Two days before Trump’s inauguration, two guests look at the turn to the right across parts of the global South: historian Vijay Prashad on Modi's economic agenda in India and left activist Sabrina Fernandez on Temer’s permanent austerity in Brazil.

A year into Justin Trudeau's government of #RealChange, it's mostly the rhetoric not the policies that have changed. Derrick O'Keefe, Clayton Thomas Mueller and Luke Savage help take stock.

Today’s epsiode was recorded live at an event with union organizer and author Jane McAlevey in Toronto last week to launch her new book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. I was honoured to share the stage with Jane and Stephanie...

Journalist and author Sarah Jaffe spent the last years reporting on the rise of movements in the US from Occupy Wall St. to Black Lives Matter. We talk about what movements and organizations will need to organize and oppose in the age of Trump.

A focus on Latin America. First, Aaron Tauss, professor of IPE in Medellin, Colombia discusses the devastating, unexpected "No" vote in that country’s referendum on peace. Second, Kyla Sankey on the present troubles and future prospects of the Pink Ti...

A focus on the experience of the left at the municipal level. My two guests are Yusef Quadura, an activist with Barcelona en Comu and Kali Akuno, a leader within Cooperation Jackson (Mississippi).

I speak with Richard Seymour, author of the very popular new book Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics about the stupendous rise of Jeremy Corbyn and some of the challenges ahead.

Three guests on two big occupations: journalist Desmond Cole on the Black Lives Matter occupation of police headquarters plaza in Toronto; Susanna Dee and Robyn Pitawanakwat, two key activists describe the on-going occupation of INAC in Regina.

Two debunkings of mainstream economic thinking: JW Mason, economics professor in NYC, questions how liberals debate Sanders' economic program while journalist Nathan Tankus explains why housing is so unaffordable even amidst massive building booms.

Two Canadian updates this week. The first is from journalist Nora Loreto on what's happening in Quebec after the fall's anti-austerity strikes. Second, Armine Yalnizyan, an economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,