RVA In The Uprising with L and Buzz This week, we’re going to hear two specials in two separate episodes, basically exploding radio edition into it’s components. In this one you’ve clicked on, you’ll hear L, who works with the Richmond Community Bail Fund…

Omaha In The Uprising with Mel This week, we’re going to hear two specials in two separate episodes, basically exploding radio edition into it’s components. ...

This week, we're joined by Ozy from Xozypedia to discuss their open-source, all access hub for information! As their website reads, "Xozypedia is a site that houses it all. We firmly believe that information of all kinds can and should be spread and shared…

We Need To Spread This Freely: JN On HK Under National Security Law This week, I speak with JN, an anarchist who works with the decolonial, leftist HongKonger platform, Lausan, talks about where the uprising against Chinese integration in Hong Kong stands…

This week, we share a special collaborative edition of Coffee with Comrades brought to you in collaboration with the Center for Participant Education and Florida State University's Graduate Assistants United by presenting a brief primer on U.S. Labor History.…

This week, Ruth Kinna joins Pearson to talk about her forthcoming book, Great Anarchists. Ruth is an anarchist and professor at Loughborough University where she teaches Political Theory. Ruth is also the editor of Anarchist Studies, a biannual academic journal…

We recorded this the weekend before protests started in Kenosha, and now its feels silly to be releasing an episode about the election but here it is. We chat about our predictions for the election, e

Holy shit, y'all. We made it. 100 Episodes. Kinda mind-boggling.  This week, we're joined by Abdul Y. Malik to talk about the NBA Wildcat Strike. We also answer questions sent in by comrades who listen to the show! Stick around 'til the very end for bloopers. …

This week we are airing a conversation that Bursts had a few weeks ago with Aric McBay, who is an organizer, farmer, and author about his most recent book called Full Spectrum Resistance [link to the books page on AK Press’ site]. This book is divided into…

Its not uncommon to hear pundits and regular folks making comparisons between the crises we are now facing and other historical moments, such as the 1920s in Germany or the global rebellions of the 1960s. But is this an effective approach for gauging the…

Prison By Any Other Name: Vikki Law on Toxic Reforms This week we speak with author and activist, Vikki Law about the book Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, just out from The New Press and co-authored by Maya Schenwar.…

This week, I’m pleased to be joined by the lovely , author of the new book . In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the inextricable nature of class and race, the abolition of whiteness as a necessary step for police and prison abolition, the efficacy…

This week we are pleased to present a guest interview with author Kristian Williams about his new book Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde which was released in June 2020 from AK Press.

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This week, I am joined by two lovely guests: Soph and Izzy. I wanted to check in with two of the coolest kids I know to get a new perspective on the world. While I obviously think it’s valuable to listen to authors and journalists, musicians and community…

Amy, the producer of Rebel Steps, was part of the historic union drive to create Kickstarter United, the first union in the modern tech industry. Hear the trailer for an oral history project taking you behind the scenes of that campaign. Listen and subscribe…

So, a lot of listeners who’re new to left politics have asked us in the past to do introductions to the major theoretical and ideological positions on the broad left. The good news is we’ve done just that! Last year, I sat down with some friends and comrades…

This week on The Final Straw, we present a conversation that I had with Lorax B. Horne, a non-binary writer and journalist from Canada, Ecuador and the United Kingdom who is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the data transparency collective, Distributed Denial…

In this week’s edition of Coffee with Comrades, we continue our exploration of the three prevailing leftist tendencies with a discussion of the big, scary c-word: communism. I said this last week and, doubtless, I’ll say it again next Tuesday, but I wanna…

This week, we're sharing a conversation Bursts had with communist geographer, Phil Neel. Mr. Neel is the author of “Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict”, published in 2018 and now available in paperback via University of Chicago Press…