Historian David Broder on the right's multi-decade rise to power in Italian politics and his book "First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy" from Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2974-first-they-took-rome

Organizers Andi W. and Promise Li on the Hong Kong protest movement, the case for solidarity from the transnational left, and their article "Left on an Island" for Tempest.

https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/08/solidarity-with-hong-kong/

Writer William Shoki on evictions, police violence and neoliberal hegemony in South Africa, and his recent articles "The existing order of things" and "The class character of police violence" for Africa Is A Country. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hauls sixteen tons.

https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/the-existing-order-of-things

https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/the-class-character-of-police-violence

Journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law on the ways prison reforms expand state surveillance and punishment, and their new book "Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms" from The New Press.

https://thenewpress.com/books/prison-by-any-other-name

Artist Cassie Thornton on imagining and practicing new forms of health and social care, and her book "The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future" from Pluto Books.

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343327/the-hologram/

CEPR policy analyst and former Ecuadorian cabinet member Guillaume Long on lawfare, expulsion and neoliberal, antidemocratic politics in Ecuador.

Writer Tamara Fernando on pandemic labor on the 19th century Indian coast and her article "Death at the Pearl Fishery" for Hypocrite Reader. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen auditions new horsemen for the apocalypse.

http://hypocritereader.com/95/tamara-fernando-mannar-pearls-cholera

Writer Ashley Dawson on decarbonizing the global energy system, collectivizing renewables, and his book "People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons" from OR Books.

* Use the promocode THISISHELL15 and get 15% off the book at OR's site, plus a free download of Ashley's book "Extinction: A Radical History."

https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/peoples-power/

Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier on the work of his friend Michael Brooks, and COVID19 politics in Brazil.

Political scientist Alexander Kolokotronis on police abolition, participatory budgeting and his article "What To Do Once We’ve Defunded The Police" for Current Affairs.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/what-to-do-once-weve-defunded-the-police