Belabored Podcast #164: Scott Walker’s Gone, Now What? With Eleni Schirmer
Bye Scott Walker.
Winter 2025
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The Great Race Panic
White supremacists are seeing the limits of what they can achieve electorally. Now, the raging fear Trump inflames threatens escalating violence.
Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
The horrors threatened by Brazil’s new president are compounded by a potential war on the Amazon. It is up to the left to build a coalition capable of overcoming it.
Seizing the Initiative
Ballot initiatives led to progressive victories in unlikely places. The left should use them more often.
Hate Was Not a Winning Ticket
Contrary to Trumpian fantasy, noncitizens didn’t get a direct say in the midterms. But their voices still mattered on Election Day.
Time for Another Reinvention
Socialist parties emerged as dynamic, powerful forces at the turn of the twentieth century. After decades of decline, can they revive themselves in the twenty-first?
There Is Power in This Union
The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
The Democrats’ Existential Battle: Achieving Real Democracy
To preserve their minority rule, Republicans will keep putting up barriers to voting. The only solution is to deepen democracy.
A New Climate Politics Is on the Ballot
From Florida to Washington, a new generation of progressive candidates and social movements are closing the democratic deficit on climate change.
Zoning for the 1%
The rezoning of northern Manhattan has exposed the failings of New York City’s top-down housing program, which puts the profits of landlords and developers over the rights of tenants.
The New Demand for an Old Idea: Guaranteed Jobs Now
The demand for genuine full employment broadens our imagination of what a federal government committed to caring for its people would look like.
Belabored Podcast #163: Organizing for Democracy, with Meg Reilly
Meg Reilly of the Campaign Workers Guild joins us to talk about the first movement to unionize the workers who canvass the streets, run the phone banks, and carry the clipboards.
China’s Surveillance Laboratory
Reeducation camps, mosque monitoring, an extensive network of security checkpoints—these are just a few features of the surveillance apparatus China is developing to police Uyghur Muslims. A report from Xinjiang.
Make China Marxist Again
Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has reembraced Marx. But Xi’s state Marxism is a top-down attempt to unify the population behind a nationalist ideology, not to inspire class struggle.
When Economists Took Socialism Seriously
If there’s one thing worth taking away from the White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument, not just a technical exercise.
