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[TEASER] China Ep. 10: The Dialectics of Chinese Labor w/ Immanuel Ness
Cuba Ep 9: Conjuring up the Red Menace w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly
[TEASER] Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
Sudan Ep. 1: The Unconscious Revolution w/ Mohamed Khougali
[TEASER] 250 Years of Bourgeois Democracy w/ August Nimtz
The Democratic Party w/ Cecilia Guerrero
[TEASER] Iran Ep. 5: Is the US-Iran Deal a Trap for Iran? w/ Elina Xenophontos
Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Economics w/ Gregg Castro
[TEASER] China Ep. 9: Taiwan w/ Charles Xu and Feiyang Sun
The Rise (and Fall) of the US Dollar w/ Fadhel Kaboub
[TEASER] Cuba Ep. 8: Lessons from the Fall of the USSR w/ Helen Yaffe
Cuba Ep. 7: How Cuban Socialism Works w/ Helen Yaffe
[TEASER] Cuba Ep. 6: The Political Thought of Fidel Castro w/ Renzo Llorente
Cuba Ep. 5: Under Siege w/ Manolo De Los Santos & Liz Oliva Fernández
[TEASER] The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism w/ Torkil Lauesen
A Socialist California w/ Ramsey Robinson
[UNLOCKED] Palestine Ep. 17: Capital Accumulation at Any Cost w/ Jason Hickel
[TEASER] Iran Ep. 4: Towards a Multipolar World / Matteo Capasso
Cuba Ep. 4: Counterrevolution w/ Renzo Llorente
[TEASER] Palestine Ep. 17: Capital Accumulation at Any Cost w/ Jason Hickel
Cuba Ep. 3: Che Guevara and the Building of Socialism w/ Helen Yaffe
[UNLOCKED] Lebanon Ep. 1: Resisting Occupation w/ Hussein Assaf
Iran Ep. 3: The Empire vs. Iran w/ Bikrum Gill
[UNLOCKED] Atlantic Slavery and the Plantation System w/ David McNally
Cuba Ep. 2: ¡Viva la Revolución! w/ Manolo De Los Santos
[TEASER] The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism w/ Kristen Ghodsee
The Intellectual World War w/ Gabriel Rockhill
[TEASER] Iran Ep. 2: The Impacts of Economic Strangulation w/ Elina Xenophontos
[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 6: The Empire Strikes w/ José Luis Granados Ceja and Andreína Chávez
Cuba Ep. 1: Before the Revolution w/ Manolo De Los Santos
[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)
[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 4: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara w/ Amber Murrey
US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 2: Zionism w/ Jeff Schuhrke (Palestine Ep. 16)
[UNLOCKED] Immigration, ICE, and Working Class Rebellion w/ Cecilia Guerrero
[BONUS] The Turn of the Year (or A Solstice Celebration) w/ Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
[TEASER] Reconnecting to the Land and to Place
US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 1: the War Against Communism w/ Jeff Schuhrke
[TEASER] Mexico Ep. 2: Morena and The Fourth Transformation w/ Stephanie Weatherbee Brito
A World out of Balance: Introducing Doughnut 3.0 w/ Andrew Fanning
[TEASER] Mexico Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Cecilia Guerrero
From the Frontlines: Tenant Organizing w/ Josh Poe and Tara Raghuveer
[TEASER] Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century w/ John Smith
China Ep. 8: Mao Zedong and Maoism with Yueran Zhang
[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 4: The Empire vs. Venezuela w/ Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza and Saheli Chowdhury
Slow Down or Die w/ Timothée Parrique
[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 3: Sanctions as Economic Warfare w/ Cira Pascual Marquina
Migration as Economic Imperialism w/ Immanuel Ness
[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 2: Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism w/ Chris Gilbert
Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 5: Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis w/ Jo delAmor
[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 3: Hyperimperialism and the Fight for Sovereignty w/ Mikaela Nhondo Erskog
Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 4: Midwifery and Birthing w/ Robina Khalid
[TEASER] Venezuela Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Vijay Prashad
Palestine Ep. 15: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla w/ Chris Smalls & Huwaida Arraf
[TEASER] China Ep. 7: A Socialist Response to the COVID Pandemic w/ Creighton Ward, Kevin Li, and Alessandro Zancan
Marx's Capital Vol. 2 w/ Richard Wolff and Shahram Azhar
[TEASER] Third Worldism and the Bandung Spirit w/ Pranay Somayajula
NATO Pt. 2: The Long War on the Third World w/ Pawel Wargan
