Historian and union president Paul Ortiz on the DeSantis agenda and resistance to it • human rights lawyer Noa Levy on the far right agenda in Israel and resistance to it
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fundraising special: Florida revisited, and repression & resistance in Israel

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict
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Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine

Annelle Sheline, who’d been on BtN three times before, on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here).
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Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle

Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism
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Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism

Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
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Criminalizing protest, exploiting transphobia

Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn’t like • Keri Leigh Merritt on the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society (article here) • excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on the recipient areas
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fundraising special: Florida revisited, and repression & resistance in Israel

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