The People's Forum

James becomes the interviewee and he discusses the personal and historical currents that developed his radicalization and informed his politics.

James and Mikaela discuss how popular movements are reviving Africa’s historical struggle for socialism.

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James Counts Early is joined by Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, and activist. In this conversation, they discuss the important legacy of Black feminism and how capitalism cannot be undone without the destroying patriarchy, the current and active history of the Black Lives Matter movement, and why the struggle for Black liberation in the U.S. must be connected to global struggles for liberation.

James Counts Early is joined by Cuban author, economist, social scientist, and militant member of the Communist Party of Cuba, Esteban Morales Domínguez.

James Counts Early is joined by activist and doctor, Mary Louise Patterson, to discuss Mary Louise’s upbringing under two leading organizers with the Communist Party USA, the importance of community and family in the lifelong struggle for liberation, and her Cuba solidarity work with IFCO/Pastors for Peace.

For Episode 4 of New World Coming, James Counts Early is joined by historian, activist, and former diplomat, Jesus “Chucho” Garcia to discuss the complexities of the state, social and civil organizations, and the people working together to deepen the principles of the Bolivarian Revolution.

James Counts Early is joined by British historian Hakim Adi to discuss history as a tool for social political change, culture as a place to challenge the power relations of society, and how the global communist struggle attracted revolutionaries from across the world. Hakim Adi is a Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester.

James Counts Early is joined by scholar and activist Zuleica Romay Guerra to discuss the history of Afro-descendants in Cuba’s historic struggle for liberation, what anti-racism work looks like in Cuba, and the complexities of what comes after revolution.

James Counts Early is joined by historian and activist Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss Robin’s career work on racial capitalism, multiculturalism and identity, and the history of the struggle for socialism.