Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

In this episode Chris Gilbert returns to the podcast. Chris Gilbert is a professor of Political Science in the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela. His articles have appeared in Venezuela Analysis, Monthly Review, CounterPunch and various other publications. Gilbert is the creator of the Marxist educational program "Escuela de Cuadros," broadcast on Venezuelan public televis...

In this conversation we interview Tracy Rosenthal who is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Their book, Abolish Rent , written with Leonardo Vilchis, is forthcoming from Verso.   We talk to Tracy about their recent piece " Inside LA's Homeless Industrial Complex " which discusses the aftermath of LA's Echo Park encampment from 2020, and current trends in social control with respect to...

In this episode Dr. Jared Ball returns to the podcast. Jared Ball is a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University. He is the author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power and I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto  and he is the co-editor along with Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs of the book A Lie Of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X .   He is one of the...

In this episode we interview two organizers to discuss the struggle for National Democracy in the Philippines and solidarity with that struggle. Jen Benitez has been a community organizer with the Philippine-US Solidarity Organization since 2019. Her family is indigenous Zapotec migrants from Oaxaca, Mexico. Her desire to support the Filipino people's struggle for justice stems from a shared histo...

In this episode we interview Dr. Mary Helen Washington. Mary Helen Washington is an accomplished African-American literary scholar and the editor and author of many books including Midnight Birds and Black-eyed Susans: Stories by and about Black Women, Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 , Memories of Kin , and the book we focus on in this discussion on The Other Blacklist: The Afr...

In this episode we interview Matt Deitsch , artist, journalist, organizer and former founder and director of March For Our Lives.   This episode is a bit different from many of ours. Rarely have we engaged with the politics of gun control, or with an area so tightly situated and controlled within the arena of electoral politics and non profit organizing. But we felt that interviewing Matt offered...

In this episode we interview Dr. Dorothy Roberts . Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of four books, including  Killing the Black Body , Fatal Invention and Shattered Bonds . She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   In this conversation we'...

UPDATE: Transcript of the episode is now available here . In this episode we interview Karim from Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (NYC) and author Wendy Trevino.   Karim is an anti-prison, anti-police anarcho-communist. And an author of the book Burn Down The American Plantation . Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives and works in San Francisco. S...

In this episode we interview Ed Mead. Mead is a veteran of the revolutionary underground organization the George Jackson Brigade which operated in solidarity with prisoner, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist struggles. A prolific organizer and participant of prisoner struggles both inside and outside of prisons, Ed also co-founded the prisoner organization Men Against Sexism. He also worked with a...

Abdul Alkalimat is a founder of the field of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar-activist with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught and directed academic programs across the US, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and China. His activism extends from having been chair of the Chicago chapter of the Student Non...

In this conversation we interview Steven Osuna to discuss his piece "Class Suicide: The Black Radical Tradition, Radical Scholarship, and the Neoliberal Turn" from the 2017 collection Futures of Black Radicalism . Steven Osuna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is a scholar of racism and political economy; globalization, transnat...

In this episode we welcome back Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Earlier this year we interviewed him to talk about his book Reconsidering Reparations . In this episode we talk about his latest book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) which hits book stores this week.   In this conversation we ta...

In this episode we interview David Austin, and discuss his book Moving Against The System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness . David Austin is the author of  Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal and  Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution . He has also produced radio documentaries for CBC ...

This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation with the editors and contributors to a book called How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising . This book is edited by Christopher R. Rogers, Fajr Muhammad and the Paul Robeson House & Museum and is a great testament to the local dimensions of the Black uprising in Philadelphia in the months after the murder of George Floyd.   In this part of the conversati...

This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation with the editors and contributors to a book called How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising . This book is edited by Christopher R. Rogers, Fajr Muhammad and the Paul Robeson House & Museum and is a great testament to the local dimensions of the Black uprising in Philadelphia in the months after the murder of George Floyd.   In this conversation Chris and...

In this episode we interview Dhoruba bin Wahad. A leading member of the New York Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21. He is a veteran and co-founder of the Black Liberation Army and a former political prisoner. He - and Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt - are, we believe, the only two Black political p...

In this episode we talk to Louis Allday, writer, historian and founding editor of Liberated Texts . Liberated Texts is an independent book review website which features works of ongoing relevance that have been forgotten, underappreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted in the cultural mainstream since their release. Louis gets into a more detailed description of the site's purpose and some of the r...

This episode is the 4th and final session of Journalism for Liberation and Combat.   Make sure to check out the audio from all four sessions here on Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. Or if you prefer, the videos from all four sessions are up on Black Power Media . And there's a syllabus you can access in the show notes. This episode is a panel discussion with Erica Caines from Hood Communist and...

This is the 3rd session of Journalism for Liberation and Combat . This session is hosted by Too Black. Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, producer of The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast , and host of The Black Myths Podcast on Black Power Media . He is based in Indianapolis, IN. This session focuses on The League of Revolutionary Black Workers newspaper work as a living exampl...

This is session 2 of Journalism for Liberation & Combat . If you missed session 1 , Journalism for Liberation & Combat was a mini-course that Jared Ware (Jay from MAKC) helped convene along with Brooke Terpstra who is an organizer with Oakland Abolition & Solidarity . We worked closely to put this together with Jared Ball from imixwhatilike and Black Power Media , and with a number of other radica...

*** Video version now up on Black Power Media *** Earlier this month Brooke Terpstra from Oakland Abolition and Solidarity and Jared Ware convened a brief course that we titled Journalism for Liberation and Combat . At the heart of the course was the question: How do we cultivate revolutionary culture? Further we looked at the specific intersection of media or cultural production and revolutionary...

In this episode we interview Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston, authors of the book Anois ar theacht an tSamraidh: Ireland Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution , a work that may be unparalleled in its analysis of the history of colonialism and modes of anti-imperialist struggle across Irish history.   It covers 800 years of history of colonialism in Ireland, and pays particular attention to the...

In this episode we talk to Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. In this episode we talk about his recently published book Reconsidering Reparations , which examines arguments for reparations historically and offers a philosophical argument for a constructive vision of reparations.   Along the way Femi looks at the linkages between slavery, racis...

In this episode we interview António Tomás. Tomás is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is a native of Angola, and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. He has worked as a journalist in Angola and Portugal and has written extensively on issues related to Lusophone Africa.   Back in early December we pu...

In this episode we interview two members of the Certain Days Collective.   Josh Davidson has been an activist for nearly two decades, focusing on prisoner support and the abolition of the carceral state. He is involved in numerous social justice projects, including the  Certain Days collective  and the  Children's Art Project  with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh is currently editing a book de...