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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block, authors of the new book, Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Worker’s Revolt, published by Common Notions Press.

Josh MacPhee is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, the author of An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, and coeditor of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He cofounded and helps run Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements.

Kennedy Block is an independent researcher and archivist participating in, documenting, and connecting contemporary struggles for control over our own lives.

Pick up the book and mixtape at Common Notions.

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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with anti-Zionist Jewish community organizers in Brazil and Argentina from Vozes Judaicas por Libertação and JudíesxPalestina about their recent protective presence trip to the West Bank with the Center for Jewish Non-violence. They share a report back on the impacts of ongoing settler and occupational violence on Palestinian communities in Massafer Yatta and Burin, connecting issues from the global south, from water rights to police brutality, as well as the ways the movement in Latin America differs from the dominant US and Eurocentric Jewish anti-zionist discourse.

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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, we are excited to present a panel discussion featuring Ramzy Baroud and Janene Yazzie, which took place last July at Socialism 2025 in Chicago. Ramzy and Janene discuss the connections between Indigenous struggles worldwide and how the fight for a free Palestine is a fight for justice on all Native lands. The panel was sponsored by Haymarket Books, Pilsen Community Books and CounterPunch.

Ramzy Baroud is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch, author and Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His forthcoming book, ‘Before the Flood,’ will be published by Seven Stories Press. His other books include ‘Our Vision for Liberation’, ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter’ and ‘The Last Earth’. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).

Janene Yazzie is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She has over 12 years of experience as a community organizer and human rights advocate deeply rooted in local community issues. Beginning from her community Tsé si’ áni, in Diné Bikéyah, she has worked on the intersections of climate change, water security, food security, energy development, and nation building with indigenous communities and indigenous-led organizations in the US, Canada and Latin America.

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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Leona Morgan about nuclear colonialism in the Southwest and beyond.

Leona Morgan (Diné/Navajo) is an Indigenous community organizer who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2007. The Albuquerque-based activist co-founded and works with the Nuclear Issues Study Group and Diné No Nukes, which contributes to the Haul No! initiative and Radiation Monitoring Project. A participant in the international campaign Don’t Nuke The Climate, Morgan hones in on the manifold dangers and issues that stem from nuclear colonialism and environmental racism.

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On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt talks with members of Punks Against Apartheid to discuss the history of the network, their entry points into Palestine organizing, and the current watershed moment of cultural intifada across global stages. In 2011, PAA launched a successful cultural BDS campaign against Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, who canceled his scheduled gig in Tel Aviv. Relaunched in 2024, the network connects punk communities worldwide in mutual aid efforts, boycott campaigns, and encourages all artists and musicians to get involved to bring an end to the genocide and support Palestinians in their just struggle for liberation and self-determination.

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In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Sasha Davis about his new book, Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail. 

Sasha Davis writes about how to create positive social change – even when elections and protests don’t work. He received a PhD from Penn State. His research focuses on social movements, politics, and environmental issues in the Americas, the Pacific, and Asia.

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Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Ace Kishi, guesthouse owner, and Jeronimo Gehres, former hotel manager, in Kyoto, who have taken action against Israeli soldiers vacationing in Japan. Both Gehres’ refusal to book accommodation for an active duty soldier in June 2024, and Kishi’s requirement for guests to sign a “war crimes pledge”, have gone viral and demonstrated the power of individual responsibility in demanding accountability for Israeli war crimes. They discuss the details of their cases, the response of the Japanese government, and why Palestine solidarity is still, after almost two years of genocide in Gaza, not a mainstream movement in Japan. The Japanese language version of this episode is available at minute 1:15:00.

今回の CounterPunch Radio では、セーラーかんな子がホテル経営者の岸エースさんと元ホテル支配人のジェロニモ・ゲレスさんに話を聞きます。彼らは、日本で休暇を過ごすイスラエル兵に対して行動を起こした京都のホテルマンです。

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On this episode, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Nafis Hasan about his new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care.

Nafis Hasan received his PhD in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology from Tufts University in 2019. He is currently an Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a labor organizer based in Philadelphia. His writings have appeared in Jacobin, Science for the People, The Trouble, and more. He serves as an editor for the radical science magazine Science for the People and South Asian left media platform Jamhoor, and organizes with the Democratic Socialists of America.

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On the latest episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt brings back Palestinian writer Eman Alhaj Ali to talk about life after leaving Gaza and the importance of solidarity and resistance.

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Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with activists in México about the parent-led response to Israeli combatants “volunteering” in Chiapas in an attempt to whitewash their war crimes. For members of Acción Palestina Chiapas, the so-called “Heroes for Life” scam has no place in Nuestra América. They discuss the impacts of soldier mili-tourism and decades of Israel’s military shadow over Latin American communities.

La versión en español comienza en 48:55.

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