Left Reckoning

Hear this weekends Lenin reading by subscribing at Patreon.com/leftreckoning Tamanisha John, associate professor at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta joins us to discuss Barbados decision to become a Republic and how significant it really is. We also discuss Mia Mottley's leadership and the history and classes of the islands. Also, Elon Musk doesn't like subsidies no more now others ge...

Raw audio from this week's Griscom stream - catch them live on Youtube Tuesday afternoons. 

Support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get all our weekend bonus episodes, including this Sunday's Think Tank. CEOS vs the deep state and demons.  Paul Prescod (@Paul_Prescod) is running for state senate in Pennsylvania, support him below. Why the state senate? Education, healthcare, green jobs/just transition. How the left addresses violent crime. Also, Xiomara Castro's victo...

Lillian Cicerchia (@LILCICERCH) post-doc at the Free University Of Berlin & co-host of What's Left Of Philosophy podcast on the problem with the book Hegemony & Socialist Strategy & post-marxism. Support us on patreon.com/LeftReckoning  Twitter: @LeftReckoning - @mattlech - @davidgriscom  Instagram: @LeftReckoning Check out our Twitch streams at Twitch.tv/LeftReckoning

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodes William Shoki (@Shokispeare) of Africa is a Country joins us first to discuss the death of FW de Klerk and who really deserves the credit for ending apartheid.  Then, Jacob from The Valley Labor Reporters (@JacobM_AL) joins us for an update on the Warrior Met strike in Alabama. Also, Ben Shapiro prompts us to recommen...

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodes First, strikes continue and Howard Schultz has anti-union chicken soup for the en-route-to-deathcamps soul. support strike funds https://msha.ke/bctgm/ #strike-funds https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/ Paul Bowers (@Paul_Bowers) joins us to discuss the politics and economy of South Carolina. Coast vs high country. Ti...

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodes David and Matt are joined by Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) to discuss the immense scale American human caging. The dangerous "reform" consensus. The period of reaction we are in now. Progressive DAs. The complicity of lawyers. Also, some positive news from last nights elections and sleepy Joe and the Cop...

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodes LR crew Ben Burgis (@BenBurgis) joins us once again to discuss his recent debate/office hours with Charlie Kirk and preview his book on Christopher Hitchens. Also, the malice of the American legal system turns once again on Assange, Donziger, and the striking Warrior Met workers ( support them here ). Also progressive...

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our Sunday bonus episodes Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) joins us this week to discuss the inability of Biden to meet the moment. Also, the DemonRats vs India Walton and the US arrests Venezuela's dealmaker. Strike funds!!!!!  Kellog Workers  Battle Creek https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-kelloggs-workers-on-strike-local-3g  Memphis  http...

Maximillian Alvarez (@maximillian_alv) of the Working People podcast and The Real News join us this week to discuss spectres of a strikewave, "the great resignation," right wing attempts to obfuscate what's happening, and fantasy football.  Also on the show: getting serious about climate with Shell Oil and saving Russell Brand from cryptoreactionary nerds.  support Kellogg's st...

This is unlocked bonus content - to get access to ur back catalog and future bonus episodes support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning  David and Matt discuss Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program, an important work of later Marx where he takes political phrasemakers to task and articulates what socialism is meant to mean. The Critique as an audiobook: https://youtu.be/K-WXzbVOwVI Peter Lin...

Jacobin video editor Cale Brooks joins us tonight, check out his most recent piece in Jacobin here, an interview on NGOism: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/ngoism-nonprofit-foundation-status-quo-community-unions David and Matt also discuss Sinema and the Austerity Friends defending her, and the insane prosecution of Steven Donziger.

Jacobin video editor Cale Brooks joins us tonight, check out his most recent piece in Jacobin here, an interview on NGOism: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/ngoism-nonprofit-foundation-status-quo-community-unions David and Matt also discuss Sinema and the Austerity Friends defending her, and the insane prosecution of Steven Donziger.

To support the show and access our upcoming members show on the anti-CRT craze at schoolboards, become a member at patreon.com/leftreckoning Watch here: https://youtu.be/XB2DE5fN0O4 Adrian Martinez (@adrianmb_cr) director, and Sam Goodman (@SamGRuta) senior communications, of larutadelclima.org join us to discuss climate justice ahead of COP26, including financial considerations for loss and damag...

Support the show and get the weekly bonus episode at patreon.com/leftreckoning Matt and David speak with David Gerard (@DavidGerard), writer of Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money and Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain to discuss crypto, particularly technologies like blockchain and smart contracts that supposedly validate utopian claims of crypto advocates in a way the currenc...

Hear David and Matt's interview with Chuck Keeney on the Battle of Blair Mountain at patreon.com/leftreckoning Writer Dharna Noor (@DharnaNoor) joins us to talk energy. First, climate-denying Entergy is failing New Orleans and then how Texas unions are approaching climate change . Also, David and Matt SNAP on bitcoin as Bukele's promises fall through, and Israel bombs/tortures in Palesti...

Raw audio from this week's Griscom Stream. David breaks down how cynicism can be a huge problem for the Left, and takes questions from the chat.  Support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning 

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodes, Get the upcoming history episode for patrons only on the Battle of Blair Mountain with Charles Keeney by subscribing at patreon.com/leftreckoning Brian Mier (@BrianMTeleSUR) joins David and Matt to talk about what went down on September 7 in front of Brasil's Supreme Court. We also talk about Joe Manchin's...

support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning and get our weekend bonus episodes, Artist and trade unionist Stella Rooney (@Stellarossssa) joins David and Matt to discuss the UK labour movement, specifically what the victory of Sharon Graham, elected as the first female leader of Unite, the UK’s second largest trade union and a main donor to the Labour party, means.  Link to mask study: https://ww...

Hear the recent Emma Kinema interview on organizing videogame workers and Activision/Blizzard as well as support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning  Tonight, David and Matt are joined by Chip Gibbons (@ChipGibbons89), a journalist specializing in civil liberties, whose pieces cited can be read below: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/julian-assange-extradition-civil-liberties-journalism-wikile...

Raw audio from this week's Griscom stream, premiered live on Youtube & Twitch, talked about idealism, Sam Harris, and how the left can get out of the current crisis. 

Matt and David discuss the Afghanistan withdrawal and the military as an anti-democratic force. Then, historian and professor Harvey J Kaye (@HarveyJKaye) joins us to rate Biden after 200 days and Mark Levin after an abrasive career. The Left Reckoning artwork was made by Grant Ertl The music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn

Raw audio from this week's Griscom Stream. Talked about why Fox News is worried that workers get unemployment and the anti-democracy movement takes aim at the public. 

Hear the recent Corey Pein interview and upcoming Natalie Shure interview as well as support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning  Luxury markets and the Bidenflation scare. Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison, of the new American Prestige podcast speak with Matt and David on the Afghanistan withdrawal, "hegemonic stabilization," Bannon and a far right international?, and how it's loo...

Raw audio from this week's Griscom Stream & Q&A on Youtube.  Support us on patreon.com/LeftReckoning  Twitter: @LeftReckoning - @mattlech - @davidgriscom  Instagram: @LeftReckoning Check out our Twitch streams at Twitch.tv/LeftReckoning #ClimateReport