – by his former appointees and his opponent Kamala Harris.</p><p>On Sunday, in a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, Trump and his allies traded in crude and racist insults, amplifying the nationalistic rhetoric his camp has becom ... Show More

Robert and Michael talk about how the US press responded to the rise of European fascism and where that leaves us today. Behind the Bastards is now available on YouTube! New videos every Wednesday and Friday. (Backlog episodes on Saturdays until we catch up) Subscribe to our chan ... Show More

<p>Fascism is a specific political philosophy that's often mistakenly used to describe any authoritarian, supressive movement or regime. Josh and Chuck discuss the origins, history and markers of Fascism in this episode.</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="ht ... Show More

Robert sits down with best pal Michael Swaim to discuss the great liberal media organizations of Italy, Germany and the U.S. in the 1920s and 30s, and how they failed utterly to stop Mussolini and Hitler. Behind the Bastards is now available on YouTube! New videos every Wednesday ... Show More

<p>Capitalism is in a global economic crisis. The working class everywhere are experiencing falling living standards, and have been for at least a decade. This inevitably has huge political and social effects.</p><p>There is a bitter anger brewing deep in society, and these are e ... Show More

In the 1960s, a right-wing organization led by a former candy tycoon rose to fame in America for their anti-communist campaigns. They called themselves the John Birch Society. Then, they tried to take over the Parent-Teacher Association. This week, what the battle between the two ... Show More

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo--interviews Kristen Hoerl (she/hers) on her impressive new book The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, ... Show More

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city's priorities toward liberal reform. La Guardia's appr ... Show More