Swampside Chats

We address a piece of breaking news that took place after we recorded.

In part 1, The Gang sits down with Nick from the Industrial Workers of the World to discuss the history of the organization.

This week we discuss the legacy of the enlightenment, humanism, multiculturalism, and a Jacobin article, "Dialectical Enlightenment" by Harrison Fluss and Landon Frim.

In this episode, a few of us just have a free form conversation about one of our favorite pet topics: the Alt-Right.

This week, in another news roundup, we talk about Trump & Macron’s Bastille Day, electrifying presidential candidates, Pink Floyd v Radiohead on Palestine, the dreadlocked klansman, the black bloc at G20, and more.

This week, in the first part of what we hope will be a multi-part series on different far left groupings in the United States, we sit down to talk about the Democratic Socialists of America.

This week, in another news roundup episode, we talk about Corbymania, London's burning tower of poor people, the Berniebro assassin, Trump's moves on Cuba and the climate, and Dennis Rodman: the basketball diplomat.

This week we sit down to discuss J Posadas' "Flying saucers, the process of matter and energy, science, the revolutionary and working-class struggle, and the socialist future of mankind."

Join us for another news roundup episode. This week we discuss the ongoing Trump clusterfuck, the latest presidential contenders, pro wrestling, and at the end we offer some semi-informed thoughts on the current goings-on in Latin America.

#15 - "The American Revolution" by Ezri xB & Jake Verso

This week Lexi and Jake sit down to discuss "The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International" aka "The Transitional Program" by Leon Trotsky

This week, we conclude our reading of Karl Kautsky's 1902 piece "The Social Revolution"

This week we're talking about Syria, a general strike in Argentina, Alex Jones family court problems, anti-fa skirmishes, and the Nuge.

This week we discuss the first half of Karl Kautsky's 1902 piece "The Social Revolution"

This week we discuss the collapse of Ryancare, Venezuela, Coal Jobs, George Ciccariello-Maher, and eventually species being.

We complete our reading of V.I. Lenin's classic 1917 "The State and Revolution".

This week we discuss Jeff Sessions recent comments about Marijuana, Maoism, an Ethiopian garbage avalanche, 250 skulls, and the outcome of the recent Dutch election.

This week we discuss the first half of Vladimir Lenin's groundbreaking work "The State and Revolution", written almost 100 years ago in 1917.

This week we discuss a recent firebombing of a Tampa mosque and a recent rise in anti-semitic threats. We also talk about a new potential contender for president, the DNC's ongoing racket, labor unrest in China, and take questions from one of our listeners.

This week we conclude our reading of the Communist Manifesto. We also take time to discuss Kautsky's 1901 essay "To What Extent is the Communist Manifesto Obsolete?"