No Capitulation on Abortion Rights!
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. “Highlights” from this week in fascism and future coup attempts (recommended reading: Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun) including the “options for January 6” PowerPoint uncovered by the January 6 commission and Matt Gaetz on Steve Bannon’s podcast this past Thursday. Gaetz said an […]
Earth to Delusional “Movement Activists”: Abortion Pills and Identity Politics Are No Match for a Fascist State
We Need to Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution! by Sunsara Taylor We are reposting this analysis from Sunsara Taylor originally published at Revcom.us Sunsara is a member of the Refuse Fascism Editorial Board and co-host of the Revolution Nothing Less Show Follow her on Twitter @sunsarataylor On December 1, […]
The State of Fascism Denial + The Fight for Abortion Rights
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Coco Das (@Coco_Das) speaks to an activist who traveled to Washington DC this week to protest for abortion rights as the Supreme Court heard opening arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – the case which is primed to overturn Roe v. Wade […]
Carol Anderson: White Supremacy & the Second Amendment
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our […]
Educational Gag Orders + Fascist Verdict in Kenosha
Click here to listen on Youtube. Coco Das interviews Jonathan Friedman, PEN America, about their new report titled “Educational Gag Orders” about the onslaught of legislation restricting public education in the US about race, gender and American history (pen.org/report/educational-gag-orders). Friedman is the director of free expression and education at PEN America, where he oversees advocacy, […]
A Beautiful Rising Or Rising Fascism? The Rittenhouse Trial
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Sam Goldman and Coco Das discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in the proper context of the fascist movement he is a part of. Recommended reading: Coco’s recent article The Rittenhouse Trial and Two Sides in Contention: A Beautiful Rising or Rising Fascism and Reflections on Kenosha by […]
Elie Honig: The January 6th Insurrection Isn’t Over
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor Elie Honig discusses what we know about the January 6th insurrection and any chances for real accountability (hint: the DOJ/Merrick Garland would have to take action and there is zero indication that they are going […]
Gregg Gonsalves: COVID, Public Health & U.S. Mythology
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, discusses his recent piece for The Nation America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By with Sam Goldman. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gregggonsalves. More recommended listening on the politics of the pandemic: COVID: […]
When Is It Time To Break The Law?
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Valerie Elverton Dixon, Ph.D., discusses her recent essay When It Is Time to Break the Law with Sam Goldman, along with the abortion rights emergency and the strategy and tactics that will meet the current crisis. Follow Dr. Dixon’s writings at justpeacetheory.com. Send your comments […]
Classroom Censorship in Texas
Click here to listen on Youtube. Click here to read the Transcript. Coco Das (@coco_das) interviews Ana Ramón (@ana_ramon89), Director of Advocacy for the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) about the new legislation that takes aim at anti-racist and truthful teaching of social studies and other subjects for students in Texas. Follow IDRA @IDRAedu […]