Left Reckoning

Support the show and access the Sunday Show and Postgame at patreon.com/leftreckoning Matt & Dave make the argument that politics is simple, it's bosses vs. workers.  Then we are joined by union organizer Aminah Sheikh (@aminahsheikh) to talk about Canada's right-wing populist movement, and what the left can learn from the right's ability to mobilize people around their dissatisfaction. &...

Get the full episode and support David and Matt @ patreon.com/leftreckoning Luke Savage (@LukeWSavage) author of The Dead Center and Jacobin staff writer, joins us to talk Trump vs DeSantis as well as the Democrats inability or lack of willingness to politically own the issues of working people. East Palestine https://jacobin.com/2023/02/biden-trump-visit-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment Trump...

This is an unlocked edition of the typically members-only Sunday show. To get the Sunday show every week, subscribe at patreon.com/leftreckoning Man of reason Carl Beijer returns for a discussion on his recent "Notes on Hersh and the Nord Stream bombing." We also talk about why an nominally "anti-war" rally would include explicitly pro-war agitators. Sy Hersh piece: https://seymourhersh.substack.c...

Support the show and get the Postgame show and Sunday show at patreon.com/leftreckoning The Warrior Met Coal Strike has ended, after years of courage from miners in Alabama where was the most "pro-labor president" in this fight. Then we have fmr. Labour Party member Heather Mendick (@helensclegel) joining us to talk about how Keir Starmer weaponized anti-semitism to attack Jeremy Corbyn and the le...

Welcome to episode 105 - we talk to Dr. Robert Buzzanco (@PodcastGreenRed) on the history of the Vietnam War, Seneca & Sam join us from Austin DSA to talk about how the police are trying to undermine democracy and how you can push back. And Matt & Dave talk about the train derailment and the neoliberal system is to blame. EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION IN AUSTIN - PLEASE SIGN UP TO TELL THE COPS A...

Welcome to this week's Left Reckoning, Matt is away but David has a great show for y'all. We are joined by Madison Hilly (@MadiHilly) founder of the Campaign For Green Nuclear Deal to talk about the progressive case for nuclear power. Some links for further reading: Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, & Nuclear Waste: https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1557399822600216577?s=20&t=M3qcWafRPWaMDy4uau...

Matt Huber (@MattHuber78) joins David and Matt to discuss his piece in Verso, "No Hollywood Ending for the Green New Deal" and climate activism following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.  First, Elon and SpaceX are wearing out their welcome in Texas.   Also, Matt discusses the enraging story behind this GoFundMe for the North Dakotan family of a 2 year old with leukemia....

Tonight Andrew Perez (@AndrewPerezDC) joins Matt to discuss two of his recent pieces published at The Lever. https://www.levernews.com/author/andrew-perez/   Union stories: https://jacobin.com/2023/01/bureau-of-labor-statistics-2022-report-union-density-decline-organizing/   https://lbo-news.com/2023/01/19/union-density-keeps-falling/   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-0...

Matt is joined by Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) to talk about Republican noise that they plan another Church Committee, who Frank Church was, what transparency looks like, and our infantilized understanding of what is done in our name. Read Robert's piece on Alex Jones: http://www.mondoamericana.net/2021/03/30/bohemian-grove-alex-jones/

THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL THE SUPPORT TO GET US TO EP 100, SUPPORT THE SHOW SO WE CAN KEEP GROWING AT PATREON.COM/LEFTRECKONING   Bhaskar Sunkara (@SunRaySunRay) founder of Jacobin and President of The Nation joins us to talk about the current moment the left is in the US after two influential but unsuccessful Bernie Sanders campaigns.    Then Brian Mier (@BrianMierTeleSur) of TeleSur...

Get the full show and the members show archive at patreon.com/leftreckoning Writer and activist Max Berger (@MaxBerger) joins us to talk about the unlikely pairing of cryptocurrency and lobbying groups AIPAC and DMFI. SBF's "injustice democrats" and the fight against progressives in democrat primaries. AIPAC and DMFI's strategy of funding opponents of candidates who may criticize Israel. SBF and t...

