Communism and the Disabled with Maddie and Jess
Rudy joins Maddie and Jess from Philly Socialists to discuss the politics of disability and its relationship with organizing. We discuss different models of disability …
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Lifting the Double Burden: The Women’s Movement under State Socialism
Lydia, Agata, Anne and Rudy join for a discussion of Kristen Ghodsee’s Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War. We …
Communists and the Miners’ Upsurge with Mike Ely
Rudy and Annie join Mike Ely, a veteran of the Revolutionary Union and the wildcat strike movement in the West Virginia coalfields of the 1970s. …
Grenada: Volcanic Memories and Stone Legacies of Revolution with Shalini Puri
Isaac and Rudy join Shalini Puri, author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the companion website urgentmemory.com, for a …
Californian Dreams: Tech Utopia or Dystopia
Donald has a chat with Richard Barbrook, author with Andy Cameron of The Californian Ideology and the book Imaginary Futures. The two discuss Silicon Valley …
The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party with Matt Rothwell
Matt and Rudy join Matt Rothwell from the People’s History of Ideas podcast for a discussion on the founding of the Chinese Communist Party on its 100th …
Vietnam: From National Liberation to Liberalization
Rudy, Connor and Donald sit down to talk about Vietnamese political economy and the Vietnamese Communist Party with a particular focus on the period of …
How Capitalism Produces Pandemics with Rob Wallace
Djamil and Rudy join Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, and Dead Epidemiologists: …
From Cochabamba to a People’s Green New Deal with Max Ajl
Rudy joins Max Ajl, author of A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto Press, 2021), for a broad discussion on the themes of his book and …
Invisible Empire: The Global Power of Finance with Tony Norfield
Rudy joins Tony Norfield, author of The City: London and the Global Power of Finance (Verso Books) for a broad theoretical practical discussion on the topic of …
Constitution and Class Struggle in the Early American Republic with Matt Christman
Parker and Christian join Matt Christman for a discussion on the class dynamics of the founding of the US, using Charles Beard’s book An Economic Interpretation …
Cybersyn, Cybernetics and Allende’s Chile with Raúl Espejo
Amelia and Rudy join Raul Espejo, one of the top members of the Cybersyn project in Allende’s Chile, the founder of Syncho Research and the president …
Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Realism and Quantum Mechanics
Djamil and Rudy sit down for a hardcore episode on the interaction between Soviet diamat philosophy and Quantum Mechanics. We discuss the analytic core of …
Trade Unionism and Identity in the Israeli State with Ehud Ein-Gil
Lydia and Rudy join Matzpen member Ehud Ein-Gil for a discussion on trade unionism within the Israeli state. We discuss Ehud’s experiences around the founding …