Just as US President Biden and VP Harris are launching yet another plan to address migration from Central America, U.S. Congress representatives traveled to the region to hear from those most affected by U.S. policy in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The delegation, “Unearthing the Real Root Causes of Mass Migration from Central America” was l…

In this episode we discuss the recent elections in Colombia, where the leftist coalition called the Pacto Historico received over 40% of the vote, the most in the country’s history. Colombia has historically been a bastion of ultra-conservatism and remains a staunch ally of the United States - Biden recently assigned Colombia as a Major non-NATO mi…

This episode, featuring two members of our Cuba team, was recorded on the ground in the wake of protests on July 11th and 12th across the island. There is a context- specifically of US interventionism- that the grassroots of the US, listeners, need to know about and denounce. The Blockade whose express intent is to cause hardship and incite violenc…

In this episode we are joined by Gabriella a rank and file Teamster, UPS worker, and Teamsters for a Democratic Union steering committee member. In this episode we discuss rank and file union organizing, the challenges and opportunities the upcoming Teamsters election presents, and Teamsters for a Democratic Union. Follow Gabriella on Twitter @revi…

Fred Zuckerman (left) and Sean O’Brien (right) Joining us this week is Andy — a rank and file Teamster, public transit worker, member of the Tempest Magazine collective, and Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) member — and Hank — a rank and file Teamster, worker at UPS, and TDU member. In this episode we discuss rank and file union organizing, t…

Listen to the workshop of activists and organizers from across the country strategizing, sharing experiences, evaluating tactics, and making connections with others passionate about increasing the power of tenants and making decent housing a right. Transcript forthcoming! Learn more about the participating organizations: KC Tenants: KC Tenants figh…

In this week’s episode we sat down with Paige Kumm. Paige is a queer black feminist activist and current senior organizer for membership development at Right to the City Alliance. We spoke about the ways in which global capitalism is shaping our cities? What are the intersection between Empire and the process of forced urbanization happening across…

Joining us from Seattle are Jade and Megan, two members of Seattle DSA. Jade is also a member of the national Afrosocialist Socialist of Color Caucus (AfroSoc Caucus) and is also a co-chair of Seattle DSA’s Anti-Racist Co-Conspirators Caucus (ARC). Megan is co-chair of SDSA Council district 3, co-chair of the Seattle AfroSoc caucus. We talk about r…

This week we are joined by Luis of the Mexican socialist party the Partido Revolucionario de las y los Trabajadores. We talk about what the PRT is, the current political situation in Mexico, the Fourth International, and the meaning of “Trotskyism” in the 21st century. To learn more about PRT check out their website, Facebook, and Twitter. To learn…

This week we are joined by Jetzel, Magda, and Mak who are all leaders in KC Tenants. We talk about how they use a diversity of tactics, the importance of organizing at the speed of trust, why socialists should organize tenants, and some pro tips for those of us who are new to tenant organizing. Find out more about KC Tenants on Twitter, Instagram, …

This week we are joined by Jhon a member of the National Bank Employees Union in Colombia and an organizer involved with the latest round of protests in Colombia. We talk about the neoliberal agenda that has sparked this series of protests, the state’s response, the role of narco trafficking paramilitaries, and the power of a united and democratic …

Far From Over – Class Struggle and Union Organizing at Amazon We extracted the audio for our podcast feed from the video originally published on the Socialist Project in Canada A presentation and roundtable discussion on class struggle and union organizing at Amazon warehouses with Alessandro Delfanti (https://delfanti.org/), Amazonians United (htt…

4:55 Skip to the interview segment of the show. As this is written, the Biden Administration is holding great outdoor July 4th events and encouraging everybody to get together to celebrate the liberation, from British oppression back then and from the Covid virus today. That despite the fact the Covid Delta variant is ravaging Asia, has a foothold …

In this Conversation, we spoke with Todd Miller, author of Empire of Borders: the expansion of the US border around the world. Miller has authored four books: Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021) Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019), Storming the Wall: Clima…

This week we are joined by Natalia Chaves from the Brazilian socialist organization Subverta to talk about Bancada Feminista do PSOL the socialist feminist collective candidacy as well as democratizing electoral campaigns, ensuring accountability to social movements, trans inclusion and queer representation in the socialist feminist movement, and e…

In this episode, Honduras Program Co-Director, Allison Lira talks to historian and activist Aviva Chomsky about the settler-colonial legacy that shapes the U.S. migration debate and her new book Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolutions, Violence, and the Roots of Migration. Aviva is a professor of history and coordinator of Latin American S…

In the last five years we have seen a significant increase in socialists elected to office, and this has inspired many more candidates to run. But these opportunities also raise a number of questions about electoral strategy. How do we develop candidates? How do we support them and keep them accountable once in office? How do we combine the power o…

This week we are joined by Vini Almeida who is a member of the Brazilian socialist organization Comuna. We talk about the challenges socialists face when working to build a democratic and multi-tendency socialist organization, electoral politics, supporters of the new right, and the political effects of the pandemic. Throughout we draw connections …

