This Is Hell!

Writers Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson connect Black resistance to the building of a new world. Zoé and William are the authors of "As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation" from AK Press.

Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on the strike wave sweeping Brazil. Brian translated the recent articles "Truckers’ strike: not perfect but demands are legitimate" and "Trucker Strike: Petrobras’ Dismantlement Leads Brazil to Chaos" for Brasilwire. / Journalist Victoria Law examines the dark business of immigrant detainee labor. Victoria wrote the feature Investigation: "Corporations Are Profiting From Immigrant Detainees’ Labor. Some Say It’s Slavery." for In These Times.

Global inequality's long division [20:36] / Brazil's new strike wave [1:00:19] / Immigrant detainee labor [1:34:59] / The Blackness of resistance [2:08:03] / Death on the American farm [3:08:12] / Don't rock the boat [3:46:46]

Passive voice aggression [16:45] / The politics of empathy [1:04:38] / Labor's last weapon [2:01:16]

Writer Nathan J. Robinson wonders if the loudest media people aren't the ones being silenced.

Nathan wrote the recent articles "The Real 'Dangerous' Ideas" and "Israel and the Passive Voice" for Current Affairs.

Historian Andrew Hartman visits the new Trump front of America's old culture war. Andrew wrote the article "The Culture Wars are Dead: Long live the culture wars!" for The Baffler. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen sincerely dissects the corpse of sarcasm.

Political scientist Virginia Eubanks explains how technology turned against the poor. Virginia is author of "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" from St. Martin's Press.

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the meaning and meaninglessness of our bullshit jobs.

David is author of the new book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" from Simon & Schuster.

Countering the far right [17:56] / On bullshit jobs [1:12:41] / Automating inequality [2:05:32] / Culture war in the Trump era [3:09:35] / Rape and rhetoric [3:45:45]

Writer Kevin Ovenden calls for solidarity and cooperation between anti-racism and anti-war movements. Kevin wrote the post "The anti-racist radical left must give the ideological battle" on his site. He's in Chicago giving talks on Saturday afternoon and Monday night. PLUS: Chuck is a bad capitalist and Rotten History.