[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 2: A View from Within w/ Inem Richardson
NATO Pt. 1: An Anti-Imperialist Introduction w/ Elina Xenophontos
[TEASER] Immigration, ICE, and Working Class Rebellion w/ Cecilia Guerrero
Iran Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Séamus Malekafzali [BONUS]
Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 3: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea
[TEASER] China Ep. 6: The Long Transition Towards Socialism w/ Gabriel Rockhill
[UNLOCKED] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 1: Burkina Faso – An Anti-imperialist Introduction w/ Prudence Iticka
How to Fall in Love with the Future w/ Rob Hopkins
[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Ep. 1: Burkina Faso – An Anti-imperialist Introduction w/ Prudence Iticka
Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 2: Reimagining the Family w/ Kristen Ghodsee
[TEASER] The Imperial Boomerang w/ Julian Go
From the Frontlines: Organizing Against Amazon w/ Chris Smalls and Mars Verrone
[TEASER] China Ep. 5: Towards an Ecological Civilization w/ Tings Chak
A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations w/ Vijay Prashad
[TEASER] How Fascism Works
From the Frontlines: State Repression and Anti-Imperialist Organizing w/ Calla Walsh
[TEASER] China Ep. 4: Unlearning Anti-China Propaganda w/ Li Jingjing
Marx's Capital Vol. 1 w/ David Smith
[UNLOCKED] China Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel
[TEASER] China Ep. 3: Bourgeois Democracy vs Socialist Democracy w/ Vijay Prashad
Marxism for the Masses w/ Savannah from All Power Books
[TEASER] China Ep. 2: Socialist Democracy and Democratic Centralism w/ Ken Hammond
Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 1: Parenting Under Capitalism w/ Toi Smith
[TEASER] China Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel
Trade Wars and Tariffs w/ Richard Wolff
[TEASER] (Chinese) Socialism vs (U.S.) Capitalism
From the Frontlines: Class Struggle and Class War in the US Southeast w/ Cecilia Guerrero
[UNLOCKED] From the Frontlines: Revolutionary Disaster Response in Los Angeles w/ Gage and Sean of All Power Books
Technofeudalism w/ Yanis Varoufakis
[TEASER] World on Fire
[TEASER] Four Ways to Be Anticapitalist
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism w/ Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante
[TEASER] The More Than Human World
A Solstice Celebration for 2024 w/ Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
Historical Materialism w/ Torkil Lauesen
[UNLOCKED] Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness w/ Da'Shaun Harrison
[TEASER] Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism: An Introduction
How to Be a Good Ancestor w/ Roman Krznaric
[TEASER] Palestine Ep. 14: Decolonial Marxism w/ Patrick Higgins
The Exhausted of the Earth w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary
[TEASER] Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness w/ Da'Shaun Harrison
Prefigurative Politics and Workplace Democracy w/ Saio Gradin and Nicole Wires
[RE-RELEASE] A Marxist Perspective on Elections w/ August Nimtz
[TEASER] Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor
The Fight for The Congo w/ Vijay Prashad
[TEASER] Western Marxism w/ Gabriel Rockhill
Palestine Ep. 13: Al-Aqsa Flood and the Resistance Axis w/ Matteo Capasso
[UNLOCKED] Oil, Monopoly Capitalism, and Imperialism w/ Adam Hanieh
[TEASER] Will the Revolution Be Funded? w/ Nairuti Shastry and Zac Chapman
The Politics of Pleasure w/ Eric Wycoff Rogers and Zarinah Agnew
Breaking the Chains of Empire w/ Abby Martin (Live Show)
[TEASER] Oil, Monopoly Capitalism, and Imperialism w/ Adam Hanieh
Better Lives for All w/ Jason Hickel
[TEASER] Nathan Fielder's "The Curse" w/ Carlee
The Logical Case for Socialism (and Against Capitalism) w/ Scott Sehon
[UNLOCKED] Capitalism and the Weight Loss Industry w/ Johann Hari
[TEASER] The Liberal Virus
Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Underdevelopment with D. Musa Springer & Charisse Burden-Stelly
[TEASER] Sex, Desire, and the Neoliberal Subject
Breaking Up with Capitalism w/ Malaika Jabali
[TEASER] Capitalism and the Weight Loss Industry w/ Johann Hari
Righteous Indignation, Love, and Running for President w/ Dr. Cornel West
[TEASER] Palestine Ep. 11: Israel and the U.S. Empire w/ Max Ajl
Palestine Ep. 10: Healing from Zionism w/ Meital Yaniv
[UNLOCKED] How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel
[TEASER] Suburban Hell and Ugly Cities
