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Jamie and Jorge continue their interview with author, educator, and activist Jarrod Shanahan about his book, "Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage," out now on Verso...

Jamie and Jorge speak with author, educator, and activist Jarrod Shanahan about his book, "Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage," out now on Verso. In part 1 of this interview, Jarrod explains how the now-infamous prison at Rikers Island began as a reform, and why he chose to focus on the tenure of the progressive Anna M. Kross, who served as New York City's Commissioner of Correction from 1953-1966...

Jamie, Aaron and Tarence discuss the family-friendly trend of taking MDMA wrapped in Brie cheese at dinner parties. Don't try this at home!

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From July 26-29, Eastern Kentucky was hit with a one-in-a-thousand-year flood, wreaking carnage on a region already devastated from decades of intense extractive capitalism and poverty. Jamie and Aaron are joined by Tarence Ray (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Worker's Party to talk about the causes of the historic flooding, the state's abysmal response, and working class solidarity amid climate disaster...

M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon) sticks around to chat some more with the ELC crew about her speculative fiction novel, "Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072" (co-authored by Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi) and out now on Common Notions). Part 2 touches on many topics from the book, including national liberation, eco-socialism, gender, and space travel!

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M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon) and Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi) join the ELC crew to talk about their speculative fiction novel, "Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072" (out now on Common Notions). In this visionary work, they tell the story of the global proletarian revolution through the memories of its participants, a group that includes sex workers, scientists, Palestinian freedom fighters, and more...

The ELC crew discusses the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, contextualizing the current debate around who deserves to go to college with a memo from 1971 laying out the right's plan for a long march through the institutions...

Jamie, Aaron and Jorge give their takes on writer/director Jordan Peele's latest film, "Nope." What does it all mean?! Spoilers, obvi.

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In this debut episode of our newest series on science fiction and futurism, the gang is joined by editor at Blood Knife Magazine and host of the Podside Picnic podcast, Kurt Schiller (@mechanicalkurt), for a discussion about Ursula K. Le Guin's rather short but famous 1973 story, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas...

In the third and final edition of their Alexandra Kollontai mini-series, ELC presents her 1921 work, "The Labour of Women in the Evolution of the Economy." In addition to elaborating on the Soviet Republic's plans to support women in their dual roles as workers and mothers, she lays out her opinions on abortion, which the Soviet Republic became the first country to legalize in 1920...