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RevolutionZ Podcast features vision, strategy, and diverse guests. Below are a few recent and selected Episodes for your instant access. All episodes are available free via popular podcast apps and our RevolutionZ Archive.
Some Recent Episodes
Talking Digital with James Muldoon
No Bosses Who Owns What?
No Bosses Values for a New Economy
Talking Digital with Michael Kwet
Talking DSA with Max Elbaum
Personal and Social Calamity
21 Fallacies of Cancel Culture
Hear Arundhati Roy on Fascism
Electoral Strategy w. Lonnie Atkinson
Being Strategic
Varoufakis/Albert 5-7
Selfies, War, Organizing and More
The Logic of Transition...
Ruminations 8 War and More
Transition 3 Where To
Varoufakis/Albert 1-4
Transition 2 Where From
Consumption and Moral Judgements
Transition 1 Plus
Parecon, Ecology, and Anarchism
Race, Sex, Class, Effective Struggle
Addressing DSA
Reductionism and Us
Marxism Today and Tomorrow
Talking With Robert McChesney
Argentine Workplace Occupations
Arrogance, Hypocrisy, Violence...
Talking with Loretta Ross
No Bosses
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SRSLY Wrong: No Bosses
CJP: Economy Without Bosses
Albert: Reply to Reviewers - Two
Parker: Rocks and Hard Places
Radio Free Humanity
KPFA, Against The Grain
Activism Munich 1 / 2
Albert: Reply to Reviews - 1
Stephenson: No Bosses
Froberg: Review of No Bosses
Tokar: Review of No Boss
Systemic Disorder: No Bosses
Alden: Reflections on No Bosses
Meta
Meta is a Greek/Internationalist Art & Research Centre for Post Capitalist Studies. Here we display links for some of their recent materials.
Most Recent
Parker: Rocks and Hard Places
Varoufakis: Cloud Based Capital
Shaner: Riding the Blockchain
Albert: Marxism Today and Tomorrow
Mitralexis Talk on Meta
Varoufakis, Chomsky, Pettifor
Shalom: Post Capitalist Decisions
Albert: Post Capitalism 3 /2 / 1
Hahnel: Participatory Planning
Alden: No Bosses
Debate: A postcapitalism worth striving for
Intermittent 500 word contributions by Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis. A ZNet document includes all entries to date, as does a Meta document.
Most Recent
7. Albert: Post Capitalism’s Components
6. Varoufakis: Five Conditions for a Democratic Workplace
5. Albert: Your Freedom Is a Condition for My Freedom and Vice Versa
Recent Audio/Videos
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The Algerian Revolution—60 years later
By: Bill Fletcher
The victory of the Algerian Revolution was a beacon for Black revolutionaries and anti-imperialists around the world
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Putin’s War Driven by Domestic Politics
NATO expansion and the defense of Donbas are not the primary motivations for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Stoking nationalism to shore up support for Putin’s government is
Albert Essay Series on Socialist Upsurge
Oldest essays at top, Newest at bottom
New Direction?
Ethics of It / Judging Societies
Society’s Pie / Disputing Pie Slices
Property Problem / Who Decides?
Who Does What? / Balanced Jobs
Disputing Balancing Jobs
Classlessness? / Markets or what?
Participatory Planning
Disputing Participatory Planning
Judging Participatory Socialism
Some Strategic Implications
The Polity / Community and Culture
Gender and Sexuality
Socialism or Participatory Society
Socialism: Ecology or Nothing
Recent Selected For Activists
A Selection of articles culled for activist purposes.
Cohn: SCOTUS EPA Ruling
Johnson: Court Carbon Bomb
Wolfe: Gustavo Petro’s Historic Victory
Huff: Faculty win
Chomsky: We are an Extreme Outlier
Klein: Judicial Coup
Herschander: Creative protests
Meyer: New York DSA
Mayall: Non-Police Alternatives
Corn: Lessons From Right’s Crusade
Swanson: NATO & Russia Aim to Fail
Rubia: Growing hope for humanity
Ahn: Feminist Response to RIMPAC
Brooks: Rethinking Organizing Rules
Ellner: Jailed for Criminal Behavior?
Benjamin: NATO and a War Foretold
Santos: Contraction of the West
Press: Kentucky Amazon Workers
Bolling: Appalachian Women
Liasheva: Ukrainian Resistance
Smith: Russian Resistance
Kolhatkar: Colombia Turns Left
Freeman: 20,000 for Abortion Rights
Sirota: Democratic Leaders
Bello: Dem Socialism in Philippines
Mazumdaru: Existential Moment
Scott: Creative Methods Stop Bosses
Cicerchia: Bring Back Roe
Jain: Divided over abortion
Levy: War on Modern Life
Baroud: Russia-Ukraine War
Batrawy: Global Protests
Samtani: Electoral Electricity
Cromwell: Don’t Extradite Assange
Street: Still the Trump Era
Scott: Stop Bosses’ Abuse
Bajec: Tunisia nationwide strike
Hennely: Moral Fusion of Everybody
Corbyn: The campaign to stop me
Janakiram: “Aid and Abet” Abortion
Press: Beating Heart
Varoufakis: Power Gone Wrong
Bader: Peace, Justice, and Equality
Petro: “New Progressivism”
Feffer: New New Left
Wadhwa: Ecuadorians national strike
Suzuki: 15-hour weeks?
