Mar 24, 2024
Rob joins Alexander Thurston for a discussion on his work on the Sahel region, focusing on the interplay between radical Islamic groups, the civilian governments/military juntas of the regions and international players like the US and France. They discuss the social basis of the groups, the role of different...
Mar 11, 2024
Steven, James and Rudy sit down for a long discussion on the French Communist Party from its inception all the way to its present state. We cover all the periods in its history: the Pre-WW2 Popular Front, the post WW2 entrance into government, its isolation, and its coming back into government with Mitterrand in the...
Mar 7, 2024
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as
truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular
communistic reading of the first novel in Frank Herbert’s Dune
franchise.
Read By: A Darlymple
Intro Music: ворожное озеро Гроза vwqp remix
Outro Music: We are Friends Forever...
Mar 4, 2024
Rudy joins Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, for a discussion on Ukraine and the broader post-Soviet sphere. We discuss the formation of the Ukranian identity under the USSR, the story of Ukraine after independence through the Orange Revolution, Euromaidan and up to the...