Support the show at Patreon.com/LeftReckoning and get the postgame and Sunday bonus episodes. Jacobin Staff writer Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) joins us to talk about how the FBI & US govt are already active in their attempts to silence the left on Twitter & other social media platforms & why we have to take that threat seriously. You can read Branko's piece here:  https://jacob...

David and Matt end the year by awarding Bum Steer of the Year and induct an old favorite into the Bum Steer Hall of Fame

Adult film stars Xander Corvus (@xcorvus777) & Summer Hart (@SummerHartxxx) joined us to talk about worker's rights and free speech in their industry, and how workers are doing mutual aid working in Las Vegas (@SWAIDvegas).   https://swaidvegas.org/  Matt & David also break down how Brian Kemp and the GOP are targeting protesters in Atlanta.   C OME SEE US LIVE IN...

Matt & Dave are joined by comedian Mike Recine (@mikerecine) to evaluate the claim that comedy is now a right-wing field.  Plus the TwitterFiles and Man's Search for Meaning.   Follow Mike's work here and on Instagram: https://linktr.ee/mikerecine instagram.com/mikerecinecomedy

David & Matt share their updated thoughts on the disastrous rail strike decision by Joe Biden and Congress. Then Kurt Hackbarth (@KurtHackbarth) joins us to break down how the NYT uses omission to mislead their readers.  Read Kurt's coverage here: https://jacobin.com/author/kurt-hackbarth Lastly, Benjamin Case (@benjamscase) joins us to talk about ballot initiatives and how they can be us...

Matt & David break down the Democrats absolute failure to show up for working people and their attempts to try to break a rail strike.   Then Sam Goodman (@SamGRuta) senior communications, of larutadelclima.org   joins us to break down what did and didn't happen at COP 27.

Danny Bessner returs to talk about the ideological interests the Pentagon has in videogames and Matt and David talk about VC guys admitting the crypto con as it happened.

Support the show and get the postgame and Sunday episodes at patreon.com/leftreckoning Matt & Dave break down a huge labor fight in Austin, TX in response to Musk's Tesla plant abusing workers.    Then Nick Marcil (@marcilnick) of Debt Collective joins to talk about Biden's student loan forgiveness failures, the fight against debt, and how you can push back.   Then Ryan Zickgraf  (@R...

This is a teaser of this weekend's member's only show, available for subscribers at patreon.com/leftreckoning Matt and David talk Vonnegut, Chapo's "Normal Whites" theory, Musk on Twitter and your calls and IMs!

We are joined by Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) of the Majority Report & Cale Brooks (@calebroooks) from the Jacobin Show to talk about last night's midterms!

David was joined by Fatima Iqbal-Zubair (@fatima4assembly) who is running for Assembly District 65 in Los Angeles California - she spoke with Dave about what inspired her to run, her platform for working people, and her relationship with the Democratic Socialists of America.  You can find more info on her website here:  https://fatimaforassembly.com/ MERCH STORE IS LIVE - leftreckoning.com/store -...

Matt & David break down Lula's win against the far-right, and then are joined by Deep State Kuba (@DrKuba2) to talk about the US deep state, who's in it, what it wants, and how to struggle against it.    Support the show and get the postgame and Sunday shows at patreon.com/leftreckoning

Breht of @RevLeftRadio joins Matt and David this week to take an even closer look at the nonsense of the right wing's supposedly left wing opportunists.

Our friend Harvey J. Kaye (@harveyjkaye) author of "The British Marxist Historians" joins us to talk about the re-release of his classic work, how to do Marxist history, and how the left can use history to win.    Voting Record Excel: https://twitter.com/aaronnarraph/status/1579954538022572032?s=20&t=OIcHDr7xTjBNMO8MC75djA   Grab the book! https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-book...