Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

For this episode I'm joined by Haydar of The Resistance Report which is a podcast that was launched after October 7th by a Palestinian news organization known as the Al Falasteniyeh Media Network or AFMN. In this discussion we talk to Haydar about AFMN, their approach, their media work including The Resistance Report, and their efforts to uplift the analyses of Palestinians from Palestine to those...

For this week's episode we interview Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani Leila Shomali is a Palestinian PhD candidate in International Law at Maynooth University Ireland and a member of the Good Shepherd Collective. Lara Kilani is a Palestinian-American researcher, PhD student, and is also a member of the Good Shepherd Collective. We interviewed them on January 12th to talk about their recent piece "Ant...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin. A couple months ago we had the pleasure of speaking with Paul Le Blanc, the author of a new book entitled Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution .   Paul Le Blanc is an activist dating all the way back to Students for a Democratic Society or SDS in the 1960's. He is also an acclaimed historian who teaches at La Roche U...

This is the conclusion of our 2-part conversation with Michael Hardt on his recently published book The Subversive Seventies . Part 1 is here . In this conversation we talk about the turn among management and the ruling class in the 1970's away from a politics of mediation and discuss the various ways that movements in the 1970's sought to deal with this shift in the political terrain. We talk abo...

This is part 1 of a 2-part conversation on Michael Hardt's recent book The Subversive Seventies .   Michael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author, with Antonio Negri, of the  Empire trilogy and, most recently, Assembly . He is co-director with Sandro Mezzadra of The Social Movements Lab.   A couple of things I need to say up front. This conver...

This is a lightly edited version of a livestream we hosted back on December 13th with Steve Salaita. We'll include a link to that livestream for folks who want to watch the conversation, which is one of my favorites we've hosted since we launched our Youtube Channel as a companion with this audio podcast.   Steven Salaita is an educator and the author or editor of eight books. His written work inc...

This is the slightly edited version of our December 5th livestream with film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist Boots Riley. He is the lead vocalist of the musical groups The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He wrote and directed the film Sorry to Bother You and is the creator and director of the television series I'm A Virgo .   We talked to Boots Riley about the recent l...

In this episode Steven Osuna returns to the podcast. Steven Osuna is an associate professor of Sociology at CSU Long Beach. He has written extensively on street organizations, policing, the so-called war on drugs, and the ravages of capitalism and neoliberalism. He also has experience organizing in the Philippine solidarity movement and other struggles.   Shout-out and solidarity to all of the Cal...

In this episode we welcome Abdaljawad Omar back to the podcast. This is another slightly edited livestream that we've converted to an audio podcast. You can check out the video on our YouTube channel, we'll put that link in the show notes. And Also just to note that we've continued to put lots of content out there, including an interview with Boots Riley from The Coup also the director and creator...

This is a slightly edited version of our recent livestream with Abdaljawad Omar.   Abdaljawad Omar is a writer, analyst, and lecturer based in Ramallah, Palestine. He currently lectures in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. In this conversation we discuss some of his recent writings which we will include in the show notes. Specifically we talk about the Palest...

We recorded this conversation just before the world shifted on October 7th. We actually have several conversations that we still need to release that we recorded in August and September, but I wanted to get to this one first due to the urgency of Shaka Shakur's situation. Shaka Shakur is a New Afrikan Political Prisoner who has been behind the walls for the majority of his life since he was 16 yea...

In this episode we talk to Ali Kadri. Ali Kadri is the author of  Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment, The Unmaking of Arab Socialism: Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development and The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World Max Ajl recently recommended that everyone needs to be reading Dr. Kadri'...

This is the slightly cleaned-up audio of our most recent conversation with Fred Moten. This was recorded on October 25th. Given the evolution of this struggle and the increasingly genocidal character as well as the ongoing resistance, our comments if we were to hold this discussion today on November 11th would undoubtedly be different.   Nonetheless I think a lot of what we cover remains important...

This is a slightly edited audio version of one of the MAKC livestreams we've hosted on our new Youtube channel . We will continue to polish the audio versions of those livestreams and release them as episodes here as well. Due to the amount of labor that goes into making them viable audio podcast episodes there will be a little bit of a delay on that. In the meantime I of course encourage folks to...

This is the slightly edited audio from a livestream conversation we had with Max Ajl on the morning of October 17th. This conversation was held on our new YouTube channel and we'll include a link to that in the show notes. We encourage folks to head over there to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications for all episodes so that you don't miss any of our livestreams. We held three livestr...

This is a special announcement. Given the critical nature of the Palestinian Liberation struggle in this moment.  We have made some quick shifts. As we announced on patreon this past weekend we have launched a YouTube channel where we will hold multiple weekly livestreams. Those conversations will eventually be available through the podcast stream as well, but for now you can find them at YouTube....

Our guests for this discussion are Frances Hasso , a brilliant scholar and friend of the show, and author of Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine , and our friend Sina Rahmani, host of The East Is A Podcast .  No show notes today. Listen to the conversation or don't. And if you want to be on the right side of history, take action in solidarity with the Palestini...

In this episode is the conclusion of our 2 part conversation with Max Ajl.   Max Ajl is an educator and a researcher and the author of A People's Green New Deal , which we highly recommend and had a previous discussion of back in 2021. He is also the associate editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy . Here we continued our discussion of his piece " Theories of Political Ecology: Mon...

In this episode Max Ajl returns to the podcast. Max Ajl is an educator and a researcher and the author of A People's Green New Deal , which we highly recommend and had a previous discussion of back in 2021. He is also the associate editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy . We caught up with Max back in early August to talk about one of his recent pieces, from  Agrarian South . The a...

In this conversation Breht from Revolutionary Left Radio join the podcast to talk about the Friedrich Engels' short piece, " The Principles of Communism ." This piece which is presented in Question and Answer form was a draft that would inform the creation of The Communist Manifesto . This is part of our series of episodes we've been doing lately where we talk to friends of the podcast about some...

This is the conclusion of our discussion with César "che" Rodríguez ( part 1 is here ), who works as a faculty member of Race & Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, is a rank-and-file union member of the California Faculty Association, and organized with Change SSF.  Here we get into the actual history of the murder of Oscar Grant, trigger or content warning on that discussion for...

In this episode we welcome César "che" Rodríguez to the podcast. We had a lengthy conversation about Rodríguez's piece, "'Oscar Did Not Die in Vain' Revelous Citizen Journalism, Righteous/Riotous Work, and the Gains of the Oscar Grant Moment in Oakland, California," which we will link in the show notes. César "che" Rodríguez works as a faculty member of Race & Resistance Studies at San Francisco S...

In this conversation we talk to Santi Elijah Holley about his recently published book  An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created .   A history of the political family that included Tupac, Assata, Afeni, Dr. Mutulu, Salahdeen, Lumumba, Zayd and many others. What does it mean to take the name Shakur? What were some of the key relationships and sites of politicization for these folk...

Content Notice: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence & rape This is the conclusion of our discussion on Orisanmi Burton's forthcoming book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt . This discussion was recorded on the same day as the previously released episode , so you may catch references back to that conversation or to others we've had wi...

This is a conversation about Andaiye who was born 81 years ago today on September 11th 1942. For this discussion we speak with Alissa Trotz, who like Andaiye was born in Guyana. Alissa teaches in Women and Gender Studies and Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto. For the last 15 years she has edited  In the Diaspora , a weekly newspaper column in a Guyanese daily newspaper, the Stabroek N...