Jacobin Radio Folgen

Doug speaks with Mia Jankowicz, reporter for Business Insider, about anti-vaxxers, notably Sherri Tenpenny. Plus: Sanford Jacoby, author of Labor in the Age of Finance, on unions’ weird alliance with Wall Street during the shareholder revolution.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

The historian Antoni Kapcia joins Long Reads for a conversation about Cuban politics since the revolution of 1959. Antoni is the author of several books on Cuban history, including A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba and Leadership in the Cuban Revolution. Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.Read Antoni's article for Jacobin about the legacy of Raúl Castro here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/raul-castro-fidel-che-guevara-cuba-historyProduced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

This week Grace speaks to Thea Riofrancos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College and author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador.They discuss the findings of the IPCC’s latest report, whether it’s possible to imagine a green transition within capitalist social relations, and how the Left can chart a path to decarbonization that doesn’t compromise the Earth’s other natural systems and communities.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.