The 4 Best Jacobin Radio Podcast Episodes
1) Jacobin Radio: Gilets Jaunes, the Gamification of Class Struggle
In this episode, Suzi talks to Jacobin contributing editor Sebastian Budgen about the gilet jaunes protests rocking France, named for the yellow traffic vests the protestors wear. The movement was ign...Show More
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Interesting policy and politics specific talk from a genuine leftist outlook. Good companion to the Jacobin Mag
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Jacobin Radio: The "Miracle" of Silicon Valley; Democratic Party Futures
Suzi talks to scholar activist Richard Walker about his new book, Pictures of a Gone City, an urban geography of the San Francisco Bay Area, America’s richest and fastest changing metropolis. Walker e...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Behind the News: Jodi Dean on Political Belonging
Jodi Dean, author of Comrade, on the sense of political belonging formed by and essential to common struggle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
4) The Dig: Free Palestine with Noura Erakat
Israel is massacring Palestinians daring to approach a fence that occupation forces have built to shore up an ethno-state founded on the principle of apartheid. Nothing could be more clear. But you wo...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Confronting Capitalism: When Do Protests Become a Revolution?
The Trump administration has ramped up its bellicose rhetoric against the Iranian regime after it clamped down on the latest wave of protests. Is the regime teetering on the edge of collapse? In this ...Show More
6) Behind the News: The Myth of Respectable Conservatism w/ David Austin Walsh
David Austin Walsh, author of Taking America Back, looks at the relationship between the kooks and respectables on the Right. Laura Field, author of Furious Minds, examines the intellectual wing of Tr...Show More
7) The Dig: Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari
Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has ma...Show More
8) Long Reads: Iran on the Brink w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
As this episode was being finalized, the Trump administration was threatening to attack Iran for the second time in less than a year. The threats come against the backdrop of mass protests inside Iran...Show More
9) Behind the News: Israel’s Assault on Lebanon w/ Aurélie Daher
David Bier of the Cato Institute looks at what’s behind Trump’s war on immigrants. Aurélie Daher examines the current state of Hezbollah and why Israel is bombing Lebanon. Behind the News, hosted by D...Show More
10) The Dig: Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek
Featuring Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy — and of global contests f...Show More