Dialectical Materialism w/ Josh Sykes
The Big Tech Con w/ Cory Doctorow
[TEASER] How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel
Battling the Duopoly w/ Jill Stein
[TEASER] International Workers' Day w/ John from Working Class History
[TEASER] Against Condemning Hamas
A Blunt Conversation about Cannabis w/ David Bienenstock
[TEASER] Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism
Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha
[TEASER] Palestine Ep. 9: Palestine 2031 w/ Nadia Zanghari
Palestine Ep. 8: Indigeneity and Settler-Colonialism w/ Krystal Two Bulls & Sumaya Awad
[TEASER] Nationalism and the Error of Patriotic Socialism w/ Sina Rahmani and Nick
[UNLOCKED] Voting for Socialism w/ Claudia De La Cruz & Karina Garcia
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism w/ Kristen Ghodsee
Climate Leninism w/ Jodi Dean and Kai Heron
[TEASER] Voting for Socialism w/ Claudia de la Cruz & Karina Garcia
Be More Pirate w/ Sam Conniff
[TEASER] The Problem with Modern Monetary Theory w/ Doug Henwood
[TEASER] Socialism Betrayed w/ Roger Keeran and Joe Jamison
Important Announcement: We Launched a Patreon
The Missing Revolution w/ Vincent Bevins
Drinkable Rivers with Li An Phoa
Palestine Ep. 6: One State with Ghada Karmi
A Winter Solstice Celebration for 2023 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
Palestine Ep. 5: The Political Economy of Palestine with Adam Hanieh
Palestine Ep. 4: False Solutions and Paths of Resistance with Sumaya Awad
Palestine Ep. 3: Settler-Colonialism and Medical Apartheid with Rupa Marya & Jess Ghannam
Palestine Ep. 2: Justice for Some with Noura Erakat
Black Scare / Red Scare with Charisse Burden-Stelly
A Marxist Perspective on Elections with August Nimtz
How We Show Up with Mia Birdsong
Palestine Ep. 1: A Socialist Introduction with Sumaya Awad
What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante
How to Decolonize and Indigenize with Sikowis Nobiss
Class War and Beer with Brace Belden
Microlending and the Financialization of Poverty with Sohini Kar
Capitalist Realism with Carlee
Life Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell
Buddhism and Marxism with Breht O'Shea
Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
Capitalism, The State, and How We Got Here with Christian Parenti
Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee
The Political Economy of Jazz with Gerald Horne
A History of California, Capitalism, and the World with Malcolm Harris
Documentary #16: The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism
Reclaiming Time with Oliver Burkeman
Trans Liberation and Solidarity with Alyson Escalante
Half Farmer, Half X with Mika Furugori and Naoki Shiomi
Stop Cop City with Keyanna Jones and Matthew Johnson
Surviving the Collapse, Agroecology, & Mutual Aid with Andy C. of Poor Prole's Almanac
Whiteness and Capitalism with Eleanor Hancock
Radical History: The Roots of Race & Class in the U.S. with Dr. Gerald Horne
Liberation Ecotherapy with Phoenix Smith
Breaking Things at Work with Gavin Mueller
A Winter Solstice Celebration for 2022 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
Liberation Psychology with Daniel José Gaztambide Nuñez & Harriet Fraad
The Value of a Whale with Adrienne Buller
A Left Answer to Inflation with Hadas Thier
Decolonizing Archaeology with Dr. Paulette Steeves
Documentary #15: The Green Transition Pt. 2 – A Green Deal for the People Part 2
Terra Viva with Vandana Shiva
Documentary #14: The Green Transition Pt. 1 – The Problem with Green Capitalism
Revolutionary Leftism with Breht O'Shea
The War on Cash with Brett Scott
The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class with Catherine Liu
How Degrowth Will Save the World with Jason Hickel
The Problem with Economic Thinking with Jonathan Aldred and Elizabeth Popp Berman
A Socialist Perspective on Abortion with Diana Moreno & Jenny Brown
The Limitations of Black Capitalism with Francisco Perez
Decolonizing Conservation with Prakash Kashwan
Fully Automated Luxury Communism with Zarinah Agnew and Eric Wycoff Rogers
When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley with Carolyn Chen
A Changing Climate with Amy Westervelt
A World Without Profit with Jennifer Hinton
Documentary #13: Stories of Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration
Documentary #10: Feminism for the 99 Percent (Updated)
COVID and the Pandemic with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
Stolen Focus with Johann Hari
A People's Guide to Capitalism with Hadas Thier
Climate Leviathan with Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann
A Solstice Celebration for 2021 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
Inflation with Richard Wolff & Dean Baker
NFTs with Nathan Schneider and Cory Doctorow
Indigenous Economics with Tyson Yunkaporta
Strike! Strike! Strike! ...with Alex Press
Against White Feminism with Rafia Zakaria
Documentary #12: Occupy Wall Street – A Decade Later (Documentary)
Documetary #11: Abolish the Police
American History and Much More with Matt Christman
Laziness Does Not Exist with Devon Price
Work Won't Love you Back with Sarah Jaffe
Documentary #10: Feminism for the 99 Percent
Decolonizing Medicine with Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
A Green New Deal with Thea Riofrancos
Abolition with Niki Franco (aka Venus Roots)
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things with Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore
The Political Economy of Food with Eric Holt-Gimenez
The Politics of COVID with Eric Levitz
McMindfulness with Ron Purser
Documentary #9: Debunking the Myth of Homo Economicus
A Solstice Celebration for 2020 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
The Sickness is the System with Richard Wolff
Abolishing Silicon Valley with Wendy Liu
Grassroots Urban Placemaking with Mark Lakeman
A Systems Perspective On Our Current Crisis with Nafeez Ahmed
International Development and Post-capitalism with Jason Hickel
COVID and The Rot of The American Ruling Class with Doug Henwood
COVID, Feminist Economics, and Democratic Socialism with Julia Salazar
An Epidemic of Insecurity with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook
Gift Economies with Robin McKenna
Is Localization a Solution to the Crisis of Capitalism? with Helena Norberg Hodge
A People's History of Silicon Valley with Keith A. Spencer
Documentary #8: Worker Cooperatives Pt. 2 – Islands within a Sea of Capitalism (Documentary)
Documentary #8: Worker Cooperatives Pt. 1 – Widening Spheres of Democracy
How Agriculture Turned Humanity into a Superorganism with Lisi Krall
The End of Policing with Alex Vitale
Documentary #7: Universal Basic Income Pt. 2 – A Bridge Towards Post-Capitalism?
Documentary #7: Universal Basic Income Pt. 1 – An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets with Jason Hickel
Documentary #6: Beer - Crafting a Better Economy
Doughnut Economics with Kate Raworth
Documentary #5: The Call For A New Economy
African American Co-ops with Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Platform Cooperativism with Trebor Scholz
The Solidarity Economy with Cheyenna Weber
Documetary #4: The Solidarity Economy
Sneak Peak: Racism & capitalism (Jessica Gordon Nembhard)
Election 2016 Aftermath with Doug Henwood
The Recession isn't Over, but is Capitalism? with Richard Wolff
Documentary #3: Betrayal & Solidarity In Greece
Art of Hosting with Maria Scordialos
The Crisis in Greece with James Galbraith
Regenerative Agriculture at Studio Hill Farm with Jesse McDougall
Happy City Bristol with Liz Ziedler
Flatpack Democracy with Peter Macfadyen
The Spirit Level with Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
Documentary #2: Welcome to Frome Pt. 3 – A New Cultural Vision
Documentary #2: Welcome to Frome Pt. 2 - A Town Divided
Documentary #2: Welcome to Frome Pt. 1 - This Is What The New Economy Looks Like
Crisis Theory - A Marxist Video Game with David Cribb
Sneak Peak: Seeing Wetiko (Martin Kirk)
Sanders, Clinton, and Corbyn with Richard Seymour
Sneak Peak: Why we need a 21st Century Labor Movement (Wilkinson & Pickett)
Brexit with Joseph Choonara
Sneak Peak: Why the Radical Left Voted to Leave Europe (Joseph Choonara)
Richard Seymour
Sneak Peak: What's Really Going on Behind Brexit? (Richard Seymour)
Sneak Peak: Loukanikos the Riot Dog (Yianni Litovchenko)
Sneak Peak: Greek Financial Crisis Explained (Maria Scordialos)
The Divide with Katharine Round
Stop GDP with Martin Whitlock
Craftivism with Sarah Corbett
Gift Economies with Angela Miles
The Sharing Economy with Doug Henwood
The Sharing Economy with Keally McBride
Spiritual Ecology with Satish Kumar
The Sharing Economy? (15 minute shortened version)
Transition Towns with Rob Hopkins
Ecological Feminism with Nadia Johanisova
Economic Democracy with Pat Conaty
Buen Vivir with Eduardo Gudynas
Gross National Happiness with Dr. Tho Ha Vinh
The Work That Reconnects with Joanna Macy
Robin Murray
Growing Good Lives with Inez Aponte
Documentary #1: The Sharing Economy?