Posted on October 27, 2022 by Doug Henwood
Fresh audio product: why are teens so troubled?, the state of the new young left
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 27, 2022 Jamieson Webster, author of this article, examines what severe psychological distress among adolescents is telling us about American society • Raina Lipsitz, author of The Rise of a New Left, looks at the history, personnel, and status of today’s radicalism
Posted on October 16, 2022 by Doug Henwood
Fresh audio product: Half-Earth Socialism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 13, 2022 Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, authors of Half-Earth Socialism, on their scheme to save the world
Posted on August 26, 2021 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 26, 2021 Helen Yaffe, author of We Are Cuba!, on the country’s economic history since the 1959 revolution generally, and on the recent “pro-democracy” demonstrations specifically
Posted on April 16, 2021 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 15, 2021 Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, authors of Bigger than Bernie, just out in paperback, on the legacy of the Sanders campaigns • Jane McAlevey, author and organizer, on why the union lost to Amazon in Alabama (Nation article here)
Posted on February 11, 2021 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 11, 2021 Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century, on what loneliness is doing to our minds, bodies, and societies • Rossana Rodríguez, Chicago city council member, puts in a word in favor of mutual aid
Posted on February 4, 2021 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 4, 2021 Katya Kazbek looks behind all the shiny stories about Russian dissident Alexi Navalny • Marianela D’Aprile offers a socialist critique of mutual aid (older article here)
Posted on April 23, 2020 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 23, 2020 Vijay Prashad on China (and Sinophobia), Kerala, and the crucial importance of social organization • Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, authors of Bigger than Bernie, on Sanders, socialism, electoralism, and where it all goes from here.
Posted on March 20, 2020 by Doug Henwood
A few ambitious points on fighting the crisis
We are facing two crises at once, health and economic, that are related in very important ways. The covid-19 epidemic has done major damage around the world, but it’s highlighting some serious structural problems with the US social model that better-run countries are not so afflicted by. We are plagued by a deep economic polarization complicated by minimal social protections; severely diminished state capacity, with eroded institutional structures and extremely debased quality of personnel at the highest levels; years of underinvestment in basic infrastructure, both broadly and in health care particularly; and… Read More
Posted on January 16, 2020 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 16, 2020 James Meadway, former economic advisor to the UK Labour Party, on the British election, how to fight political cynicism, and ideas for reindustrializing busted regions • Katherine Moos on the costs of social reproduction and who pays them (paper here)
Posted on December 20, 2019 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 19, 2019 Aditya Chakraborty on the British election, BoJo, Brexit, the state of the Labour Party • Nathan Robinson, author of Why You Should Be a Socialist, on that very topic
Posted on November 7, 2019 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 7, 2019 Grace Blakeley, author of Stolen, on where financialized capitalism came from and how we could get out of it • Emmanuel Saez, co-author of The Triumph of Injustice, on how the rich got richer while paying less of their income in tax than the working class (Tax Justice website here)
Posted on September 5, 2019 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 5, 2019 Meleiza Figueroa on the ecololgy and people of the Amazon (CNS article here) • Anton Jäger on populism and socialism (article here)
Posted on August 17, 2019 by Doug Henwood
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Added this to my radio archive the other day but had to run off before announcing it. Click on date for link. August 15, 2019 Andrew Sernatinger on the recent DSA convention (see article here; mine is here) • Margaret Kimberley on Elijah Cummings, the black misleadership class, Trump, white supremacy, and gun violence [back after summer vacation and KPFA fundraising break]
Posted on April 18, 2019 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 18, 2019 Rossana Rodriguez on her successful campaign as a socialist for the Chicago city council, joining five other socialists • Benjamin Fogel, author of this and this, on the lunacy of Bolsonaro’s early months as president of Brazil
Posted on April 12, 2019 by Doug Henwood
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 11, 2019 Raj Patel and Jim Goodman, authors of this article, talk about agriculture under a Green New Deal • Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, authors of The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism, revive the idea of socialist planning
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