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Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labor’s top leadership acted as an agent of the US national security state abroad: undermining left-wing unions, fomenting right-wing coups, and promoting the US-led capitalist order. At home, those same forces destroyed left-wing unions and organizers. That history goes a long way in explaining the weakened, conservative, and ineffectual workers’ movement we still confront today.
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New World Order w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
Featuring more analysis from Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on the shape of global geopolitics and geoeconomics. We discuss: the fault lines of the green energy transition; the US and China battle for dominance while the rest of the world seeks advantage and opportunities for leverage; the US and Russia’s full-throttle commitment to fossil capitalism; the IMF’s ongoing imposition of neoliberal austerity on the world’s poorest countries, which, in opposition to these plans, want to remake the entire world capitalist system. Plus: Why the economic weapon failed against China and Russia, and a lot more.
The second in a two-part series.
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Transnational Institute reports:
The New Frontline: The US-China Battle for Control of Global Networks tni.org/en/article/the-new-frontline
Geopolitics of Capitalism: State of Power 2025 tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism
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2:18:35
Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington's shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with China; Gaza genocide; Trump’s tariff wars and militarism, and his pivot toward Putin on Ukraine; European defense buildup and fiscal revolution; what this all means for the poor majority of the Global South, and more. Part one of a two-part series.
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Subscribe to The Polycrisis newsletter phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis
Download a free copy of The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon academic.oup.com/book/57552
Transnational Institute reports:
The New Frontline: The US-China Battle for Control of Global Networks tni.org/en/article/the-new-frontline
Geopolitics of Capitalism: State of Power 2025 tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism
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1:51:44
Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc
Featuring Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.
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Slopworld w/ Brace Belden and Liz Franczak
Featuring TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyone’s minds, including their own. Now they’re seizing the state.
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