Howie Hawkins, Green Party 2020 presidential candidate Bill Resnick and Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for President in the last election, discuss the Biden administration’s proposed American Jobs Plan. Announced with great fanfare at a cost of $2 trillion plus, the annual outlay would actually represent less than one-third of the U.S. mi…

In this episode, we spoke with Labor For Palestine organizers Suzanne Adely who is the Co-Director for the Food Chain Workers Alliance and President-Elect of the National Lawyers Guild, and Michael Letwin who is a public defender in New York City and former President of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325. In this conversation, we discu…

Our interview with Mike is an extended discussion of the geography of neoliberal capitalism: the devastation being wreaked by the twin crises of the pandemic and economy; the utter inadequacy of the state’s response to address these crises for working people; the origins of the pandemic and emerging new strains of the virus; big pharma and vaccines…

In this week's episode, Honduras Program Co-Director, Allison Lira, interviews members of the Solidarity Collective about what the Biden Administration might mean for countries like Colombia, Cuba and Honduras. We discuss the long history of intervention in Central America and the notorious "Plan Colombia" package that set the stage for further lan…

In this episode of Solidarity Radio we are joined by Honduras Program Co-Director, Allison Lira, and researcher, author and activist, John Lindsay-Poland, to explore the nature of U.S. arms sales in Latin America and how U.S. weapons manufacturers continue to profit by fueling the flames of instability and violence that are pushing hundreds of thou…

In this episode of Solidarity Radio we explore the history of U.S. intervention in Colombia and the efforts by Afro-Descendant, Indigenous and Campesino communities to protect themselves from political violence. Our international team accompanied the Refuge for Life, Peace and Dignified housing in one of Bogota's largest slums, Ciudad Bolivar. The …

Professor Rabab Abdulhadi gave this presentation on the situation in Palestine and the growth of the global solidarity movement to a webinar on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 sponsored by the Detroit branch of Solidarity, Jewish Voice for Peace – Detroit, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) – Detroit and Palestinian Youth Movement – Detroit. Dr. A…

(Pictured from top going clockwise) Ann Finkel, Kali Akuno, Micheal Esealuka, and Ted McTaggart On April 30th we hosted a webinar discussing how acts of solidarity, workers’ self-organization, and mutual aid can be building blocks of social power and pre-figure the human relationships of a democratic socialist society. In our discussion among panel…

Let’s start with the origins of this pandemic. Where did Covid-19 come from? For the past few decades now, there’s been an uptick in these emerging diseases, which are products of capitalism’s disruption of the relationship between humans and earth’s ecosystems. There have always been transfers of diseases from animals to humans and probably back t…

Audio from a recording between Stephen and Matt Audiocast, play above or Download MP3 to your device. Each year the International Institute of Research and Education in Amsterdam, the education arm of the Fourth International, conducts an annual event entitled the Ecosocialist School. Although eco-socialism is a prominent theme, the school can be d…

Audio from Boston Socialist Day School 2019. This panel covers a wide range of topics touching on health justice. The panelists represent perspectives of both those who receive healthcare and healthcare workers. Myranda Pierce from the Right Care Alliance gives an account of her struggles to receive adequate care as someone living with type I diabe…

Labor Notes: Workers’ Struggles 2017 (photos: James Leder; Susan Ruggles (CC BY 2.0) bit.ly/DiaSinInmigrantes; SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana; Dan DiMaggio) At the Boston DSA/Solidarity Socialist Day School in September, the centrality of the working class to the fight for socialism was the topic of the second panel of the day. [Listen to it …

What's good, loyal #1uu listeners? It's been a long time....we shouldn't have left you without a dope podcast to step to. But alas, here we are 15 months after Episode Three back with #AnothaOne. Welcome to SR Episode Four (A New Hope). This episode of the podcast was recorded at the House of Jeezy Studios on Friday, November 22nd. And in this four…

Greetings, loyal #1uu listeners. I wish we were reconvening under happier circumstances but, given the setback of last Wednesday, it is as important a time as ever to be continuing our on-going conversation about building the labor movement. Obviously, the setback I’m referring to is the United States Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in favor of weakenin…

What’s good, #1uu fam? Happy Presidents’ Day! It’s been a minute but we’re finally back. Did you miss us? I’m guessing that some of you might have been starting to think that Solidarity Radio was a one-and-done experiment. Well alas, we're finally back with SR Episode Two (Attack of the Clones). This installment of your favorite labor movement podc…

Happy Labor Day and welcome to the inaugural episode of Solidarity Radio! What is Solidarity Radio? I’m glad you asked. Solidarity Radio is a labor movement podcast hosted by Ted James and Jay-Dao. It is recorded in Denver, CO and is part of the Union Underground imprint. Our goals for the podcast are to a) use it as vehicle for bringing new folks …