Organize the Unorganized: Is There an End to the CIO?
The eighth, penultimate episode of Organize the Unorganized concludes the main story of the CIO. We cover the organization’s communist purge in the late 1940s and Operation Dixie, the failed campaign ...
5 Mars 202446min
The Dig: Thawra Ep. 3 - The Post-Colonial Arab State System
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the THIRD episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment is a comprehensive overview of the...
4 Mars 20242h 11min
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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 202451min
