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TOO IMPORTANT TO STAY LOCKED. One of the most notorious instances of the weaponisation of antisemitism, with ramifications across the international Left. In pt. 2 of our interview with Marc Wadsworth, we discuss Marc's suspension from the UK Labour Party in 2016 after allegations of antisemitism, how the antiracism he spent his career fighting for has been turned against the Left, and - most candidly - where Jeremy Corbyn himself went wrong in his management of the affair. If you missed pt. 1 RACIST ENDEAVOURS, about Marc's past as a campaigner at the heart of the Stephen Lawrence case, scroll back now. 

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The fellas discuss Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and the resulting political class meltdown, the arrival of incel terrorism in the UK with the Plymouth shooting, and answer YOUR emails about the prospect of left-wing political violence in the face of climate change. It's a three-fingers of bourbon kind of show, and keep the bottle on hand! 

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David and James discuss the summer plans of the narcissists and perverts that pass for a ruling class: the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, Obama's birthday party, the IPCC Climate Change Report, the lawsuit against Prince Andrew, and Tucker Carlson's visit to Hungary. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere! 

EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Help us continue having the toughest conversations in politics and culture, on both sides of the Atlantic, for £3 per month. In pt.2 of our interview with Marc Wadsworth, ENGLISH IRONIES, we discuss Marc's suspension from the UK Labour Party in 2016 after allegations of antisemitism, how the antiracism he spent his career fighting for has been turned against the Left, and - in a moving portrait - where Jeremy Corbyn himself went wrong in his management of the affair.

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This is the UNLOCKED pt.1 of a 2-part interview. For ENGLISH IRONIES - our discussion of Marc's expulsion from the Labour Party and where the Left went wrong in the Labour antisemitism affair - subscribe now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.

A trade unionist and leading Black rights activist through the 1980s and 90s, Marc Wadsworth was part of a cadre of campaigners who gathered around the family of Stephen Lawrence after the racist murder of the London teenager - and subsequent bungled police investigation - in 1993. In this interview, Marc tells the remarkable story of fighting for justice with the Lawrences, recruiting Nelson Mandela to the campaign, and finally how Britain's elites used the case to launder their own reputations.

This is the UNLOCKED pt.1 of our interview with Touré Reed. pt. 2 DIANGELO AGONISTES - on liberals' ever-shifting bullshit on race, and why the Left falls for it - is available ONLY to our Patreon supporters. Please consider dropping us £3 a month in exchange for first access to our biggest interviews, as well as regular Patreon-only episodes that never get unlocked. Help us continue. Follow us everywhere and spread the word. 

In Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, Touré Reed argues that liberals and self-identified antiracists increasingly think in terms of races embodying inherent qualities: in a mirror image of the more conventional racism they oppose in their antagonists on the right. Reed calls this 'race reductionism'. In part 1 of a wide-ranging interview, we discuss socialist universalism's failure to make inroads with Black voters in 2020, the Black vote for Biden and Trump, the antinomies of BLM, and the danger of underplaying the class basis of mass incarceration and police killings.

Find and Follow us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow. Help us continue and get exclusive episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. As protests in Cuba prompt the Biden administration to reiterate the extremism towards Cuba of the Trump years, we call on Cuba-expert Keith Bolender to tell the story of America's long and violent history of trying to control the island. We get Keith's account of recent changes in Cuba's governance, the generational changes in how Cubans view the revolution, and what the US and UK left get wrong about anti-Imperialism.

This the unlocked PART 1 of our interview with Rich Jenson. For TPS31 pt.2 MICHAEL IN BERNIE WORLD, on the place of the Michael Brooks Show in the US left media sphere, support us here.

We caught up with Rich Jensen, whose career stretches from recording for and contributing to the business infrastructure of legendary indie labels, Sup Pop and K Records, to working on the Michael Brooks Show along with our own David Slavick. We talked about the changing shape of media, Rich's current experiments with co-operative models of digital ownership, and his memories of Kurt Cobain. The book Rich couldn't remember not giving to Kurt was Chapple, S., Garofalo, R. ROCK 'N' ROLL IS HERE TO PAY: The History and Politics of the Music Industry Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1977. 

Vida Starr is a Trauma-Informed Care Educator and co-host of the Champagne Sharks and Afrogyn Revolt shows. We asked her to give us the balance sheet on Black politics since the George Floyd murder, what woke academia and media gets wrong about Black men and Black women, and the significance of a series of Olympics bans for Black women athletes. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere! 

This is our latest interview with the political figures grappling with what happens when a right-wing party succeeds with an economically populist offer. Jake Berry is Conservative Member of Parliament for Rossendale and Darwen, and leads the Northern Research Group - the collection of Tory MPs representing constituencies in the traditionally Labour-dominated north of England. The NRG seeks to petition its party to make good on the higher spending 'side-of-the-bus' populism of Brexit. We ask whether Boris Johnson's Conservative Party really differs from previous incarnations, how the Jeremy Corbyn moment looked from the other side, and get Jake's view of new left experimentation in local government in the north, such as the 'Preston Model'. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere!