• YCL members Jack and Emma speak with Bennett Shoop, a queer organizer for the Claudia Jones School for Political Education and member of the D.C. YCL, about radical LGBTQ+ history and theory. Shoop uses a Marxist analysis to draw the connections between homophobia, transphobia, the oppression of women, and racism and the need for working class leadership in the struggle for equality. Shoop’s pamphlet Queer Against Capital can be read here: queer-against-capital

Labor organizing is on the rise, and young organizers are leading the way. Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota AFL-CIO, talks about the events of the past 30 years that have galvanized young people and fueled a new generation of labor activism.

Intro music: Vera Small, art as GorpoPap