Jacobin Radio: A Talk on Latin American Revolts
Chilean writer and activist Pablo Abufom spoke at UCLA on February 23, 2024 about how the October 2019 social revolt in Chile propelled Gabriel Boric to power, created a Constituent Assembly to write ...
28 Helmi 20241h 17min
The Dig: Thawra Ep. 2 - Birth of Arab Nationalism
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the second episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out early 20th-century anti-...
27 Helmi 20241h 43min
Organize the Unorganized: War
The early period of the CIO arguably ended with the Little Steel strike in 1937. The strike's brutal repression and failure dramatically illustrated the limits of the New Deal order. But the CIO conti...
27 Helmi 202440min
Behind the News: Desi Diaspora Politics w/ Jeet Heer
Jeet Heer, author of a recent article for The Nation, discusses Indian Americans in politics and society. Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, authors of The Fall and Rise of American Finance, takes on th...
26 Helmi 202453min
Michael and Us: An Irreverent Tendency
In 1987, America was ready to look back on the Vietnam War... with laughter. We discuss GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987) and why it is one of the quintessential "boomer liberal" texts. PLUS: We check in on...
23 Helmi 20241h
Long Reads: From Gaza to Yemen w/ Helen Lackner
Over the last four months, the Israeli war on Gaza has spilled over into the rest of the Middle East, from Lebanon to Iraq. But the most dramatic example has been the link between events in Palestine ...
22 Helmi 202451min
Jacobin Radio: Repression in Russia w/ Ilya Budraitskis
There are many markers showing February 2024 to be a landmark month of cruelty — not least in Gaza, but also in Russia, where we turn our focus today. The slow murder of opposition leader Alexei Naval...
21 Helmi 202455min
The Dig: Thawra Ep. 1 - Europe's Imperial Juggernaut
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the first episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment sets the stage: European imperiali...
21 Helmi 20241h 19min
