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Historian Gary Gerstle joins us to discuss what gave rise to the New Deal political order, the role that global communism played in the capital-labor compromise, and prospects for renewed social democracy after neoliberalism. Liza Featherstone also joins us to discuss how and why the left gets smeared as sexist or bigoted—and what the left should do about it. Finally, Paul Prescod joins Jen Pan to discuss both the Minneapolis teachers revoking seniority and the possibly impending rail strike. Gary interview on TJS from July, discussing neoliberalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvpdCPeIJU&t=0s "Pathetically, Hillary Clinton Is Smearing Bernie Sanders as Sexist Again" by Liza Featherstone: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/hillary-clinton-smearing-bernie-sanders-sexism-feminism The Jacobin Show is a weekly YouTube show offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the episode from August 24, 2022.

Doug is joined by David Palumbo-Liu to discuss the politics of Stanford University and its infamous alum, Peter Thiel. We then get writer Indrajit Samarajiva's analysis of the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka.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

On October 15th, 1969, over 100,000 people gathered on Boston Common for the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. It was a country-wide protest in which two million people took part in demonstrations, teach-ins, and other actions in over two hundred cities. For the event, Zinn delivered this speech, discussing the need for immediate withdrawal of US troops, the hypocrisy of American democracy, a longer history of foreign policy and intervention, and the necessity of political and social transformation. Zinn, who died in 2010, would have been 100 today.Read Michael Koncewicz’s article “Howard Zinn Carried Out an Act of Radical Diplomacy in the Middle of the Vietnam War” here: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/zinn-vietnam-war-antiwar-prisoners-trip