How We Do It

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

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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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Joining us this week is Eric Blanc, writer at Jacobin and The Nation as well as author of the upcoming book, Red State Revolt (Verso, 2019). We discuss the Denver teachers strike and place the latest blue state strikes into the context of the red state strikes of 2018. Next, we break down some of the challenges of collective bargaining and how these relate to the broader Democratic Socialist project, the Bernie Sanders wave, and the inside-outside strategy entailed by the democratic road to socialism.

-Eric Blanc, "Denver Teachers Win Steps Forward," https://jacobinmag.com/2019/02/denver-teachers-strike-contract-victory/

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In this recording of DPS Radio, Adam is joined by Aimee Terese, Benjamin Studebaker, and Huffington Post writer Daniel Marans. We discuss the Woke Neoliberal Trio running for the Democratic primary for 2020 (i.e. Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker).

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This week's DPS Radio features a chat with Justin Kirkland, a rank and file UFT member and the MORE caucus in NYC, along with Justin Kirkland, rank and file teacher out of Denver, Colorado. We'll be discussing the Los Angeles teachers strike and a potential strike in Denver. Join us for the working class power hour!

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On this week's A-Side, we're joined by UK socialist media presenter, Michael Walker, host of TyskySour and editor at Novara Media. This is a long and wide-ranging episode covering the formation and growth of Novara in the midst of the Corbyn wave, as well as Brexit and Britain's political future. Listeners in the U.S. will find this episode especially useful because we discuss the many parallels between Britain and the States in terms of building a lively socialist movement that is aimed at vying for state power.

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Joining us for this week's A-Side is Vivek Chibber, editor of Catalyst journal and author of the ABCs of Capitalism series by Jacobin. We discuss the pamphlets, their purpose, and our role as socialists in the current political moment. Chibber is always full of critical insights -- don't miss them!

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