Behind the News: Teachers Strikes and Community-Based Reparations
The Dig: Capitalism and Slavery. Part 1.
Three interviews: historians Linford Fisher, Christy Clark-Pujara and Joanne Melish, and Emily Owens.
Dan conducted six interviews on capitalism and slavery at The Dig's recent Slavery's Hinterlands s…
The Vast Majority: "Chicago's Socialist Surge" with Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
The Dig: Cyborg Revolution with Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway's work defies disciplines, combining insights from both biology and feminist thought, and drawing on her own involvement in political projects organized around feminism and radical scie…
The Vast Majority: "Bernie Sanders Wants You to Fight" with Meagan Day
The Dig: Real Estate Capitalism and Gentrification with Samuel Stein
What is gentrification? It isn't just about what was once known as the hipster and is still known as the artist, the telltale warning signs of impending demographic change. It's part of an entire pol…
Jacobin Radio: Democratic Primary; Victor Serge
The Vast Majority: "The Socialist Manifesto" with Bhaskar Sunkara
It's the first episode of The Vast Majority, which will be bringing you conversations on American and international politics from a socialist perspective. So who better to have on than Bhaskar Sunkar…
A New Podcast from Jacobin: The Vast Majority with Micah Uetricht
The Dig: Un laboratorio del socialismo en Chile. Entrevista con Daniel Jadue.
*This episode of The Dig is a special Dig in Spanish. Visit Jacobin for a transcript in English. Este episodio de The Dig es un Dig especial en español. Entra a Jacobin para una transcripción en ingl…
Behind the News: Rossana Rodriguez, Benjamin Fogel on Bolsonaro
The Dig: Empire and the War in Yemen
The US has played a major role in fomenting violence across Yemen, backing the Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led forces attacking the country while also conducting a direct war against Al-Qaeda in t…
Jacobin Radio: Elections in Chicago and Israel
<font color="#000000">Our guest Yoav Peled argues that Netanyahu i</font>s the only issue in the April 9 election. <font color="#000000">Netanyahu is under indictment for one case of bribery and two …
Behind the News: Police Surveillance; ISO
Jason Wilson on how cops are more interested in surveilling the Left than the Right (article here; Will Parrish article here). Then, Todd Chretien reflects on the forty-two-year history of the Intern…
The Dig: Chinese Class Conflict with Jenny Chan
In the US, China is often viewed at best as a nefarious and enigmatic rival and at worst as a civilizational enemy. But these stories of national rivalry that permeate both major parties and the main…
The Dig: Against Idiocy with Kafui Attoh
Car dominance, public transit austerity, and the neoliberal political-economy within which both are embedded have fomented what Marx called idiocy, in its classical sense of privatized social isolati…
Jacobin Radio: Bolsonaro Comes to D.C.
Suzi talks to political economist Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos about the Trump-Bolsonaro love fest in D.C. last week, and the new Brazilian-US relationship. Bolsonaro was "summoned" to Washington to su…
The Dig: Strike! with Jane McAlevey
The strike is back, and big time. Teachers in particular have been walking off the job not only to demand higher wages but also to fight for an end to privatization and for a transformation of the ed…
Behind the News: Tony Wood on Russia
The Dig: Why Socialism Wins in Chicago
Four of the five candidates endorsed by the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America either won outright or advanced to the runoff election on April 2, leading to talk of a Socialist Caucus on the ci…