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6,081 Followers 229 Following 337 Posts Joined May 2023
10 hours ago

I can't think of anything specifically on Iran, and unfortunately we don't have an official list but @robpertray.bsky.social has a good running list of books if you can scroll down enough to find the thread. also thank you for the very kind words!!

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19 hours ago
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The Govnt and media in Ireland are happy to normalise the US-Israeli war on Iran, as with Venezuela, Cuba and the genocide in Gaza

Listen to Bikrum Gill instead - a master class in structural analysis @upstreampodcast.bsky.social

Pt. 3: The Empire vs. Iran

www.upstreampodcast.org/conversations

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19 hours ago

NEW EP bikrum gill joins us to discuss the regional and global implications of Iran's fight for sovereignty against the desperate and despicable grip of the epstein empire

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5 days ago
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NEXT WEEK
iran pt. 3: the empire vs iran w/ bikrum gill

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5 days ago
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NEXT WEEK
iran pt. 3: the empire vs iran w/ bikrum gill

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6 days ago

thank you!

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1 week ago

NEW PATREON EP david mcnally joins us to discuss his fascinating new book "Slavery and Capitalism"—a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery and the plantation system as a profit-producing node in an emerging global commodity market

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1 week ago

NEW PATREON EP david mcnally joins us to discuss his fascinating new book "Slavery and Capitalism"—a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery and the plantation system as a profit-producing node in an emerging global commodity market

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1 week ago
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NEXT WEEK'S PATREON:
atlantic slavery and the plantation system w/ david mcnally

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1 week ago
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Iran Pt. 1: A Socialist Introduction w/ Séamus Malekafzali [BONUS] | Upstream Get more from Upstream on Patreon

This podcast episode on Iran is worth your time. It was published last July. From @upstreampodcast.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com

www.patreon.com/posts/iran-p...

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1 week ago
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NEXT WEEK'S PATREON:
atlantic slavery and the plantation system w/ david mcnally

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2 weeks ago

NEW EPISODE manolo de los santos joins us for a deep dive into Cuba's revolution—from the epic voyage of the Granma to the time in the Sierra Maestra to Batista's fall to the land reforms that ensued. ¡Viva la Revolución!

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2 weeks ago

NEW EPISODE manolo de los santos joins us for a deep dive into Cuba's revolution—from the epic voyage of the Granma to the time in the Sierra Maestra to Batista's fall to the land reforms that ensued. ¡Viva la Revolución!

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2 weeks ago
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NEXT WEEK:
cuba pt. 2: ¡viva la revolución! w/ manolo de los santos

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2 weeks ago
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NEXT WEEK:
cuba pt. 2: ¡viva la revolución! w/ manolo de los santos

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3 weeks ago
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Luv sux under Capitalism 💔

🎧 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LOVE IN CAPITALISM w/ KRISTEN GHODSEE is out now and available for our @upstreampodcast.bsky.social Patreon community at Patreon.com/UpstreamPodcast 🎙️
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#love #capitalism #kristenghodsee #economics #usptreampodcast

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3 weeks ago

NEW PATREON EP kristen ghodsee joins us for a fascinating conversation on the various ways that love is co-opted, commodified, and destroyed under capitalism—and how we can reverse this

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3 weeks ago
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NEXT WEEK'S PATREON:
the political economy of love in capitalism w/ kristen ghodsee

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3 weeks ago
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The Intellectual World War w/ Gabriel Rockhill | Upstream Get more from Upstream on Patreon

Amazing talk on @upstreampodcast.bsky.social on Western Marxism with Gabriel Rockwell. How was the revolutionary potential of Marxism tamed in times of ideological warfare? What are the materialist underpinnings of left thought?

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3 weeks ago

As someone who came through Chomsky and the Frankfurt School in the development of my political understanding, this is such an important conversation.

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3 weeks ago

NEW EP gabriel rockhill joins us for a wide-ranging and fascinating conversation on intellectual knowledge production under imperialism and how the anticommunist left is propped up by the capitalist state—from marcuse to chomsky

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3 weeks ago

coming tonight!

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1 month ago

“Patria es humanidad”, homeland is humanity.

José Martí's universal words never rang truer.

Manolo de los Santos is magnificent on this @upstreampodcast.bsky.social podcast, recounting the epic struggles of the Cuban people against Spanish colonialism and US imperialism across the centuries.

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1 month ago

NEW EP international law specialist elina xenophontos joins us for a deep dive into the Iranian sanctions and how they have fundamentally shaped Iranian society from its class dynamics to its economic structure to its protests

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1 month ago

I am Iranian and I have lived in Iran. I'll block you here too if you keep harassing me

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1 month ago

NEW EP international law specialist elina xenophontos joins us for a deep dive into the Iranian sanctions and how they have fundamentally shaped Iranian society from its class dynamics to its economic structure to its protests

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1 month ago

USA from 1917-present:

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1 month ago
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NEXT WEEK (thrs): the intellectual cold war w/ gabriel rockhill

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1 month ago

NEW EP @granadosceja.bsky.social and andreína chávez join us to discuss the aftermath of the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, the state of Venezuelan sovereignty, oil, resistance, and more

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