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  • Long Reads: Burkina Faso’s Revolutionary Tradition w/ Bettina Engels

    October 23, 2026 · 43 min

    Burkina Faso is one of Africa’s poorest countries. But it has a powerful tradition of social movements and popular mobilization. In 2014, protesters brought down the regime of Blaise Compaoré, the man who had overthrown Thomas Sankara in…

  • The Dig: Free Gifts w/ Alyssa Battistoni

    October 22, 2026 · 2 hr 7 min

    Featuring Alyssa Battistoni on Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Fossil-fueled capitalism has pushed our planet into a profound set of crises. How Marxists should make sense of this all, however, is unclear. Battistoni…

  • Behind the News: The Legacy of Eugene V. Debs w/ Shawn Gude

    October 19, 2026 · 53 min

    Rodrigo Nunes, author of Anatomy of Disintegration, speaks about Bolsonaro, Brazil, and the global far right. Shawn Gude, author of American Socialist, details the life and legacy of Eugene V. Debs Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood…

  • The Dig: Who Moves America w/ Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll

    October 16, 2026 · 58 min

    Featuring Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, and Erick Stoll on Who Moves America, a powerful documentary about the massive 2023 Teamsters strike against UPS that ultimately did not happen.  Find or request a screening of Who Moves America at…

  • Jacobin Radio: Uprisings in France and Spain w/ Sebastian Budgen

    October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

    From Madrid to Paris, tenants and teenagers are forcing their crises onto the agenda. Suzi talks to Agustín Santos Maraver, Spain’s former UN ambassador and Sumar MP, who explains how the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal ignited…

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  • Confronting Capitalism: Socialists in the Capitalist State

    October 14, 2026 · 59 min

    The Left looks poised to pick up some big electoral wins in the midterm elections. But with virtually all of the Left’s victories since the first Sanders presidential primary coming through elections, are socialists and progressives at…

  • Behind the News: Housing for All w/ Sam Stein

    October 13, 2026 · 53 min

    Sam Stein, author of A Right to Housing?, investigates that proposition skeptically. Natasha Lennard, author of On Un/Certainty, talks about how doubt can be a mask for certainty. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds…

  • Long Reads: Telling the Truth About Biden and Gaza w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed

    October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    After three years of slaughter in Gaza, some leading officials of the Biden administration are trying to justify their record. Figures like Antony Blinken and Brett McGurk have been on media tours recently giving their version of the…

  • The Dig: Confronting Labor’s Crisis w/ Chris Brooks

    October 6, 2026 · 2 hr 29 min

    Featuring Chris Brooks on labor’s crisis and the strategic, militant class struggle that can turn it all around. Brooks, former chief of staff to UAW President Shawn Fain, urges organizers to be flexible in their methodology, explains the…

  • Behind the News: The Hidden 1 Percent w/ Owen Zidar

    October 5, 2026 · 53 min

    Owen Zidar, co-author of The Everywhere Millionaire, reveals the world of the hidden rich. Plus: Jake Werner surveys the latest in US-China relations. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics…

  • The Dig: Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian

    October 2, 2026 · 2 hr 46 min

    Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-economic era. Support The Dig at…

  • Confronting Capitalism: What Makes a Marxist?

    September 30, 2026 · 49 min

    Karl Marx famously declared that he was not a Marxist. But his theoretical work spawned many branches of research, political movements, and heated debate. Can we identify a set of unifying ideas that make up Marxism? On this latest…

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News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.