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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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

coming tonight!

“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.

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

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

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

USA from 1917-present:

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

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

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

Cuba Pt. 1: Before the Revolution w/ Manolo De Los Santos Podcast Episode · Upstream · 29/01/2026 · 1h 30m

This is an excellent episode of @upstreampodcast.bsky.social on what Cuba was like before the revolution. Listen to understand why we can never allow the US and its stooges to re-establish neocolonial power in Cuba.

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[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading) Podcast Episode · Upstream · 2026-01-24 · 1h 34m

This is really excellent from @upstreampodcast.bsky.social "How Fascism Works." A reading of the first chapter of Michael Parenti’s “Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism“ with contemporary commentary Well worth a listen.

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NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
venezuela pt. 6: the empire strikes w/ @granadosceja.bsky.social and andreína chávez

NEW EP manolo de los santos joins us in part 1 of our new series on Cuba where we discuss colonization and its resistance, the batista dictatorship, cuba as a playground for the US, and the material conditions leading up to the Cuban revolution

NEW EP manolo de los santos joins us in part 1 of our new series on Cuba where we discuss colonization and its resistance, the batista dictatorship, cuba as a playground for the US, and the material conditions leading up to the Cuban revolution

“...fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles. Fascism is a false revolution. It propagates a 'new order' while saving the same old moneyed interests.”