Midwest Socialist

Can you trust yourself to know what’s real and what’s fake? What is truth and what is propaganda? Sean Duffy sits down with media critic Adam Johnson of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and Citations Needed podcast to discuss how media reinforces capitalism, the fake news moral panic, and more.

The final episode in our month-long celebration of the spirit of '68 is an interview with Sharon Hoyer, General Manager of the Dill Pickle co-op in Logan Square. We talk about the co-op model, the struggles of keeping co-ops alive, accountability, transparency and working with local producers to keep wealth in the neighborhood.

This week, as part of our series on the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, we're talking about the utopian thinking that drove people to get out on the street and demand a better world. Philip Dinolfo discusses the utopian drive in science fiction with Colin Hill, CDSA Secretary, and with Hilary Strang, lecturer of English and deputy director of the MAPH program at the University of Chicago. Listen to Hilary talk more about the Mars trilogy on her own podcast, Marooned! on Mars: https://maroonedonmarswithmattandhilary.simplecast.fm/

One of the biggest forces in the left movement on college campuses and elsewhere in 1968 was Students for a Democratic Society, headquartered at the time in Chicago. We spoke to Bernardine Dohrn, Mike Klonsky and Susan Klonsky about working inside SDS, getting bugged by the FBI, meeting with representatives from the North Vietnamese and lending Fred Hampton a bunch of office furniture.

As part of our ongoing series on the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, Philip Dinolfo moderates a debate - anarchy vs. the state.

Fred Klonsky, co-host of Hitting Left (http://hittingleft.libsyn.com/), talks about his 1968 summer: Los Angeles, Chicago, Bulgaria, Moscow, London.

It's our month-long consideration of the 50th anniversary of the youth uprisings in 1968. Today Sarah and Jessica talk about being socialists in their 20s, organizing over Twitter, memes, podcasts, and growing up in the shadow of George W. Bush. It's the youth!

Chicago documentary filmmaker Judy Hoffman describes her experience working as a protest medic, helping people who were injured by the Chicago PD at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Part of our ongoing series looking back at the events of 1968.

All month we're looking back fifty years at 1968, the year a revolution almost happened, not just in Chicago but all over the world. We talk about three French films and what they have to say about the student revolt in Paris in May '68 - Chris Marker's Grin Without a Cat, Alain Tanner's Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, and Luis Buñuel's The Milky Way.

It has been fifty years since the summer of 1968, when Chicago was turned on its head by popular action and police violence. This month, we will publish the first-hand accounts of people who lived through that summer. At this year's May Day march, we spoke to Chicago documentary filmmaker Peter Kuttner, who worked with the Newsreel collective and the Mobe to record images of the protests that overtook the city.