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Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle. Check out How to…

We share our feelings after the deaths of two sports icons. We lament the continuing grotesquerie that is Pete Rose. Are the Arizona Cardinals racist for telling Kyler Murray he needs to study more? Plus the EPL season gets underway, the marvel that is Sabrina Ionescu and more, including Jonah singing the Hartford Whalers song.…

Cale Brooks and Jen Pan discuss what is in the Inflation Reduction Act, the dregs of Biden’s Build Back Better plan that corporate Democrats felt they could sign onto, Matthew Cunningham-Cook outlines how the Biden admin has quietly expanded many of the policies from Trump’s Medicare privatization schemes, Rachel Cohen of Vox covers some positive d…

"La generación de riqueza hay que conectarla con la redistribución de la misma." "Las privatizaciones de sectores estratégicos han ido en contra de los intereses de la ciudadanía." "El planeta tiene que ser habitable. Pero ese planeta solo es habitable si es vivible la vida de las personas que lo habitan. Y principalmente de aquellos que no viven d…

This week, Grace speaks to Adrienne Buller, author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. They discuss what "green capitalism" actually is, how it is being embedded in international law, whether or not it is an inherently anti-democratic movement, and how it is linked to issues today like the cost-of-living crisis. A World t…

Doug speaks with Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Chums, on the upper-class caste that’s been ruling Britain for a decade. Then, an interview with James Meadway, director of the Progressive Economy Forum, on the dispiriting economics of the leader of the Labour Party, the drab Kier Starmer. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwoo…

Many movies in the 1980s depicted American urban landscapes as lawless hellholes, but Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP (1987) was unique for locating the source of the problem in the corporate world. The Superdelegate patron tier has voted for us to watch one of the most beloved screen satires of all time, and we were happy to oblige. See cohost Will intro…

This week, Grace speaks to Phil Burton-Cartledge, author of Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain, about the current leadership contest within the Conservative Party. They discuss why there's a dearth of Tory talent, why both candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, are trying to model themselves on Margaret Thatcher, a…

This week on The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Cale Brooks discuss America's pitiful "industrial policy," Paul Prescod discusses the upcoming teamsters contract fight, Matt Huber talks about Joe Manchin and the climate bill, and Branko Marcetic tells us why the Democrats, despite their rhetoric, are failing to do anything about the Jan 6 assault on the…

¿Las políticas de Podemos han ayudado a la ciudadanía o la formación morada se ha convertido en aliada de las élites económicas de nuestro país? Marc Luque entrevista a Andrés de Francisco sobre su nuevo ensayo "Podemos, izquierda y nueva política". SUSCRÍBETE EN EL SIGUIENTE ENLACE Y ACTIVA LA CAMPANITA 🔔: https://www.youtube.com/c/ElJacobino/?sub…

In 1984, Godzilla rose from Tokyo Bay for the first time in nine years for THE RETURN OF GODZILLA. In 1985, an American distributor dramatically recut the movie into GODZILLA 1985. We're joined at long last by Important Cinema Club co-host Justin Decloux to discuss the many structural and ideological changes that were imposed upon Godzilla's big co…

Doug interviews Paolo Gerbaudo on the failure of technocracy and the imminence of right-wing rule in Italy. Then Chris Bohner, author of a recent report called Labor's Fortress of Finance and a Jacobin article, "Now Is the Time for Unions to Go on the Offensive," discusses the huge stash unions have but aren't spending. Behind the News, hosted by D…

Featuring Matt Christman on how American history brought us to this awful present. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dina Khoury joins Long Reads for a two-part conversation about Iraq since the US occupation. Dina is a historian of the Middle East, and her books include Iraq in Wartime. Read her piece for Catalyst, "Iraq After US Occupation," here: https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/09/iraq-after-us-occupation Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at p…

Suzi talks to Ukrainian expert Bohdan Krawchenko, just back from Kyiv, to get his perspective of the state of Russia’s war on Ukraine. The view from Ukraine, as Bohdan Krawchenko reports, is that Russia is losing this war, has wasted thousands of lives, and is running out of troops and war materiel. Despite their huge costs and losses, Moscow is ge…

This week's episode of The Jacobin Show tackles Du Bois's legacy as an analyst of class domination in America, whether the Democratic Party is hurtling toward doom as continues to fail working-class voters, and why the recent wave of union campaigns must move from spontaneity to sustained "structure-based" organizing. Jeff Goodwin on Du Bois: https…

Guillermo del Valle habla del proyecto de izquierda centralista de El Jacobino en la radio. Es preguntado por las ideas del 'think tank' y por el futuro electoral. SUSCRÍBETE EN EL SIGUIENTE ENLACE Y ACTIVA LA CAMPANITA 🔔: https://www.youtube.com/c/ElJacobino/?sub_confirmation=1 🌟 ¡AYÚDANOS! Entra a https://www.eljacobino.es/ y colabora con tus don…

Jennifer Berkshire discusses Pete Hegseth, Christopher Rufo, and the right’s latest fronts in their war on public education. Then, Peter Korotaev looks at the political economy of Ukraine, before, during, and after the war. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the …

Alexandra Pelosi strikes again! In her documentary SAN FRANCISCO 2.0 (2015), the political scion turns her attention to her home city, gazing with awe upon the tech industry's sudden takeover while registering some tepid notes of ambivalence about the gentrification that has priced many longtime residents out. We discuss why, despite being Nancy Pe…

"La República tiene como primer deber la subsistencia material de todos los ciudadanos." PRIMERA PARTE: ¡Seamos republicanos al completo!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIWf6Q7I10&t=649s SUSCRÍBETE EN EL SIGUIENTE ENLACE Y ACTIVA LA CAMPANITA 🔔: https://www.youtube.com/c/ElJacobino/?sub_confirmation=1 🌟 ¡AYÚDANOS! Entra a https://www.eljacobino.…