Midwest Socialist

Aaron Leonard, co-author of "A Threat of the First Magnitude," spoke to Midwest Socialist about FBI infiltration of leftist organizations. Sarah also talks about a wildcat strike in Indiana and Rahm's latest half-hearted gesture toward police accountability.

Leonard's books are available through Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/a-threat-of-the-first-magnitude-fbi-counterintelligence-infiltration-from-the-communist-party-to-the-revolutionary-union-1962-1974/

On this episode of the podcast @sarahjhurd and Midwest Socialist editor and chief @charlesraustin talk to newly selected chair of Chicago DSA’s Electoral Reform Committee Jamal Abed Rabbo about his efforts to bring ranked choice voting to Chicago (and everywhere else).

We spent the first 13 minutes discussing a commentary published in the Tribune called “It’s the Spoiled Children of America Who are Drawn to Socialism”. So, if you’ve heard enough half-baked critiques of the new left, feel free to skip to the “technocratic babble” which starts at 13:30.

ARTICLES CITED:

http://www.midwestsocialist.com/2018/05/25/third-parties-cant-compete-without-electoral-reform/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-thomas-socialism-spoiled-children-0727-20180726-story.html

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democratic-labor-party-ackerman

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/07/electoral-rules-third-party-ballot-line-ocasio-cortez-dsa

http://peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/07/22/nordic-state-ownership-of-enterprise-is-a-real-thing/

Talkin' Socialism is now Midwest Socialist! Lucie Macias, CDSA's newest chapter co-chair, talks about the change and what's going on with Chicago socialism.

We spoke to (very busy) CDSA Electoral Working co-chair Ada Vargas. First, a discussion of the recent action at Gary International Airport that stopped deportation flights for the day. Then, some talk on the election of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez means for Chicago politics, particularly the 2019 Aldermanic and Mayoral elections.

DSA member Danny Postel, assistant director of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Northwestern University, interviews author Gilbert Achcar on the subject of the continuing consequences of the Arab Spring and Achcar's most recent book, Morbid Symptoms. Recorded July 10, 2018 at After-Words Books in Chicago.

Sean Duffy talks to Sarah Hurd and Erik Wenzel about Guy Debord’s Situationist manifesto, The Society of the Spectacle.

Forward Museums - https://fwdmuseumsjournal.weebly.com/

The noisy socialist feminists are back and they’re talking Incels, Loss memes, lobsters, feminism for men and taking off their shirts

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rape threats/ sexual assault, violence against women

Lucie, Zach and Mary came to the CDSA office to talk about baseball. The Crosstown Classic CDSA softball game is June 23, 4 PM at Harrison Park.

We talked with Alícia Hernandez Grande about the great international sports events: the World Cup, the Olympics and corruption. Recorded live on location in a Chicago pub during the Denmark-Peru game.

We talk to Ryan Smith of the Chicago Reader about the economics of video game development and distribution, and Sean Callot discusses models of economic systems within video games, including Civilization, SimCity and the Sims.