Behind the News: Venezuela’s Past, Prese...

While European labor movements established foundations for their welfare states in the late 19th century, it was not until the New Deal that the US began instituting policies like unemployment insurance and old-age pensions. But although working-class struggle was also key to thi ... Show More

Over the past several weeks, Iran has experienced its most serious wave of protests since the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising of 2022. What began as an economic protest quickly turned political, with chants calling for an end to the Islamic Republic — and the most brutal response o ... Show More

This is a special, extra episode of Long Reads. It’s now two weeks since the US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio made explicit threats to countries like Colombia and Cuba in the aftermath, washed down with the usual fantasies ... Show More

<p>In this episode we interviewed professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about her latest book <em>Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.</em> The book has already been put on the long-list for the National Book Award. Taylor ... Show More

In this episode, Max and Nafkote interview Grace Blakeley, an economist and author, about the rise of oligarchy and the relationship between billionaires, corporations, and the state.Grace discusses the close relationship between the American political establishment and the billi ... Show More

<p>Brian and Prof. Wolff continue a series of discussions about the basics of Marxism — a method for understanding and changing &nbsp;the world used by many of the great revolutionaries of modern history. Today, they discuss Karl Marx's theory of classes. Politicians of all strip ... Show More

<p class="MsoNormal">As socialists in the United States one of our most important tasks—at least under our current material conditions—is to raise class consciousness among the mass of people: the basic work of tuning people in to the existence of structures and systems that defi ... Show More

<p>Todd McGowan joins the show once again, this time to discuss his newest book <a href= "https://cup.columbia.edu/book/pure-excess/9780231217590">"Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity".</a> Together, he and Breht discuss commodity fetishism, the tensions between Marxism and ... Show More

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">In this lecture, Breht provides an accessible but rigorous introduction to the Marxist theory of history: historical materialism. Breht explains how historical materialism is dialectical materialism applied to the evolution of human societies over time, ... Show More

<p>James from <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBbylt9Rax3nOP_hyPnMPA">Prolekult</a> joins Breht to discuss Prolekult's expansive new documentary, which you can find for free on YouTube, called <em>"For Land: Capitalism as Extinction"</em>. Together, they discuss the d ... Show More

<p>Alyson and Breht were invited to join <a href= "https://www.upstreampodcast.org/">Robbie on the Upstream podcast</a> to talk about Lenin's "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism". </p> <p>Capitalism, imperialism, monopoly—far from being separate concepts that just happe ... Show More

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 Project at the University of Chicago. She also serves as an Assistant Professor of Afric ... Show More