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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
t was a cataclysmic event, the first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas. In 1791 brutally exploited slaves on a small Caribbean island rose up and eventually won emancipation. Their story, a legacy that has inspired and instructed people and nations for centuries, is told in Laurent Dubois’s Avengers of the New World.
David Austin, editor of “You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James”, talks with host Sasha Lilley about the ideas and life of the Trinidadian historian, Marxist, playwright, cultural critic, and activist CLR James.
Environmental historian Marco Armiero describes the tumultuous garbage struggles in Italy's polluted Campania region. The struggles, he asserts, are about corporate and state power, environmental justice, and popular resistance.
In their new book "The Spirit Level," Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett contend that one common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality in incomes among their members.
Acclaimed Marxist geographer David Harvey speaks about the role of urbanization and cities under capitalism.
Longtime labor organizer and journalist Steve Early, author of “Embedded with Organized Labor”, talks to guest host Ramsey Kanaan about how workers and the union movement are fairing under Obama.
Terrorism is routinely condemned; should we try to understand it as well? Matthew Carr is author of "The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism."
Debal Deb discusses his new book "Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability."
