This week's B-Side features a conversation with Micah Uetricht about recent socialist electoral successes in Chicago and beyond. We provide the recent historical context of these victories and talk about the role of DSA and grassroots social movements in spurring them along.

Further reading:

-"A Good Night for Chicago Socialists," https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/chicago-socialism-elections-aldermen-democratic-machine

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How do we build a robust socialist movement from below in today's democratic socialist upsurge? Micah Uetricht joins us to explain the historical role of the "militant minority" in laying the foundations for systemic change and socialism from below. We discuss how this layer of socialist cadre will be crucial in developing the capacities necessary for the success of the Bernie Sanders wave and beyond.

Micah is managing editor at Jacobin Magazine. Look out for his new Jacobin podcast that will feature short chats with featured Jacobin authors.

-Micah Uetricht and Barry Eidlin, "U.S. Union Revitalization and the Missing 'Militant Minority,'" Labor Studies Journal (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0160449X19828470).

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Matt Karp joins us for this week's A-Side to talk about the prospects, barriers, and pitfalls of a Bernie Sanders candidacy and what impact he's had on American politics since the 2016 Democratic Party primary race. Matt is an associate professor of history at Princeton and the author of many articles assessing the Bernie wave. Catch his recent thoughts in the latest Jacobin Magazine and in a forthcoming essay in The Nation.

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This is Part One of our series on Neoliberalism. Joining us to break down the history, theory, and political economy of neoliberalism is Ray Kiely, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London. We discuss his latest book The Neoliberal Paradox and Ray offers some insight about what neoliberalism means for the future of both left- and right-wing political movements.

The Neoliberal Paradox will be out in paperback in late summer 2019, but hardcover copies (quite pricey) can be purchased here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/the-neoliberal-paradox

-- or, better yet, support your local public or university library.

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Joining us for International Women's Day is Kirsten Swinth, professor of history at Fordham University and author of Feminism's Forgotten Fight. We discuss the radical, materialist-oriented dimensions of the Second Wave feminist movement and overturn many of the mythologies that circulate about this period.

-Was the 2nd wave women's movement really about "having it all" (i.e. career, family, kids, etc)?

-Was the 2nd wave only comprised of "uppity, white women?"

The answers may surprise you...

-Learn more about Kirsten's book here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/second-wave-feminism-care-work-wages

-Feminism's Forgotten Fight (Harvard Univ Press, 2018): http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986411

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Joining us this week to take us back to the materialist, class struggle roots of the women’s movement is Jenny Brown, National Women’s Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. In this episode, we discuss her important new book, Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work, and how it relates to the growing socialist wave in the United States and beyond. 



Jane Slaughter of Labor Notes had this to say about the book: 
“An astute analysis of power relations not only in the sphere of reproduction but also in the worlds of work, immigration, and government policy as they bear on women's ability to control their bodies. She illuminates the historical context of the writings of Marx and Malthus, the crusades of Comstock, and recurring elite pleas for women to supply more workers and soldiers. Brown lays bare why U.S. women who want to be mothers, and those who don't, have it far worse here than in Europe. Then she tells us how to change that.”




-Buy the book here: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=998

-Support the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birthstrike/birth-strike-the-hidden-fight-over-womens-work



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Joining us this week to make the case for a left exit for Britain from the European Union is George Hoare, member of The Full Brexit team and co-host of Aufhebungabunga podcast. We discuss the past, present, and future of Brexit, and then George makes the socialist case for a left exit from the European Union.

This episode is bound is be thought-provoking and even controversial in many circles. Brexit has been degraded into a culture war, which means that material relationships have been obfuscated by moralistic and identity claims. Tune in to sift through the muck.

-The Full Brexit papers can be found here: https://www.thefullbrexit.com/

-Aufhebungabunga Podcast, "Brexit's Hotel California," https://aufhebungabunga.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/53-brexits-hotel-california/

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Joining us this week to talk about the Venezuelan crisis (both real and imagined) is Timothy Gill, political sociologist at University of North Carolina - Wilmington. We break down the crisis, assess the phony border standoff, discuss the realities of foreign aid and US imperialism, and offer some suggestions for how we might escape these impasses.

Is Maduro a dictator?

Should he allow in USAID?

What should be the socialist demands with respect to Venezuela?

Tune in and find out.

Find Timothy Gill's recent writings here:

-"Why is the Venezuelan Government Rejecting U.S. Food Supplies?," https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/22/why-is-the-venezuelan-government-rejecting-u-s-food-supplies/

-"How Washington Funded the Counterrevolution in Venezuela" (with Rebecca Hanson), https://www.thenation.com/article/venezuela-washington-funded-counterrevolution/

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This week's B-Side features a chat with returning DPS guests, Daniel Bessner and Branko Marcetic. The Foreign Policy Bros ride again... We discuss the Elliot Abrams affair and then quickly tie it to the bipartisan foreign policy establishment which operates outside of both the public eye and public control. The last half of our chat is dedicated to Matt Duss, Bernie Sanders's foreign policy plans, and how socialists can change the foreign policy consensus.

-Branko's latest essay on Abrams can be found here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/the-tragic-life-of-the-war-criminal-elliott-abrams

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Joining us to discuss her long history on the socialist left is Hilary Wainwright, founding member and co-editor of Red Pepper political magazine and fellow at the Transnational Institute. In this episode, which will be relevant for all leftists regardless of nationality, we discuss

Wainwright’s history in the 1960’s women’s movement, the Bennite socialist left, and her attempts to democratize the Greater London Council in the 1980s. 

Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left, focuses on doing socialist politics by way of a deep organizing model, which emphasizes building the capacities and self-activity of the masses over simply mobilizing voters. 

We discuss the notion of being “in and against the state” or what’s often referred to as the “inside-outside” strategy for democratic socialist transition. This is relevant for all socialist movements, from the Corbyn movement to the Bernie wave and beyond. 


Check out Red Pepper here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/

Find out more about her latest book: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+New+Politics+from+the+Left-p-9781509523634



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