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From Mahabad to Rojava: The Past and Present of Kurdish Resistance

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Escaping the Left Populist Impasse: Varn and Tutt on "The People Are Not One"

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[ARCHIVE] The Border is a Mirror: Europe and the politics of migration with Iker Suarez

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The Long Red Scare: Inside the FBI's Secret War on American Communism with Aaron Leonard

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What Was Bolshevism? (Part I)

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Corbynism vs Partyism: the rise and demise of Your Party

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Communism = Soviets + Electrification: The Electric Grid

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The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David Harvey

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Interview: Oliver Larkin for Congress

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The Last Soviet States? Scandinavian Social Democracy

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An Arduous March: The Development of North Korea's Political Economy

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Your Party Founding Conference: Fiasco or Triumph? [Stream audio]

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Modern Industry and Prospects for Socialism

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The Border is a Mirror: Europe and the politics of migration with Iker Suarez

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What Is Missing From Your Understanding of Revolutionary Democratic Centralism

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Protest, Pop Culture and the Alt-Right: Jarrod Shanahan on a Decade of Upheaval

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Towards 2026: The Fight for Recognition

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D. R. Congo after Mobutu to the present with Jeremy Rich

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Superman Through the Ages: Hero of the Zeitgeist

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An Introduction To Kojin Karatani with Gabriel Tupinambá

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How the US made Global Capitalism with Sam Gindin

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City Time: Life as Political Prisoners on Rikers with Jarrod Shanahan and David Campbell

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The Contemporary Irish Left with Oisín Gilmore & David Landy

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The German Left w/ Carlos from Licht & Luft

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Tricontinentalism: North Korea in Havana & Georgetown with Moe Taylor

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White Hoods and Pinkertons with Chad Pearson

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Spanish Anarchism and the New Economy

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Mexico 1920-40: Building the Revolutionary State

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The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism by Aidan Beatty

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Somalia: Colonialism, Socialism and War

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Where is the working class' power? An interview with Peter Olney and John Womack

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Ba'ath and Ba'ath: Arab Socialism in Syria and Iraq

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Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism, 1884-1921 with Tony Collins

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Ending the One Party State: Reflections on Rhode Island Democratic Socialists of America

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Pacific Gibraltar: A soft introduction to Hawai'i

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The Italian Communist Party: From Resistance to Dissolution

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The New Thing: Jazz Music in the Cold War, 1950-1970 with Christian Noakes

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Sports and Straight Edge in Red Vienna with Gabriel Kuhn

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Nasserism and the Egyptian Revolution of 1952

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Escaping the Constitutional Bind with Aziz Rana

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The Making of a Working Class Revolutionary: an Interview with Jerome Scott

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Artificial Intelligence

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The Frankfurt School in Context (1923-69)

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Mining and the Environment with Martin Lallana

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Jihadism and Military Juntas in the Sahel with Alexander Thurston

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[REMASTER] Communism in the Colours of France: The French Communist Party (1920-2024)

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The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective

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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War with Volodymyr Ishchenko

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Letter: Llorente v. Schaeffer

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Gene Bruskin: A Life in the Labor Movement

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The Korean Miracle's Rural Legacy

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The Mexican Revolution

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Seeds of Power: The Global Food System and The Green Revolution with Raj Patel

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Just Another Kautsky Fan

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Captives: the History of Rikers Island and New York City with Jarrod Shanahan

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Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought with Bruno Leipold

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Solidarność and the Polish People's Republic

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The Algerian Revolution II (1965-99): Developmentalism, Marketization and War

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Endless Muddle

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Inside the CR-CPUSA/Red Guards: Cults, Violence and the Left

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Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela's Communal Movement with Chris Gilbert

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A Participant's History of the Students for a Democratic Society with Gil Schaeffer

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Race, Class and the Zionist State

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Between Market and Plan: the Soviet Union in the Era of the NEP

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The Wars of Reconstruction with Douglas Egerton

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The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya with Matteo Capasso

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The Algerian Revolution I (1954-65): Decolonization, Self-Management and Internationalism

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Democratic Rights and Socialism

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Migration as Economic Imperialism with Immanuel Ness

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From Champion of the Oppressed to Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Who Took the Socialism Out of Superman?

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A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time with Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek

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Marxism and the Democratic Republic

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Marxist Unity Group & the Democratic Socialists of America's National Convention

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Czechoslovakia's Quest for Reform: Unraveling the Prague Spring

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Labor Republicanism and the Freedom Question in 19th Century North America

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Nurturing Minds, Uniting Movements: Exploring Political Education in the Communist Movement

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There Is Never One Lamb Alone: On Finding Unity in Diversity

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The Mexican Dirty War: From Cárdenas to Zapatismo with Adela Cedillo

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The Contradictions and Confusions of "Democratic Socialism"

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The World System and The Beautiful Game ⚽ with Sam Parry

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The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy

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The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy

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The U.S. Constitution and the Struggle for Democracy with Robert Ovetz

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ACT UP, Fight Back

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The People's Republic of Mozambique with Colin Darch

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Socializing Care: Against Domestic Realism

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Karl Marx and Radical Indigenous Critiques of Capitalism

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The People's Republic of Bulgaria: From the Fields to the Cyberstars with Victor Petrov

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Cop City will never be built with Kei and Leila

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Letter: "Lines of flight" for undeniable problems

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Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel

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Letter: On Sortition and Democratic Decision-making

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Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization with Rodrigo Nunes

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The Beijing Revolutionary Women's Conference of '49 with Elisabeth Armstrong

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Is This the Left that Jacobin Wants?: Chris Maisano's Perilous Drift Towards Post-Marxism

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Conquering Democracy, Abolishing Political Representation

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Cultivating the City with George Martin and Salvatore Engel

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American Socialism from 1892 to 1908

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H. T. Odum's Environment, Power and Society

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Letter: MUG and R&R's Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention