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[TEASER] Cuba Pt. 6: The Political Thought of Fidel Castro w/ Renzo Llorente

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Cuba Pt. 5: Under Siege w/ Manolo De Los Santos & Liz Oliva Fernández

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[TEASER] The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism w/ Torkil Lauesen

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A Socialist California w/ Ramsey Robinson

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[UNLOCKED] Palestine Pt. 17: Capital Accumulation at Any Cost w/ Jason Hickel

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[TEASER] Iran Pt. 4: Towards a Multipolar World / Matteo Capasso

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Cuba Pt. 4: Counterrevolution w/ Renzo Llorente

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[TEASER] Palestine Pt. 17: Capital Accumulation at Any Cost w/ Jason Hickel

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Cuba Pt. 3: Che Guevara and the Building of Socialism w/ Helen Yaffe

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[UNLOCKED] Lebanon Pt. 1: Resisting Occupation w/ Hussein Assaf

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Iran Pt. 3: The Empire vs. Iran w/ Bikrum Gill

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[UNLOCKED] Atlantic Slavery and the Plantation System w/ David McNally

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Cuba Pt. 2: ¡Viva la Revolución! w/ Manolo De Los Santos

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[TEASER] The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism w/ Kristen Ghodsee

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The Intellectual World War w/ Gabriel Rockhill

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[TEASER] Iran Pt. 2: The Impacts of Economic Strangulation w/ Elina Xenophontos

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[TEASER] Venezuela Pt. 6: The Empire Strikes w/ José Luis Granados Ceja and Andreína Chávez

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Cuba Pt. 1: Before the Revolution w/ Manolo De Los Santos

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[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Pt. 4: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara w/ Amber Murrey

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US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 2: Zionism w/ Jeff Schuhrke (Palestine Pt. 16)

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[UNLOCKED] Immigration, ICE, and Working Class Rebellion w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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[BONUS] The Turn of the Year (or A Solstice Celebration) w/ Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

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[TEASER] Reconnecting to the Land and to Place

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US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 1: the War Against Communism w/ Jeff Schuhrke

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[TEASER] Mexico Pt. 2: Morena and The Fourth Transformation w/ Stephanie Weatherbee Brito

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A World out of Balance: Introducing Doughnut 3.0 w/ Andrew Fanning

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[TEASER] Mexico Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Cecilia Guerrero

29

From the Frontlines: Tenant Organizing w/ Josh Poe and Tara Raghuveer

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[TEASER] Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century w/ John Smith

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China Pt. 8: Mao Zedong and Maoism with Yueran Zhang

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[TEASER] Venezuela Pt. 4: The Empire vs. Venezuela w/ Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza and Saheli Chowdhury

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Slow Down or Die w/ Timothée Parrique

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[TEASER] Venezuela Pt. 3: Sanctions as Economic Warfare w/ Cira Pascual Marquina

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Migration as Economic Imperialism w/ Immanuel Ness

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[TEASER] Venezuela Pt. 2: Socialist Communes and Anti-Imperialism w/ Chris Gilbert

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 5: Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis w/ Jo delAmor

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Pt. 3: Hyperimperialism and the Fight for Sovereignty w/ Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 4: Midwifery and Birthing w/ Robina Khalid

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[TEASER] Venezuela Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Vijay Prashad

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Palestine Pt. 15: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla w/ Chris Smalls & Huwaida Arraf

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[TEASER] China Pt. 7: A Socialist Response to the COVID Pandemic w/ Creighton Ward, Kevin Li, and Alessandro Zancan

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Marx's Capital Vol. 2 w/ Richard Wolff and Shahram Azhar

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[TEASER] Third Worldism and the Bandung Spirit w/ Pranay Somayajula

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NATO Pt. 2: The Long War on the Third World w/ Pawel Wargan

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Pt. 2: A View from Within w/ Inem Richardson

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NATO Pt. 1: An Anti-Imperialist Introduction w/ Elina Xenophontos

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[TEASER] Immigration, ICE, and Working Class Rebellion w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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Iran Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Séamus Malekafzali [BONUS]

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 3: A Dialectical Perspective w/ Breht O'Shea

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[TEASER] China Pt. 6: The Long Transition Towards Socialism w/ Gabriel Rockhill

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[UNLOCKED] Alliance of Sahel States Pt. 1: Burkina Faso – An Anti-imperialist Introduction w/ Prudence Iticka

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How to Fall in Love with the Future w/ Rob Hopkins

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[TEASER] Alliance of Sahel States Pt. 1: Burkina Faso – An Anti-imperialist Introduction w/ Prudence Iticka

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 2: Reimagining the Family w/ Kristen Ghodsee

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[TEASER] The Imperial Boomerang w/ Julian Go

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From the Frontlines: Organizing Against Amazon w/ Chris Smalls and Mars Verrone

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[TEASER] China Pt. 5: Towards an Ecological Civilization w/ Tings Chak

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A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations w/ Vijay Prashad

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[TEASER] How Fascism Works

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From the Frontlines: State Repression and Anti-Imperialist Organizing w/ Calla Walsh

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[TEASER] China Pt. 4: Unlearning Anti-China Propaganda w/ Li Jingjing

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Marx's Capital Vol. 1 w/ David Smith

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[UNLOCKED] China Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel

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[TEASER] China Pt. 3: Bourgeois Democracy vs Socialist Democracy w/ Vijay Prashad

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Marxism for the Masses w/ Savannah from All Power Books

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[TEASER] China Pt. 2: Socialist Democracy and Democratic Centralism w/ Ken Hammond

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Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 1: Parenting Under Capitalism w/ Toi Smith

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[TEASER] China Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Jason Hickel

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Trade Wars and Tariffs w/ Richard Wolff

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[TEASER] (Chinese) Socialism vs (U.S.) Capitalism

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From the Frontlines: Class Struggle and Class War in the US Southeast w/ Cecilia Guerrero

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[UNLOCKED] From the Frontlines: Revolutionary Disaster Response in Los Angeles w/ Gage and Sean of All Power Books

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Technofeudalism w/ Yanis Varoufakis

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[TEASER] World on Fire

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[TEASER] Four Ways to Be Anticapitalist

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Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism w/ Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante

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[TEASER] The More Than Human World

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A Solstice Celebration for 2024 w/ Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

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Historical Materialism w/ Torkil Lauesen

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[UNLOCKED] Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness w/ Da'Shaun Harrison

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[TEASER] Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism: An Introduction

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How to Be a Good Ancestor w/ Roman Krznaric

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[TEASER] Palestine Pt. 14: Decolonial Marxism w/ Patrick Higgins

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The Exhausted of the Earth w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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[TEASER] Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness w/ Da'Shaun Harrison

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Prefigurative Politics and Workplace Democracy w/ Saio Gradin and Nicole Wires

88

[RE-RELEASE] A Marxist Perspective on Elections w/ August Nimtz

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[TEASER] Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor

90

The Fight for The Congo w/ Vijay Prashad

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[TEASER] Western Marxism w/ Gabriel Rockhill

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Palestine Pt. 13: Al-Aqsa Flood and the Resistance Axis w/ Matteo Capasso

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[UNLOCKED] Oil, Monopoly Capitalism, and Imperialism w/ Adam Hanieh

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[TEASER] Will the Revolution Be Funded? w/ Nairuti Shastry and Zac Chapman

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The Politics of Pleasure w/ Eric Wycoff Rogers and Zarinah Agnew

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Breaking the Chains of Empire w/ Abby Martin (Live Show)

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[TEASER] Oil, Monopoly Capitalism, and Imperialism w/ Adam Hanieh

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Better Lives for All w/ Jason Hickel

99

[TEASER] Nathan Fielder's "The Curse" w/ Carlee

100

The Logical Case for Socialism (and Against Capitalism) w/ Scott Sehon

101

[UNLOCKED] Capitalism and the Weight Loss Industry w/ Johann Hari

102

[TEASER] The Liberal Virus

103

Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Underdevelopment with D. Musa Springer & Charisse Burden-Stelly

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[TEASER] Sex, Desire, and the Neoliberal Subject

105

Breaking Up with Capitalism w/ Malaika Jabali

106

[TEASER] Capitalism and the Weight Loss Industry w/ Johann Hari

107

Righteous Indignation, Love, and Running for President w/ Dr. Cornel West

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[TEASER] Palestine Pt. 11: Israel and the U.S. Empire w/ Max Ajl

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Palestine Pt. 10: Healing from Zionism w/ Meital Yaniv

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[UNLOCKED] How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel

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[TEASER] Suburban Hell and Ugly Cities

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Dialectical Materialism w/ Josh Sykes

113

The Big Tech Con w/ Cory Doctorow

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[TEASER] How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel

115

Battling the Duopoly w/ Jill Stein

116

[TEASER] International Workers' Day w/ John from Working Class History

117

[TEASER] Against Condemning Hamas

118

A Blunt Conversation about Cannabis w/ David Bienenstock

119

[TEASER] Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism

120

Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha

121

[TEASER] Palestine Pt. 9: Palestine 2031 w/ Nadia Zanghari

122

Palestine Pt. 8: Indigeneity and Settler-Colonialism w/ Krystal Two Bulls & Sumaya Awad

123

[TEASER] Nationalism and the Error of Patriotic Socialism w/ Sina Rahmani and Nick

124

[UNLOCKED] Voting for Socialism w/ Claudia De La Cruz & Karina Garcia

125

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism w/ Kristen Ghodsee

126

Climate Leninism w/ Jodi Dean and Kai Heron

127

[TEASER] Voting for Socialism w/ Claudia de la Cruz & Karina Garcia

128

Be More Pirate w/ Sam Conniff

129

[TEASER] The Problem with Modern Monetary Theory w/ Doug Henwood

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[TEASER] Socialism Betrayed w/ Roger Keeran and Joe Jamison

131

Important Announcement: We Launched a Patreon

132

The Missing Revolution w/ Vincent Bevins

133

Drinkable Rivers with Li An Phoa

134

Palestine Pt. 6: One State with Ghada Karmi

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A Winter Solstice Celebration for 2023 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

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Palestine Pt. 5: The Political Economy of Palestine with Adam Hanieh

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Palestine Pt. 4: False Solutions and Paths of Resistance with Sumaya Awad

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Palestine Pt. 3: Settler-Colonialism and Medical Apartheid with Rupa Marya & Jess Ghannam

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Palestine Pt. 2: Justice for Some with Noura Erakat

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Black Scare / Red Scare with Charisse Burden-Stelly

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A Marxist Perspective on Elections with August Nimtz

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How We Show Up with Mia Birdsong

143

Palestine Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction with Sumaya Awad

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What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante

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How to Decolonize and Indigenize with Sikowis Nobiss

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Class War and Beer with Brace Belden

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Microlending and the Financialization of Poverty with Sohini Kar

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Capitalist Realism with Carlee

149

Life Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell

150

Buddhism and Marxism with Breht O'Shea

151

Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton

152

Capitalism, The State, and How We Got Here with Christian Parenti

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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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The Political Economy of Jazz with Gerald Horne

155

A History of California, Capitalism, and the World with Malcolm Harris

156

Documentary #16: The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism

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Reclaiming Time with Oliver Burkeman

158

Trans Liberation and Solidarity with Alyson Escalante

159

Half Farmer, Half X with Mika Furugori and Naoki Shiomi

160

Stop Cop City with Keyanna Jones and Matthew Johnson

161

Surviving the Collapse, Agroecology, & Mutual Aid with Andy C. of Poor Prole's Almanac

162

Whiteness and Capitalism with Eleanor Hancock

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Radical History: The Roots of Race & Class in the U.S. with Dr. Gerald Horne

164

Liberation Ecotherapy with Phoenix Smith

165

Breaking Things at Work with Gavin Mueller

166

A Winter Solstice Celebration for 2022 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

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Liberation Psychology with Daniel José Gaztambide Nuñez & Harriet Fraad

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The Value of a Whale with Adrienne Buller

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A Left Answer to Inflation with Hadas Thier

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Decolonizing Archaeology with Dr. Paulette Steeves

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Documentary #15: The Green Transition Pt. 2 – A Green Deal for the People Part 2

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Terra Viva with Vandana Shiva

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Documentary #14: The Green Transition Pt. 1 – The Problem with Green Capitalism

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Revolutionary Leftism with Breht O'Shea

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The War on Cash with Brett Scott

176

The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class with Catherine Liu

177

How Degrowth Will Save the World with Jason Hickel

178

The Problem with Economic Thinking with Jonathan Aldred and Elizabeth Popp Berman

179

A Socialist Perspective on Abortion with Diana Moreno & Jenny Brown

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The Limitations of Black Capitalism with Francisco Perez

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Decolonizing Conservation with Prakash Kashwan

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Fully Automated Luxury Communism with Zarinah Agnew and Eric Wycoff Rogers

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When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley with Carolyn Chen

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A Changing Climate with Amy Westervelt

185

A World Without Profit with Jennifer Hinton

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Documentary #13: Stories of Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration

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Documentary #10: Feminism for the 99 Percent (Updated)

188

COVID and the Pandemic with Beatrice Adler-Bolton

189

Stolen Focus with Johann Hari

190

A People's Guide to Capitalism with Hadas Thier

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Climate Leviathan with Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann

192

A Solstice Celebration for 2021 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

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Inflation with Richard Wolff & Dean Baker

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NFTs with Nathan Schneider and Cory Doctorow

195

Indigenous Economics with Tyson Yunkaporta

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Strike! Strike! Strike! ...with Alex Press

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Against White Feminism with Rafia Zakaria

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Documentary #12: Occupy Wall Street – A Decade Later (Documentary)

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Documetary #11: Abolish the Police

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American History and Much More with Matt Christman

201

Laziness Does Not Exist with Devon Price

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Work Won't Love you Back with Sarah Jaffe

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Documentary #10: Feminism for the 99 Percent

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Decolonizing Medicine with Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

205

A Green New Deal with Thea Riofrancos

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Abolition with Niki Franco (aka Venus Roots)

207

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things with Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore

208

The Political Economy of Food with Eric Holt-Gimenez

209

The Politics of COVID with Eric Levitz

210

McMindfulness with Ron Purser

211

Documentary #9: Debunking the Myth of Homo Economicus

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A Solstice Celebration for 2020 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

213

The Sickness is the System with Richard Wolff

214

Abolishing Silicon Valley with Wendy Liu

215

Grassroots Urban Placemaking with Mark Lakeman

216

A Systems Perspective On Our Current Crisis with Nafeez Ahmed

217

International Development and Post-capitalism with Jason Hickel

218

COVID and The Rot of The American Ruling Class with Doug Henwood

219

COVID, Feminist Economics, and Democratic Socialism with Julia Salazar

220

An Epidemic of Insecurity with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

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Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook

222

Gift Economies with Robin McKenna

223

Is Localization a Solution to the Crisis of Capitalism? with Helena Norberg Hodge

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A People's History of Silicon Valley with Keith A. Spencer

225

Documentary #8: Worker Cooperatives Pt. 2 – Islands within a Sea of Capitalism (Documentary)

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Documentary #8: Worker Cooperatives Pt. 1 – Widening Spheres of Democracy

227

How Agriculture Turned Humanity into a Superorganism with Lisi Krall

228

The End of Policing with Alex Vitale

229

Documentary #7: Universal Basic Income Pt. 2 – A Bridge Towards Post-Capitalism?

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Documentary #7: Universal Basic Income Pt. 1 – An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

231

The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets with Jason Hickel

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Documentary #6: Beer - Crafting a Better Economy

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Doughnut Economics with Kate Raworth

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Documentary #5: The Call For A New Economy

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African American Co-ops with Jessica Gordon Nembhard

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Platform Cooperativism with Trebor Scholz

237

The Solidarity Economy with Cheyenna Weber

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Documetary #4: The Solidarity Economy

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Sneak Peak: Racism & capitalism (Jessica Gordon Nembhard)

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Election 2016 Aftermath with Doug Henwood

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The Recession isn't Over, but is Capitalism? with Richard Wolff

242

Documentary #3: Betrayal & Solidarity In Greece

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Art of Hosting with Maria Scordialos

244

The Crisis in Greece with James Galbraith

245

Regenerative Agriculture at Studio Hill Farm with Jesse McDougall

246

Happy City Bristol with Liz Ziedler

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Flatpack Democracy with Peter Macfadyen

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The Spirit Level with Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

249

Documentary #2: Welcome to Frome Pt. 3 – A New Cultural Vision

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Documentary #2: Welcome to Frome Pt. 2 - A Town Divided

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Documentary #2: Welcome to Frome Pt. 1 - This Is What The New Economy Looks Like

252

Crisis Theory - A Marxist Video Game with David Cribb

253

Sneak Peak: Seeing Wetiko (Martin Kirk)

254

Sanders, Clinton, and Corbyn with Richard Seymour

255

Sneak Peak: Why we need a 21st Century Labor Movement (Wilkinson & Pickett)

256

Brexit with Joseph Choonara

257

Sneak Peak: Why the Radical Left Voted to Leave Europe (Joseph Choonara)

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Richard Seymour

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Sneak Peak: What's Really Going on Behind Brexit? (Richard Seymour)

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Sneak Peak: Loukanikos the Riot Dog (Yianni Litovchenko)

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Sneak Peak: Greek Financial Crisis Explained (Maria Scordialos)

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The Divide with Katharine Round

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Stop GDP with Martin Whitlock

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Craftivism with Sarah Corbett

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Gift Economies with Angela Miles

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The Sharing Economy with Doug Henwood

267

The Sharing Economy with Keally McBride

268

Spiritual Ecology with Satish Kumar

269

The Sharing Economy? (15 minute shortened version)

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Transition Towns with Rob Hopkins

271

Ecological Feminism with Nadia Johanisova

272

Economic Democracy with Pat Conaty

273

Buen Vivir with Eduardo Gudynas

274

Gross National Happiness with Dr. Tho Ha Vinh

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The Work That Reconnects with Joanna Macy

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Robin Murray

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Growing Good Lives with Inez Aponte

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Documentary #1: The Sharing Economy?