Santos: Petro, Francia, Hope
Hartmann: Light our Planet on Fire
Bello: Campaign for dem. socialism
Feffer: Universal Basic Income?
Marx: Privatized Internet
Schwarz: Elections Tell Us Little
JSO: Just Stop Oil & rail workers
Stancil: Mélenchon-Led Surge
RSM: Reviving student action
Corbett: First Apple Store Union
Scheiber: Road to Starbucks
Daniels: Petro Wins Colombia
Grim: Staff Dissent
Guzman: Labor and Immigration
Corbyn: History is ours to make
Husseini: Stop Calling them Justices
Corbett: ‘Poverty Is Violence!’
Riddiouhgh: DSA Debates
Lieven: Russian Intellectuals
Epstein: Before Wokeness
Levine: Beyond Jane’s Revenge
Olla: Escalationin moments of crises
Barber: “Moral Reset”
Lopez: Mining Resistance
Rovics: Gig Economy
Shaner: Activist’s Antidote
Cox: Learning from each other
Rice: Racism and teaching
Kagarlitsky: Victory and Defeat
Falk:Human Rights Geopolitically
Guevara: Peoples must have rights
Hudson: Peace and Disarmament
Chomsky: Science-Fiction Planet
Bello: Global South Offensive
Nolan: AFL-CIO’s Continued Decline
Ruth: Resist Pandemic Opportunism
Noor: Bridging race and class divides
Cagan: Spirit of June 12, 1982
Grim: Progressive Meltdowns
Gilbert: UW Unionization
Corbett: People Over Pentagon
Ruiz: Elections in Colombia
Hardin: World Beyond Capitalism
Greenhouse: John L. Lewis Moment
Pitt: Attempted Coup”
Marton: Justice Reform Movement
Johnson: ‘It’s War’
Marquina: Worker Control Indorca (II)
Engler: Six Political Parties?
Street: Outrageous Stupidity
Falk: Geopolitical Conflict
Back: citizens’ assemblies
Rosenfeld: Conservative Open Minds
Brecher: Union Green Deal 2, 1
ER: Fossil Riot
Solomon: Nuclear War
Gordon: Fewer Men on Campus
Nichols: Red-Green Alliance
Sun: Culture of nonviolence
Glick: People’s Alliance
Anderson: Chile’s Young President
Feng: Pain Profiteers
Baroud: New Resistance Model
Press: Pathbreaking Contract
Wilkins: Voters Oppose Pentagon
Klikauer: Corporate Propaganda
Feng: Evolution of Union-Busting
Crowley: Solidarity Vacuum
Gorwa: Socialize Big Tech
Shaner: ParEcon What, Why, How
Pizzuti: Wipe Out Debt
Ludwig: Gig Workers
George: Gulf South
Healey: DSA Political Education
Boudin: Can’t Jail Our Way Out
Calfuquir:Mélenchon Coalition
Kolhatkar: Lives for Guns
Barber II: Poor Gonna Rise
Bowers: I Went on Strike
Marquina: No Bosses Indorca I
Chomsky: Unthinkable Policy
AOC: reject dystopia
Conley: Strike
Mazursky: Get more personal
Pitt: The AR-15
Philpott: Global Hunger Disaster
Vanden Heuvel: Ukraine war
Logan: Starbucks Victories
Swanson: Poor People’s Campaign
Solnit: Mass Shootings
Brooks: New Organizing Rules
Hansen: Britain’s Rail Workers
Rozental: Colombia Election Runoff
Jordan: The Face of Uvalde
Solomon: “Gun control”
Garces: Amazon Union Lessons
Hobson: Important Labor Victory
Germanos: Starbucks Unionization
Parra: Colombian Left
Cadhaia: Colombia Votes
Bernard: Unions Emerge Effective
Girouz: To End Mass Shootings
Nessen: Report from the Donbas
Lydersen: Illinois Coal Jobs
Tsylor: Deep South Baristas
Gologarsky: Need to Organize
Sawant: defeat the billionaire class
Smalls:We Won’t Back Down.
Shadow Primary
Some Vintage Chomsky
The Chomsky sessions
February 2010.
1 - Responsibility Of Intellectuals
2 - Science, Religion, Human Nature
3 - Education and Economics
4 - The Political System
5 - International Relations