In this episode, I speak with Sudip Bhattacharya, PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers about left political thought and organizing among BIPOC and the need for socialism as we collectively confront the ongoing harms of capitalism and neoliberalism.

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Works/Issues Cited in the Podcast

Sudip Bhattavcharya - “Attacking Difference, Pursuing Unity: Building a Socialist Movement amidst a Dynamic Working Class” in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank (various authors, Colin Jenkins, editor)

https://www.iskrabooks.org/hampton-reader

Steve Phillips

https://www.thenation.com/authors/steve-phillips/

Daron Acemoğlu

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/daron-acemoglu

Assata Shakur

http://www.assatashakur.org/ (archive of writings and interviews)

Claudia Jones

-Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx

-Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean - Organize, Fight, Win:

Black Communist Women's Political Writing

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2881-organize-fight-win?srsltid=AfmBOorReXXKeF6V9ZfPtFvNO9ZlITZunNe7Bx5m4q5-CyOsjstuHuTR

-The Political Writings of Claudia Jones

https://1804books.com/products/a-fighting-dream-the-political-writings-of-claudia-jones?srsltid=AfmBOoodwNEnDwRcZk7gQC1oV-AoYrj_WeLs6rcFcZl46WNc2mF1Izsb

Efrén O. Pérez - Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo103673599.html

Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn - Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities

https://www.russellsage.org/publications/asian-american-political-participation

Sonia Song-Ha Lee - Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469629803/building-a-latino-civil-rights-movement/

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth

https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The%20Wretched%20Of%20The%20Earth.pdf

Schuyler Mitchell - “Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked-Choice Voting”

https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdanis-victory-shows-the-progressive-promise-of-ranked-choice-voting/

Glen Ford - The Black Agenda

https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/

Mitchell Plitnick - ‘“Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts”

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno - “The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare”

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/

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