Race

The Long Deep Grudge

Toni Gilpin joins the show to discuss her book, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War.

Intersectional Class Struggle

Michael Beyea Reagan discusses the characteristics of intersectional class struggle and shares insights around movement-building.

Ben Fletcher & the Legendary IWW Local 8 w/ Peter Cole

Peter Cole joins the show to discuss the second edition of his book Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly published by PM Press

A Look at the GEO Strike in Michigan Fighting the University's Reopening Plan

Union demands for social justice are bread-and-butter issues, and GEO's strike shows how such demands builds engaged membership.

Highlights from Three Years of Laborwave

To celebrate our three years we've put together this highlight reel featuring many guests from 2020!

Identity Politics and Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Elites get outsize control over the ideas in circulation about identities by the same methods that they get control over everything else.

Police, Technology, & Unions with Bill Fletcher Jr

As an institution police exist to repress and defend property and wealth. It's not in any way a progressive role.

Boots Riley on Power, Art, and the Radical Dr. King

Even for us as organizers the nature of power under capitalism has been obscured. Power doesn't just get shamed into doing the right thing.

Race and Class in the Age of Trump with Asad Haider

We need to be able to conceive of human life in which people are not dependent on wages for survival.

Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: The Life of Noel Ignatiev with Jarrod Shanahan

By taking the “poison bait of white privilege” the white worker forfeits the ability the wage struggle in the medium to long term.

Black Womxn's Safety with Zoé Samudzi

Excerpt from Zoé Samudzi's keynote address at Opening Space for the Radical Imagination on the prospects of living in a world where Black...

Border Politics, Antifascism, and the Tangled Knot of Oppressions with Hillary Lazar

We spoke with writer and activist Hillary Lazar on the connections between border politics and antifascism, applying intersectional...